"a male chimp is more than enough to kill any human on the planet including Gordon Ryan so Gordon Ryan fighting a chimp a good sized no a thousand times how many times does he win he loses a thousand t..."

"know here in America with New Yorkers so I thought you know these guys have been unstained uh incredibly loyal to me as students so I should also be loyal to them of course so I decided that if they w..."

"split and um uh they moved to Austin uh We've made prior arrangements to go to a local gym and they took that jam and uh we were left with no gym and more or less homeless in uh in Austin so uh a year..."

"superstar with the uh the ghee side of the sport but it never even trained without a ghee once in his life so his first ever no ghee training session is with Gordon Ryan the best no geek competitor of..."

"because he'd been inactive for so long with his stomach issue so he proposed one of the most ambitious fight games that I've ever heard of in grappling which was he would take on the current wno champ..."

"gone the other way right um so only in New Zealand I would say that it's a good thing yeah um so there's there's I I still believe you know in in time things will be fine but um there was an element w..."

"you know what fuck this old guy like it's it's tough you know mentally I I get my you know they lasted when I was 20 years old I didn't get along with authority figures at all and um uh to have someon..."

"athletes like winning is actually very difficult gold medals are very difficult plus there's the personal stuff of depression that comes with that which is you give so much of yourself to trying to wi..."

"they have really nice merch to the t-shirts are just excellent um what have you learned from that process about how to have a team with personal conflicts do you have to deal with these giant egos as ..."

"now your question was well is there a way to resolve this yeah there was and for eight to nine years I was very successful with this but there's also a Tipping Point where things can flare out of cont..."

"mental preparation need to take a step back and realize that almost every element of what people describe as mental preparation his physical underpinnings um literally 95 of what I teach the athletes ..."

"so when it comes to the mental aspects of competition I created a program where everyone had us was given a set of skills that they had to work on skills directly related to what I believe is the most..."

"accumulate this experience in time um they uh we were able to switch off and have them go against very very tough athletes each other so you know uh Luke Griffiths will do a full power match with Gord..."

"preparation came out of those physical underpaints the idea of progressive resistance increasing over time uh for both offense and defense building up to a peak where they go in against the best athle..."

"mental training for me um the central focus of whatever small amount of mental training I give my students comes down to a very very simple concept to understand this is the idea of identifying compet..."

"thing you do every day in the gym the only difference is you're going with a guy you've never grappled before so the actual act of removing the illusion or realizing that it is an illusion how do you ..."

"you can have a like one of the five rounds can be full power but not seven days a week three times a day that's that's just gonna break bodies and the full power is just a reminder of it's more about ..."

"intensity of conflict that's well put there is uh competition does doesn't it have that extra level of animosity okay it's a little bit more conflict than it is it can sometimes these personality diff..."

"you're interested in supporting grappling as a sport helping you grow you should definitely support flow grappling go to their website sign out also flow wrestling I'm a huge fan of wrestling so um ma..."

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"on that stage uh anyway if I can talk about some of the interesting performances for the athletes you coach you post on Instagram let's start with Gordon Ryan Gordon Ryan ADCC 2022 the greatest event ..."

"his alone no one else today brings together technical depth tactical insight and confidence to use them on stage as he does I had many students but only one Gordon Ryan and I think Gordon responded al..."

"in this format there are two kinds of matches there are weight division matches in which you compete against people your own uh roughly your own size and weight there is an open weight where anyone of..."

"and uh super fight it's never happened before Gordon Ryan requested to be able to do this um because of his extraordinary stature in the sport the ADCC organization granted his request that was the fi..."

"Felipe Pena in the weight division prior to getting to the Super fight so there was genuine concern here that he may have completely overstepped himself um the biggest concern I had as a coach and I'm..."

"relative to his opponents which is absurd to say but it is the open division plus 99 kilos it was plus 99 kilos right that's what I mean sorry by open plus 99 kilos everyone looks like the Incredible ..."

