You're a real good boy, Matt. Check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day Joe Rogan Park, cast by night. All day. Great to have you in, man. Great to be here. How are you feeling? You must be feeling fantastic. Many things were successful. Even if I was a little bit had a flu. Many things... You had a flu before that fight? Yeah, for one week, like five days. Five days before five weeks I was in... How to say that? He... like bodies... fever. Yeah. So... that's crazy. That was something... But every time... maybe I'm a little bit glad for that. Because every time I'm trying to push my preparation too much, that I'm every time like... I heard myself or I'm over trained. Right. So that's why I'm maybe... maybe just a little bit glad for that. That's interesting, right? It's so hard because you want to prepare so hard. You're so disciplined, so driven. But you can do yourself a disservice. You can go too far. And then you don't recover enough. And then you go into the fight a little compromised.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we've seen that many times with fighters who just get so enthusiastic about their training. Yeah, because I feel like... self-confidence and still... there is something what you can do better, yeah? Every day. That's my idea of the training, life, idea, to go better every day. Go better every day. 1% better, 1% better. Even if you can't train, you can sit in the meditation and visualize it. How you train, how the body is working. Sometimes it's the most biggest... like... the biggest thing what you can do is just... Like you show me the floating. Yes. Yeah, you need one of those, man. If all the people that I know, you need one. Sensory deprivation tank. You should get one of those. Because I know you're into meditation. Now you spend a lot of time in dark rooms. That's meditation times 100.
Do you monitor your heart rate every day to see what your recovery is out or you just go by feel? Feeling. Feeling, feeling. I did that in... training in... all the November in Mexico. Mexico City. Where is the 2,300... Yeah, 7,700 feet above sea level, I believe. Yes. There I monitor everything. Like take a blood exam before and after these camp, four weeks camp there. Amazing, amazing. Your endurance was incredible in that fight. Because that was such a high... And still... And still, I felt like... After that flu, I felt a little bit down. But... Well, that's pretty amazing, man. You must have been in the same shape before the flu. Yeah. It's a fine line of balance. Yeah. So you went to Mexico City. Did you know a gym up there? Did you bring your camp up there?
I was there in... UFC performances to do there. There's a new one. Nice, man. You have everything here in the performances to do, like, Regeneration, training, coaches, coaches with the pads. And so, yeah, I was there for... Especially for... To work on the things what I... I took from the last fight with Pereira... To work on the hands up a little bit. Just a little bit. But we were talking about it in the broadcast. Your hands down sometimes has a benefit. There's a real advantage to it because no one sees where those punches are coming from. Yeah. So for the people that don't know what I'm talking about. No just punches. Movement, movement, movement. Your head movement was excellent. And the feeling, feeling... With the hands up is another one with the hands down.
Because this is your natural posture. Right. So you spend more, most of the time in this. And it's about just the feeling, the space, feeling the... I can explain to another person like this one. Because when I am in the flow, like you want to be in the flow in the fight. Some between the flow and the uncomfortable, somewhere in the center. So when I achieved this attitude, that's why I don't need to keep my hands up. Because this for me means... For everybody, that means defending. I don't need to defend myself when I see everything. When I feel everything. But like I understand in this preparation, where I tried, where I did, all the camp hands up. Like this gives you the calm in a closed distance. In a closed distance, it's not so... Sometimes it's not so smart to keep hands down.
But I am crazy enough to go through, to be in the moment, to stress my body so much in this situation, to see every movement, every start of the movement of my opponent, that I can react before he starts. And the next level is to try to read the thinking of the opponent. What he wants to do before he do that. So there is a many levels of that. But sometimes I can't explain that. Sometimes, like in the second fight with Pereira, I was a little bit punched in the end of the first round. So I stepped to the second round. And I said to myself, I was too courageous to keep the hands down. So that's why it happened. Well, you should have been more defensive, maybe. To recover. Yes. Yes. One thing you said after that fight, you said you have to evolve. And one thing that I saw in this last fight with Jamal. Hill was evolution. I really saw it. You really see it.
Like the counters, the head movement, and the counters were brilliant. There's one that I put on my Instagram stories. It was so incredible. He threw a punch, you slid slightly out of the way, landed a straight left, and then the right hook that dropped him. But it was so dynamic. It was so fast and precise. I was like, that's a different Yuri Pahaska. Your earlier fights were always excellent. You always had amazing power and very unusual movement, very difficult to predict. But the sharpness of your counters was on another level in this fight. That's what I worked on. Yeah. To be not just connect to the opponent and react what's happened right now, but a little bit before what will happen. Yes. Well, you're definitely getting better, which is so fascinating. You had a very brilliant approach. You waited until you had reached a certain level before you entered the UFC. You could have been in the UFC years earlier.
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Yeah, tight circle in the sum and go deeper, you can go really deep. It's also a value loyalty. Loyalty is very important. And this is it. It means a lot. And when people worked really hard to get you to a certain level, what I like is there's some coaches that they recognize that maybe there's other skill sets they can bring in. So they work with other people as well. But always stay with the people that brought you to the game. Sure, because in the end, you can change whoever, but you have to start again with the same people and go. And again, you will go to the same level, to the same problems with these people because it's not about them. It's always about you to recognize what's in you.
How much tape do you watch? Do you watch a lot of films? Do you watch videos or fights? Yeah. I was five days sick before the fight. So I just watched the Spartans 300. Yeah, on the back I watch. On the back one. That's wild shit. No wild shit, but I was really inspired. I was really hungry for to see something because long time I didn't see some good, not good movie. It doesn't matter if it's good or new, but these old classics, the fighting, Jean-Claude Van Damme with a kickboxer and all these things. That's what made a spark inside me to a true love for martial arts because in that movies they live that, really live that. And they have no other chance to solve their problems just by martial arts and something. So that's what I'm...
