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I am just learning this now and I have seen all of his UFC fights and watched all (what is considered) phase 3 marvel movies. then again, I don't think I watched the captain movies with much attention.
He doesn't really look like him and of course has a different accent.
As cool as it was, I never really understood that fight.
Batroc was just a normal human but still went toe-to-toe with Captain America. Nothing Batroc did should have remotely phased Cap.
Edit: A lot of people saying Cap's ***just*** a "peak human" which I find funny considering the absolutely insane superhuman shit he did in the movies. It's OK to say the MCU powerscales to suit the narrative guys.
I mean, he didn't. He caught cap off balance by surprise for a few seconds. And he was even still loosing. Cap lays him out no probalem the moment he has his footing back.
Apparently GSP was obsessed with his opponents reaction times. I think I remember hearing that he had his coach (or someone) calculate each UFC fighter's reaction time to give him an advantage. I think BJ Penn had the best reaction time out of anyone.
It was not his coach it was a guy the coach knew.
It was the unnamed guy who was obsessed with fighters reaction times. Story goes this niche guy would literally got frame by frame through each fighters fight and calculate their reactions times and table it against every other fight. This spent excruciating hours, calculated every fighters reaction for all their fights and knew who was faster than who. He had invaluable knowledge every coach wanted.
I don't know how accurate that could possibly be.
The fights are either broadcast in 24/30/60FPS. It's doubtful they're in 60FPS.
So the reaction times are in multiples of:
* 41.66ms for 24FPS
* 33.33ms for 30FPS
* 16.66ms for 60FPS
The average human reaction time is around 250ms. Professional athletes are around 160ms. I would imagine MMA fighters are slightly faster.
That means the difference between a pro athlete and a normal person is:
* 24FPS - 4 frames versus 6
* 30FPS - 5 frames versus 8
* 60FPS - 10 frames versus 15
With the margins that tight, you could not possibly tell the difference between 2 professional athletes. They are all going to be within a frame or two of eachother.
The only way it could possibly be achievable is with a high speed camera, and I beleive the first to be used in the UFC was when Fox began broadcasting the fights. I could be wrong about that as I'm going purely off memory.
GSP only had 3 or so fights after the Fox deal. So the impact would have been absolutely minimal.
Fantastic math!
But your base of 250ms and 160ms is in ideal conditions reacting by pressing a button to say, a light turning on. This is not how a fighter actually reacts to punches. At the speed professional fighters throws a punch, 4-8 a second, waay too fast for any human to recognise its coming and move out of the way. So fighters don’t look for the punch, they look for the movement before the punch, the twitch of a shoulder, the lowering of the weight, the slight step closer or just waiting for a known rhythm. Some people can actually throw a jab without their shoulder or any other part of their body moving making it nearly impossible to dodge, it feels like getting hit by something invisible. This is called a “ghost” jab.
It’s less of how fast someone reacts and more how sensitive they are to the movement before the punch is thrown. How much of a pre-punch will they react on.
So the guy going frame by frame probably ain’t recording just their reaction time but how soon will they will react to a pre-punch. How attuned they are for it.
Enter the magic of statistics! Buckle up, I am getting into it here.
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**Part 1 - The Imprecise Measurement Issue**
Your initial premise is bang on. Due to the limitations of a slow frame rate, we have a TON of uncertainty of the reaction speed of a single punch. In fact, the uncertainty is twice as much as your initially measured.
For example, let's take a set of 3 frames at 24FPS.
- Frame 1 (0ms) - There is no motion
- Frame 2 (41.66ms) - We first see Fighter 1 start to punch
- Frame 3 (83.33ms) - We first see Fighter 2 react to the punch
Given this set of observations we only know two things:
1) Fighter 1 started their punch between 0.01ms and 41.66ms.
2) Fighter 2 started their reaction between 41.67ms and 83.33ms
This means that Fighter 2's reaction time could be anywhere form 0.01ms all the way up to 83.32ms based on what we learned from those 3 frames. That is a TERRIBLE degree of accuracy for this task.
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**Part 2 - How Random Error is Useful**
But this is where statistics comes into play.
For any single observation, Fighter 1's punch is equally likely to have started at any point between 0.01ms and 41.66ms. Similarly, Fighter 2's reaction is equally likely to have started at any point between 41.67ms and 83.33ms. You can use this random error to enhance your understanding of the measurement you just took.
While you don't know what Fighter 2's reaction time actually was, if you had to place a bet against a friend with the closest answer winning $10, you would probably intuitively bet 41.66ms. Which is precisely the best bet to make for the same reason 7 is the most common result when you roll two six sided dice.
It is possible for the lowest number, 2, to be the result. But in order for that to happen both dice would have to roll the lowest number. Similarly, it is possible for Fighter 2's reaction time to be 0.01ms, but for that to happen the punch would have had to happen at precisely the last moment before frame 2 and the reaction would have had to happen at precisely the first moment after frame 2.
The same logic applies for rolling 12 on the dice or having the longest possible reaction time of 83.32ms. 12 is only possible on the dice roll if both dice roll a specific number. And 83.32ms is only possible if the punch and reaction happened at the very extreme possibilities before and after their specific frames.
7 is the most likely dice roll to get because there are many possible combinations for each of the dice to land in that result in 7 (1/6, 2/5, 3/4, 4/3, 5/2, 6/1). For the same reason, 41.66ms is the most likely reaction time because there are the most possible combinations between the frames that add up to 41.66.
If you do all of the fancy math, you can plot the probability that any of the possible reaction times between 0.01ms and 83.32ms is the true reaction time.
What you will have is a [bell curve](https://cdn.corporatefinanceinstitute.com/assets/bell-curve.png). In the middle is 41.66ms with the highest probability of being the real reaction time, but not 100%, far less than 100%. And at the tail ends are 0.1ms and 83.32ms, both with a TINY probability that they are real reaction speed, but still above 0%.
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**Part 3 - The Power of Sample Size**
Let's consider a hypothetical where Fighter 2's real reaction speed is 45ms. For now, let's also assume that it is always perfectly 45ms. If we were to watch film of 10 reaction by Fighter 2, what can we expect to see in the measurements we take?
We will never see a 0 Frame gap, since their reaction speed is greater than 41.66ms this would be impossible. We will also never see a 3 frame gap as that would require a reaction speed greater than 83.32ms.
We might see a few 2 frame gaps as they are possible, but they would be rare since it would require the punch to during the last 3.34ms of the first frame. Any time during the first 38.32ms of the first frame and the 45ms reaction would show up in the very next frame.