"uh courtesy of leglock finishes and in the few cases where he didn't finish on legs then he would simply take his opponents back and uh that's a very low stress position to to occupy in one case uh hi..."

"but he made it look very easy yeah and he made the the pathos submission look very easy so here the first match against an opponent that again looks bigger than him okay I'll just give an initial comm..."

"now for me it's just about okay what's the most efficient positive Victory against this particular opponent it's just okay I've done my job I've taken him through a uh an extensive fight camp that pre..."

"you shouldn't need me at all everything I needed to tell you should have been not just told you but imprinted into you remember this fifteen thousand people in that crowd for half of the match you're ..."

"front row seat to analyze what happened so you can take that to the next match the biggest danger an athlete faces is tunnel vision sometimes they will Hit Upon A Certain move or strategy and just say..."

"efficiency his opponent elected to avoid the standing position by jumping into God so now guard yeah yeah golden would be in top position this time he has a very good closed guard but unfortunately Go..."

"um now Gordon could just go back for legs because the legs Victor Hugo's legs are so far apart at this point that you could easily isolate a leg and attack there but Gordon wanted to uh to show off hi..."

"right there on bottom who does a good job of recovering from the first danger but unfortunately Gordon has been here a thousand times and kicks out a little little step and so you see there's two chan..."

"position with the elbow comes up over the shoulder line he only then does he show there's a there's a little bit of relief right there right right there's a little bit of relief now that's that's the ..."

"um uh so I think that says a lot about the perfectionism of Gordon Ryan most people would be thrilled to beat one of the great Grapplers of this generation decisively in this fashion but he was uh he ..."

"emphasis is on a quick win and you can see Gordon Ryan certainly delivers on this now when you go to entangle your opponent's legs the basic choice you have is between straight ashigurami and cross as..."

"quite different so the the opponent probably before he even felt the heel hook felt the control that it's yeah it's I think he's screwed there yeah he doesn't even want the yeah when someone has a som..."

"um as opposed to uh facing Philippe Pena who lost to Nikki Rod he's Nikki Road had a great match against Felipe panett um uh and uh past Felipe panna's God I think only the second person in 80cc compe..."

"and they'll doubt themselves if Gordon sees the opportunity the trigger pulls every time so again I just just link on that absolutely there's a few times where he gets a little bit of an advantage and..."

"and The Fifth Element which I believe is very very important is extraordinary depth in his technical prowess in particular with regards his defense of Acumen everyone looks at Gordon and focuses on hi..."

"when you talk about memory recall which is interesting I can't help but see parallels between him and Magnus Carlson who's a chess player who's the number one in the world the arguably the best ever c..."

"but then defending it is a very grueling process is um with classical chess you play these many hours could be seven hour long games and uh on on top of that he really hates the fact that it's only I ..."

"will be that will award you a negative point so I said just let Nikki Royal take you down and he's like Nikki Rod's not going to take the bait and I said if he doesn't they'll call him for stalling an..."

"get the leg control foreign to get close here Gordon's going to try and get his head underneath this opponent make a circular entry into the legs he's clearing his opponent's head out of the way by fa..."

"his super fight so uh and that's against uh one of the greatest arguably for a long time you know uh really really up there uh Jiu Jitsu practitioners competitors grappling no geek competitors of all ..."

"to hacho crazy there was this uh uh fascinating moment before the match and I can't believe Gordon has sufficiently relaxed to do this but he walked up to uh Hydra Gracie and had a discussion what do ..."

"can play this tactical game of forcing Gordon to pull guard and then staying at a distance where he doesn't he's doing enough action not to get called for stalling but not so much to engage with the d..."

"here we've already said if you can just freeze it right there Andre's only real realistic part to Victory is standing grappling okay that would require him to take Gordon down presumably multiple time..."

"kid they say you're good on the ground let's see what you fucking got and I love that about Andre unfortunately he's entered the uh The Hornet's Nest now what happened there real quick because that wa..."

"order foreign was there a moment here again Gordon's on the legs are you impressed that Andre was able to get out from this country I would expect this on Andre's been preparing for this for two years..."