So you got inspired by movies? Do you watch a lot of films of fight footage? Like your fights, your opponents fights? Yeah. But I don't need too many times to study that. I just need to see once I just see the attitude of the start of... the fight. How is fighting, how is his spirit, his mind, how is thinking, how is the start of moving of his body? How is reacting for not just for opponent, for the many situations, for sleeping and movement, but everything. Like a personal, studying that guy. Just energy. His energy, his vibe, how is reacting, how is react in some situation like these iPods and all these things, like some breaks in the fight every time because it shows you how he has under control himself all the time, all the time.
And this is something what Alex Pereira, I don't know what is his story behind, but he has to... he handled that. He handled that and that's why he is how he is. Now he's starting to be more relaxed and I wish him to stay sharp. Well, I think he's more relaxed outside the fight, but in the fight he's always very calm. Very calm and very focused.
Did you watch your first fight with him before you watched the second, before you fought him the second time? Yes, sure, sure. I studied him a lot, but the second fight I... I little push it too much. Too aggressive? No, no, no, no. I mean, like training. After the fight, I was like, I want to Alex Pereira, after I'm ready for him right now, I'm ready too, but I'm open for whoever UFC will give me like a next opponent to prove that I am, but I want a true challenge.
Like, I want a true challenge from the top five guys. The interesting thing about the Light Heavyweight division is there's only about five really exciting contenders, four or five relics. There's not a deep pool of fighters that would be very interesting to see you fight. That's right, because there is... like I said today, there's a few guys who really have the taste, have the drive to go to the top. I want to go to the top. I want to take it. I have the... I feel the energy of the crown and I can take it.
So, and that's why I'm doing that. That's why I'm still talking about that to be there, because I really feel that I can beat it so. One thing what I needed is that I had to be stable, stable, to not just get to the top and back and out, but to go to the top and know how it is to be there. To keep all these weights on the top. What there is. Yeah, defending the title is more difficult even than getting the title.
And then it's improving while you're champion. You know, they say that Daniel Kormi also says that every champion improves significantly once they become champion, because you have the confidence of being champion. And it's just how long can you maintain the kind of energy that's required to constantly get better? Because it's not just about maintaining, right? It's about constantly improving. It's a constant analysis of all your movements and what you're doing right, and what your mistakes that were made, what the thought process was before the mistake and how to eliminate that.
This is something what is, like I said, the style of Japanese they call that kaisen. Kaisen, like daily improvements, small improvements, daily recognizing was bad, what's good. And sometimes I feel like it's like a sick to be obsessed in that man. You need a little break. That's why I think the life gave me these little break before the flu. Was that why you came in so light?
Yeah, yeah. Was that why? That was not that was why. Because I was watching a video with Luke Thomas was going over your performance. Everybody was very impressed and he was as well. But one of the things that he was talking about was that you only weighed 208 pounds when you walked into the cage. I thought I will do my best whenever I go to the sauna night before the wedding and spend there.
And again, I switched myself in the sauna and I was there like for two hours. Oh, no. Like 15 minutes, 15, 15, like many rounds. Right, right. And do you do sauna cold or just sauna relax? Relax. Relax. No, no, no, sauna cold. Okay. So cold. And cold back in the sauna. Yes, sure.
And cold normally like the cold, cold punch. I'm doing that daily because I have the at home the cold punch. Yes. And I'm using that. Yeah, they're fantastic. Yeah. The fun is the second day after that and I didn't drink anything after the sauna. And next day morning, I went to do to the control wait and then I have I don't know how this in the libres 91 kilograms. I'm fighting in I'm fighting in 93 right and half. And I was two and a half kilogram under my way.
So it's like 200 pounds. So yeah, so I was the only one guy who was in row to the ways, waiting and I tried to hide myself before other guys. And I should drink one liter of water, second liter of water. Wow. Because you didn't want to weigh in light because yeah, I would because I spent too much time in the sauna man. Wow. That's crazy because you only weighed 208. Yeah, I felt really really like you look great. You look very lean and fast man, fast. You look fat like significantly. You've always been very fast, but you looked even faster.
It's just all about this man. If you have the reason why and you can not just you want it like your ego just want it, but you feel it like it's your destiny these moments and you it's yours. So then it will happen. So do you feel like maybe even the fighter parrera or a blessing and that it showed you what you need to work on? Every time it's this is the only way how to how I want to see that. Yeah, especially the guy like him who's really top guy and his style.
His mindset what he showed till now was something what I needed to work on still still I'm on the way. Well, his style is extraordinary. It's very unusual as his yours, but the thing that's shocking the most about him is that he only needs to hit you once. Is it much different the power that you feel from him than anybody else? There is a different from other guys. Yeah, there is a different but only one thing I can say like I know the recipe.
Recipe. You know the recipe. What's the recipe? How to because you have to you have to know how to give the punch and how to accept the punches. How to move with it and how to overcome the bad moments and all these things. But it's better, much better to defend the punch with a hand or defend the punch with a movement. Did you ever watch any of his glory kickboxing fights? Yeah, there's a good one to watch the Artym Vahitov fight.
Yeah, Vahitov's very technical. I think he won a very close decision. It was very close. It was one of those fights where you could quality the way, but he won. But he's very technical, very interesting to watch him deal with the style of Pereira. Because Pereira is such an unusual way of moving. Even the way he holds his hands up and looks different. So do you. You look different. There's only a few fighters that if you saw their silhouette, I could go, oh that's Yuri Pahaska.
I could see it right away. I know how you move. And Alex is that way as well. It's a very unique way of moving. But the way Vahitov handled it is a good blueprint for a lot of people to avoid the power and keep the volume on him. What was your original style? What was the first martial art that you learned? What type? What type? Yeah, I started in my high school. I started with karate because it was in a daily schedule.
What kind of karate? Shotokan. Shotokan. And Judo, there was two. And I felt like I need something more contact, more and more aggressive. More aggressive, but more potent. More potent, more potent. So I started with more tie. The most potent. Yeah. More tie. Fast and ending to me. That this one island figured out how to fight better than anybody on the feet. Yeah, that's right. And a lot of it they did it through gambling.