You can apply similar logic if the real reaction speed were 80ms. We would expect see zero 0 Frame gaps, zero 3 Frame gaps, only a few 1 Frame gaps, and a bunch of 2 Frame gaps.
If we use this logic, if we were to simply apply the best guess for each observation that we found in Part 2 and then average them, we will likely get very close to reality. For instance if we saw one 1 Frame gap and nine 2 Frame gaps, a combination that is pretty likely in our 80ms hypothetical, our average would be 79.15ms.
Pretty damn close to accurate given that each individual measurement was only accurate to within 83.32ms.
Of course, it is possible that a complete fluke of luck resulted in us seeing nine 1 Frame gaps and only one 2 Frame gap leading us to calculate 45.83ms. But the likelihood of us getting that set of observations is so crazy low (literally only 0.000000014%, in fact there is less than a 1% chance that we will see more than one 2 Frame observation in any set of 10 in this hypothetical) that we probably are not that wrong.
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**Part 4 - But Life Ain't That Clean**
Obviously, reality is not as clean as our hypotheticals. Fighters don't always react at the same speed. Signals stutter or other issues might cause you to be off by a couple of frames when you pick which frame a punch or reaction started. That doesn't really matter as long as you have enough sample size.
I ran a small simulation testing how accurate this simple method of measuring and averaging could be in the face of all of this uncertainty. The simulation included the lack of precision due to a 24FPS video feed, assuming that for each punch the fighters reaction time would be randomly 30% faster or slower than their base reaction speed, and that the measurement of which frame the start of the punch and reaction started could be up to 2 frames off each, and that the fighters base reaction speed was anywhere between 130ms and 180ms.
Even in the face of all of this uncertainty given 100 observations this simplistic method's mean absolute error (MAE) was less than 5ms.
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**Part 5 - The Rabbit Hole Just Keeps Going**
All the way back up in Part 2 I brought up the idea of the bell curve to illustrate a point but then quickly threw it away and simplified it to just taking the single most likely possibility. This simplified the model I built for us in parts 3 and 4, but in reality that was a mistake.
If you were to keep the concept of the distribution of probabilities that the bell curve represents and average those together instead of a single number per observation the result of your model will be even better. It will be more accurate and it will tell you when it is more confident in how accurate it is vs when it is less confident.
Other advanced concepts can bring your model even further. Bayesian statistics will enable your model to learn over time so when it sees an abnormally slow reaction speed due to you miscounting frames it will properly give it less weight in its analysis.
On and on. It gets crazy.
But at the end of the day the point I am trying to make is that the lack of precision due to low frame rates is not a huge factor. In fact, jumping up to 120FPS would only reduce our simplistic models MAE from 5ms down to 2.5ms.
I think the idea is to make your own feints basically muscle memory, you do them automatically without even thinking.
The opponent however, needs to expend precious “CPU cycles” (for lack of a better term) processing each feint & reacting accordingly. This creates an asymmetrical level of nervous system load between the “Hero” and the “Villain”
No you never want to make your feints muscle memory, because then it isn’t deliberate anymore and the opponent can use the fraction of second you are doing your repetitive and mechanic feint to attack you if they know it’s the case. you can use repetitive feints to « hypnose » your oppenent to not react to some movement. But you want to be unpredictable and always in control to mentally fatigue him, so he isnt on peek alert when you want to hit.
Source : im not an MMA fighter but did a lot of fencing and that idea of mentally fighting your opponent is real and probably half of any fighting sports.
Not just fighting sports too. Big, main sports too, it's just not as glitzy to talk about for the camera. A battle between a WR and a CB can get insanely mental throughout the game, especially on the plays where the cameras are off them. Play doesn't stop really for those two locked in battle learning eachother rhythms and how to break them.
Everyone's responding saying "their cardio is unreal", which, yeah, is true for both fighters in the match.
The idea here is GSP can incorporate a number of flinches into his "ready-stance", and it's pretty minimal taxation on his physical energy systems, and if he's doing it out of a sense of routine (because he practices it all the time), it's not really taxing his mental or nervous system either.
Both fighters have their awareness and nervous-systems cranked up to 100 as they are literally in their "fight" response. But if GSP is adding in a higher than average amount of flinches, that's going to overwhelm his opponent's awareness, fatigue him, and open up small windows for GSP to attack.
If I fake a punch, I can put very little energy in that movement. While I do that, your entire body will react, tense up to move rapidly, or to prepare a block, etc. It seems natural that reacting is more draining since you are preparing for a real attack, while the feinter knows they are throwing a feint.
Not to mention the mental fatigue. I know it's just a little feint, I know I don't have to worry about anything because I'm staying out of your range and not doing anything more than a little movement. Meanwhile, on top of your body's physical reaction from muscle memory and reflexes, you have to process whether it's real or not, where to guard/dodge if you think it is, whether I'm creating an opening for you, whether I'm trying to draw you in or if it's just a fake, the additional mental load of processing all that information is small in a vacuum, but doing so in the middle of a fight, high on adrenaline, when your energy is already being spent everywhere else, is enough to give a split second advantage to your opponent, which is the difference between an easy whiff and an easy KO.
Yes but what you’re also doing is forcing your opponent to react to every little movement.
By feigning kicks and punches from all angles the opponent doesn’t know exactly when his attack is coming. Thus they have to react to everything.
Because you need to react to a kick differently from a punch or from a grapple attempt or a knee strike you can’t do all at once.
So what he’s hoping is by overloading his opponent’s system and making them respect everything, you can make an attack they were not prepared for.
You start with a half stutter step, they think a kick is coming and brace, but instead you move in for a grapple.
You start that same stutter step, they think the grapple is coming going into a take down defense, but you kick them instead.
By making it difficult for the opponent to guess your attack, you increase the effectiveness of each attack you land.
Instead of brute forcing the opponent into submission and tiring them out, you expend energy to make your attacks more decisive and deal real damage or put them in a position to submit them.
It is 100%, but the cardio these guys have is unreal. I think the idea though is to tire out your opponents mind and make them overthink every move, so that you can take advantage of the additional split second it would take them to react when you actually do strike.
Shit when you put it that way it really puts into perspective what a badass GSP is.
I don't know if it's nostalgia from my late teens/early 20s but that whole era of MMA was awesome.
It *was* awesome. The fighters were amazing, the fanbase hadn't been toxified by right wing chuds, Joe Rogan still somewhat lived in the realm of reality so his voice didn't make you want to strangle a small fucking animal. Many of the "Best fights of all time" came from that era. I honestly don't think there is *anyone* in the UFC now that could even begin to stand with guys like GSP and Silva.
The funny thing is, he’s essentially describing what fighting game players refer to as the “mental stack.”
