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John Danaher

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“I think it's when you feel someone Andre has great skills and when you grapple someone you feel just how skilled they are. And whatever issues you had prior to the match evaporate when you feel that, okay, they're just like you, they do the same moves and same kind of concepts. And you see that there's more that bonds you together than separates you. And that's the feeling at the end of most grappling matches.”
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“Still difficult, but things are looking good. There's still a considerable amount of time left on the clock. Cordon is well ahead on points. So all the pressure, all the tactical pressure now is on Andre. See the critical penetration of the jewel.”
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“There's one physical problem here that's that Andre Galvant has a neck like a ball and he's a very short and very thick neck so penetrating under the chin for a strangle can be a real problem he also has extremely well developed shoulders and upper arms so when the head comes down and the shoulders go up there's very little real estate to work with with regards to your strangleholds so Gordon in time will trap one of his opponent's arms with his legs in order to take away one of those strong defensive arms. There you can see the arm has been trapped and now you can start biting towards the strangle.”
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“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 where he's either going to get back exposure or mount exposure. And either way is pretty much fatal when you're dealing with Gordon. Andre elected to go the route of back exposure.”
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“What Gordon's looking for here is complete chase to chase contact. Getting very close to it now. Once he gets chased to chest on an opponent in top position past one of his opponent's knees, it's going to be awfully awfully difficult for an opponent to recover.”
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“He has to return him to the mat, the most efficient way to do so is always courtesy of foot sweeping. So he pulls out a Diashi Harai from the back to sweep him down to the mat And now Gordon's on top. And this is a serious problem for any grapper in the world. Once Gordon gets top position, he's just relentless.”
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“I'd expect this. Andre's been preparing for this for two years. And remember, Andre has gone against some of the greatest leg lockers in grappling before and prevailed. So he's not naive. He knows how to defend himself. The big problem is that he's going to create defensive reactions which lead into other aspects of Gordon's game, in particular back exposure.”
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“So already Gordon's in his preferred domain now. So he's starting to off balance his opponent. He's looking for a reaction to get heel exposure. He does get heal exposure. Andre does a good job of monitoring the feet to try and reduce the braking pressure. But the brute fact is it's in Gordon's realm now. This is where he has all the advantage. the match is going to be 20 minutes of Gordon's realm. That's going to be a very, very tall order.”
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“It's fine. There was just a lot of electric atmosphere in the room. So now things settle down a little bit. But here's where things get interesting. Andre throws the whole tactical game out the window right from the start. He goes for the takedown. Gordon doesn't try to fight the takedown because it's in his interests to go to the ground. But I love this about Andre. He's literally like, fuck you, kid Let's see how good your ground game is. So he shoots the takedown and Gordon accepts it obviously because it's to his advantage to accept it. But I love the fact that Andre was like, I'm not even going to try and stall this out. I'm just going to bang. There it is. So he's like, okay, let's see what you got, kid. They say you're good on the ground. Let's see what you fucking got.”
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“Andre's only realistic path to victory is standing grappling. Okay, that would require him to take Gordon down, presumably multiple times after the first 10 minutes, and not be taken down at all by Gordon. So it's a tall order. It's possible, but difficult. And here's where things get interesting. I told Gordon before the match just go out and offer him the leg. Same we did with Nicki Rodd. That's where things get interesting. I must say that I loved what Andre Galvon did at the start of this match. He's a little crazy here. There was just so much energy in the room at this point that his hand finding got, oh,”
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“Yeah, I can't speak for Andre, but I know for Gordon. It's hard to be intimidated when you know the other guy has no method of finishing you. It just takes so much pressure off when you just go and you're saying there's literally no way this guy can finish me and there's no way the sky can pin and control me. I can't be finished. I can't be pinned and controlled. The only way I can lose this is if this guy plays a tactical game. So in his best case scenario, Lose my tactical game. But from Andre's perspective, it was like if I make one screw up, this kid could finish me. You can see which way the intimidation game goes. Now, for the start, things get interesting here. We've already said if you could just freeze it right there.”
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“But it would have been, as I said, it would have required the most perfect application and integration of technique and tactics that he's capable of.”
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“It's hard to just keep a potentially 40 minute match on the ground, sorry, off the ground that whole time. It's very, very difficult indeed. So he would have had to fight literally the perfect tactical match to make it happen. And he would have to do it without getting called for stalling points. Gordon has the luxury that if at any point they go to the ground, he has complete dominance. But Gordon too has a problem that he can't pull guard without being penalized. And if Andre Galvon 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 dangerous Gordon Ryan on the ground, then it's feasible he could have won.”