Yeah. That's a lot of it. Because they're so into gambling that they had so many fights and then people just fought a lot. And then they're like, what works best? And they figured it out. Yeah. And right now after watching Onc Back. Yeah. I'm just still realizing what is the best style, what is the best movements, best deadly techniques, what to do. And right now after watching Onc Back, I see them way more and more.
And right, like my next chapter to what I want to see real, real like in Thailand to see really how to use that and how to, how to because I'm the man who's like taking the piece here, taking the piece here and making. Combining it all together. So have you trained in Thailand? Thailand. Yeah. Yeah, just a little bit for like three weeks there before before the title fight with Teixeira. Then I was there with for camp.
Yeah, bouquets. Yeah. The one of the, one of the greatest knockouts that you had was that Dominic Ray spinning elbow, which is beautiful. Moe tie. Flow. That's beautiful flow. So you just timed that out. That was a real coming out party for you that fight because that was when people like my god like this guy. Yeah, always find the way. Yeah. Yeah. When you first started fighting in MMA, was this something, first of all, how old were you when you had your first fight?
Oh, when I was first five in mine, 18, 19, 19. And were you looking at it as a career? Yeah. Yeah, right from the beginning. When you looking at it to do that was what you wanted to do professionally. Yeah. Yeah, right, right away. Right away. Yeah, it's from my, yeah, 2020, around my 20. Yeah. You knew you wanted to be a championship fighter. Yes, yes, yes. Because that was something what I was too inspired by, by because I was a young guy. who's tried to challenge everything around himself, everything. I was a man, every situation, everywhere, I'm better than this. I'm better than this. Yeah. And it may not be the school. Just not in the school. But I like the fighting. I fall in love with the fighting, with looking for, finding my biggest strength.
And that's the why I'm going every time to the nature, to sleeping in mountains, to... That's why I'm living in the cottage, to be in the contact with the nature, to feel the present moment and the rare natural power of the water, fire, of all these things of the sun. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to ask you about that. Like, when did you start this training in nature? Because when you look at your setup that you have at your place, and everything's outside, you know, you put pads over trees and you punch and kick trees. Yeah. Sometimes it's, sometimes it looks weird, but, you know, wow. I don't like to, I don't like. Right now I realize I need to. I want, right now I want to overcome the people, the demands, the sparring partners in the training.
But like in my personal way, I was inspired by, once I was inspired by Masuta Tsuyama, who's the founder of Kyoku Shinkai Karate. And I saw his movie and how he spent more than one year, one and half year in the mountains. And he trained just in the mountains, under the waterfall, in the winter, in the winter. And he made, from him, saw a really, really something like unshakable mind, self-confidence. So deep, because he found the way how to overcome, how to rule his body, how to, he's describing that in his book, like, the mind without the thinking, like without the thoughts. Pure mind, pure focus, pure consciousness right here right now. And I took that, like, my own way.
And I think it was year 214-215. And I took everything in myself. I took a tent, tent, yeah. And I went to the mountains, to the mountains, and I slept there for just for like one week, two weeks. One and half week, yeah. And I, I was inspired too much, so I did the same thing. I ran there and I punched to the rock. And, yeah. And I just, and I just want to fight with the environment, like, with the, with the nature around me. And in the end, you can realize there is no fighting, there is nothing just, this is the pure life, because, this is the pure life, because the pure, the life has the one reason to overcome everything around and survive, survive, survive, survive.
And this is the nature what is in us. So this is, and as deeper you can go in this uncomfortable environment and all these things, that deep you can understand the life and, like, be a philosopher about that, like, understand more deeply. I don't know how to say, yeah. No, you're saying it right? Yeah, I understand what you're saying. So that's why, so I was inspired by the Masuta Tsuyama. And then that's why I decide after the second fight with Alex, I need to go to Japan, to Japan, to the places, to make a black belt from Kyokushin Kakuradi, and really feel all these things, like a realist, realist.
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Well, you're obviously very physically talented, but I think one of the things that does separate you from other fighters is this mindset that you've cultivated. And then you embrace. And I think... It's the only way. There's also something fascinating about the fact that you do do it outside. I think that scares people. I think there's something better than the fact that you like to be fighting in nature and punching trees like this. Because I'm coming from one village where there was a lot of good guys. But everybody we are still really crazy. When we are celebrating, it's all the time about... Right now we are trying to slow down to show others like we are adults. We know we are the man, but still it's about showing the strength. How to destroy, how to punch other guys, how to show the strength above others.
So... And when there started... Okay, like I said, when these parties started level of like... It was really dangerous. Fire and... Fire arms and... And the cars and the fire and it was not safe. Then I said, guys, okay, we are a man. Let's be mature. Yeah, please. Yeah, take it down a notch. Because somebody could die. Yeah, and that's something what you have to realize. And these... These ascents of... are looking for a strength. These... Something... These true madness. Like when I see these... These pictures... Of that... And remember that when I saw that when I came here... The JR really though. Yeah, the logo.
Yeah, and when I saw that... It remembered me like, yes, go through... Going through all the time... Choose the hardest way... And go through overcome whatever... And show you are the... You are the boss. And... And this is... This is it. This is why... I... I came from that place where we are... Trying to... To show each other this one. And I trying to... Carry that energy and put it... In the... In the calm way. Yeah. To show it in the cage. And that's why... The samurai ideas, the Bushido... Codex helping me in that to... To show it. That's all.
I understand. And then you feel that... In training in nature... And then experiencing the wild... And getting it out there... It becomes even more pure... Because you recognize that all around you is survival. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. You are on the wave. Yeah. We're on the same wave. Yeah. So when... What year did you start doing this training in the wild? Like I said, in 2014. 2014? Yeah. I started, was inspired by... By Masuta Tsuoyama. And then I realized... It's not about opponents. Man, it's about just your body. Just about your... Rulio body. How much you can... You can... Rulio body. Rulio mind. Rulio emotions. Logical state of thinking.
