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Devon Larratt

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first: 2022-02-16
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“Close quarter battle is team fighting. And it can look a lot of different ways, but basically it's ground troops. Doing some kind of a mission. And it's the orchestrated movement that is the skill, the orchestrated movement and the drills done quickly and accurately. It's very difficult to do that.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can really shine. And I don't believe that anymore. I believe that you can do that in any field, in any discipline. You know, if you go hard enough, it all kind of starts to feel the same. But at the time, that expression to me was really, really awesome. I loved close quarter battle. That was my favorite thing. That's really the whole reason I was there.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a lot of, and look, I've said this in the past, and I think it's been a personal failure of mine because I've said things like it's the highest level that you can do. And I don't believe that to be true anymore. But at the time, I thought it was the best way I could express my drives that I had, you know, to be a fighter.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My favorite thing about serving in the special forces was for sure the people that I worked with. That's probably the first thing I could say. I never, I always felt like totally comfortable and putting my life in the other guy's hands. I was so happy to be in a place where I felt I could follow. It didn't matter. Like I knew that the people ahead of me were incredible. I knew the people beside me were incredible. So just having that faith in your team is very special. And to know that they're there for a reason that has nothing to do with money. And that's what kind of brings everybody together is you're there for a higher purpose. And in terms of being an adrenaline junkie, There's nothing like it. I mean, there's nothing like going out at night and fighting. And when I say fighting, like my whole life, I wanted to fight. And to me,”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Such a great life. Really, really loved it. I honestly, I never wanted to leave. I never thought I would leave. I thought I'd be there my whole life. Real honor to get to serve.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Love and faith are powerful forces in this universe. You know, without them, we can descend into darkness very quickly as a world, even between people. When love and faith is destroyed, then we fall apart. And I've been graced by the love that Jody's given me. It's allowed me to continue to build. When you have love between people, then you build together. I love my family. I love Canada. I love the arm wrestling community. I have a love for what we're trying to achieve as a human species, you know? And, you know, when that falls apart, we don't have much. Yeah, just with my boy there. Yeah.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Love is difficult to accept. Love is one of those things that a lot of times you don't feel worthy of it. And so it's hard sometimes to accept someone's love. And someone who really loves you, they'll love you even when you don't. And here you go. You're going to make me cry, Alex. Yeah, Jody and I have been through so much. And she's shown me how, you know, she supported me just repeatedly, repeatedly.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Jody and I go way back, right? We were in high school together The thing that I admire most in people. Is bravery. To me, it's the most admirable quality. And Jody always has inspired me because she's such a fighter. You know, if she believes that something's true. She does not back down. She will not. And not to say that she can't change her mind because she can, but while she is convicted, she'll not stop fighting. She's pulled me out of the fire repeatedly. We've lived through so many things. Very lucky.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Get an edge within the rules, yeah. So I try and just ramp it, ramp it. But everybody's different. I've learned how to play the game based off of the tools that I have physically. And for me, this works because my genetic makeup is more of a persistence hunter, right? So like I need to extend things. And that works well for me. If I was more explosive, I probably wouldn't have the same strategies.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you have to fight, right? Like a lot of people think things will be given to them. And the thing that I've always believed from the time I was very young, like, uh, I was convinced that our inevitable death was going to come from aliens, right? Like some super aggressive Super violent species was going to come and smoke us all. And I'm like, I'm not like that. I'm like, but as soon as one person is, then you're forced to have to accept it as reality, right? So I like to fight for every single thing. I like to try and be more and more aggressive. And if someone matches me, that's when I can use my endurance. And if they don't, then I have the tactical advantage. So that's kind of my balance point.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. I'll start fucking off his fans and like, yeah, like I'll start talking to their wives or whatever. There's Jody. She's pretty dangerous to listen to also. But yeah, one of his buddies, Mike Stellaris, who's, you know.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This powerful weapon, right? Your voice is a powerful, powerful weapon, and its underutilized by so many athletes because they think that it's not sportsmanlike or something like that. But the truth is, I mean, you can be a weak. Person, but with your voice, you can influence and change any number of things. And the same thing happens in a fight between two people. If you can just be a never-ending flow of negative encouragement to someone or suggestion, anything can happen. It's a tool. And when you're fighting a person, you're not just fighting them. You're fighting everyone who's watching. You're fighting the crowd, the referees, and, you know, to get in the most ideal positions, situations, you need to use your voice.