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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We put him on a...
a training schedule where first he had to cover up his big weaknesses.
He had limited attacks from bottom position, he had poor leg lock defense, and he was very, very vulnerable to certain kinds of guard passing which weren't part of his experience.
It was an amazing thing.
To give you an idea, when he first moved to Austin, he competed in a WNO event, and I don't think he scored a single point, lost a couple of matches, including matches to people who were in this ADCC.
So he came out of that looking very depressed and he lost to Kenan Duarte.
He lost to Mason Fowler.
So Giancarlo always struck me as someone who was positionally sound.
He had like good guard retention, things like this, but he had no offense.
He had no leg lock defense and he just wasn't able to assert authority on matches.
He was a guy who was always going to be tough to beat because it was hard to pass his guard, that kind of thing.
But he wasn't dangerous.
Again, confidence.
Absolutely.
Confidence comes from skill level.
And confidence is a much more rational thing than most people describe it.
People think of confidence as like this esoteric, ethereal element that you either have or you don't, when in fact confidence is much more a reflection, a rational reflection on your past experience.
And if you're successful with your past experience and you're expecting to
compete in a situation which is similar to your past experience, and that past experience has mostly been successful, you'll be confident.
Are you pretty confident that the sun will rise tomorrow?
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