John Danaher
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard Oct 2022
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And perhaps I should be given blame for this because I put such a heavy emphasis in the training camp overall on positional pressure.
And I feel that worked very well for all of the athletes except Gary Tonin.
Interesting.
And I think I was coaching so hard to the new people in the room on positional pressure that I neglected Gary's innate ability to, the fact that he does best when he attacks exclusively by submission.
So I think if anyone should get blamed for the failure here, it should be me.
Yeah, this is the first time he ever went down to 66 kilos.
So, you know, it wasn't critical.
There's other guys who are bigger than him who made the weight.
Yeah, but no, it wasn't a weight cut that would break someone like Eric Turner.
It's more physical.
You train lighter and weaker.
You tend to get injured more in camp because you're lighter physically.
We have a team now after the breakout that's mostly comprised of people over 215 pounds.
So there's very few small people left in the gym.
Most of the smaller athletes went to B team.
So Gary's been struggling a little bit with training partners.
But here, I think the chief problem was that Gary focused perhaps a little too much on the positional tactical game and got away from his true gift, which is relentless hunting for submissions.
And as I said, I think the person to blame for that is me because I had to put so much emphasis on the positional game for the
For the developing athletes, I didn't pay enough attention to Gary's unique attributes.
That's a great set of questions.
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