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Roger Gracie

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  1. “We breaks. It's weird. Like people crack. They give up. It's a big test because it's like being really tired. It's the same thing. It's like a lot of people crack because they just feel they cannot give in more. Nothing more to give. So they just give up. It's too”

    2022-12-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “So physically, I wasn't myself on that fight. I was tired and my body wasn't responding. Anyway, so the comfort was different from the first to second. I think I was confident enough that I wouldn't get tapped out on the first, that I was still going to fight because he has to tap me out to beat me. And I trust on my defense. I'm confident enough on my defense that he will not top me out. But in terms of... Walk into the second fight, I was a lot more”

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  3. “Think I was focused in MMA for a while for a couple months, and that wasn't really focusing the ghee. And, you know, by the time I accept the fight, I didn't start training. Like, all my responses on training were off. Like all my training partners that I used to train with that I destroyed. I mean, now they beat me. It's like I cannot beat them the way I was used to. But, you know, so I knew something was not right for the first fight. But then no points, it's submission or draw.”

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  4. “Yeah, I mean, I train normal. Let's say compared to the first fight, the second one's a lot more constant because, you know, like I see on training, the training for the first fight, they were”

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  5. “Yeah, I mean Okay, if I now have fought before, you know, suddenly walk into a fight with someone like that, then would I be that confident? I mean, probably no. So that history of what we've been doing, what we've been achieving just gives you confidence. That was my first fight ever confident.”

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  6. “Mean, I'm not going to say that I'm fearless because everybody fears something, you know. The fear is there, but it's like how much you let that control you. I think I was a lot more confident than fearful for sure walking to that fight. I was pretty confident that I could beat him.”

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  7. “Not really because Dennis points you get like two points. Because I think regarding the submission, it's not just one precise movement that changed everything. I think Judo is the takedown that counts as a submission, like keep on fight over. Jiu-Jitsu don't have that. So you will score points, but I think in terms of submission, you need to get to a dominant position first. And then the submission will come slowly. Process”

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  8. “It's not that they're, you know, moving. The speed is not going to count that much. The timing that you initiate that move.”

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  9. “Yeah, it's not like speed. Not like you have to move the spirit of light, it's the move itself at that precise moment. It doesn't have to be super fast because your opponent's not moving super fast. So it's a combination of moving between you and”

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  10. “Because fight you cannot really, there's no really time to think much. Your instincts are playing. It's like you already have your weapons, let's say the things that you do. It's just you wait for the perfect moment. The beauty of it is that's the right moment to everything. If you want one second too late, doesn't work. No, it gets messy. So you're trying to catch that moment. And for that, you have to be fully focused on what you're doing because one second you're out. It won't work.”

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  11. “I'm trying to save everything to defy. Like, nothing goes to waste. It's every move unnecessary is just going to make some more tire or it's going to take something out of you. Like, you know, I tried to calculate every single move I make, save as much energy as I can so I can fully, you know, be focused 100% in the fight, no way, especially energy-wise.”

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  12. “When you mention to exhaustion, that's another good example of it. There's a lot of times in the fight. You're getting tired and you're getting pretty tired. So it's like the less thing you want to think of it is how tired you are. It doesn't matter because it doesn't. What are you going to do? Quit. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's how tight you are. There's”

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  13. “It is, it makes her feel better. You kind of control your emotion, control the adrenaline on your body up to a level. So it absolutely helps you focus in the fight.”

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  14. “It's difficult to say because I think I don't remember when I'll say probably as a black belt I tried to focus like that, not to think It's probably something you learn, the more nervous you get. And there's nothing that you're going to gain by thinking of the fight or the possibilities, what you can do, what can go wrong, what can't go right, because it's unpredictable. You have absolutely no idea. It's impossible to predict the fight.”

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  15. “Yeah, I think that's the first time. Since probably I got my black belt that I wasn't the favorite walk into a fight, I have to say, like a lot of people thought, consider him the favorite. Understandable. You know, I was out of competition for a while. He was just winning everything So, you know, saying about the walk, like for me, you know, the fight starts way before the referees say go. It's all the focus and concentration that I think is very important for me to stop before. Like, you know, I almost walk blind to the met many times I pass through like great friends and I couldn't see anyone. You know, they're trying to talk to you. And I'm like, I'm 100% focused on my opponent already, even though that I cannot even see him in front of me. So I think that's for me was always very important to try to clear my mind out from everything.”

    2022-12-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source