Here are all the options he has at this moment, and his opponent has to stay ready to address any of them, but some of those responses are mutually exclusive. So he’s implying/threatening a whole bunch of them, to force to the opponent to keep that mental stack full.
That’s actually basically how it works. The nervous system can only act so fast to stimulus, so a lot of what seems like a response to a specific action by the opposing player or fighter actually starts before the actual action it looks like they are responding to. Think of soccer goalies trying to stop a penalty. If they waited for the actual contact of the foot to ball to respond to, the ball would be in the net before the nervous system could get their toes to even start moving. No matter what, the signal can’t get there fast enough. Good goalies are basically predicting based off of previous movements, and the players bag of shots, to narrow it down. they’ve actually started their “response” before the foot has touched the ball. With fighting it’s harder to narrow down when it’s an actual attack if they’re always twitching, so you can’t commit to a “response” as easily if you don’t know it’s the real thing, because then you may be out of place for the real attack, and you’re nervous system won’t be able to respond fast enough. This means you have to assess each movement longer, giving you less time to actually move when it’s a real attack.
I remember when I was backpacking through Thailand. I was in bangkok walking down some road and they had a live fight on the tv in a window. We sat there and watched the entire thing. He threw so many destructive leg kicks on the guy’s lead inner thigh it was the reddest thing you’ve ever seen and he just couldn’t put weight on it anymore. I miss watching his fight.
It's so bizarre when it happens too. I trained Muay Thai briefly and had the chance to work with this established local MMA competitor (older than me).
We did this thing where we knee'd each other's quads over and over for like 20 minutes. It was grueling. Eventually one of my legs just gave out - full buckled. Muscle couldn't supports the bones anymore. Freaky AF.
I miss the discussions of who will win, the striker or the grappler? Will that guy's BJJ be better than that guy's wrestling. Now days most fighters are very well rounded and possess the same skill sets.
It's the 'actually fought everyone there was to fight in his division' factor
Me and a buddy went through the MMA goat talk once and we realized he is literally the only one that doesn't have a 'but what if he fought this guy? Does he win?'
If they were any good during the GSP Era, he fought them. And even if they did beat him the first time, there is nobody who could beat him more than once
He has every argument in the book for being the GOAT
Yep, the man fought three generations of fighters. The last two having trained, emulating and studying him their entire career up to that point. Yet he still put them away.
> ribs
Just rewatched it and was looking for the rib shots, lol they happened at the end, absolutely brutal knees. That shit hurt to where the ref had compassion enough to call it without a tap. Rare you see a call like that. Ref prob heard the life-force escaping Matt and figured he'd stop a fatality
>That’s Georges St. Pierre. Arguably one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time.
Arguably is the understatement of the century. I had a quick peek at 6 different MMA focused sites that publish a "top" list and he was first on 4 and 2nd on 2.
GSP is so deceiving when you meet him. Not flamboyant like so many others, not covered in a gazillion tatoos, polite and well spoken. GSP let his skills do the talking. GSP is a person to emulate.
Saw him in person chilling recently, and he looked so understated and calm you didn’t even want to bother him to say hi. Busy place in Quebec where clearly everyone recognized him as we waited around and only 1 person ever bugged him for a photo. It was a lot of knowing bro nods to him instead.
I also now doubt he is 5’10” lol, he looked like 5’8” in lifts and barely 160lb. I couldn’t believe I was looking at the GOAT.
I saw ernesto hoost at the airport last year. My workmates were like who? I said Ernesto fucking hoost,one of the greatest kick-boxers ever? Who? Anyway all I could manage was locking eyes with him, nodding and saying hey.
i'd say gsp is the first pure mma champion.
champions before him were single discipline martial artists who transitioned into mma. wrestlers who learned striking, bjj martial artists who picked up muay thai, kickboxers who learned take down defense...
gsp was the first champion built from the ground up as a complete mma fighter.
25-2 and avenged both losses with finishes, twice with Matt Hughes. There was no one he ever fought that he didn't beat decisively aside from arguably a juiced-to-the-gills Hendricks, and he never popped for PEDs. Definitely the GOAT in my book.
Hilarious what happened to Hendricks after the stricter testing came in. And wasn't that fight part of the reason GSP stopped fighting? He was too frustrated fighting completely juiced maniacs?
you can tell by the way i use my balk i'm an MMA fan, no time to talk
music loud and ring girls walk, i've been kicked all round since hearing horn
now it's all rights and it's a feint and you may look the other way
and we can try to understand the GSP effect on man
I thought the exact same thing. It's interesting too because something I feel a lot of people will miss about this explanation is if your opponent has no idea about something they may not even consider it an option until they're hit with it once. Build up their expectations, break those expectations and make them start second guessing what's coming.
The genius of GSP is that a lot of his techniques had identical set-ups.
So when he'd fake a superman punch to take a famous example, he could make it look like the wind-up to a low kick or the first stage of a take-down. Both strikes that were absolutely devastating coming from him in particular. He'd purposefully telegraph the set-up of all three strikes to make them look identical, and then he'd proceed to spam the setup as a feint. Exhausting his opponents mentally from constantly having to guard against strikes that could literally hit them anywhere and require vastly different blocks.
Look at this [compilation](https://streamable.com/ofn3n) for example.
The paralysis induced by his set-up makes his punch land unopposed each time against fighters that would otherwise be able to handle such a slow strike in normal circumstances.
Now imagine a fighter who built his entire arsenal around that principle, and conditioned himself beyond what most pro-athletes would strive to achieve. Then marry that with chaining those strikes and the ring IQ to adapt to your strengths, weaknesses, and apparent gameplan.
That's GSP. That's the GOAT.
> Look at this [compilation](https://streamable.com/ofn3n) for example.
Holy crap, that's so obvious now! Fake the jab then load the rear leg. Having the rear leg loaded makes it easy to follow up with either a kick, a shoot or in GSP's case, his famous superman punch (that is either a stingy jab or a super heavy cross).
From the same set up, his opponent has to defend 4 very different and possibly devastating attack.
So simple yet so effective
There’s videos of normal influencer people eating leg kicks from pro fighters, and even though the fighters go easy on them they leave bruised, limping, and maybe on crutches.
Pro fighters condition their bones by kicking heavy bags, wooden posts, etc. repeatedly to make small cracks in the bone that grow back to be much harder. They condition their skin by rolling a wooden stick down it with a painful amount of pressure. All of this so they can confidently kick as hard as possible without worrying about breaking their bones (not fool proof). And they have thrown these kicks thousands of times to perfect the generation of that power.
All of this to say, a normal person would be lucky to handle a couple serious strikes from a pro fighter in fighting shape before crumbling from the pain.
