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John Danaher

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“Sometimes the heel can slip because something's popped, so it's unclear what happened there. There seems to be a reaction from the part of the opponent. It definitely did some damage. So Gary goes back for a second one.”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The guy has an excellent opportunity to transition off him into a rare triangle, which is one of the hardest things in the world to get out of. And from here, if this was anyone but Gary Tonin, I think it would have been curtains. But you see, Gary just extends. Keeps his arm at just the right angle to pop out and gets out. So now Gary's like, oh, crap, I'm going to lose to this fucking guy. So he's got a minute left to do something. So he goes back into his submission mode. He goes back to who Gary Tonin is and immediately goes into leg lock action. The young man from Ireland realizes, hey, I'm going to win this match against the number one seed. So Gary goes into the legs. Gets to one of his favorite techniques, the heel hook. Gary has a brutal hole as a heck and gets real pressure on the kid's leg.”
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“Nickname for Gary is the slivery salmon because it's like trying to hold a goddamn salmon on the riverbank, trying to hold on to this kid. So he gets into a position which looks absolutely hopeless here. It gets worse. This is already bad.”
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“Now, there's limited time left on the clock. This guy realizes, oh, this is my opportunity. He's got good flexibility and he gets the hook. So if he just frees it right then. So there's a minute and a half left. And typically in ADCC, if you get the bag, you score three points. So this is a huge score. For Gary to win here, it's got to be by submission. Okay, so Gary's made one mistake. This talented young fellow from Ireland does a great job not only of getting the back, but he really attacks wealth from the back. And let's look at the depth of Gary Tonin's defensive acumen here.”
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“Go to the part where Gary actually loses the match. Okay, so the match is pretty innocuous at this point. The guy does a good job of turning into the arm. Gary gets caught reaching from the knees. Okay, that's always a mistake. And the guy does it, I think, does a great job capitalizing on it.”
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“About restricting movement and using that pressure to create reactive opportunity. Those are the two paths you can take in Jiu-Jitsu because our team now has become mostly associated with people over 200 pounds and because most of them will begin as I took the more high percentage approach of, okay, let's focus primarily on controlling the other fellows movement. But Gary's a unique individual. And I feel like I let him down by not giving him special attention in regards to what he does.”
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“That's a great set of questions. Yes, I'm the person who promulgates this idea that there's two broad ways you can go in jiu-jitsu. You can either focus on Promoting your own movement to create opportunity or by restricting the other person's movement. If you're a slower, less athletic opponent, then you should definitely focus on the idea of restricting the other fallows movement. That's how slow unathletic people win in jiu-jitsu. If you're quick with the ability to change direction, stand up quickly, go down quickly and move like a leppet, then you're almost always better off generating movement in order to create opportunity. So one is based more on movement as the source of opportunity. One is based more upon pressure as the source of opportunity. So you'll get someone like Gary Tonin or the Rulatolo brothers. Their game is based around the idea of promoting their own movement to create opportunity, whereas someone like Gordon Ryan or Hodger Gracie.”
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“But no, it wasn't a weight cut that would break someone like Gary Tona. And it's more physical. You train lighter and weaker. You tend to get injured more in camp because you're lighter Have a team now after the breakout that's mostly comprised of people over £215. So there's very few small people left in the gym. Most of the smaller athletes went to B-team. So Gary's been struggling a little bit with training partners. But here I think the chief problem was that Gary focused perhaps a little too much on the positional tactical game and got away from his true gift which is relentless hunting for submissions. And as I said, I think the person to blame for that is me because I put I had to put so much emphasis on the positional game for the developing athletes that I didn't pay enough attention to Gary's unique attributes.”
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“Wink cut difficult, yeah. He um, this is the first time he ever went down to the 66 kilos. So, you know, it wasn't critical. There's other guys who are bigger than him who made the weight.”
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“And I think I was coaching so hard to the new people in the room on positional pressure that I neglected Gary's innate ability to the fact that he does best when he attacks exclusively by submission. So I think if anyone should get blame for the failure here, it should be me.”
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“Given blame for this because they put such a heavy emphasis on the training camp overall on positional pressure that I feel that worked very well for all of the athletes except Gary Tonin.”
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“Not only did Gary lose, he lost to the bottom seed of his division. And that in itself says something pretty remarkable about what's happening in ADCC, how A sense in which the days of The invited athletes being far superior to the trials winners are over. It was a clear signal that anyone who makes it to ADCC can beat the best people. Sam McNally is a very talented submission grapper from Ireland. He specializes mostly in arms, but he has a good positional game as well, has a very modern look to his jiu-jitsu. And he did a fantastic job against Garatonin. I think technically Gary perhaps got a little far away from his true nature in grappling, which is relentless submission attack and perhaps I should be.”
