Andy Stumpf
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And I never did anything half-assed.
That's how you develop the right technique.
Well, it's how you accelerate learning, too.
Because, again, people ask me about my old job.
Like, well, how do you guys do all this stuff that you do?
Well, you learn it a piece at a time.
And honestly, it's the mastery of fundamentals.
Even at that, I think what I determined the most when my coach gave me my black belt was that I don't know a goddamn thing.
about jiu-jitsu, and I can't keep up with all the flashy, sporty stuff, but the better fundamentals get, the better you can tolerate a lot of that stuff.
It's just the mastery of the fundamentals is just so essential.
Well, some of the elite guys of all time never did any of the flashy stuff, like Hickson.
Hickson was just the fundamentals honed to a razor-sharp edge.
You don't see Hickson doing some stuff, you're like, oh, I've never seen that before.
It's all triangles, arm bars, renegade choke, and just done to perfection.
Done in a way that black belts can't stop it.