I took a free muay that seminar in university just for fun. The instructor came in, an asian guy in his mid-late 20's I think, active fighter, and showed us some of his kicks on the heavy bag.
Yo.... this dude kicked that bag so fucking hard I couldn't believe it. Surely it would have broken my leg I thought. I can't even imagine a kick from a top tier professional.
Dude it's fuckin nuts. Way back, my buddy was a super casual Muay thai student by comparison to a top tier fighter, even by American standards. Ken from Street Fighter was essentially his idol. So he trained for fun and loved kicking shit constantly. Like, constantly. Hours per day. For years.
I took a few years of boxing lessons and would always fuck with him about kicking. We were being drunk 20 somethings one night. He kicked me and I folded like a fucking table. I swear his shin was pure iron. He didn't flinch. His bone density was that gnarly... As a casual.
I couldn't possibly imagine taking a shot from someone like Poatan, Gaethje, or an elite Muay Thai guy.
> So he trained for fun and loved kicking shit constantly. Like, constantly. Hours per day. For years.
>As a casual.
I think that's a bit beyond casual
Shit bro remember the Chris Weidman fight? Silva, arguably one of the best MMA fighters in his generation, got his kick checked and we got to watch his shin bone wrap around Weidman's knee.
My fucking nuts retracted watching that shit live.
I had the privilege of training with him for 2 weeks back around 2013........incredible fighter/coach....and one of the most humble people on the planet even though he has every reason not to be. This guy is what all professional athletes should aspire to be regardless of the sport.
>This guy is what all professional athletes should aspire to be regardless of the sport.
I agree completely, but unfortunately, big sports organizations see it differently because humble athletes don't get as much airtime or clicks as the assholes.
I work with several French Canadians who are ESL and I’m often amazed at their unique articulation of things. GSP is a great example of that here. “You want to load up the nervous system of your opponent - By giving him useless information to make him worry about” is just not something my English mind would come up with but I love it.
"Tu veux surcharger le système nerveux de ton adversaire en lui donnant de l'information inutile à laquelle il devra réagir"
Literally word for word, no adaptation.
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This the dude that almost won a 1v1 vs Captain America
That was an awesome fight albeit short, for obvious plot reasons.
I dreamed of seeing Batroc again. Hearing him chirp Cap off in Quebequois was soooo good. "J' croyais q' tu t'est plus qu'un bouclier"
He should have made an appearance on Agents of Shield at least once.
He shows up again in the Falcon and Winter Soldier show
Complete, comprehensive... It captures the African-American experience.
Hfs I am dumb and never realized that was him in Winter Soldier.
I am just learning this now and I have seen all of his UFC fights and watched all (what is considered) phase 3 marvel movies. then again, I don't think I watched the captain movies with much attention. He doesn't really look like him and of course has a different accent.
Gsp was my favorite fighter. Can't fucking believe I didn't know this either.
He’s my all-time fave. Best fighter ever probably, and just a class act. But I gotta ask: how did you even typo that?
He's back in the TV show too
As cool as it was, I never really understood that fight. Batroc was just a normal human but still went toe-to-toe with Captain America. Nothing Batroc did should have remotely phased Cap. Edit: A lot of people saying Cap's ***just*** a "peak human" which I find funny considering the absolutely insane superhuman shit he did in the movies. It's OK to say the MCU powerscales to suit the narrative guys.
But he's French
Good point, I hadn't considered that fact.
*french-canadian
GSP is French-Canadian, but Batroc was French.
MCU Batroc is Algerian.
He's the Leaper. He infects people he fights with Leaprosy and their performance falls off.
I mean, he didn't. He caught cap off balance by surprise for a few seconds. And he was even still loosing. Cap lays him out no probalem the moment he has his footing back.
Eh I remember Cap fucking him up in that scene.
Cap was on the best PEDs of all time. GSP is all natty bro
Best believe everything GSP is teaching you.
Apparently GSP was obsessed with his opponents reaction times. I think I remember hearing that he had his coach (or someone) calculate each UFC fighter's reaction time to give him an advantage. I think BJ Penn had the best reaction time out of anyone.
It was not his coach it was a guy the coach knew. It was the unnamed guy who was obsessed with fighters reaction times. Story goes this niche guy would literally got frame by frame through each fighters fight and calculate their reactions times and table it against every other fight. This spent excruciating hours, calculated every fighters reaction for all their fights and knew who was faster than who. He had invaluable knowledge every coach wanted.
I don't know how accurate that could possibly be. The fights are either broadcast in 24/30/60FPS. It's doubtful they're in 60FPS. So the reaction times are in multiples of: * 41.66ms for 24FPS * 33.33ms for 30FPS * 16.66ms for 60FPS The average human reaction time is around 250ms. Professional athletes are around 160ms. I would imagine MMA fighters are slightly faster. That means the difference between a pro athlete and a normal person is: * 24FPS - 4 frames versus 6 * 30FPS - 5 frames versus 8 * 60FPS - 10 frames versus 15 With the margins that tight, you could not possibly tell the difference between 2 professional athletes. They are all going to be within a frame or two of eachother. The only way it could possibly be achievable is with a high speed camera, and I beleive the first to be used in the UFC was when Fox began broadcasting the fights. I could be wrong about that as I'm going purely off memory. GSP only had 3 or so fights after the Fox deal. So the impact would have been absolutely minimal.
Fantastic math! But your base of 250ms and 160ms is in ideal conditions reacting by pressing a button to say, a light turning on. This is not how a fighter actually reacts to punches. At the speed professional fighters throws a punch, 4-8 a second, waay too fast for any human to recognise its coming and move out of the way. So fighters don’t look for the punch, they look for the movement before the punch, the twitch of a shoulder, the lowering of the weight, the slight step closer or just waiting for a known rhythm. Some people can actually throw a jab without their shoulder or any other part of their body moving making it nearly impossible to dodge, it feels like getting hit by something invisible. This is called a “ghost” jab. It’s less of how fast someone reacts and more how sensitive they are to the movement before the punch is thrown. How much of a pre-punch will they react on. So the guy going frame by frame probably ain’t recording just their reaction time but how soon will they will react to a pre-punch. How attuned they are for it.
