Name: The Advice GSP Gives to Young Fighters
Uploaded: 2021-04-07T17:38:21.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Advice GSP Gives to Young Fighters' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Advice GSP Gives to Young Fighters' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-07. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience it's a very you know it's it's a very hard path and
and you know one
of the happiest place for me to go and the saddest place to go it's the gym
when I go train to the
gym it's the happiest place for me to go because I can practice the sport that
I love because I
love training you know I love the science of fighting and it's very sad too
because after
training there's always some guys that come to me to because they seek some
advice and I always give
them advice regarding fighting but a lot of them my advice for them would be
hey bro you know you
should hang off you hang up your gloves and find a real job you know because
some of them because
I've seen this movie and it's not a good ending my friend like like go find but
if I tell them the
truth they'll get mad at you they get mad at me because I'll be like oh yeah he's
you know what
what I mean like well you're jealous yeah he's jealous you know he's he's
arrogant and stuff you
know but that's the thing I tell my real friends that when it's time to hang up
the gloves I tell
them the truth I said listen and I said to them like I said listen man what's
good for you now you
know you know you you know it's a little bit like in um the movie uh uh with uh
Bruce Willis you know uh
Quentin Tarantino you know oh Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction you know if you if you
would if you would have
made it you would have made it before you know when he made that speech you
know it's a little bit
the same thing but it's it's I love that monologue it's amazing but it's the
truth a lot of people
should rely to this but it's unfortunate well the reason why champions are so
exceptional is because
it's so hard to become a champion it's so rare all the stars have to align you
have to have mental
prowess physical prowess you have to have great coaching you have to have so
many different factors have
come together and also fortune I mean your guy has been through some surgeries
yes and we all know
guys who they get injured and they can never even train again it happens it's
unusual but it can happen
and we're dealing with this this giant hurricane of possibilities for someone
to boom come out of
that and be a George St-Pierre or be a Khabib Nurmagomedov or a John Jones or
someone who's exceptional
it's so rare so when someone's kid comes up to you and says I'm gonna be the
next world champion you're
like the possibility that the odds of failure are so they're so high they're so
high that's the thing
it's it's I believe it's you need to have a certain predisposition yeah I met
in my life incredible
mentors that had a huge influence on me they they taught me like great life
lessons techniques and
it's incredible like if I would not have had that those those guys who
influence me I would never have
been where I am right now and plus on top of that you know I got I worked
really hard and I was lucky
you know like the star were all aligned but you need all that and you need the
great coaching is so
important too there's so many guys that are really talented but they they they
have meathead coaches
and their coaches train them the wrong way so they spar full blast in the gym
and then they go out
and they they lose and then they their coach has them sparring a couple weeks
after they get knocked
out and that kind of shit and and they don't have the technical prowess the
technical proficiency to
teach a child or a kid or an athlete right you can get unlucky you know I
believe the best way to
improve it's when it's playful I've seen so many guys Joe I can't say names but
it's crazy how many
guys I've seen that left their career in the gyms yeah because they spar too
hard every sparring for
them it's it's about winning the rounds yeah it's a life or death you cannot
improve like this you need
to be playful of course when you're in training camp and your fight is coming
up you need to somehow
trying to recreate that environment of discomfort that stress but when you're
outside of that
preparation preparation zone you need you need to be playful because and that's
when you you improve
when it's playful when it's like a game you know because you you will be more
prone to trying new
things and and by trying new things you you'll you'll adapt you'll you'll be
like oh this one works
this one doesn't work but the one that works I keep it in my back pocket you
know and it makes you grow
that's a problems you know I've seen like very often I see guys like sparring
they they they lose
a lot of brain cells it's terrible it's terrible and I'm well I'm former world
champion you know like
when I'm spar with with guys very often they're nervous so they become all
stiff and when they hit
they hit so hard I tell them I'm like you don't get ready you don't have any
fight coming up soon
like just have fun but relax I tell them relax and they very often they they
relax you know some
will try to make you know so I have to answer back I have to but but very often
they relax and and and
they're surprised that because it's so so much of an egotistic sport you know
like we have this
mentality that oh if the guy tell you to relax because he's scared you know
right it's so stupid
you know but it's that's how if you want to improve you need to it needs to be
playful and and in
everything you know you we say oh you when I say sparring when I when I'm about
to spar with someone
I never sparred before I that's what I do I tell him I say hey would you like
to play a little bit
I don't use the word sparring because sparring is like aggression and I tell
him I say would you like
to play a little bit there then we touch glove and we play and and I never go
hard I always start very
very slow and if I see that he's going to hard I tell him I say please go go
more more easy and of
course if he's getting ready for a fight it's different it's a different
situations but you
know that's how it is you know and you need you shouldn't be afraid to tell
your training partner hey
please like put it like slow down a notch you know like like when you see guys
trying to throw a head
kick to knock each other out you know in boxing sparring it's different because
we we have big
gloves big headgear you know they can't go hard I mean even if it's not good
because it's repeatedly
blows repetition to with the blows the head but in MMA with the kicks it's the
damage is basically like
a baseball bat hitting your head you can't do that it's it's crazy man the ties
have it right right
that's right that's right because they have so many fights they have so many
fights that and also
when you fight someone when I fight someone it happens very often in my career
like when I fight
someone you have a connection with the guy you fight a lot of things happen
here and real fighter will
know that what I'm talking about the connection that we have because you look
at each other
and these this connection you cannot see it when you watch a fight on tv but
very often in most of my
fight when I went to decision I could see the guy break breaking folding like
he's letting me know that
he doesn't fight to win anymore he's fighting to not lose and like I said
earlier it's not up to me trying to
trying to push the pace trying to to finish him and increasing my risk of
getting caught by a counter
punch and getting knocked out you know it's up to him to take the risk you know
because he's losing
the fight and the idea in this game you want to save yourself for another day I
mean it's sad to say
for the family this this is the truth if you win and that's what you're doing
is good you win
you're winning the fight you know you're gonna get paid the the same amount of
money of course if you have
like an highlight wheel something like that it could increase your pay but but
in terms of
your career I believe you should see your career as a marathon not as a sprint
so you you kind of save
yourself and a lot of time I fought guys I could see in their face that oh he
doesn't want to be there
anymore like I know I'm winning the fight before even the fight is over they
get desperate of course
they're gonna throw a haymaker or something but I know they're not gonna take
any risk because they
they're they're hurt they're they lost already they know that I'm better than
them and that's when
I know I get the fight and I know that I'm just need to be on cruise control I
can win if they don't
like it's hard to to finish someone who doesn't fight to win anymore right you
see very often champions
in in MMA have a very dominate dominant career in the beginning you know they
finish a lot of their
opponent but after a while it become it kind of peak because all the entire UFC
roster is studying
you and they figure you out maybe they didn't figure you out how to beat you
but they figure
out out to kind of survive and and hang in there with you john jones is a good
example that right
everybody myself same thing like every like a lot of guys anderson silver the
the the all the the
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