Yeah. To... Find... The way how to... Not overcome the rule. Your breath. Because... This is the way. And... Because this is the most primal thing of the body. Yeah. When the child is born. First this breath. Everything is like... You can... You can settle by the breath in the body. Not just by thoughts. And... Over... The thinking and thoughts is... Like a great... Surf. But a bad boss. Yeah. Really. So it serves you well, but you can't let it control. Yes. So there's many levels. What you have to... What you have to rule in your body. What you have to understand. And put it in... Put it in one way in the present moment.
So... Yeah. So you had your first fights when you were around 18, 19. And then how long... When did you decide that you were ready for the UFC? And how did you make that decision? Because I do know that you were offered fights before. Yeah. But you said I want more development time. That was somewhere in the center of... Between my sixth, seventh fight in the rising. So around the year, two, 17 to 18. Yeah. Something like that. And... Yeah. I realized that... Man, there is a... There is a way in the rising yet. Yeah. So I need to... No, I need to. I want to take a title here.
I want to prove that I'm the... How to say, like the king of Japan, like... Yeah. To rule these guys, really, really. And then I can go to the league of the best. Because if you want to go to the league of the best, better to be prepared for. Yeah. And... Yeah, I think that happens too often. Yeah. Can... Fight for a title in the three fights. So... I think boxing has it right. And in that boxing, they look at fighters, managers look at fighters as an investment. So if you are a manager and you have like Floyd Mayweather, you don't give Floyd Mayweather the best fight. You can get him right away with the toughest guy. You want to see how he performs with a guy who is an inside puncher, a body puncher, who is a brawler. You want to see how he handles a slick guy, like a manual gustus, with unorthodox movement. You want to... How's he handled Diego Corralis. long tall reach?
And you build them with fighters that you think... You got to know when they're ready. Yeah. And then there's an objective assessment. Okay, he's ready. Yeah. Then you start moving him into top ten contenders. Yeah. Then you move him to a title shot. It's good to... You have seen throws you right to the wolves. Yeah. Yeah. It's good to have these objectives. Yeah. And if you... I like to be a just a watcher of my progress, of the situation. Think about that, how to plan it, how to see that not... Not personally, just to see yourself as another person, and put it in myself in a way where... Where it will be the best for these targets. And then, go in and do that. Yeah.
And when you... You had a very quick rise in the UFC to a title fight. So you thought was Volcanoes Demir your first fight? Yeah. So you beat Volcanoes Demir, then Dominic Reyes was the second fight. Yes. And then Bam. Title shot. Crazy. So that's the reason to be so prepared. Yes. And then, if you're successful, things go very quickly. That's right. You have to be ready. When you look at your first fight with Volcanoes Demir, and then you look at your fight with Jamal Hill, do you see significant improvement? With who? The first one. When you look at your first fight in the UFC, when you fought Volcanoes Demir, and now you look at yourself now, in the most spectacular performance against Jamal Hill, do you see the improvement? Right now, I can say yes.
Yeah. Yeah. Because there was... With Volcanoes Demir, there was just a pure raw power, raw aggression, aggression, but not so refined. Refined. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. You can see that in the fight, man. There was just a pure chaos. Pure chaos, man. There was too much. Sometimes it's the self-confident. Like, when you are too much self-confident, it's a bad thing. Yeah. Like, because... Eagle will take you to another line, and it will... It will destroy you. Yeah. It will burn you. So, you have to keep that burn, that fire on the control, and to give these... These attacks, these aggressive aggressiveness, in just a small... To keep it under control, just now.
Yeah. I like what you just said, that Eagle will take you to another line. Man, it's good to be... To have it. Yeah. We can't live without in this world, with corporations, with collaborations, and talking relationships. Yeah. We can't live without, but also, you have to cultivate that, so there is two worlds, like without in life. So, you have to go in. Yeah, they have to be working together, the mind and the eagle have to be working together, and they have the no mind. The Zen. That's right. They stank the flow. Yeah. And the eagle will take you out of the flow. Yeah. The eagle will go, I'm going to go fuck him up, and then boom, you get hit. That's right.
Yeah. I like what you said, though, you have to go back to the line. Because it takes you into a different line. It takes you in a different line of fighting, and then sometimes in that line, you'll realize you're out of place. You realize you're leaving openings that shouldn't be there, and you're trying to force. Yeah, good force, yeah. Force and power. Yeah. Yeah. And good, when you said, like, when you realize that, it's bad when you don't realize, and sometimes it's good when you have the people that you're in, bring you back. Yeah. Bring you back. Bring you back. Yeah. That's why I'm sometimes really glad for my team, my people around me, to keep me back.
That's what's amazing about having a coach who knows you, having trainers who know you. They know where you're at. Like, calm down, calm down. That's right. Everything's great, but you're hitting the gas too much. Like, so be a little more technical, move around more. Yeah. But not too much. Not too much, not too much, right? Because sometimes it's that these wildness do, the aggression do, Yeah. To take over. Like, it's too necessary, but... Well, that's what I asked you after the fight. I said, there's something about you, where you thrive. You get better when it's chaotic. Yeah. There's something like, it seems like you relish in the chaos of these wild exchanges.
Yeah. It's very, because sometimes, fighters like to piece people up or they're not getting hit. Like, Jamal Hill's really good at that. Like, they're glover to share a fight. He had a fantastic job of utilizing his game and his accuracy and reach, and he just put it on glover. Yeah. But they don't want to be in these wild exchanges. You seem to want to be in these wild exchanges, because you thrive then. Yeah, that's right. That's right. And sometimes it's, I don't know where, where is the, where is this, to keep yourself, and the control is going from.
