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John Danaher

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“Everything, even all the way up to nations. Also, ask yourself What are the most efficient Methods of combat. Across the globe, across all species, all times, etc., etc. And you'll see that ultimately... They always come down to Three things. The first is concentration of force. Okay, one of the most successful combat strategies of all time is the ability to take concentrated force against the zone of weakness and your opponent. And if you can do this. Will often break through to a point of vulnerability, attack that vulnerability in a way where your opponent cannot respond and cannot recover from that vulnerable point being broken”
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“So, if you don't have one, there's a much higher chance you'll lose. But if you have an ability to finish an opponent in the conflict, Reliably, this is very, very important in determining success or failure. Third is your ability to endure a conflict longer than the person you're engaged in. So engage with. And so you get these four more specific elements now. Do you have the ability to initiate contact at will? Do you have the ability to break contact and disengage at will? Do you have the ability to finish your opponent efficiently? And do you have the ability to endure longer than your opponent does? If you have all four of those, that's huge for combat.”
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“The conflict could go on to a point where you no longer have the ability to continue it. If you have some succinct method of finishing, this is huge in combat and determining winner or loser.”
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“What is the ability of the combatants to initiate combat? Because initiation is a big deal in fighting. The one who sees the enemy first and can create ambush conditions or initiate compact in an area or a terrain which is favorable to them, this is huge in determining the outcome of battles. Not only is initiation important but disengagement is important. A lot of battles don't go according to plan. And so your ability to disengage at will and break off and away from a battle is key to success. So initiation and disengagement are big. The third big element, what is your ability to end a fight? Okay, do you have an efficient method of ending conflict? Without that”
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“The first is what are your skills? The second is what are your physical and mental attributes, so it's skills, attributes. Those are the two primary ones. And there is a third, which is your experience in using those skills and attributes and real-world scenarios. Okay, so whenever two, we'll start with two humans. When two humans get into a fight, ask yourself, what is their skill set Are their physical and mental attributes, and what is their experience in using those in real world applications? And that will give you your first... Look at okay, who's going to be the more successful? Then, in addition to those three general elements, there's also four more specific elements.”
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“But there are some ways of looking at this which can take this already interesting question and make it a lot more interesting. First, we've seen that intuitions aren't to be trusted. So if intuitions aren't to be trusted, well, what is to be trusted here? Well, I've always believed that there are three... Elements that determine What level of success or failure anyone will experience in combat? And this is true both for individuals and for groups and even all the way up to nations.”
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“Looks at his father as like the pinnacle of strength. You can't necessarily, from a position of inexperience and weakness, look at a given animal and say, oh, that must be the toughest animal in the animal kingdom. There's levels to this game. And I think we can point out that the gorilla ultimately would be pretty low on those levels despite the fierce apparent.”
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“Anyone else being stronger than that? So naively, he thinks his father is the strongest man in the world. So too, in our relationship with animals, when we look at a silverback gorilla, it just looks overwhelmingly strong to us to a degree which is almost absurd. You picture the greatest combat athletes that humanity has ever produced. Prime Mike Tyson, Gordon Ryan for Grappling. They would literally be torn limb from limb by an angry gorilla. It wouldn't even be remotely competitive. And so there's a sense in which we look at them in awe because of what they could do to us. But that can be very misleading. And just as a boy...”
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“All the considerations you've raised are very important, and we would have to address them if we're going to go through this topic. First things first. Whenever you go into a discussion of this kind, there's A kind of natural impression that we all have as to which one would be the most formidable. And it's important that you become rather skeptical of your first intuitions because they're often very misleading. Just as every boy thinks his father is the strongest man in the world. And then when he grows up into adulthood, he realizes Father was not even close to being the strongest man in the world. It's not because Anything other than an experience. To a boy, his father seems overwhelmingly strong. He literally can't even imagine.”
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“It's very much in line with Jiu Jitsu. Like Lions of Famous for using strangulation as their primary method of killing. They get a hold of the neck and hold it until the animal drops.”
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“Focused existence. My life wasn't always like this. I've gone through different phases of my life. I was a university student and teacher at university. I was a nightclub bouncer for more than a decade. I've been through different areas of life. I've seen most things, I've experienced a lot. I've traveled the world. At this point in my life, people think I live some kind of monk-like existence. I have a private life I like to go out and have fun like everyone else. I'm not like some kind of like monk who just you know sits under a waterfall and meditates for anything crazy like that”
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“Video footage quite often, yeah, especially things from freestyle wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling, judo, and mixed martial arts also subsidiary sports to mix martial arts, they boxing, Muay Thai and European kickboxing.”