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“John Kall is a relatively unemotional man, but you can see there's emotion. That's not fake. That's genuine. And that's the emotions of a man who Months ago, couldn't have done that. And then 10 months later, by dent of his own hard work and dedication and his ability to actively attack his weaknesses and turn him into strengths and then develop an ability to finish, that was a truly, truly remarkable achievement.”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“John Carlo has a massive technical lead and points. There's literally no way he could lose this match at this point, even if his opponent did get out of here and take him down. John Carlo would still be a hit-on points. So the question now is not whether John Carlo will get the gold medal, but whether John Carla will get it by submission. And there it is. There's the penetration of the neck. And he can't get the figure four, so he opts for palm to palm instead. And there's the submission”
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“You can see the same tactics utilized by Gordon Ryan. Control based around the body trial. Many attempts to try and entrap his opponent's arm and take away those defensive arms. The main difference here is, again, you have an athlete with a very powerful, compact neck, so neck penetration is difficult. And so John Carlo will switch to a palm-to-palm strangle instead of the conventional figure four”
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“These two have a history. Hulk is beaten John Cullen many times. And so for John Carlo, it's a question of, okay, here I'm matched up against a guy who's repeatedly beaten me. How am I going to turn this around now? And in terms of, we talked earlier about confidence, if confidence was just a mental thing. John Carlo Neville would have won this fight when you've lost all those times to an athlete, words aren't going to change anything. But you can see right from the start, when they get into the hand fight, John Carlo is much more tactically adept with his hand fighting. He's doing a good job of controlling his opponent's hands, preventing any kind of prolonged pressure on the head and Holk gets a sense here in which he realizes he's fighting a very different person.”
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“The reason for that smile, you can probably guess, is because a year ago this would have been a disaster. And now instead it's a guaranteed ticket to the 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 just recognized just how much progress he's made and what was once a weakness in roughly 10 months was the time it took.”
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“Control comes from his opponent. The entanglement is his opponent's. Opponent is holding his own body in place with his own legs. He's the root of his own problem here.”
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“He's not putting too much pressure on the past because we're still pretty early in the match. He's not ready to score yet. So here again, he turns away his heel. Now his opponent's starting to get more and more cavalier with his foot positioning to a point where now it's just downright sloppy. John Carlos sees it, identifies it, locks up a wrist to wrist toe hold, and breaks his foot.”
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“Irishman's starting to lose discipline with his own foot position. Okay. He's so focused on his own attack that he's starting to get a little sloppy with his own foot position. He's assuming, oh, I'm the guy who's attacking. So my opponent will be afraid of my leg locks and is starting to make some small tactical errors that John Carl will be able to take advantage of.”
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“Does a good job getting behind John Carlo's knee Now they're fully locked in. So, John Carlin moves away to predict the heel, rotates out, controls his shoelaces. Now, at this point”
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“An initial defense. Now, his opponent wants to get underneath the center of gravity. So John Carlo wants to get outside the line of his legs. At some point, your opponent is going to entangle. If he's determined to entangle, at some point it's going to happen. So John Carlo decides, okay, let's let it happen and let's see where his feet go and let's see how disciplined he is with his feet.”
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“Training the gym. So he's doing a good job of preventing entanglement, controlling his opponent's shoelaces and moving out to an angle which limits his opponent's entry options.”
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“His opponent Owen from Ireland is employing the same tactics that we made famous years ago, the idea of sitting to butterfly garden looking to entangle the legs. He's kind of playing that game. So John Cull is obviously used to this from”
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“That's the first day, that's Saturday. So, John Carlo goes to sleep that night thinking, okay, I just beat a world champion in my first match and almost submitted him. And I just submitted to defending champion. So of 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 locks. And almost all of his major attacks in the tournament so far have been leglocks. Now bear in mind that a year ago, John Carlo was losing to local blue belt competitors via leglock. So, in my mind, I'm thinking, okay, how's he going to handle this? And you'll see the result.”
2022-10-10 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Matthias is engaging in a very good tactic, which is to get most of us back off the ground to deny the mount points. So as back exposure starts to occur, he turns in. Yeah, but you can see what's happening here as the left foot goes under, it's going to create a beautiful triangle entry. Right foot penetrates through underneath the neck, and now he's locking a triangle, a Senkaku, but not just any triangle, a triangle with the figure four locked on the back of the opponent's head, which makes any kind of stacking defense very, very difficult. It makes it very, very hard for an opponent to pull away and creates a much tighter strangle than average. As a result, it's a quick submission.”