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“Okay, for Andre Galvant. he hit there's a sense in which Andre Gavon had to fight literally the perfect match to win this okay this this is a match that's going to be 20 minutes long and potentially 40 minutes long Andre Gavon cannot win by submission. Gordon's submission dominance here is just too great. It would be exceedingly difficult for him to win on the ground. Gordon's ground positional game is just too advanced. And so for Andre Galvant, he had to win. If he was going to win, it was going to be in a standing wrestling exchange where most people assessed him as having a measure of superiority over Gordon Ryan. The problem is that.”
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“I think it's more spiritual inspiration. He looks up to Hodger as a Hodgers are very close friend and mentor of mine, so I always tell my athletes, look to Hodger as your example. This is a guy who Always fought for the finish. She tried to express the highest ideal of jiu-jitsu, which is control leading to submission in every match he was ever in. He even lost matches on tactics against people that he could easily have defeated if he adopted a different tactic, but he always insisted on victory by submission. It defined his career, it made him who he was. And I always try to have my athletes emulate him.”
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“Andre's almost certainly at this point the greatest ADCC competitor of all time. He won more Superfights than anyone else by a landslide.”
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“Now that was a brilliant day's work by Gordon Ryan. He said two matches against opponents considerably bigger and stronger than himself. And the time of the two matches can be measured. Think less than two minutes. So he's done what he set out to do. No injuries, no exhaustion. He's beaten four guys back to back, all of whom are excellent athletes with minimal energy expenditure, and he's ready to go on to his superfight.”
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“Also, it's very early in the match. There's very little sweat. Both athletes are still pretty dry. Gordon has to climb the leg, and now he's already captured his opponent's shoelace. There's the heel exposure coming up. Nicky Rod already knows things are getting bad. And there's the win.”
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“If you just freeze it, you'll seize it. Gordon, like any good leg logger, will always treat his opponent's foot like a knot at the end of the rope. Just as you slide down a rope, if there's a knot at the end, your hand will catch. So too with the human leg when they go to extract by pulling, you just keep your fist as close to your shoulder as possible and narrow the gap. The foot will always catch. The failure that many people have is they let their hand drift away from their own shoulder. And so there's room for the foot to extract. But you'll see Gordon's extremely disciplined with thumb close to his own shoulder, which creates a situation that's very, very hard just to simply pull your foot out.”
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“They're starting to get close here. Gordon's going to try and get his head underneath his opponent, make a circular entry into the legs. Clearing his opponent's head out of the way by faking the arm drag on the far side, first move that he used against his first opponent earlier in the tournament, and there's the leg, spins underneath it. Circular, rotates through, gets his body weight underneath his opponent. Now he's going to trip him down to the mat.”
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“Well, the body lock is an excellent way to shut down leg lock entries if you can get to the body lock. But you can see Gordon's very, very disciplined with his elbow and knee position. Elbows and knees are working in a position where it's very, very hard for his opponent to access his waist. Shoulders always either across the hip or in front of the shoulder. Sorry, his knee is either in front of the shoulder or in front of the hip.”
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“Nikki Rodd knows there's a danger here. So he's elected to go to his knees that will set up his favorite body lock passes and it will in some ways mitigate some of the dangers associated with leg locks. So Gordon's holding is how am I going to get my body weight underneath him? He has a choice between linear entries where he enters between his opponent's knees and circular entries where he inverts and spins underneath his opponent to get under a center gravity.”
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“So, if we see the start of the match, you see Gordon comes out and offers a leg. Now, it's not that Nikki Ryder's smart, he knows what's happening here and what's he going to do, store for 10 minutes and get like five stalling calls put against him. So Gordon gives him the takedown. That way, they go to the ground immediately with no effort. And the match now favors Gordon because Gordon Significantly more skilled on the ground. The question is how can we make this match as short as possible? And as is so often the case, the answer comes back to legs.”
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“Gordon and I were talking, and we'd had discussions, obviously, during the camp. What's the appropriate thing to do here? And there had been Matches earlier in the event where it was becoming obvious that Stalling was being heavily punished by referees. Say to Gordon on the way out, just give him your leg. Let him take you down. Because in the first 10 minutes of the finals, takedowns don't score anything. There are no means of scoring the first 10 minutes, but you can't set the guard. That will award you a negative point. So I said, just let Nikki Rod take you down. And he's like, Nikki Rodd's not going to take the bait. And I said, if he doesn't, they'll call him for stalling.”
