John Danaher
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard Oct 2022
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In one case, his opponent deliberately kept his back on the ground to prevent the back take, and he just chose mounted position instead.
And so he was able to go through his weight division with extremely low energy expenditure, which set him up well to go into the finals.
No injuries, very little energy expenditure.
Now, it sounds easy to say that, you know, oh, okay, the strategy worked.
But in order to get that strategy to work, you have to have one hell of a set of skills.
And we can see those now.
Okay, I'll just give an initial comment here.
First, you'll see that Gordon elected to sit to the bottom position.
The hardest work in submission grappling is when two athletes take the standing position and joust for takedowns.
That's where most of the energy gets burned up.
So working on the idea of energy efficiency, let's go out and we chose to sit into guard position and then start looking to access our opponent's back.
Because of our opponent's head position, a far side arm drag makes a lot of sense.
Gordon's able to beat the arm and quickly get behind his opponent.
Now the question is going to be getting into a scoring position.
It's too early to score at this point, but we're just concerned at this stage of just energy expenditure, make the other guy work harder than us.
So Gordon did arm drag to the back and now is working on the hooks.
The hooks are not particularly important here.
He'll use it just to get stability on his opponent.
But interestingly, his opponent here had an interesting strategy too, which was to occupy bottom turtle position and look to get to the critical five-minute demarcation point where points begin to get scored.
His idea, I believe, I'm speculating here based on his actions,
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