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“At the end of the day, I usually stop off at a place like a supermarket like Whole Foods or some equivalent to that and buy something simple and eat.”
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“I can look at a class. I've been doing this a long time, so I can just look at a class and be like, okay, these guys need this, this, and this. And then I make reflections at the end of the day. Then I'll take care of things that we all do, talk to family, occasionally go out for dinner with friends. dates, things like that. Yeah, Henzo had.”
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“Coach Jiu Jitsu. I try to find time for one Instagram post per day, which usually describes some basic theme of Jiu-Jitsu in most cases unless we've just had a competition, in which case I'll talk about upcoming competitions or what happens after a competition. But most of them just express a simple jiu-jitsu theme. I try to do a short workout for myself and then I go home. At the end of the day, I always start by asking myself, what do my students need from me tomorrow based on what I've seen today? What do the recreational students need? And what do the competitive students need? This is always done in the light of what are the upcoming competitions.”
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“You're the worst liar I ever met. My day typically starts pretty early. I don't eat in the morning. I just get up and go to work. And I teach through the day. My last class finishes usually around 8 p.m. During that time, I...”
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“First class requires me to get up around 6 a.m. to drive. I'm still a student driver, so I'm not very good at driving. So I have to spend a little extra time to get to the destination on time.”
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“So let's take Monday morning for you. Watching this video, we're filming this late on a Sunday night. So after this, I'll drive home. Just had ADC, it was two weeks ago. It was one of the longest training camps. It was the longest training camp I've ever run because of the fact we had to go through three different matches for Gordon Ryan leading up to it. So immediately after ADCC, I got the training down for the competitive athletes to one session per day for the first week after ADCC to give their bodies a bit of a break. I still have to teach two classes in addition to that, two recreational classes. So my teaching schedule went down to three classes per day one week. Relative break, we go back to two competition classes per day plus two recreational classes plus an MMA class for Gary Tonin and his friends.”
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“Most powerful moments you will have on the mat come from making discoveries for yourself, not being told what to do, not observing someone else doing something, but self-discoveries. Those are the ones that will last inside you. So use video research not as the definitive answer to your problems, but as initiating research for yourself on the mat. And as time goes by and you do this more and more often and more and more areas of the sport, I promise you you'll improve.”
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“And in this sense Always begins with. Accurate assessment of your current skill le You've got to start there Then I always encourage people to use video camera to make the most.”
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“Enduring sparring. No rigorous control over what you do. Try to work the game into the area of focus. So for example, if you want to work on front triangles, Be wise for you to do most of your sparring from bottom.”
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“Time during class to actively work on these things. Sometimes in class, you don't get a choice. The instructor sometimes says, okay, today we're working this, this, and this.”
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“Bringing them into your own game. In one specific area. Time goes by, and you do this with more and more elements of your game.”
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“Most closely mirrors my own. And that would be a good example Taking a problem in your game. Contrasting it with Elite level performance. In people whose body type roughly matches your own.”
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“Guys who have the best triangle strangles out there. Then ask yourselves Those people who are the ones whose body type and personality”
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“Start with an assessment of yourself, and the most honest one comes not from you, comes from the camera. Have a look at what you see. Sat to say, okay, many of the weaknesses. Your game are made much more apparent. Looking from the outside in rather than feeling them during the heat of a match. Identify four or five of the biggest weaknesses that you see. Start actively attacking those weaknesses. Ask yourself, let's say, for example The course of watching the videotape of yourself, you observe yourself losing three triangles. You attempted three triangle triangle holds, you failed all three. Could start by saying, okay, let me ask myself who. The people I look up to the most with regards. Triangle, who's the”
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“You never actually get to see your game. So, what I would recommend is to start by videotaping yourself, inspiring. Your peers”
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“Great question The less training time you've got, the more you want to maximize its effect. So a question becomes, okay, if I'm training, say, twice a week and sometimes even once a week, what can I do to make sure that that Hour period is used maximally The less training time you've got, the more the onus is on you to have a plan before you walk in the door. You go in to saying Going to roll around and see what happens, or I'll just follow what the instructor says. Get a certain amount out of each class. It will never be what it could have been. Go in with a plan. Enact it. Many people go in with a plan and Don't follow it. Let's say, for example. Start with the program that goes like this first To create the most honest assessment of yourself as a jiu-jitsu player. It's tough to make an honest assessment of yourself.”