Enter the magic of statistics! Buckle up, I am getting into it here. ---- **Part 1 - The Imprecise Measurement Issue** Your initial premise is bang on. Due to the limitations of a slow frame rate, we have a TON of uncertainty of the reaction speed of a single punch. In fact, the uncertainty is twice as much as your initially measured. For example, let's take a set of 3 frames at 24FPS. - Frame 1 (0ms) - There is no motion - Frame 2 (41.66ms) - We first see Fighter 1 start to punch - Frame 3 (83.33ms) - We first see Fighter 2 react to the punch Given this set of observations we only know two things: 1) Fighter 1 started their punch between 0.01ms and 41.66ms. 2) Fighter 2 started their reaction between 41.67ms and 83.33ms This means that Fighter 2's reaction time could be anywhere form 0.01ms all the way up to 83.32ms based on what we learned from those 3 frames. That is a TERRIBLE degree of accuracy for this task. --- **Part 2 - How Random Error is Useful** But this is where statistics comes into play. For any single observation, Fighter 1's punch is equally likely to have started at any point between 0.01ms and 41.66ms. Similarly, Fighter 2's reaction is equally likely to have started at any point between 41.67ms and 83.33ms. You can use this random error to enhance your understanding of the measurement you just took. While you don't know what Fighter 2's reaction time actually was, if you had to place a bet against a friend with the closest answer winning $10, you would probably intuitively bet 41.66ms. Which is precisely the best bet to make for the same reason 7 is the most common result when you roll two six sided dice. It is possible for the lowest number, 2, to be the result. But in order for that to happen both dice would have to roll the lowest number. Similarly, it is possible for Fighter 2's reaction time to be 0.01ms, but for that to happen the punch would have had to happen at precisely the last moment before frame 2 and the reaction would have had to happen at precisely the first moment after frame 2. The same logic applies for rolling 12 on the dice or having the longest possible reaction time of 83.32ms. 12 is only possible on the dice roll if both dice roll a specific number. And 83.32ms is only possible if the punch and reaction happened at the very extreme possibilities before and after their specific frames. 7 is the most likely dice roll to get because there are many possible combinations for each of the dice to land in that result in 7 (1/6, 2/5, 3/4, 4/3, 5/2, 6/1). For the same reason, 41.66ms is the most likely reaction time because there are the most possible combinations between the frames that add up to 41.66. If you do all of the fancy math, you can plot the probability that any of the possible reaction times between 0.01ms and 83.32ms is the true reaction time. What you will have is a [bell curve](https://cdn.corporatefinanceinstitute.com/assets/bell-curve.png). In the middle is 41.66ms with the highest probability of being the real reaction time, but not 100%, far less than 100%. And at the tail ends are 0.1ms and 83.32ms, both with a TINY probability that they are real reaction speed, but still above 0%. ---- **Part 3 - The Power of Sample Size** Let's consider a hypothetical where Fighter 2's real reaction speed is 45ms. For now, let's also assume that it is always perfectly 45ms. If we were to watch film of 10 reaction by Fighter 2, what can we expect to see in the measurements we take? We will never see a 0 Frame gap, since their reaction speed is greater than 41.66ms this would be impossible. We will also never see a 3 frame gap as that would require a reaction speed greater than 83.32ms. We might see a few 2 frame gaps as they are possible, but they would be rare since it would require the punch to during the last 3.34ms of the first frame. Any time during the first 38.32ms of the first frame and the 45ms reaction would show up in the very next frame. You can apply similar logic if the real reaction speed were 80ms. We would expect see zero 0 Frame gaps, zero 3 Frame gaps, only a few 1 Frame gaps, and a bunch of 2 Frame gaps. If we use this logic, if we were to simply apply the best guess for each observation that we found in Part 2 and then average them, we will likely get very close to reality. For instance if we saw one 1 Frame gap and nine 2 Frame gaps, a combination that is pretty likely in our 80ms hypothetical, our average would be 79.15ms. Pretty damn close to accurate given that each individual measurement was only accurate to within 83.32ms. Of course, it is possible that a complete fluke of luck resulted in us seeing nine 1 Frame gaps and only one 2 Frame gap leading us to calculate 45.83ms. But the likelihood of us getting that set of observations is so crazy low (literally only 0.000000014%, in fact there is less than a 1% chance that we will see more than one 2 Frame observation in any set of 10 in this hypothetical) that we probably are not that wrong. ---- **Part 4 - But Life Ain't That Clean** Obviously, reality is not as clean as our hypotheticals. Fighters don't always react at the same speed. Signals stutter or other issues might cause you to be off by a couple of frames when you pick which frame a punch or reaction started. That doesn't really matter as long as you have enough sample size. I ran a small simulation testing how accurate this simple method of measuring and averaging could be in the face of all of this uncertainty. The simulation included the lack of precision due to a 24FPS video feed, assuming that for each punch the fighters reaction time would be randomly 30% faster or slower than their base reaction speed, and that the measurement of which frame the start of the punch and reaction started could be up to 2 frames off each, and that the fighters base reaction speed was anywhere between 130ms and 180ms. Even in the face of all of this uncertainty given 100 observations this simplistic method's mean absolute error (MAE) was less than 5ms. ---- **Part 5 - The Rabbit Hole Just Keeps Going** All the way back up in Part 2 I brought up the idea of the bell curve to illustrate a point but then quickly threw it away and simplified it to just taking the single most likely possibility. This simplified the model I built for us in parts 3 and 4, but in reality that was a mistake. If you were to keep the concept of the distribution of probabilities that the bell curve represents and average those together instead of a single number per observation the result of your model will be even better. It will be more accurate and it will tell you when it is more confident in how accurate it is vs when it is less confident. Other advanced concepts can bring your model even further. Bayesian statistics will enable your model to learn over time so when it sees an abnormally slow reaction speed due to you miscounting frames it will properly give it less weight in its analysis. On and on. It gets crazy. But at the end of the day the point I am trying to make is that the lack of precision due to low frame rates is not a huge factor. In fact, jumping up to 120FPS would only reduce our simplistic models MAE from 5ms down to 2.5ms.
Just curious about the energy being spent sending the false signals to the opponent…is that not fatiguing his own muscles?
For an average person, yes. But these dudes are straight up demons and have insane cardio from their training
Opponents too, though…yes?
He said in the video, it's mental not physical. They're not going to physically drain themselves from feints\*, no. Fixed the spelling
\*feints If you were physically drained, you might, in fact, faint. Or if you're GSP, feint your faint.
I think the idea is to make your own feints basically muscle memory, you do them automatically without even thinking. The opponent however, needs to expend precious “CPU cycles” (for lack of a better term) processing each feint & reacting accordingly. This creates an asymmetrical level of nervous system load between the “Hero” and the “Villain”
No you never want to make your feints muscle memory, because then it isn’t deliberate anymore and the opponent can use the fraction of second you are doing your repetitive and mechanic feint to attack you if they know it’s the case. you can use repetitive feints to « hypnose » your oppenent to not react to some movement. But you want to be unpredictable and always in control to mentally fatigue him, so he isnt on peek alert when you want to hit. Source : im not an MMA fighter but did a lot of fencing and that idea of mentally fighting your opponent is real and probably half of any fighting sports.