Sometimes it's going from the fear to be not hit. Sometimes it's going from to be careful for the takedowns. And, but I want to be like fearless in that. Like, to stay behind, stay before that opponent, and have no fear. No, you can go as close you want to care, as close you want, and try to hit me, and you will not hit me, because I'm here, and I feel you, I got you. So, I can't explain it, and I don't want to explain it. I want to show that in a fight. So, I know what you're saying. When you, one of the things that we were talking about, Daniel and I were talking about, when we were doing the commentary, was your head movement was so good, it was different than before.
It was like at another level. Like, what specifically had you do, how you done to prepare, that made your head movement so much better? I have, like, a long time I've worked on that, like, since my, before I stepped in the UF, since my title fight, and I really, I really, exactly know what, what, when I started to work on, especially on that, because I realized that this is my game, this is really what's me, and it was around the title fight with King Moulin in the Rising, so that was a title, a title fight in the Rising. And it's about the feeling, the opponent, the feel the opponent, but not be, but to not be, how to say, to not let this feeling to push you in some way, you know, and it's time to feel the space, but still be calm, be unshakable, and you can feel the, then you can feel the space around you, the everything, and whatever will move right now, you will react for that, and naturally, because you will feel the, all these things like yourself, like everything is you, and then, then you can step to the level I'm everywhere, because there is no different between me, this thing, this thing, the opponent, but still,
and that's sometimes why I need to be, why I need to be a little bit hit, to feel the aggression back to the fight, that was before the UFC, and I was needed to get hit, because I need to, because I felt the movement, felt the right movement, everything was right, but I also needed to be more aggressive, to go through the opponent, because I was too, how to say, too nice for them, to just show them I can sleep, and I can move everything, you can't hit me, but this is not the fight, the fight is still an answer, to catch him in the right moment, so, so yes, to be here and now, to be, like I said, to be everything, but still, to not be pushed by these feelings, like to be so nice, not too much aggressive, but something, you know, made a still control, that it's all about control balance.
I like what you said, like that there's no difference to you in your opponent, like you're not even, you're just in this flow of movement and life, and this thing you're choosing to do, there's no difference to you in them, you don't even exist, you're just a part of it all. Yes, and the bad is, bad for fighting is, when you really realized, we are doing this, we are doing, we are fighting each other, and right now I'm going to, to hurt other person, and you don't see, really, the, the difference between you and him, so you know, you are doing to, to yourself, but this is the game what we chose, and we are here to, to have a fun, so, not just have a fun to, to leave these experience.
To live this experience, and an extreme experience that will teach you about yourself, like no other experience. Yeah, that's right. If you want to learn about yourself, go fight. Yeah. You really find out, you can bullshit yourself all you want, but until you fight. That's right. And when you go through a loss, like the losses to Pereira, what is your process, like of like evaluating, what went wrong, and how to, how to change things? What's wrong? Yeah, like how do you, what's your process? Like what do you do when you lose a fight, and then you come back, like what is your thought process? What do you say I have to learn, I have to figure out what went wrong.
Let me, you know, after that last, last, the second fight, first time I can, first time in my life, I realized that man, that was really like, I would not say what was that, how hard it was, because I don't like it, but it was something what I didn't experience yet, not like till, till now. So that time, I really realized how powerful the meditation and the true self-talking with, how the true meditation looked like, because I have no other chance, than the start, stop doing a bullshit, stop doing just a pure, inspirational training in the garden, stop doing all these things, and start doing just a things what really matter, what can, what have to, a real effect, how you can feel, how you want to be, and, yeah, the power of true self-talking, power of true, overcoming the mistakes in the life, in the life, and be the boss of your mind, because sometimes it's, sometimes it's, yeah, it was, it was the next level, yeah, very difficult to recover from a loss like that, but you, yeah, because especially when you lost, like, that was, that was bad, yeah, that was, for me, like, I have to say, like, like a man who likes the honor and all these, all these cults, like from Bushido, more or more cult, like that was something was for me, really bad.
He gotcha, yeah, yeah, that's how good it was, yeah, yeah, you say like, you say, like that, but, I really work on every, every move, every thought, every catching, every move in the, in the fighting, and now this happened, that was not me, that was, that was really, it was me, but, man, you show yourself, you're worst, you're worst to the world, man, but so that's why then you came after that and showed your best. So this is the thing about overcoming a loss like that is that I'm sure it was awful, but because of it the pain that you felt from it caused you to rise to another level. That's what his life above, yeah.
Yeah, I'm still, yeah. You need a challenge. Do you need the tonguepo? You know? Yeah, no, no, that's right. And and how I see this world and this is what I wanted to speak with you. What is what is here right now? The true challenges in true challenges in this world, in this age, like in a in a human's life, in a like, like, what is there? Because how I see that, like, there is not too much think what we not not too much there is a lot, but still we can go right now we have to go to another level because there is a too much of the of the of the comfort life of the of the people because like that you can have the food like that you can have a drink a massage everything.
So there is there is no no price like I see in the young people what they want to pay to achieve some really achieve something because yeah, they just want things have handed to them. That's it. Yeah, this is an entitlement error because things are very easy and when things are easy, it's very difficult to develop character. That's why for young people I always tell them you should choose to do something hard, choose to do something hard for your human development for you as a human being because if you just live your life in comfort you will have a terrible life.
Yeah, I think and only one reason only one thing what I realized like maybe the one one one thing the step up will be like take us to step back and understand the true life. I think so. I think we'll realize that the people that live this way are living disastrous lives and people will learn from that mistake because this level of comfort that most people have is very new historically. It's very new in human history. There's never really been a time where the poor people were fat. That's right.
This is a weird time. That's right. Yeah. The poorest amongst us have no worries about starving to death. They're in America. They're fat. It's more common than not. I think some crazy number of people in this country are obese. What was the number? It was like 60% of people are obese. Something crazy like that which is just nuts and it's too easy. It's too easy to exist and I don't mean it's too easy. You don't have to work and I'm sure everybody has to work in your work sucks. It's hard and you got to get up every day but physically you have to do something to test your will and your discipline and if you don't you're going to have a shady life. That's right. That's right. And you won't be able to control yourself in situations where that require you to stay calm.