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Something happened there. Something happened to me. I was sore for about three or four months afterwards. It's like it smoked out my entire body. Yeah, that whole summer I was kind of sore. And yeah, and then after that, like two or three years later, that's when I won the world championships. Yeah, I mean, all the matches are, you know, you get something from people. Like, you know, you study them, you take something from them. People have an invisible crown, and he had one. And I think I took it from him.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's what happened afterwards. So I had some kind of a release afterwards. And that was the strange thing to me. So Match ended and I felt like so relaxed afterwards, so calm, so, you know, satisfied because it was one of those matches that kind of takes everything from you. But you win it. And I was relaxing in the chair. And I've never had the sensation before. I've never had it afterwards. But it's like the center of my backbone just exploded. And it was like. So weird, right? Because I'm not really spiritual that much or religious even, but it's like a fire just ripped through me. It only lasted an instant, just exploded through my whole body. Out the top, through my feet. And then it was gone. That was it. Weirdest thing I've ever felt in my entire life.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a one on one match with Braun Bath. And that's the one. Yeah. Extremely hard-fought battle was 3-1, I think. 3-1, but every match was really close. And he won the first one. And I had to kind of like dig my way out of the trenches and ended up coming back and winning. But it was a match. It was probably one of my closest matches ever.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I feel like I try and learn something from every match, but there is a very special match to me. That to this day I can't explain. Very weird phenomena. So I think it was 2005 was my first combat tour overseas. So it was an active tour. Among other things, I got shot during that tour. We got blown tour, rough tour. And I trained the whole time through knowing that at the end of this I was going to have a big match. There's a champion guy called Ron Bath. He's kind of, if there was no John Brazin, there would be Ron Bath. So extremely decorated, unbelievable armrester from the United States. And this is kind of when I was just kind of coming up in the sports still. I was fairly well established. I was definitely the best guy in Canada. And I had been for a few years. But I hadn't really expanded internationally too much.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Does, but that's not why I'm doing it. I'm doing it to get strong. In my opinion, this is one of the best ways to get strong, especially far away from it from a tournament or any kind of an event. I wouldn't want to do this even a month or even six weeks or even maybe even eight weeks before a big event. I'd want to already be kind of shrinking my volume. But far away from an event, yeah, as much volume as your body can handle and you'll feel it. You'll feel it. Like I felt it at times after the hour mark. I'm like, okay, I can feel my blood sugar kind of diminishing. I can feel like the blood that's going to my muscles is kind of like It's not really pushing more good stuff in. I'm starting to break down. Don't want that, you don't want that”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's probably like when you talk to the arm wrestling world, that's probably what I'm best known for is my endurance.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Strapping up with nature Yeah, it was long. So this first run of the video, I think, was a little over an hour, and then I took a break and I probably did another 45 minutes or so.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, okay, so I know Dimitri is the number one guy in Texas, lots of respect to the guy. I won't give him all the pieces until I really kind of gauge where he's at because I certainly in training don't want to fail. I don't want that. I don't want to, when you fail in arm wrestling, it's just imagine it's just bad technique. And you're trying and bad technique, you're going to get hurt. Yeah.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. So it's very specific, right? Like, I'm going to get way stronger at arm wrestling. And what I try and do when I go to these places is I make an assumption. I make an assumption I'm the best guy there. And so I'll arm wrestle in a way that kind of protects them. Because the more I can protect them and kind of keep them kind of in a good position, they can actually give me more. So I kind of give them little pieces that I think will put them in a place that they can really give me more. And so yeah, that's what I'm doing. And then when I see somebody like Dimitri. Pull that in a little bit.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Everybody's a bit different. So I love to go to new clubs because the energy is always high. Like the first time you go to a club, everybody's trying to kill you. Yeah.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. You saw what I did the other night, right? So I'm playing on the table for hours. So that's my number one training thing that I do is I go on the table for hours and I play.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there's a lot of strategies, but volume is a massive principle. And volume is very hard to achieve when you're believing in no pain, no gain. They don't really go together, no pain, no gain, more injuries, no.”