"opponent to recover what is he waiting for here is the this pressure here over time he just wears you out yeah it's part of a campaign of attrition of pressure over time now he's creating a situation ..."

"you'll see the critical penetration of the jaw with the wrist there wow yeah I'll go in the legs for a one-handed strangle foreign very bravely but a strangle it doesn't matter how Brave you are and w..."

"that's the feeling that the end of most grappling matches so if we could talk about Giancarlo who had an incredible performance and I mean there's a lot of things we can say we can probably go through..."

"thought it'd be a great training partner for Gordon and Gary we didn't really have any training Partners at that point and um uh sure enough he literally just picked up everything he had and moved dow..."

"to be because he was hard to pass his guard that kind of thing but he wasn't dangerous can I ask you a question on that yeah because my interaction with him uh early on when he came to Austin I rememb..."

"so what was his journey like to a person who lost to a person who dominated the competition yeah first things first we had to say okay you've got an obvious weakness leg lock defense so um every day i..."

"around the idea that trying to acquire new skills will create a temporary time where your Effectiveness diminishes as you're trying to bring on new skills you're never going to make it because you'll ..."

"then in his next match he had to take on the defending gold medalist from the previous uh uh uh ADCC amateurs and years this was the guy who was the favorite to win so you have a relatively unknown Jo..."

"nice look at that from from uh defending a single threatening a guillotine one of the big themes of our ADCC Camp was that most of our opponents now getting very strong in hand fighting look at that b..."

"now at one point Giancarlo was in trouble he got his back exposed with this situation good double leg to uh to a knee Pig so he has to uh expose his back in order to avoid giving up takedown points bu..."

"um but now the the great advantage of of Judo takedowns over wrestling Lake tackles is they confirm upper body connection after the takedown which is very very important for ADCC that's why we put suc..."

"great question and the truth of the matter is you can't forward to pace yourself because if you say I'm going to hold myself back for this match an expectation of the others you could end up losing yo..."

"course he wakes up on Sunday morning feeling pretty damn good now there's an interesting twist here his opponent is a talented young Irishman who won European trials I believe almost entirely with leg..."

"feet and the opponent is inverted uh here does a good job getting behind John Carlo's knee so now they're fully logged in so John Cullen moves away to protect the heel rotates out and controls the sho..."

"finals in either a gold or a silver medal and so you can see in that compressed moment that's the look of a man who's made was just recognized as how much progress he's made and what was once a weakne..."

"wrestling that eventually leads to a back take care back triangle body drawing up on this here you can see the same tactics utilized by um golden Ryan back control based around the body trial many att..."

"his ability to to actively attack his weaknesses and turn them into strengths and then develop an ability to uh to to finish that that was a truly truly remarkable achievement let me ask you about um ..."

"realizes oh this is my opportunity he's got good flexibility and he gets the Hawks if we just freeze it right there so there's a minute and a half left and typically an 80cc if you get the bag you sco..."

"into the legs gets to one of his favorite techniques the the heel hook now Gary has a brutal heel hook his egg and gets real pressure on the kid's leg oh oh it's hard to watch yeah but to his credit t..."

"talked about escapes for arm locks and applies here as well uh so you were teaching armalk escapes and I think uh uh choke escapes uh and the question came up when should an athlete not tap and risk t..."

"gold medal um I think my students are more than mature enough to make up their own minds uh I would be angry if they let their bodies break in a meaningless fashion in some random tournament um or in ..."

"as you can so one of the other incredible stories here is as you mentioned Nicolas murugali one of the incredible ghee athletes and Jiu Jitsu world not ever having done gnocchi uh training or competit..."

"are you doing Jiu-Jitsu for and he just laughed and he started um training with us so um uh he came in now historically he has been an athlete who always uh pulled God this in in Jiu Jitsu parlance fo..."

"significant parts of the modern game he just had nothing um wrestling he had literally zero wrestling which is half of 80cc is is based around this so ADCC is like six months away and he has to get re..."