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“You have to just be in good shape, and that's what they're doing. No, it's mostly physical. That's what the camp is for. He's felt more pressure in the training room than he felt in any of his matches.”
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“It's a great question, and the truth of the matter is you can't afford to pace yourself. Because if you say, I'm going to hold myself back for this match in expectation of the others, you could end up losing your first match.”
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“Is smart. He's keeping on his side so that less than 75% of his back is on the floor to deny the mount points. But that comes at a price and that price is back exposure.”
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“Yeah, that's why they're saying combat sports, defend yourself at all times. But now the great advantage of judo takedowns over wrestling legals is they confer upper body connection after the takedown, which is very, very important for ADCC. That's why we put such a heavy emphasis on them. And now John Carlos is absolutely in the driver's seat. He just scored four points for that takedown. So he's well ahead at this point against the established favorite for the entire weight division. So now Mateus Denise has to start taking some risks. He's staring down the barrel of defeat. There's not that much time left. And that's what's going to set up the pressure. Now it's tactical pressure. It's not physical pressure. It's tactical. Matthias has to turn away. Going to create back exposure, the most dangerous kind of exposure in ADC. It is.”
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“It's ordinarily, it could be dangerous with your opponent switched to a number. Oops, and there's the body lock. Now there's some controversy here, but you can clearly see the hands were locked, so it shouldn't really be as controversial as people are saying. Watch for the right leg Kosodogake here. Pulls in the hips, exposes the leg, boom, and down. Beautiful Kosuragake.”
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“An So he has to expose his back in order to avoid giving up takedown points. But he has a defensive training that we work on is coming through. Defensively sound, shuts out the hook, prevents the score. Keeps his body at the right angle to prevent a power half Nelson.”
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“And then later in the match, you'll use a kusurigake Another classical judo takedown to get top position. One point, John Carlo was in trouble. He got his back exposed.”
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“Of the big themes of our ADCC camp was that most of our opponents now are getting very strong in hand fighting. They are not strong in foot fighting. And so we put a very heavy emphasis on foot sweeping attacks. You remember Gordon Ryan took down Andre Galvant with a foot sweep. And here you have John Carla using the same technique, not from the back, but from the front.”
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“He's got by jiu-jitsu standards, he's a very strong wrestler. So our intention was to match his wrestling with John Carter's judo skills. So you will see if we could perhaps go back. See the first takedown Took him down with a simple dragon pick. So that was John Culler's first takedown. That was more wrestling oriented and good for his confidence to see that he could score a nice takedown. But Matthias Denise is very, very good at standing up from bottom position if we just go back to the stamp. Okay, now here we have something interesting. Matthias comes up from bottom, seizes her leg, and John Carlo defends the wrestling move and then goes immediately into... It's kind of a mix of society and Dyashi Harai.”
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“He could have just coasted at this point, but he wanted to finish every one of his opponents. And he got very, very close, but not quite there. And then in his next match, he had to take on the defending gold medalist from the previous ADCC. Was the guy who was the favorite to win? So you have a relatively unknown John Carlow fighting the man who defeated Craig Jones in the previous ADC.”
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“And no one really paid much attention. In his first match, he took on a great Brazilian champion, Izake, and won in dominant fashion. He was about to strangle him with just a few seconds left on the clock. And I remember John Cullow being furious at the end of the match thinking, I was so close to finish and he wanted a perfect finish.”
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“You're the guy that used to get finished by leglogs, and now you're beating tough opponents with leg logs. And that was an important psychological step for John Carlo Badoni. And with each little step as we went further and further, then he got to ADC trials and had one of the great performances. I believe he submitted all of his opponents in ADCC trials and put on a fantastic display of grab lane. Shockingly, no one paid attention to it. They were just like, oh yeah, he won. John Carlo flew into ADC completely under the radar. They just saw him and say, oh, he's the guy that won American trials.”
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“Developing confidence in local competitions. I remember putting seeing John Carlo compete in a local fight to win competition against the tough Brazilian kid. John Carlo just came out, dominated and finished with a leg lock. Now that was interesting. It's like, okay.”