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“Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think that I was raised under, I believe it's a flawed, I mean, it's not flawed because it has its value as well, but it's best if you understand both philosophies. I think a North American thing that's just so ingrained in our fitness society is no pain, no gain, you know, and just pushing and like sweating and going harder and like fighting through and grit and but and then you talk to the Russians and they're like, yeah, never fail. You never fail. Never go to failure. Always feel good. Always feel good. It should always feel good. And those two philosophies express themselves very differently. And if you want to get strong. Yeah, don't fail. Don't fail.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seeing what Dennis did, you know, just trying to absorb a little bit of his knowledge, planted seeds in me. Yeah, I mean, when I look at my career, it's a bit like the stock market, but for sure I'm trending upwards. And since really kind of wrapping my mind around some of the Russian philosophies, they really changed my training systems. There was some base philosophies that they talked to me about over there that massively impacted my training.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think so. I actually. Because sometimes when you lose a match, there's a lot of matches that I've lost where they upset me because I know I made a mistake. I didn't make a mistake with Dennis. He was just way better. There's nothing I could have done that day. I'm really at peace with it. Dennis to me was just a big inspiration. I think that me arm wrestling, Dennis left handed that day just let me touch probably one of the strongest human beings on the armresting table that's ever lived, you know, left-handed.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. A lot of my strength comes from just being in a familiar place, doing my routine. I love to travel. I love to get out there and meet people and new experiences. But when I just want to really prepare for a big match, yeah, home is where I get strong.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the management has to be very efficient. You know, when I'm a tourist, when I'm a visitor, a little bit of that goes down. When I'm at my home and things are familiar, I've got a really great grasp on my time. Everything's in place. Everything's perfect. If I could magically transport Moscow into my hometown and just go out and visit them, yeah.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would certainly consider it. I've got only one trip planned at the moment. Administration is very important. What do you mean?”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's the Russian thing, I think. I don't know. I see a lot of Russians like that. They're so stoic. And I'm such a fan of Russia. I really want to go to Moscow. I've been saying it forever. Not yet. Not yet. I want to go. I want to just go and live there for like a month and just train. Moscow has got such a crazy arm wrestling scene. They've got, from what I understand, they just have so many clubs. There's so many strong athletes just go and just lightning rod. Yeah.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And more healthy, yeah. My left was not as healthy as it should be. Like I didn't have a full rounded technical arsenal. It takes a time after surgery. It really does. You can be good, but... After a surgery, like what I had, you're probably looking at three or four years before you're starting to hit technical proficiency the way you should be. And yeah, just a bit stronger.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, 100%, yes. Yeah, no, I didn't actually, nothing went purple or anything, but Yeah, the strength gap was very significant with Dennis”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Great position right through me yeah and uh the first time i ever thought that uh you know he that i had torn something i thought like after the match i'm like geez did he rip my chest right in half like um”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You were not ready enough for it. It was incredible. There were so many things that I remember about the Dennis match. I mean, I remember, you know, seeing video of somebody and then meeting them in person, it's different. I remember in the weigh-ins, sorry, not the weigh-ins and the standoff that we did, you know, before the match. I'm looking at them. I'm close. I'm looking at his arms. his bicep it looked like an ass like a freaking glute muscle His entire structure was so sinewy and just so strong. I was like, wow, he's so physically so impressive. And I remember when I arm wrestled him at a certain time, he allowed me to kind of set my position. You can very, you can't really tell because it happens very quickly. But he let me set my position, which means I kind of got my locks in where you can kind of really... A great hold”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. Like that. Right. And I understood that Dennis' level of professionalism far exceeded mine in what we were doing at the time. And I realized that I was no longer employed. I was now in the world of professional arm wrestling. And I realized that, you know, what was I doing? Like how serious was I? So dennis is an incredible guy.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“His level of dedication wasn't extremely inspiring to me. Used to do a job where It was serious enough that the price could be death, right? And I arm wrestled throughout that entire period. And I always kind of looked at, you know, the cost of doing an activity being death. Limited to soldiering And I kind of changed my mind a lot after that match. I realized that anything that you're in love with. Once you get far enough down the road and professional enough at it, it's going to kill you. Doesn't matter what you're doing, if you're crazy enough about anything, it's probably going to take your life from you in some way. And that doesn't mean you rush towards death. It's just your level of investment and level of risk can have some catastrophic effects.