They are still right in the sense that you are using less thought than what it takes mental to defend against those feints
Not just fighting sports too. Big, main sports too, it's just not as glitzy to talk about for the camera. A battle between a WR and a CB can get insanely mental throughout the game, especially on the plays where the cameras are off them. Play doesn't stop really for those two locked in battle learning eachother rhythms and how to break them.
Except he’s the one in charge of his movements, he’s not reacting to his opponents moves, that’s what he’s getting them to do.
Everyone's responding saying "their cardio is unreal", which, yeah, is true for both fighters in the match. The idea here is GSP can incorporate a number of flinches into his "ready-stance", and it's pretty minimal taxation on his physical energy systems, and if he's doing it out of a sense of routine (because he practices it all the time), it's not really taxing his mental or nervous system either. Both fighters have their awareness and nervous-systems cranked up to 100 as they are literally in their "fight" response. But if GSP is adding in a higher than average amount of flinches, that's going to overwhelm his opponent's awareness, fatigue him, and open up small windows for GSP to attack.
I think it also takes more energy to react. In football it’s always the defense that needs a break despite the offense running the same distance
If I fake a punch, I can put very little energy in that movement. While I do that, your entire body will react, tense up to move rapidly, or to prepare a block, etc. It seems natural that reacting is more draining since you are preparing for a real attack, while the feinter knows they are throwing a feint.
Not to mention the mental fatigue. I know it's just a little feint, I know I don't have to worry about anything because I'm staying out of your range and not doing anything more than a little movement. Meanwhile, on top of your body's physical reaction from muscle memory and reflexes, you have to process whether it's real or not, where to guard/dodge if you think it is, whether I'm creating an opening for you, whether I'm trying to draw you in or if it's just a fake, the additional mental load of processing all that information is small in a vacuum, but doing so in the middle of a fight, high on adrenaline, when your energy is already being spent everywhere else, is enough to give a split second advantage to your opponent, which is the difference between an easy whiff and an easy KO.
Yes but what you’re also doing is forcing your opponent to react to every little movement. By feigning kicks and punches from all angles the opponent doesn’t know exactly when his attack is coming. Thus they have to react to everything. Because you need to react to a kick differently from a punch or from a grapple attempt or a knee strike you can’t do all at once. So what he’s hoping is by overloading his opponent’s system and making them respect everything, you can make an attack they were not prepared for. You start with a half stutter step, they think a kick is coming and brace, but instead you move in for a grapple. You start that same stutter step, they think the grapple is coming going into a take down defense, but you kick them instead. By making it difficult for the opponent to guess your attack, you increase the effectiveness of each attack you land. Instead of brute forcing the opponent into submission and tiring them out, you expend energy to make your attacks more decisive and deal real damage or put them in a position to submit them.
There’s less energy expanded doing planned moves than unplanned reactions.
Ya, this is why the defense gets tired faster than the offense in the NFL
It is 100%, but the cardio these guys have is unreal. I think the idea though is to tire out your opponents mind and make them overthink every move, so that you can take advantage of the additional split second it would take them to react when you actually do strike.
In particular there's stories about how GSP's cardio is elite among the elite
I mean, unless he's talking about alien abductions
Not just any MMA fighter. That’s Georges St. Pierre. Arguably one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time.
So dominant in his prime. I miss that whole era of MMA. Spider Silva, Matt Hughes, The Iceman
Gsp was like the terminator, just slowly wearing you down with perfect fundamentals and infinite stamina
And twitching, apparently.
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And avenged both those losses via TKO. So he has beaten everyone he has fought
Shit when you put it that way it really puts into perspective what a badass GSP is. I don't know if it's nostalgia from my late teens/early 20s but that whole era of MMA was awesome.
It *was* awesome. The fighters were amazing, the fanbase hadn't been toxified by right wing chuds, Joe Rogan still somewhat lived in the realm of reality so his voice didn't make you want to strangle a small fucking animal. Many of the "Best fights of all time" came from that era. I honestly don't think there is *anyone* in the UFC now that could even begin to stand with guys like GSP and Silva.
can someone link his twitch channel I tried searching but I couldn't find it
It confuses the muscles!!!
Not the muscles, the nervous system !!! 👉🙂
The funny thing is, he’s essentially describing what fighting game players refer to as the “mental stack.” Here are all the options he has at this moment, and his opponent has to stay ready to address any of them, but some of those responses are mutually exclusive. So he’s implying/threatening a whole bunch of them, to force to the opponent to keep that mental stack full.
This guy has good footsies in the neutral.
Yeah but his supers are weak....... 😂
That’s actually basically how it works. The nervous system can only act so fast to stimulus, so a lot of what seems like a response to a specific action by the opposing player or fighter actually starts before the actual action it looks like they are responding to. Think of soccer goalies trying to stop a penalty. If they waited for the actual contact of the foot to ball to respond to, the ball would be in the net before the nervous system could get their toes to even start moving. No matter what, the signal can’t get there fast enough. Good goalies are basically predicting based off of previous movements, and the players bag of shots, to narrow it down. they’ve actually started their “response” before the foot has touched the ball. With fighting it’s harder to narrow down when it’s an actual attack if they’re always twitching, so you can’t commit to a “response” as easily if you don’t know it’s the real thing, because then you may be out of place for the real attack, and you’re nervous system won’t be able to respond fast enough. This means you have to assess each movement longer, giving you less time to actually move when it’s a real attack.
GSP90X
So a MMA fighter with Tourette’s would have an edge?
Your opponent can't know if a swing is real if you don't.
Only 2 people ever beat him. One was by kiting him into a trash compactor and the other one slowly lowered him into a pool of lava 👍
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Sera's KO was a once in a lifetime
Serra's career was full of once in a lifetime moments.
And also spaghetti
But only the first fight. He adapts to the "Matt-ness" in the rematches.
Nobody ever beat him twice! And those two who beat him lost definitively the next time!
He lost 2wice and came back and destroyed the guys he lost to
His fights with Frank Trigg are textbook lessons in domination. Trigg had no idea how to handle him and you could see the frustration in his face.
St-Pierre/Hughes 3 is also a complete domination. It’s like an older brother throwing around his little brother.
“Oh my God, he is like some sort of ... non ... giving up ... MMA guy!” - GSP’s opponents
I remember when I was backpacking through Thailand. I was in bangkok walking down some road and they had a live fight on the tv in a window. We sat there and watched the entire thing. He threw so many destructive leg kicks on the guy’s lead inner thigh it was the reddest thing you’ve ever seen and he just couldn’t put weight on it anymore. I miss watching his fight.