I think right now it's up to like it was in every culture up to the old older older people to teach the younger to real life, to tell them like the simply tell them the stories, listen the stories, live the true life man because we are forgetting for all these things because we have the phones and this is the fake lives. It's a fake life. It's a fake life and it's bad for you. It's bad for your development. It'll hinder your potential like whatever you want to do in life. If you want to be an artist, if you want to be a musician, whatever you want to be an author, it will hinder your development if you live the comfort life.
And okay. So this is it. And how you see the like in the 10 years, in the 50 years, in 100 years, what's the next step for the not good? Right now I'm trying to lead you in some way but no, this is your podcast. No, you tell me how you're doing. I'm curious about that because I'm trying to, this is my, this is my true motivation, the human evolution, the evolution of myself, how to fight better, how to overcome the opponent better, how to show him that I am everywhere and you have no chance around me. Please keep hold your head down and tell the other I'm the winner. You know, you know, this is like, yeah, my ego, right, what wants this but the way to this, there is but still in some humble way, humble way to show it like peacefully, show it, show it like so violence peacefully.
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, it was nice seeing you and Jamal Hill out after the fight having a drink together. That was nice to see. Yeah, I, I, I bought him the like my original drink, what I'm drinking, the vodka, vodka, soda lime. And I told him like, we fight together, we drink together. Let's go, let's go for that. Yeah, because man, we are everybody we are, we are one in the end. There is no enemy, even if you, even with your the baddest enemy of the world, man, it was a good life. It was a good fight. Let's drink together. Let's celebrate together. That's all.
Was it cool? Was it cool hanging out with him? That was, that was cool. That's something was, what, what I like to do with my opponents, whoever won, love, you win, you lose, whatever. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. It was just, it's always nice to see that's one thing that people really do love about a great fight is afterwards when the guys hug.
Yeah, but still, still, I don't like to, to speak about opponents in some way, in some way before the fight. Right. And after fight, change it. Like, it does not exist. Right. And right now we are the friends and everything good, man, please. Yeah. Let's be honest, you talk a shit about me, talk a shit about me. Okay, so you are the motherfucker, but it doesn't matter. Let's drink together. You are who you are, I am who I am, let's drink, but stay, stay honest. Right. That energy.
Yeah. Yeah. Because that's, that's why I like to keep same word, same attitude before the fight in the preparation and after the fight, in the fight after the fight, all the time, like the same. That's me. Yeah. And I want to show me, not me before and me after. Right. There's a lot of guys just for the sake of promotion. They talk a lot of shit and they're just trying to stir things up and make the fight more exciting by insulting people, insulting the families.
Yeah. And it gets, it gets very ugly. And I think the audience turns on them over that. And one of the things that's shown with your success and your popularity and guys like Alex is that you don't even have to speak English. Like it doesn't matter if you kick at, I mean, if it doesn't matter, you could talk all the shit you want, get everything hyped up. What really matters is how you perform inside the octagon.
When you perform inside the octagon, like Alex has, like you have, it doesn't, there's no need for shit talking. It's you, people love you. And they love you just by the style of your fighting and you're expressing your soul inside that cage, like who you are as a man inside that cage. You don't have to talk shit about someone's wife or all that crap.
Yeah. That's that's why many people around me, like my manager team tried to be more more focused for a promo and all these things. And man, the fight will do the promo. This is the main thing of everything. Not selling these things, these things, these, these giving the, the main thing is the the fight, the performance, the performance. That's what kind of drives me crazy about when championship level fighters have to do a lot of promotion before the fight. I'm like, man, leave that guy alone. What's really important is how he's going to perform.
If you want to promote have a bunch of people like me or you know, Daniel Kormey or Chailsana have people talk about the fight. Yeah. Type the fight up. You don't have to bother this guy at seven o'clock in the morning and talk to him for an hour about some fucking nonsense. That's what I like. Leave me alone. Yeah. That's what I like on UFC. They are focused for performance. That's great. Every time and no talking before, no one fight, other fights, no special promo before the like afterwards do interviews like right now afterwards relax.
But when leading up to the fight, the most important thing is that you're 100% prepared and anything that distracts from that should be eliminated. That's right. That's right. That's right. And yeah. And many, many, many fighters are, yeah. We are like focused for. Yeah. Still there are things about shit talking that I do like. And what I do like is that, first of all, it gets a lot of people excited about it, which makes me happy because I want more people to watch the sport.
But also, there's a psychological aspect, especially Conor McGregor. He's so good at talking shit that he gets people so angry that like when he fought Jose Aldo for instance, like no one had ever treated Jose Aldo anyway, other than with respect. He was one of the greatest champions. He's a elite fighter. He defended his title multiple times, destroyed his division. Yes. But you could tell that all that shit talking from Conor had an effect on him emotionally.
And I think his ego made him go out of line. So he ran right at Conor and tried to hit him and Conor stepped back and cracked him. He was so energetic. So now imagine if instead, if Jose Aldo fought that fight and dragged it into the fourth and fifth round and started using the leg kicks that he used on your rye of favor and started like picking apart from be careful in the beginning, but stay inside the game plan. Stay inside your fight the best of your ability. Don't get emotional.
It could have been a very different fight. That's right. But that's the weapon, the weapon of shit talking. Yeah. And especially if you know how to use that. Oh yeah, he uses it better than anybody. He gets people so mad. That's right. That's that's right. But it's still it's a big weight. Yeah. It's a big weight. What you need to what you need to hand what you know how how to handle that.
Yeah. What's also that big weight weighs on you as well. It doesn't just weigh on your opponent. When you talk a lot of shit, it puts extra weight on you. And it gets right. That can get you out of line. Yeah. That the the the additional pressure you might hear the audience blew when they introduced you. Like, oh shit, what have I done? Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Not everybody has this this big self-confident to to to keep that.
