The Mental Preparation of the Athletes

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I think that people, when they talk about mental preparation, need to take a step back and realize that almost every element of what people describe as mental preparation has physical underpinnings. Literally 95% of what I teach the athletes is physical skills. And it's my belief that every mental aspect of competition, the most important which will be confidence on stage, is a direct result of the accumulation of physical skills. Like Bukowski said, love is a fog that fades with the first daylight of reality or something like that. So, even love is temporary.

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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:51) – Road to ADCC
(26:23) – Danaher Death Squad
(35:07) – Mental preparation
(59:52) – Gordon Ryan
(1:56:50) – Giancarlo Bodoni
(2:21:57) – Garry Tonon
(2:35:54) – Nicholas Meregali
(2:51:21) – Ruotolo brothers
(3:01:00) – Takedowns
(3:05:19) – GSP
(3:13:48) – Renzo Gracie
(3:18:24) – Boris
(3:22:15) – Ali Abdelaziz
(3:24:41) – Khabib Nurmagomedov
(3:28:33) – Joe Rogan playing pool
(3:31:47) – Advice for grapplers
(3:41:43) – Day in the life
(3:48:25) – Bear vs Gorilla vs Lion vs Anaconda
(4:26:12) – Tom Hardy
(4:37:46) – Emojis
(4:40:15) – Love
(4:45:38) – Fighting to the death
(4:49:25) – Knives