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While it might still happen, it might, but Dennis. Completely destroyed me. And I learned a lot from it. I think before the Dennis match, I think I was, I don't know, I don't know exactly what word to use. Maybe I felt like my thinking was a little bit elitist. And I really learned a lot. I was really humbled that day. How far and how professional and how prepared Dennis was and how seriously he took the sport.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It has been, I mean, I had surgery in 2016. I hate to make excuses. I hate to do it. Dennis was better than me that day, even on my best day. If you had gone back my entire career at no single day do I beat Dennis Saplankov in 2018, I would like to think that I could maybe do it now, but at that point there would have been no version that could have beat him.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The 2018 season was right hand. I started to enter negotiations to have the match with him. We'd been chasing the match for 10 years. They wanted to do it left. I wanted to do a right hand. I just wanted to do the match. I wanted to do the match with Dennis. I wanted to meet Dennis.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Russian guy. Russian, I used to call him Dennis Chernobyl. What a monster. He kind of led, I'd say, this new era of arm wrestling where the super heavyweight strength level has just gone through the roof. I wanted the match for such a long time. We tried to get the match. We couldn't get it organized. This is back in 2008 to 2012. Couldn't get the match, couldn't get the match. I've always been more of a one-on-one puller. He was doing the tournament format. I was ranked number one in the world. And towards the end, it kind of was very undecided. I ended up getting surgery. I ended up abandoning the super heavyweight division. I went down to 225s for a few years. WAL failed temporarily. So the 225 pound division was scrapped and I said, okay. Going to go for the big crown once again. And I started to go after super heavyweights.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I will show him things that he's not seen before. I will. He hasn't competed often in this rule set, which will be a challenge for him But yeah, what can I say? Like, Lavon, he's Everest.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. And once they've turned, it's like completely different level. Yeah, I mean, he's got strength. He's got technique. Some people will argue that his technique is flawed. At times, they've shown matches where he hasn't shown the best technique, but he's still won. And I think sometimes he just plays with people, you know, like there's a famous match that he had with... They call the Bruce Lee of arm wrestling, a guy called Ongarbaev, Kurtigali Ongrabaev. They had a match in the top eight. Great match. Kurtigali is like 220-pound guy from Kazakhstan. Brilliant technician, but power wise, you know, not in the same world. And Kurtigalli did well, even though he lost six nothing. He still did well. But in my opinion, Levon didn't care. Levon was like grabbing him low and just like whatever.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that Levon is very special in terms of his genetics. Not everybody can be Levon. There's not many Levons out there. But what I've encountered in the bias that I always see, like when people talk about people like Levon, they discount the other side so very quickly. And the thing is, Levon rarely has to show the other side because he's so far ahead. You talk about the technical application of the sport. He's so rarely needs to show it, but he's clearly incredible. If you watch his progression, he came up having very difficult technical struggles to overcome. Georgia is a great country for arm wrestling. There's this guy Gennadik Vikvinia who no one would ever say is not technical. And, you know, it took him years to defeat him to a point where now it's not even a discussion.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's like, I mean, people talk is it a bicep. I mean, yes, there's bicep for sure involved, but I'll always be inaccurate if I try and tell you what muscles are the, so I prefer to explain it in a movement and then everything that's involved to do that movement, right? Yeah. And Lavon's movements for arm wrestling are incredibly impressive.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's why I say it's a chain, right? But their movements and these movements you can develop in the gym or through practice.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So it's chains, there's chains of strength. And in arm wrestling, this is like technical strength. And we use these technical chains to fight each other. The chains that I'll talk about is, so you'll talk, remember how we talked about the post This upwards drive. Ability to close this angle. This is a chain. It can be used. It's a technical attack. It's also an attack that can be built with training. Just the ability to just drive upwards. There's a chain where you cup, right? Cup your wrist in. Cup your wrist in the anchor and the chain brings you right to your heart, right to your center, right? This chain, and this can be done at any time. There's a pronation chain, and that's to turn your thumb over, right? Turn your thumb over and you attack the person's cupping chain.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's very impressive. The greatest thing about him is his strength. That's the thing that sets him apart from everyone. His strength, specialized strength, exact strength for arm wrestling. I believe it's unmatched.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love to fight. I love it. I always have. There's every day where you have the distractions of life. And then there's really living in the moment. It's whatever you love to do. And that's when you can, you know, really be free. I'm free when I'm fighting. So you put me in at good fight and I just love it. I don't think about the past. I don't think about the future. I just think about killing that dude in front of me and I enjoy that.”
2022-02-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then I start to degrade them. And yeah, that's when it normally starts to get fun. And normally by the time I face them, I just try and completely dominate from every interaction from start to finish.”
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