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“Former training partner. And again, the intention here is this has to be put in the context that Gordon will be fighting the greatest AECC grapper of all time in a few hours after this. So what we're looking for is a quick resolution. The shortest possible match. Now, there's a complicating factor here. Nikki Rod was a wrestler before he was a jiu-jitsu player. Pap Way his route to win is via wrestling. He's not going to be able to Submit Gordon Ryan, and he's not going to be able to pass his guard, so he has to win by wrestling. The ADCC finals, you cannot sit to guard. So the approach that Gordon used earlier that we saw on video cannot be used in the finals. Gordon must wrestle his opponent. The way out”
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“Reason why most people let confidence is because they fear bad outcomes. If you're a strong guard player, Got an excellent guard, but you're terrified of leglocks, and your opponent has strong leg logs, you will shut down your own guard. Won't play as freely and well as you normally do because you're afraid of the leg locked danger. You'll pull your feet in, you'll play a very conservative guard game. But if you had extremely adept. Leglock defense, then you just play with all the confidence you normally do from guard possession. Gordon puts himself in that situation. He's so defensively sound that it translates into his offensive confidence.”
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“In a complete pin mounted with Gordon's two arms stretched out over his head. And what looks like a hopeless position. And Gordon will work in these positions. And of course, because it's such a bad position, sometimes you all have to tap. He just works so relentlessly in these bad positions that when he steps on stage. If this guy got the worst possible position on me, there's nothing he could do with it. And within 30 seconds, I could turn it around on him and win this match. That gives his game. An overall breadth and depth, which is very, very hard to deal with. It means there's no obvious weak point where you can just say, okay, I'm going to attack him here and use this strategy to beat him. And that goes back to his confidence that.”
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“Work in the training room towards not just good technique but excellent technique. Conference to pull the trigger whenever the opportunity arises, a maximalist mindset where it's never enough to have a good enough outcome. It's always got to be the best possible outcome. The fifth element, which I believe is very, very important. Extraordinary depth His technical prowess. In particular, with regards to his defensive acumen. Everyone looks at Gordon and focuses on his offensive prowess because they see him dominate other athletes. But what they don't see is what I see every day in the gym, where he works from impossibly bad defensive positions. Someone locked in on a full heel hook on his body and a full Jujikitami Amba.”
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“It runs deeper than that, too. It's the idea that good athletes are greedy athletes. When they see a small opportunity, they try and get as big a bite of it as possible so that a mantra that we always have in train, if you can see the bag, you can take the bag. And if Gordon sees an inch of your back, you know, that's the direction he's going to be going. If your far shoulder is within an inch of the floor, he's going to be mounting you. If your shoulder comes off the floor, he'd be on your back on the other side. He's a maximalist with opportunity. He's not satisfied with, oh, let me get a good enough outcome. It's like I want the maximum outcome. So when you combine all these things together and ability to recall information. Which is just far superior to anyone else I've ever coached, an ability to”
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“Is truly extraordinary. Many people know what to do, but when the moment comes, they back off. They'll doubt themselves. If Gordon sees the opportunity, the trigger pulls every time.”
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“That's what I meant when I said I had many students, but only one Gordon Ryan. Like, I've taught many, many people, but they don't all have his skill level. So there's an obvious elephants in the room. What distinguishes him from other athletes? Great question. I'll try and give an answer More than anyone else that I've ever taught, he has a memory for things that were taught to him. He has an ability to recall information that is extraordinary compared with other people in the room. So that's definitely a big part of it. Secondly, he has a pride in technique and technical prowess. That will not allow him to settle for anything less than perfection and he will hate himself when there is imperfection So there was a love of excellence and a hatred of anything less than excellence. Ability To pull the trigger when opportunity arises.”
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“Don't get me wrong. If Gordon lost 20 matches in a row, of course his confidence would drop because experience is now there's going to be a psychological dissonance between his experience, his recent experience and what he believes. Okay, if you believe you're the best in the world, you just lost 20 matches at some point reality is going to break in. But if you're just Never losing in competition, dominating people in the gym. There's nothing in your experience that would shake your confidence.”
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“That's because he never loses in the gym. There's nothing experience in his head that would make him say, I shouldn't be this confident.”
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“I don't believe that a person can walk on stage and be better than what they are supposed to be. You have a skill level. It's set in stone. This is your skill level. You don't just go on stage and suddenly your skill level gets here. What you do have is a situation where you have a skill level. Another opponent has a higher skill level, but he runs into confidence issues so that he only uses a small percentage of his actual skills. And then he will fall below someone who is technically lower on the skill scale than he is. That can happen. But you can't just magically acquire skills.”
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“Some people have, yeah, but I think it would be very fair to say he was the best in the world. Think about the people he beat to win three old Japan championships. Like he beat Kosei in a way, he beat KG Suzuki. They were Olympic champions. He was already.”