Yeah. It's it's an interesting aspect, but I don't like if I've had to choose one way or the other, I would say just fight. There's no need to talk shit. We should behave like martial artists. You know my my attitude about that is a true self-confident man, a true true man who overcome and understand his body, his mind, his opponent's mind and body and and his mind don't need to he that guy don't need to to talk shit to doesn't matter to to to to show that to others to to to crowd or to to to fear the opponent. Because why?
I know that and all I don't need to to to make a this show to anybody because I know it. I know what what what what what will happen. I have this self-confident. So the thing about talking shit though it does make you more money because it does it does cause more people to pay attention like a good example of someone who doesn't need to talk shit but talks a lot of shit and becomes successful is Gordon Ryan. You know Gordon Ryan that's his belt up there that's his oboe that we've got.
Gordon talks a lot of shit and he's the greatest of all time and he still talks a lot of shit. That's him. But that's also why he's so popular is because like people talk shit back to him and there's a lot of back and forth on social media. The most important thing is to be to be him to be not like to play to play to be to be to be true yourself. When you are like that okay be a bad guy or or whatever but just show yourself that's it.
Right who are you for real? That's right. Express who you are in there and you might not even like who you are after it. That's right. Yeah. So a lot of guys that aggression especially after a loss it leads them to a place where they're like I don't even like how I behave. I don't even like me especially with the bad feelings of a loss. So when you have all this aggression and shit talking and then a loss and a bad loss and you have this feeling of like I was an asshole and I lost and the crowd cheered when I lost. Fuck. Yeah. Yeah. But that's the game they play though. That's the game and this is something what what is for me I can't forget I for myself because I want to show really true myself so I can't talk shit and yeah you've got to be yourself. Yeah. That's me. Yeah you can't especially now if you try to become an asshole now everybody would be confused. Like what's going on if you took a heel turn. I am asshole. But so so big one so I need to keep myself like so straight.
So I can't I can't do that because because that will be just like I said eagle line I will show you just this one line. No I need to show you the center. Right. You need to be pure. You need to be you with no bullshit and that's how you perform at your best. So after a fight like this there was a lot of spitting this is I brought back to the Luke Thomas video. He was saying like you could be the middleweight champion. Like if you made two oh you fought it two oh eight like that's a lot lighter probably than Drekus duplicy. Yeah. Drekus is huge. I look at him I was like how does Drekus make 185 he's so big. Yeah. Have you thought about that? I know there was some talk about that at one point. Yes. Yes. I thought I thought about that but the main thing for me is right now I see the way in light heavy because I'm this one of the strongest guy in in this division and I still feel like there is a way in in light heavyweight and I said to myself like okay you can go to the middle weight but first show the consistency in light heavyweight take about then you can with about from light heavyweight you can fight for the belt from for me the way in the middle weight.
所以我不能那样做,因为如果那样做就会像我之前说的那条"鹰线"(可能是指坚持或专注的一点),我只会给你看这一条线。但不对,我需要展示中心。对吧,你需要保持纯粹,做真实的自己,不要有任何废话,这样你才能发挥出最佳状态。在这样的比赛之后,会有很多争议,我回到Luke Thomas的视频中,他说你可以成为中量级冠军,比如如果你在208磅比赛,那比Drekus Du Plessis要轻很多。是的,Drekus很大。我看到他的时候都想,他怎么能做到185磅?他那么大个。你有想过这个吗?我知道曾经有人讨论过这个。是的,我想过这个,但对我来说,主要是我现在看到自己在轻重量级,因为我是这个级别中最强壮的人之一,我仍然觉得在轻重量级中有发展空间。我对自己说,好吧,你可以去中量级,但首先要在轻重量级展示持续性,赢得冠军,然后你可以从轻重量级的冠军争夺中量级的腰带。
To be a double champion. Yeah. So yeah. Well you know it's interesting because weight cutting is in my opinion the worst aspect of the sport. Josh Barnett was just talking about this. He was on the aerial howl whanney show and he was talking about the dangers of weight cutting in reference to Armand Saurukians having to pull out of that fight. Armand is big. He's big. When I stand next to him I cannot believe he needs 155. He's very muscular very dense and very lean and so for him to make 155 it must be an absolutely brutal way cut. I got to think he weighs 180 easy maybe more. You know he's big and I think off when he's out of camp I bet he weighs closer to 200. I mean he's fucking thick man. Why did why did they do that? Why did they done fighting in in in higher weight class?
Well the thing is at that weight class Islam Makachev is so fucking good and he's so big. He's another one you stand next to him you're like how the fuck was this guy make 170 and he was actually talking about his first fight with Alexander Volkanovsky and one of the problems that he faced was that the fight was very early Australia time so that it could be on paper view in America so he was getting ready at 5 a.m. so he did not have the time to recover from the weight cut from the previous day. So instead of having a full 24 plus hours so if you're weighing in at 10 o'clock in the morning now is it what time do you weigh in what time did you weigh in in Los Angeles? Eight in the morning. So eight in the morning and then you have a full 36 hours plus before you fight which is plenty of time to recover and rehydrate but he did not get that with the Volkanovsky fight and you saw it in his performance he didn't look as good.
Okay and because he's fucking big man. So he's I think weight cutting should be eliminated. I said this to Aria Manuel when they first bought the UFC I said listen man you know she do get rid of weight cutting to stop it with it's not look if you can randomly test people for drugs you can randomly test their weight show up with the scale hey buddy step on the scale you're 190 pounds how the fuck are you making 145 you know like do something like that and come up with more weight classes there should be a weight class every 10 pounds this idea of these giant gaps like 185 to 205 that's a 20 pound gap that's huge that doesn't exist in boxing. They should have every 10 pounds 85 95 205 to 25 and then unlimited. Yeah instead of 265 let him weigh whatever the fuck they weigh.