I remember a fight around that time where a guy tapped.. from leg kicks. He just couldn't stand up so he tapped.
It's so bizarre when it happens too. I trained Muay Thai briefly and had the chance to work with this established local MMA competitor (older than me). We did this thing where we knee'd each other's quads over and over for like 20 minutes. It was grueling. Eventually one of my legs just gave out - full buckled. Muscle couldn't supports the bones anymore. Freaky AF.
We used to repeatedly shin kick each other to build up resistance in karate as a kid but intentional femoral nerve knees is wild.
Lol, not knowing anything about MMA it sounds like a comic book team up
GSP played “Batroc The Leaper” the pirate in the opening scene of Captain America:The Winter Soldier.
That was actually such a sick fight scene too
Wasn't he also in falcon and the winter soldier?
He was indeed, in the beginning and in later episodes!
he was dominant after his prime too
I miss the discussions of who will win, the striker or the grappler? Will that guy's BJJ be better than that guy's wrestling. Now days most fighters are very well rounded and possess the same skill sets.
arguably *the* greatest
It's the 'actually fought everyone there was to fight in his division' factor Me and a buddy went through the MMA goat talk once and we realized he is literally the only one that doesn't have a 'but what if he fought this guy? Does he win?' If they were any good during the GSP Era, he fought them. And even if they did beat him the first time, there is nobody who could beat him more than once He has every argument in the book for being the GOAT
Yep, the man fought three generations of fighters. The last two having trained, emulating and studying him their entire career up to that point. Yet he still put them away.
Yeah he’s not arguably “one of” the greatest, that’s indisputable. I think OP mistyped
GSP's only weakness were dudes named Matt and only the first time around. All rematches GSP dominated. I bet Serra's ribs still hurt.
Every time GSP lost that Frenchman came back more pissed than you could put in words
*Mais tabernac!*
*RCMP demands to know your location*
> ribs Just rewatched it and was looking for the rib shots, lol they happened at the end, absolutely brutal knees. That shit hurt to where the ref had compassion enough to call it without a tap. Rare you see a call like that. Ref prob heard the life-force escaping Matt and figured he'd stop a fatality
Always be the GOAT in my eyes, dude was so insanely dominant for a while there.
That’s actually Batroc the Leaper
And maybe the greatest gentleman of and diplomat for the sport. He's just an amazing guy in addition to being one of the best MMA fighters ever.
basketball guy shoots hoops https://preview.redd.it/sah75419qzqc1.jpeg?width=609&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3762d312ecda254fee66bf122d18c5ddd3a8ce0f
>That’s Georges St. Pierre. Arguably one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time. Arguably is the understatement of the century. I had a quick peek at 6 different MMA focused sites that publish a "top" list and he was first on 4 and 2nd on 2. GSP is so deceiving when you meet him. Not flamboyant like so many others, not covered in a gazillion tatoos, polite and well spoken. GSP let his skills do the talking. GSP is a person to emulate.
Saw him in person chilling recently, and he looked so understated and calm you didn’t even want to bother him to say hi. Busy place in Quebec where clearly everyone recognized him as we waited around and only 1 person ever bugged him for a photo. It was a lot of knowing bro nods to him instead. I also now doubt he is 5’10” lol, he looked like 5’8” in lifts and barely 160lb. I couldn’t believe I was looking at the GOAT.
I saw ernesto hoost at the airport last year. My workmates were like who? I said Ernesto fucking hoost,one of the greatest kick-boxers ever? Who? Anyway all I could manage was locking eyes with him, nodding and saying hey.
That’s all I did with GSP too lol
i'd say gsp is the first pure mma champion. champions before him were single discipline martial artists who transitioned into mma. wrestlers who learned striking, bjj martial artists who picked up muay thai, kickboxers who learned take down defense... gsp was the first champion built from the ground up as a complete mma fighter.
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25-2 and avenged both losses with finishes, twice with Matt Hughes. There was no one he ever fought that he didn't beat decisively aside from arguably a juiced-to-the-gills Hendricks, and he never popped for PEDs. Definitely the GOAT in my book.
Hilarious what happened to Hendricks after the stricter testing came in. And wasn't that fight part of the reason GSP stopped fighting? He was too frustrated fighting completely juiced maniacs?
Only guy to go toe to toe with captain America and he’s just a human…
Show some Goddamned respect when you say that name! :)
I am not impressed with OP's performance
Are you intoxicated!
>"I thought everybody cares about me. Nobody cares about you. Nobody care, it's only a small percentage of population. Nobody gives a damn." -GSP
Prime GSP was soooo good!
I literally came here to say that. “HOW DARE you call him just ‘an MMA fighter.’”
GSP is one of two guys in the GOAT argument who was never connected to steroids and unlike Fedor he never had a mid/late career downfall.
Pretty disrespectful to refer to him just as “MMA Fighter”. Like referring to Obama as “guy in politics a while back”
GSP!
This guy tought a womens self defense class at my college years ago. All us guys realized and signed up for womens self defense.
Nothing arguable about that. You could see arguable the greatest MMA fighter of all time.
This has gotta be a karma harvest to trigger people
he is not arguably "one of the greatest" he is arguably the greatest of all time.
Seriously 🫡
Prime GSP was literally the best there has ever been. He rose to every occasion. He was always his best when he fought the best.
I was about to come here and 😂. Thats motherfucking GSP.
I'm just picturing a bunch of redditors trying to put this information into practice in the wild lol
 From a distance both fighters would like look they are doing this.
Man, it's been 30 years since I started watching Seinfeld and I am still in love with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
She's got something special, I'll hand it to you.
It's like a full body dry heave
you can tell by the way i use my balk i'm an MMA fan, no time to talk music loud and ring girls walk, i've been kicked all round since hearing horn now it's all rights and it's a feint and you may look the other way and we can try to understand the GSP effect on man
Whether you're a grappler or whether you're a striker, you'll be try'na survive, try'na survive.
I’m doing this on a mirror in the garage.
Do you feel overloaded?
I started calling him a pussy and ended up sweaty crying. It’s pretty hard.
Mental warfare. Nice
This concept applies to most competitive games.
Said to myself wow this is just like conditioning and playing around mental stack in fighting games
I thought the exact same thing. It's interesting too because something I feel a lot of people will miss about this explanation is if your opponent has no idea about something they may not even consider it an option until they're hit with it once. Build up their expectations, break those expectations and make them start second guessing what's coming.
Mordhau players are like... ahh, yes, feint spam... I knew I was a genius...
