Gordon Ryan
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Oh, it depends.
Like an elite Brian Cowan style.
Like Brian Cowan.
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.
Because bottom position is the hardest to learn.
Most people start standing.
Standing is actually the last thing I teach them.
I start, yeah.
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.
Hamzat asked me to train like a year or so ago.
In Newport?
No, I was in Sweden.
I'm like, I'm not going to Sweden right now.
I'd be glad if I could actually train hard.
It would be great.
He lost to Mike Conner, right?