Gordon Ryan
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The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
Oh, it depends.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
Like an elite Brian Cowan style.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
Like Brian Cowan.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
If I'm trying to build an athlete from the ground up, and I have time to work with them, I always start them in bottom position.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
Because bottom position is the hardest to learn.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
Most people start standing.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
Standing is actually the last thing I teach them.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
I start, yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
Because if you can get good submissions and get off balances from bottom position, good guard retention and good escapes, pin and submission escapes, those are the first things that I do.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
Hamzat asked me to train like a year or so ago.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
In Newport?
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
No, I was in Sweden.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
I'm like, I'm not going to Sweden right now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
I'd be glad if I could actually train hard.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
It would be great.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Fight Companion - September 6, 2025
He lost to Mike Conner, right?