"shocked I remember the staff of flow grappling coming and going like who is this guy he's like he's literally transformed he's like a different person so he goes into the World Championships because i..."

"the next day when we get called for the open weight obviously John Carter won a gold medal uh the um everyone agreed that he should go into open weight and the John Carlo agree of course he was I mean..."

"impressive it was a it was an action-packed match that went back and forth very very impressed on a small tangent yeah both of our tall Brothers had an incredible performance uh what do you think make..."

"when the rotolers first encountered my students they were relatively easy to lay lock because none of their training experience had prepared them for that um now they were they were young at that time..."

"um traditionally when when we looked at the ruatologist when they were young we saw that there was a disparity between their top game and their bottom game they were generally much better in top posit..."

"attributes is they are two of the best scramblers in the sport of Jiu Jitsu so whenever you go to shoot on the legs with them there's a danger of running straight into a dark Stranglehold they're very..."

"now you're a judo man yeah you'll back me up it's not an easy throw to learn it takes some time you're hopping on one foot with both of your body weight Supply yeah it's a lot of the really uh it's on..."

"jitsu just at a high level using Nicholas as an example what are some key ideas about takedowns okay first whenever people talk about standing position as you say they always say oh I need to learn so..."

"weak in a standing position overall and um these were things that needed to be sorted out immediately and its infancy mixed martial arts was divided between Grapplers and strikeless Strikers and uh mo..."

"of the future would be won and lost not worth techniques per se specialized techniques but rather the integration of techniques and the overlap between the various grappling and striking skills so tha..."

"uh takedowns and and striking there is clinch boxing which is the integration of upper body clinch skills combined with striking there is fence boxing which the two athletes are locked up with each ot..."

"see the integration of those four phases and the Striking and grappling within each of them was where victory was being won and and lost so once you reframe how you see a particular combat sport then ..."

"age um he's also one of the greatest coaches and athletes of all time in martial arts so let me ask what have you learned about life from Hansel Casey the degree of difficulty that henzo must have enc..."

"Hicks and Gracie to having to tell some moron that God is different from Mount and we was we were so primitive back then it he went from the best training culture in the world to literally the worst j..."

"ever get you know show me proof and um uh the you know so many times especially in those days in Jiu Jitsu there were so many things that were just off limits like you couldn't study Lagos you couldn'..."

"charismatic people in Jiu-Jitsu it's kind of a fun to watch that humans can be like this too it's just the the love that radiation was is incredible I gotta ask you this is from Reddit there's there's..."

"small group used to train early in the morning around 6 a.m before work and uh Boris was a legend in those days now a very young George Saint Pierre came to train with us at that time and he would com..."

"uh yeah he'll he'll he's also visit visiting Austin but just I was so I mean first of all I'm honored just uh drinking a little bit too much in Vegas with haja Gracie and just and talking about uh lov..."

"inspiring I haven't seen that kind of focus um for prolonged periods of times on a task you should see some time the guy the guy is I mean part of this just being competitive with himself it's the hat..."

"their about the way they think about just about the way they approach their actual schedule those kinds of things that's a great question okay the less training time you've got the more you want to ma..."

"who are the people I look up to the most with regards a triangle strangle who the guys who have the best triangle strangles out there then ask yourselves of those people who are the ones whose body ty..."

"yourself experiment a lot okay everyone's different and so you will don't see the video research as the final word see video research the way a writer will see a muse as some someone who initiates dis..."

"worse positions that that should be worth them that should have been worked on from the very beginning yeah that's still today if I were to say what's the weakest thing that I should work on absolutel..."

"did you end up getting Wi-Fi for your apartment no I'm still thinking about it so yeah yeah I want to go to the pros and cons um there's no cons lots of Pros but I just don't put much importance to it..."

"and gorillas themselves and adult male weighs in around 350 to 400 400 pounds yes that's so I like how in this particular place where I found this to 2 000 kilograms is as heavy as 30 average humans s..."