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“In judo, there's much more room for upset because a mistake in judo Have ramifications that will be felt within half a second. If you take the wrong grip in Judo, you can be thrown in half a second and there's no recovery. If your two shoulders hit the map with momentum, it's over. It's done. In jiu-jitsu, you could, especially in ADC, where there's no points in the first five minutes, you could get taken down and mounted by your opponent and still win. Like you can recover from a bad start. And judo boxing, kickboxing, MMA, you get hit. There's no recovery time. You just get swarmed on. And Jiu-Jitsu is a much more forgiving sport where you can make a series of blunders and then just recover from them. Make a series of blunders unboxing you're unconscious.”
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“It's tough because he would have remembered the outcome of the training sessions. It's hard to go up against the guy who... Used to dominate you on training and then say, okay, I'm going to beat him in competition.”
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“Know each other's game very well. So there was a high likelihood of most people's minds that this would go. Distance because you know when you train with each other for years, every single day in the gym, seven days a week, you get to know each other's tricks. One big problem here for Nikki Rodd is that his body lock guard passing game, which his main weapon on the ground was taught to him by us. So it's not like we're going to be taken by surprise by it. So that must have been figuring in his mind.”
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“Should also explain some things here. This is a finals match. So instead of being 10 minutes long, it's 20 minutes long with the option of a 20-minute overtime. So this could potentially be a 40 minute match. So you can see why the ADCC people were very concerned about Gordon doing this match because what if this match had gone 40 minutes and then an exhausted Gordon Ryan has to go out to fight Andre Galvant who's fresh and ready to maul him?”
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“There's a problem. If you stand up, he's a good wrestler. There's a dilemma there. Like you have to sit down to God, but that goes into his body lot. Then, if you stand up, now you go into his wrestling skill. So it's a great dilemma that he has.”
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“That started as a body log, but he converted to Half Guard. Top head and arm and pass out of half guard top, chest to chest.”
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“I think Rod had a great match against Felipe Penna and passed Felipe Penna's guard. I think only the second person in ADCC competition to accomplish that.”
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“It was within 10 seconds. So this was an excellent example of someone saying, okay, I'm going to conserve energy with a short match. I'm not just going to go down into a neutral position. I'm going to directly pull into a leg lock attack from standing position. You don't see that much in heavyweight divisions. That's something you see more in the lightweight divisions.”
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“The entanglement of one of his opponent's legs with two of his. Now he's got a turn and expose his opponent's heel. So there's an initial off balance to the left to get a defensive reaction. The opponent overcompensates, exposes his heel, and then there's the submission. Gordon has an absolutely ferocious outside hijoh until you felt it's quite different.”
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“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 Ashigurami. The last five years cross Ashigurami has proven to be statistically the more important of the two. And as a result, many people have forgotten the value of straight Ashigurami-based leg locks and undervalued them. Gordon has outstanding heel hooks from both straight and cross possessions and his opponent was probably more concerned about the danger of a cross Ashigarami left the right leg undefended for far too long. And as a result, Gordon goes into a very classical Ashigarami you would normally expect to see from five or six years ago and gets a very, very quick finish.”
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“There's another guy who's very big different because now we're on to the second day. Your listeners should be aware that the event occurs over a two-day period. So the previous two matches occurred on Saturday. Now we're into Sunday. Now this puts a different context on things. If we could just freeze it right then, maybe go back one step. Now we're on Sunday morning. And the idea is that Gordon will be fighting the biggest fight of his life late that afternoon. So now we're into the idea of energy conservation. It's okay to have two hard matches on Saturday because you get to rest on Saturday night. But now Gordon has to beat two people back to back and save energy for the biggest fight of his life on Sunday, late Sunday afternoon. So now the emphasis is on a quick win and you can see Gordon Ryan.”
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“It's actually interesting that when he came off the mat, he was visibly frustrated. He wanted to get a finish. And I think he was more upset about not finishing Victor Hugo than he was delighted by winning his two gold medals. 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 not happy.”
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“Notice how Gordon is never satisfied with the mounted position itself. He's only satisfied with an extended mounted position where the elbow comes up over the shoulder line.”
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“So you see there's two changes in direction left, right in a very short period of time that people find very, very hard to keep up with. Now as opponent builds up to an elbow, he's looking to create more and more space from here. But Gordon counters by just stepping over the hips. It's just when... You feel like every movie he's doing the right things. The man on bottom is doing well, he's doing the right things, but the other guy's just been here too many times and is just a half second ahead of every decision they make.”
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“Just freeze it right there. Go back one step. Okay, you can clearly see that all of his opponent's defensive frames are built on his opponent's left-hand side. So everything is defense on the left. But you can see this comes at a price. And that price is back exposure on the right-hand side. You can literally see his opponent's back on that side. So Gordon's whole game is to place sufficient pressure that the opponent overcompensates on the side of pressure. just to set up a quick switch across to the other side there's the vulnerability there's the back exposure his opponent has to put his back on the ground switches back that's a world champion 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 just what just haps and kicks out”
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