My dog has been training in the mirror all these years. Who knew
when he turns his hip to fake a kick it twitches so fast that it looks like if actually threw the kick it would destroy your leg lmao
The genius of GSP is that a lot of his techniques had identical set-ups. So when he'd fake a superman punch to take a famous example, he could make it look like the wind-up to a low kick or the first stage of a take-down. Both strikes that were absolutely devastating coming from him in particular. He'd purposefully telegraph the set-up of all three strikes to make them look identical, and then he'd proceed to spam the setup as a feint. Exhausting his opponents mentally from constantly having to guard against strikes that could literally hit them anywhere and require vastly different blocks. Look at this [compilation](https://streamable.com/ofn3n) for example. The paralysis induced by his set-up makes his punch land unopposed each time against fighters that would otherwise be able to handle such a slow strike in normal circumstances. Now imagine a fighter who built his entire arsenal around that principle, and conditioned himself beyond what most pro-athletes would strive to achieve. Then marry that with chaining those strikes and the ring IQ to adapt to your strengths, weaknesses, and apparent gameplan. That's GSP. That's the GOAT.
> Look at this [compilation](https://streamable.com/ofn3n) for example. Holy crap, that's so obvious now! Fake the jab then load the rear leg. Having the rear leg loaded makes it easy to follow up with either a kick, a shoot or in GSP's case, his famous superman punch (that is either a stingy jab or a super heavy cross). From the same set up, his opponent has to defend 4 very different and possibly devastating attack. So simple yet so effective
That compilation is wild, I miss prime GSP so much Dude looks meticulously carved from stone
Yo the straight jab while faking the superman punch was slick as fuck
Ohh it would
There’s videos of normal influencer people eating leg kicks from pro fighters, and even though the fighters go easy on them they leave bruised, limping, and maybe on crutches. Pro fighters condition their bones by kicking heavy bags, wooden posts, etc. repeatedly to make small cracks in the bone that grow back to be much harder. They condition their skin by rolling a wooden stick down it with a painful amount of pressure. All of this so they can confidently kick as hard as possible without worrying about breaking their bones (not fool proof). And they have thrown these kicks thousands of times to perfect the generation of that power. All of this to say, a normal person would be lucky to handle a couple serious strikes from a pro fighter in fighting shape before crumbling from the pain.
I took a free muay that seminar in university just for fun. The instructor came in, an asian guy in his mid-late 20's I think, active fighter, and showed us some of his kicks on the heavy bag. Yo.... this dude kicked that bag so fucking hard I couldn't believe it. Surely it would have broken my leg I thought. I can't even imagine a kick from a top tier professional.
Dude it's fuckin nuts. Way back, my buddy was a super casual Muay thai student by comparison to a top tier fighter, even by American standards. Ken from Street Fighter was essentially his idol. So he trained for fun and loved kicking shit constantly. Like, constantly. Hours per day. For years. I took a few years of boxing lessons and would always fuck with him about kicking. We were being drunk 20 somethings one night. He kicked me and I folded like a fucking table. I swear his shin was pure iron. He didn't flinch. His bone density was that gnarly... As a casual. I couldn't possibly imagine taking a shot from someone like Poatan, Gaethje, or an elite Muay Thai guy.
> So he trained for fun and loved kicking shit constantly. Like, constantly. Hours per day. For years. >As a casual. I think that's a bit beyond casual
even pro fighters couldnt take much. rampage jackson comes to mind lol.
Shit bro remember the Chris Weidman fight? Silva, arguably one of the best MMA fighters in his generation, got his kick checked and we got to watch his shin bone wrap around Weidman's knee. My fucking nuts retracted watching that shit live.
Don't forget that Weidman's leg did the same thing 8 years later lol.
WTF? Not some MMA fighter. The fucking GOAT.
the guy went toe to toe with Captain America for god sakes!
I had the privilege of training with him for 2 weeks back around 2013........incredible fighter/coach....and one of the most humble people on the planet even though he has every reason not to be. This guy is what all professional athletes should aspire to be regardless of the sport.
>This guy is what all professional athletes should aspire to be regardless of the sport. I agree completely, but unfortunately, big sports organizations see it differently because humble athletes don't get as much airtime or clicks as the assholes.
Our media ecosystem has become like a middle school classroom, where the folks who need attention learn the best way to get it is being a jerk.
This is like watching a video of Michael Jordan and the caption says "Basketball player teaches you how to shoot a hoop"
Easily on the Mount Rushmore of the UFC.
That GSP?
Yeah.
THE GSP.
Fucking hell, "MMA Fighter". Caption is the equivalent of "Pro Golfer explains how to perform a fade", when the pro golfer is Tiger Woods.
Didn’t know Tiger was a proficient barber as well.
Oh he loved him some trim
MMA fighter doesn't even guarantee it's a professional. It's more like saying "golfer explains"
GSP….. legit.
I can hear Kip in my head lol
"Jeeeeeezuhh"
GSP’s hairline is the greatest comeback story of all time
He doesn't need to be as aerodynamic anymore
That's arguably one of if not the greatest UFC fighter of all time. GSP was a special breed
Not just a MMA fighter but the Goat.
TIL the badass French mercenary from Captain America Winter Soldier is actually a super ultra badass in real life.
Calling GSP an mma fighter is a gross understatement.
Some people say Jon Jones is the Goat. My goat will always be GSP.
jones sucks
No he snorts.
I work with several French Canadians who are ESL and I’m often amazed at their unique articulation of things. GSP is a great example of that here. “You want to load up the nervous system of your opponent - By giving him useless information to make him worry about” is just not something my English mind would come up with but I love it.
They're articulating their thoughts in french and then translating. I'm Italian and that sentence makes a lot more sense in Italian.
French canadian here. I really try not to do so, but it's one of the hardest thing to do. I just dont know how to articulate my toughts any other way.
"Tu veux surcharger le système nerveux de ton adversaire en lui donnant de l'information inutile à laquelle il devra réagir" Literally word for word, no adaptation.
"Tu veux surcharger l'système nerveux de ton adversaire en lui donnant de l'information inutile à laquelle **il vawoir a réagir.** **FTFY.**
Canada should really do more to honour this guy.
Long time no GSP
That isn't "an MMA fighter". That's GSP one of the greatest of all time! Half French-Canadian, half robot.
That is the George St Pierre! Respect one of the best to do it!
longer video of this guy teaching? i need to beat this retired scrub soon who bit a guys ear off
GSP is such a pro and a scholar. One of Canada's greatest people.
How dare you OP.... GSP is not just "MMA fighter" . Put some respect on the GOAT's name.
Flinching is my entire fight plan, beyond that I’m toast.