John Danaher
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2,539 appearances
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard Oct 2022
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I think when you feel someone, Andre has great skills, and when you grapple someone, you feel just how skilled they are.
And whatever issues you had prior to the match evaporate when you feel, okay, they're just like you, they do the same moves and same kind of concepts, and you see that there's more that bonds you together than separates you.
And that's the feeling at the end of most grappling matches.
First of all, I should give you some background.
Giancarlo Bodoni was a strong local black belt in Boston, teaching at Bernardo Fari's school.
When I would film instructional videos, I would often talk to him and talk to him about his competitions and training.
And he would do local competitions.
He was trying to go from gi training, which was the majority of his competitive background, into no-gi training.
and he was struggling uh in local competitions especially with things like leg locking where he had no background in leg locking and um would often get submitted so as we worked together in instructional videos we uh we would talk and discuss i would he would periodically come to the gym in new york city and come to work out with the guys and um he often struggled in the training room he had no experience with things like body lock guard passing and this used to
mean that many of the training sessions didn't go well for him.
He was always a very polite, well-spoken young man and worked hard.
When we went to Puerto Rico and the team ended up drifting apart,
When we moved into Austin, he said, you know, now that many of your athletes have left, could I come down and train with you guys full time?
And I was like, yeah, I'd love to.
I thought it'd be a great training partner for Gordon and Gary.
We didn't really have any training partners at that point.
And sure enough, he literally just picked up everything he had and moved down to Austin.
Now, anyone who just moves halfway across the country to begin training, that already gets my respect right there.
That's a big commitment.
And he began training.
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