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“I think for most people, for the vast majority of people, it would have to be explained to them. For a smaller group of people, if they felt it, they could try to replicate it. And there are a few people who could look at it and have enough knowledge and say, okay, I can see what he's doing. Like, for example, Hodger could probably look at video footage of could be grappling and say, okay, I understand what he's doing. But the average person that would probably go over their heads.”
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“People say, Oh, he's just a positional guy. No, he's not. He's got great submissions. The application of his triangle from both top and bottom was top class. He had a sharp arm lock from bottom position. Excellent Kimora. If you look at his Kimora finishes in MMA, they were technically very, very well set, excellent braking mechanics. a very, very fine grappler in both submission grappling and MMA grappling. I think we'd probably learn a ton from moving around with him.”
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“Yes, he does. And he's absolutely a master of exerting control. The amount of Grappling control, he was able to put over some of the most difficult people in the world to control was truly astounding. He beat people from every style. He beat wrestlers. He beat jiu-jitsu players. He beat kickboxers. And he controlled them all in more or less the same way. He has a very underrated bottom game. People think, oh, he's just about stifling top control. But people forget he was taken down on several occasions and ended up in bottom position. And he showed excellent guard work from bottom. He was able to get into submission holds readily on opponents from bottom position. He's got an excellent bottom game.”
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“Absolutely. He's one of the greatest combat athletes of all time. If you can't learn from someone like that, there's something wrong with you.”
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“Now, many people aren't aware of the fact that he was actually a very good judoplayer. He had Judoko. Yeah, he had very good Nogi Judo. He had an excellent Haraigoshi, very good Taniyatoshi. And he threw many people who were highly credentialed wrestlers back in the basement, back in the glory days of MMA training. He was a good example of a guy who had very, very good judo hips and often use it to counter wrestling. A fine demonstrator of the idea that. When Judah was adapted to Nogi gripping, it can provide a very effective foil to many of the standard forms of wrestling attack, and he would often use Uchimata to counter leg tackles and do so in very, very spectacular fashion.”
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“Yeah, so he trained for many years in the basement of my classes. His story is one of the most unlikely stories. Like if someone wrote a movie plot about his life, they'd be like, it's absurd. We'd be throwing out the door in a second. And yet it all happened. You're absolutely correct. From the unlikeliest possible starts created a situation where he's, I think it's incontestable now to say he's the most successful manager in mixed martial arts history. He has more champions under his care than anyone else I'm aware of.”
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“And then he never came back. I've never seen Boris since. He came in, was one of the best crapers I ever saw That's it, buddy. I'm out. And”
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“No, Boris was a very formidable man for that time. The funny thing about Boris is every time we would have a conversation, he would say, I'm only going to do the sport until I'm 40 years old. And then I'm going to stop. And I was like, why? Why not be like a lifelong martial artist? You know, you got so good. You're good at jiu-jitsu. You've got great skills. You've worked hard. Why not just keep going? He's like, it's ridiculous for a man to train after 40. There's no need. You never gave any reason for this. It was just ridiculous. So one day, now this is a guy who came in literally every day, 6 a.m. every day. One day he comes in, he comes up to me at the end of the train and he goes, Hey, John, I just turned 40. So I won't be seeing you again.”
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“And I would always encourage George to play bottom position. You've got to get good in bottom position. You never know. I know you're good at takedowns, but one day someone's going to put you down. So you've got to work bottom position. And Boris had very strong guard passing. And I remember one of George's happiest days is finally after like two years, one day he sweat Boris, got on top and finished them. And I remember he was, that was one of his biggest thrills in all of his training career.”
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“And they would literally run into like one of the most formidable human beings in the entire New York area. Boris started training Jiu-Jitsu, I believe in Long Island and then when he got a tech job in Manhattan, started training with us in a morning class. Now, these were relatively early days in Manhattan and my teaching career. And he and a group of others, a very small group, used to train early in the morning around 6 a.m. before work. And Boris was a legend in those days. Now, a very young George St. Pierre. Came Train with us at that time, and he would come in at 6 a.m. to do his morning class. And he was one of the main training partners for Boris. And Boris being a rest, they used to generally prefer top possession.”
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“Powerfully built and compact. Very nice, polite young man, but also slightly eccentric, which I always liked about him. He would always come dressed with glasses on and he would leave the gym. Dressed like to use the American phrase a complete nerd with like his pocket protector. Now he was heavily muscled, but he would dress in such a way that he didn't appear so when he left. And we always used to laugh like, you imagine some guy tried to mug Boris Stephen with his nerdy glasses on his pocket protector.”
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“Boris is one of my early students. I think he was either my first or second black belt. Boris came from Long Island. He was a wrestler. He was a Russian Jewish descent and highly intelligent. And now he was short of stature but very...”
