John Danaher

They had an excellent performance at ADCC.

So there's not a need for them to come to us.

It's not like they lack anything.

They still remember everything I taught them.

They still coach and teach with the same methodology that I taught them.

So I don't think they have any need to do so.

If they did, it would be because they wanted to.

I still think many of the same personality conflicts that originated the conflict would reemerge currently if they started training together.

I always laugh when people say, leave your ego at the door.

What do you think drives competition?

If you wanna be good at anything in life, you gotta have an ego.

No, I don't believe it's good or even a healthy thing to suppress egos.

I'm a realist and I understand that this is a sport where they make one gold medal per weight division.

As guys get better, they're gonna be looking at their training partners and thinking like,

I'm going to have to fight this guy one day.

And they're training next to each other.

Of course, there's going to be tension.

There's always going to be disagreements about, you know, what's the right way to act around certain people, certain issues, and people are going to come into conflict.

Everyone's being programmed to be an alpha competitor.

You get a room full of people like that, there's going to be conflict.