John Danaher

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I think he was outweighed by almost all of his opponents.

Everyone looks like the Incredible Hulk.

Yeah, yeah.

So our big thing is when we fight bigger, stronger opponents, we always go in two directions.

You either go for the legs or you go for the back.

And so we constructed strategies based around those two methods.

So these can be very, very long matches.

I mean, put this in a perspective, a modern judo match is five minutes.

A modern wrestling match, I believe, is six minutes in international freestyle.

So these matches can be 40 minutes long.

Now, that's a long, long grappling match.

Depending on how you compete in it, that can have a huge toll.

Absolutely.

You can get to the finals and just be absolutely spent.

So our whole thing is, okay, Gordon's got to not only get to the finals, then he's got to fight the toughest ADCC grappler of all time after that.

So we were looking for quick and energy efficient matches, and that meant going to the back or going to the legs.

And in the overwhelming majority of cases, that's exactly what he did.

He was able to get some very, very quick matches courtesy of leg lock finishes.

And in the few cases where he didn't finish on legs, then he would simply take his opponents back.

and that's a very low stress position to occupy.

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