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“And that's the best research program you can ever have. Show me proof. And so many times, especially in those days in Jujitsu, there were so many things that were just off limits. You couldn't study Lagos. You couldn't do this. You couldn't do that. This kind of game was for Cal. This is the only kind of game we accept. And Hinzler was never like that. He was just like, okay, just do what you want. prove to me it works. And if you give people that simple stricture, you give them some time, some ingenuity, a lot of things can happen.”
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“He did a fantastic job, and most of it was based around the idea that he gave us complete freedom. We came in, we trained all day, and I started teaching beginners classes. And then some of his senior students, Hikaro made a Rodrigo Gracie and Matt Serra, opened their own schools around the tri-state area. So they left. There was a vacuum of teachers and he asked me to start teaching. I taught for many, many years there. And he always gave us complete freedom. His only thing was to say, okay, do whatever you want. Just make sure it's effective. Proved to me it's effective.”
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“Argue with you about this, especially going from training with Hicks and Gracie to having to tell some moron that God is different from Mount. And we were so primitive back then. He went from the best training culture in the world to literally the worst, just a bunch of guys in their mid-20s who knew nothing about the ground.”
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“He comes to New York Where he has to teach A language that he at that stage barely spoke. To a bunch of fucking morons. Who didn't even on my first day in Juditsu, they had to explain to me the difference between the mount and the guard. Because as far as I was concerned, hey, you're on top. It's the same thing. No, no, no. Mounted is different from God. And I'm like, no, it's not like you're on top of the guy. You just hit him.”
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“Degree of difficulty Henzo must have encountered, he never talked to us about it, but I figured this out as the years went by. The degree of difficulty he must have experienced when he first came to Manhattan and started teaching. It must have just been incredible. You've got to remember, Henzo came from Brazil training with... Best people in the world at that time, Hickson. The Machados, all of them were located around Gracie Baja. That Rio de Rio de Janeiro set. They all knew each other and they all trained together. They had internal problems, of course, but they all knew each other well and knew each other's games. So all of them had beautiful and highly developed judetsu. So all Henzo knew from childhood on was perfect, beautiful Jiu-Jitsu and communicating with other people who also knew perfect, beautiful Jiu-Jitsu.”
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“There's a sense in which it had to start with a paradigm shift. Then a research program began after that. You don't start with research, you started with a paradigm shift and then went to research.”
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“The rule set that you're operating in required such extensive modification that the final product of clinchboxing transcended all five of its component martial arts and became its own autonomous skill needed to be worked autonomously. And when we broke George's training down into those four areas, that's when real progress started to be made. That's when you started to see the integration of those four phases and the striking and grappling within each of them was where victory was being won and lost.”
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“Terms of, okay, there are four fundamental skill areas of mixed martial arts. There is shoot boxing, which is the integration of... Takedowns and striking. There is clinch boxing, which is the integration of a body clinch skills combined with striking. There is fence boxing, which the two athletes are locked up with each other on the fence and they have to integrate, take down defense and striking skills. And there is grapple boxing, which is the merging of ground grappling with striking. And when you broke MMA down into those four categories, you saw that each one of those four domains transcends the specialized martial arts that form their components. So for example, in clinchboxing, you would incorporate things from Judo, Greco-Roman, freestyle, jiu-jitsu submissions, Muay Thai clinching techniques. Even if you took all five of those.”
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“Techniques per se, specialized techniques, but rather the integration of techniques and the overlap between the various grappling and striking skills so that someone who was an inferior grappler would have just enough grappling skill to be able to hold a grappler off and then defeat them with striking. And a striker who was if you went to fight someone who's superior to you on striking, you would have just enough striking skill to be able to hold them at bay and then enter into grappling. This went further and further until it got clear that there were whole areas of the sport that you needed to change your entire mindset about them so that people went into early MMA thinking in terms of grapper and striker. What I started to think is”
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“First thing I look for is What are the current weaknesses in a given combat sport? So in the case of jiu-jitsu, it was very obvious that historically jiu-jitsu had always been weak and leg logging. Judits who had always been weak in standing position overall. Were things that needed to be sorted out immediately. In its infancy, mixed martial arts was divided between grapplers and strikers. Most of the emphasis in early mixed martial arts was on the idea of specialists in a given domain, forcing the fight into their domain. My early work with George St. Pierre convinced me that the right approach wasn't increased specialization and learning to force Your athlete into that area of specialization at the expense of the opponent, but rather the real battles of the future would be won and lost, not with”
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