John Danaher

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives · 10 Oct 2022 podcast

I would be confident that I had prepared them to do their very best to defend themselves.

um but what ultimately they do is their decision and winning adcc is for a grep or at least life-changing you're a world champion forever and no one can ever take that moment away from you so i would

I would understand if they took a decision to take damage.

Hopefully it will never come to that because I do a good job of preparing people to get out of situations that he saw with Gary Turner, who was in a dreadful situation and got out within five seconds.

I saw me.

Gary's been in arm locks that looked like even I was in the corner going like, Oh my God, what is happening here?

And still got out.

So it comes down to training preparation, but yeah,

If they did make that decision, I would understand, provided it was a situation that would make their lives better and they made a calculation.

It's not an emotional thing.

Now, sometimes you get emotional.

You fight a guy you just don't like and you just don't want to tap to him.

Then things get a little more interesting.

Then, again, it's a personal decision.

If you hate someone so much that you literally can't even conceive of yourself submitting to them,

Probably best you don't get into matches with them in the first place.

But if it should happen, again, it comes down to the student.

I teach technique, not morals.

So I let people make their own decisions on that.

My thing is, look, don't get injured.

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