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“And in particular, he put very, very hard work on his strangleholds. He had always been someone who was positionally strong. He could get to the back, but he could never finish from the back. And then suddenly in the Jeremy started finishing from the back. And then as gym performance against the lesser students increased, then you bump him up against better students. And then this goes on all the way up to the best guys in the room. And in time, in a relatively short period of time, there were significant increases in performance and success begets success. And this kept going. Started to get a hint of”
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“There's the belief that in time, as my skill performance increases, it will increase over time. But it will come at the price of initial frustration and failure. And John Carlo made that mental switch early on in his time in Austin. And to his credit, just stuck through within a very short period of time again very hard to leglock. And even the best leg lockers in the room had a hard time with him. And that was the first step in confidence. Okay, I'm not getting finished quickly anymore. Then he had to bring in a whole new set of a body submissions. He neglected upper body submissions.”
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“The only way to go If you can't wrap your head 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 always stay at whatever skill set you are. The whole mental trick is to. Imbue this idea of delayed gratification. You have to accept that when I bring on new moves, my overall effectiveness will diminish.”
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“You're wondering have I even got what it takes? Think about it, he's an established player who's been an IBGF competition. I believe he's a Brown Belt World champion in the GI. And suddenly a group of kids that he's never even seen before repeatedly submitting them with leg longs in the gym. And he's like, man, this is terrible. A year from now, I'm supposed to fight ADCC against people like Craig Jones. Some of the best leg lockers in the world. It must have been hard, you know. But he just stayed in there and no one worked harder than him. He just was in the gym three times a day studying every day. And unlike so many other people, every time he was showing something, he consciously and deliberately tried to enact it, even at the price of initial failure.”
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“First things first, we had to say, okay, you've got an obvious weakness leg log defense. So every day in the gym, he would be taught, okay, this is where you put your feet. This is where you position your knees. You point your knee this way, not this way. Then he would have to start sparring situations in leg locks and have to work his way out. Initially, these were like heartbreaking sessions for him where I mean I've got to give that kid full credit. Like he just worked his way through it patiently, dealt with frustration, initial failures, and just said, I'm going to get better.”
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“People like Hume pointed out there's no supreme rational reason for believing this, but nonetheless your confidence is high. And it's the same thing in jiu-jitsu. If you're performing well and skills are the reason for that, your confidence will be high in the future regardless of what your mindset is. So it's not a question of this personality does better in competition or that personality. Ultimately, it's going to come down to your skills and your confidence will be a reflection of your accumulation of skills.”
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“Absolutely. Confidence comes from skill level. And confidence is a much more rational thing than most people ascribe. People think of confidence as that just esoteric, ethereal element that you either have or you don't. When in fact confidence is much more a reflection, a rational reflection on your past experience and if you're successful with your past experience and you're expecting to. Compete in a situation which is similar to your past experience, and that past experience has mostly been successful, you'll be confident. Are you pretty confident that the sun will rise tomorrow? Of course, you are because it's done so every time in the past. Now there's no”
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“It was an amazing thing. To give you an idea, when he first moved to Austin, he competed in a WNO event. And I don't think he scored a single point, lost a couple of matches, including matches to people who were in this ADC. So he came out of that looking very depressed and he lost to Canan Duate. He lost to... Mason Fowler. So Giancarlo always struck me as someone who was positionally sound. He had good guard retention, things like this, but he had no offense. He had no leg lock defense and he just wasn't able to assert authority on matches. He was a guy who was always going to be tough to be because it was hard to pass his guard, that kind of thing. But he wasn't dangerous.”
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“He said, you know, now that many of your athletes have lived, could I come down and train with you guys full time? And I was like, yeah, I'd love to. I thought it'd be a great training partner for Gordon and Gary. We didn't really have any training partners at that point. And sure enough, Larry just picked up everything he had and moved down to Austin. Now, anyone who just moves halfway across the country to begin training already gets my respect right there. That's a big commitment. He began training. We put him on a training schedule where first he had to cover up his big weaknesses. He had limited attacks from bottom position. He had poor leg lock defense and he was very, very vulnerable to certain kinds of guard passing which weren't part of his experience.”
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“Many of the training sessions didn't go well for them. So he was always a very polite, well spoken young man and worked hard We went to Puerto Rico and the team ended up drifting apart. We moved into Austin.”
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“First of all, I should give you some background. John Carlo Badoni was a strong local black belt in Boston, teaching at Bernardo Farias School when I would film instructional videos. I would often talk to him and talk to him about his competitions and training. And he would do local competitions. He was trying to go from gee training, which was the majority of his competitive background, into no gi. And he was struggling in local competitions, especially with things like leg locking, where he had no background in leg locking and would often get submitted. So as we work together in instructional videos, we would talk and discuss, he would periodically come to the gym in New York City and come and to work out with the guys. And he often struggled in the training room. He had no experience of things like body lock, guard passing and this used to mean that he was...”
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