"um I think we can point out that the gorilla ultimately would be pretty low on those levels pushback to this analysis because the data we don't have much data on this we don't have we actually have sl..."

"the second would be Ambush tactics if you can Ambush an opponent with the element of surprise this is huge for success in combat they're almost all of the truly successful Predators on this planet are..."

"200 000 years to go from the bottom of the food chain to the top of the food chain um and gorillas have a lot of work to do before they get to that level uh humans can use it you said in theory gorill..."

"force the lion has the quintessential concentration of force which is fangs and claws the gorilla is the exact opposite it can't even make a fist and so it can only throw open-handed slaps and grab th..."

"um they're literally twice their size they have an ability to get away from strangleholds by standing up on two legs so the Lion's primary method of killing which is the strangle would be very difficu..."

"being chased off by cougar and Wolverines now what's that that's fear what is that what do you mean chased off uh if they fight over uh uh meat which uh and say for example a cougar has killed somethi..."

"endurance you mean like an octagon yeah that's got to be the next UFC by the way beer versus things change Joe Rogan's a big fan of the idea of fighting in a stadium for humans fighting in a stadium h..."

"so we have to be a little bit more speculative now given that bears do get chased off by cougar and cougar is weak compared with a male lion they'll listen to you draw from that by the way I would sug..."

"have killed they run away from cougars and Wolverines like no that's anecdotal evidence there's got to be one bear there's video footage of it you can watch it yes they're called anecdotal evidence th..."

"lion for you I still think that the size and endurance of the bear if they were locked in a cage together I would still favor the beer under those circumstances but in the wild I believe the beer will..."

"Gordon Ryan empty-handed versus a lion you get to choose lion versus bear it's up to you okay my advice would be very simple yeah I would say Gordon you're fucked you're going to die badly choose the ..."

"no do you think anyone will disagree anyone yeah moron okay uh somebody that I think you might know uh there's a famous actor Tom Hardy but he's also doing uh quite a bit of Jiu Jitsu the reason this ..."

"teammates and he goes on to talk about this organization re-org that uses Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to form a therapy to overcome physical and mental challenges strengthen social connections and improve ove..."

"and when you talk to them the overwhelming sentiment I get when the conversation is over and we go our separate ways is I'm always asking myself the transition from military life especially the more e..."

"into a life where people are arguing over you know who's who's cut who off who are in line to buy a coffee the intensity of camaraderie and love the uh for each other and then you go from incredible i..."

"the acquisition of skills usually along with that a kind of want of a better word or rustic and primitive sense of humor and and um a kind of soldiery way of talking to each other and disparaging you ..."

"wonderful wonderful thing I know we're linked with uh we defy which is a an organization which caters to former soldiers who were badly injured in combat and many of whom lost limbs and or suffered me..."

"International but it's just nice to see somebody use that large platform yeah and also to step on the on the mat and show the kind of Jiu Jitsu you would probably be proud of chasing submissions you g..."

"I see so it's a pretty simple explanation nothing too Freudian there are you sure quite sure okay have you really asked yourself deeply because you're really lean on an emoji is there something behind..."

"because if you show affection and the other person rejects that affection you've now placed yourself in a hierarchies going back to Lions of like oh this person you're just like the silly weak person ..."

"of a romantic love is the fact that we're all beginners at it and the minute you try to gain expertise in it what does that even mean like what would it mean to it would be good I didn't think it woul..."

"totally skipped over Anaconda I I assumed the implied I'll I'll put it to this way on video you can watch Puma yeah and and um uh similar sized cats uh Jaguar destroy anacondas even in water which is ..."

"statement of uh and certainly I can't give a definitive statement of of um uh of his prowess but um his writings are fascinating and deeply insightful but as to like what actually happened out there i..."

"there's also an element where the basis of the knife is steel and historically there's always been a riddle of Steel which is still has the property of both hardness and suppleness the harder you make..."

"is compromised so too in Jiu-Jitsu your task and training is to make the training competitive enough that you actually get used to the rigors of of real Combat but on the other hand it can't be so bru..."