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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He's an established player who's been in IBJF competition.
I believe he's a Brown Belt world champion in the Gi.
And suddenly a group of kids that he's never even seen before repeatedly submitting him with leg longs.
in the gym and he's like, man, this is terrible.
Like a year from now, I'm supposed to fight ADCC against people like Craig Jones, like some of the best leg lockers in the world.
Like it must've been hard, you know?
But he just stayed in there, and no one worked harder than him.
He just was in the gym three times a day, studying every day, and unlike so many other people, every time he was shown something, he consciously and deliberately tried to enact it, even at the price of initial failure.
Do you advise that that's a good way to go?
It's the only way to go.
Like if you can't wrap your head around the idea that trying to acquire new skills will create a temporary time where your effectiveness diminishes as you're trying to bring on new skills, you're never going to make it because you'll always stay at whatever skill set you are.
The whole mental trick is to imbue this idea of delayed gratification.
that you have to accept that when I bring on new moves, my overall effectiveness will diminish
but there's the belief that in time, as my skill performance increases, it will increase over time, but it will come at the price of initial frustration and failure.
And Giancarlo made that mental switch early on in his time in Austin, and to his credit, just stuck through.
Within a very short period of time, he came very hard to leg lock.
And even the best leg lockers in the room had a hard time with him.
And that was the first step in confidence.
He said, okay, I'm not getting finished quickly anymore.
Then he had to bring in a whole new set of upper body submissions.
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