Yeah he's got giant guys out there that can't fight in the UFC because they can't make 265 which is kind of crazy right like big foot big foot silver when he was at his prime when he was when he was saucy he was like 300 pounds yeah it was fucking huge so I like the way that open weights man yeah yeah open weight not. 265 let Francis and Ghana weigh whatever the fuck he weighs when he doesn't cut weight probably weighs like 290 instead of having weight cuts just take the champions find out what the champion weighs like don't get rid of the championship belts find out what is Islam Makachev weight Islam Makachev is a UFC champion best pound for pound fighter on earth find out what he weighs what do you weigh if you were healthy if weight cutting didn't exist would it be 185 okay 190 whatever that is that's how you fight now and we're not going to weigh you in the day before and let you rehydrate that's crazy talk fight people your size yeah and and also the fights would be better because too many guys get depleted horribly by these weight like Max Holloway said he would never make 151 45 again after fought Ilya Topoya so I can't do it anymore because he had gone up to 55 he got thicker and then he went back to 45 he's just drained he just wasn't himself he didn't look good so I think that would be and I know this is not an easy thing to do but I do think it's just like getting steroids out of fighting.
When they brought in Usada when Usada came in you saw people's physiques melt you saw people that were doing steroids on a regular basis and gaming the system and testing negative on the day of the fight but all throughout their camp they were using you saw their bodies change they'd started looking like Doey and Flaby because they didn't have any test to australia they'd fucked up their endocrine systems instead of allowing that they brought in Usada and Usada started randomly testing and a lot of people fell off great champions fell off guys like Vitor Belford fell off great great fighters who when they were using were unbelievably good but then as soon as they had to be natural okay so we realized that we're gonna have to sacrifice some fighters for that.
This is the same approach that should be made with weight cutting weight cutting should not exist it's terrible for you it's unnecessary it's not necessary it's just sanctioned cheating that we've done forever if you're telling me that Alex Pereira when he fought Israel out of Sonia he weighed 185 one day and 226 the next day that's crazy that's crazy it's crazy that's it's not a slight against Alex because Alex is willing to fight anyway he's willing to fight or what he weighs yeah it should weight cutting is something that exists it's it's sanctioned they allow it to happen they know what's going on and it's cheating that's right they're not really 170 pounds that guy's 195 he's depleted and dried out and then he's gonna swell back up again and he's gonna look huge the next day I really trick us everything is evolving so yeah they should evolve that because for the safety of the fighters for the safety of the fighters it's not good to dehydrate your brain 24 hours before a cage fight that's right it's dumb.
Yeah but nobody's gonna listen to me nobody listens to me you're nobody maybe I'll have to do so yeah I don't think they should even have cages I think it should be an open floor I think it should be an open floor like a basketball court yeah because I think it's the best yeah the cage allows you to get up when you wouldn't ordinarily be able to get up you can walk walk walk it the cage allows someone to press you up against an unnatural object there's a cage there so you can press a guy up against the cage whereas if you're standing in the center you could do multi sweep you could rotate around each other there'd be more action the more movement that's right.
I also think if someone takes you down at the beginning of the first round at the end of the round you're on your back you start that second round in the same position yeah you see that like yeah I have the similar similar of the of the fighting first I thought like where why there is a rules why there is uh the I gauching I I I pokes is not allowed so I'm glad for after these last fights it's not allowed it shouldn't be allowed it's very effective man yeah but yeah show all your weapon of your body how you can defeat this man that's all one against one that's all yes one against one that's all and the little the minimal amount of rules possible you know another thing that I think they should do and I'm gonna talk to Dana about this this week cover the fingers there's no reason to have these fingers exposed it doesn't help anything it doesn't help grappling you never grapple like this right you never you never use the finger no no nobody does you do this yes or you do this yes or you do different things with your hands but your fingers are still still the feeling still the feeling I understand but the.
Problem is the pokes because everybody does this because you used to sparring with gloves on so I love the pokes yeah man everybody you will you know what will what will happen everybody will be more prepared for for no for the i-pokes for every possible attack for an eye because eyes is the weapon too for my it's a problem yeah I can I can speak about that because I'm using that like I see so I know what you say maybe it maybe it's weird yeah man the problem is you don't want people to go blind like Michael Biss being can't see out of his right eye yeah you know that I just I feel like yeah for the sake of the athlete's future everybody will took every fucking sorry every every fight every fight every fight so seriously so preparation will be so and every people in the crowd will watch that with a man in this fight there can happen something what after that fight we will not can nobody can change right right so we will like the fighters we will speak better perform better train better be prepared to die right and not like just in our mind just to die to show the best performance like like I mean that like philosophically like you have to stop thinking and be in the moment and all the all these things right but like but that's what that's we are right now speaking like about and Shen fights like about the fight fight for the life real fight yeah real fight yeah no rules at all.
Do you think maybe get rid of cups too and allow kicks of the balls that's real it's a real target it's a vulnerability of the human body to ignore it's it sounds weird in especially in this age of the full of laws and all these things yeah but that's that's how I am how I see that we are living in the age where the laws is for laws and the system yeah is working so we put the we have to put some some system on the fighting too right Eddie Bravo actually came up with an idea it was he was joking around but he wanted to call it ultimate sack fighting where you would allow to kick a guy in the balls and that your balls would be exposed so it's like when the balls are in play the game changes and the idea was that like your balls are so vulnerable but yet you cover them like a tie cup you know yeah and that if he didn't if the balls were hanging out like your you know chin is hanging out that it would change everything yeah yeah he was just joking around it was very funny that the guy would win would just have like iron balls yeah but nobody has iron balls.
I mean the human body has the the eye pokes and ball shots you didn't see you didn't saw the the monks yeah how they how they kicking yeah I don't understand that I think they're just hitting each other in the tank I think their balls are tucked up I think otherwise it doesn't make any sense that you could just slam your foot because also the way they're doing it the monks they're kicking up they're kicking up so they think they're just slamming their shin into their insta into the tank yes it's not really the balls man like if you front kick that month in the balls just front snap front it would fall down dead he'd be like ah nobody has iron balls nobody has iron balls nobody has iron eyeballs either you know that's the problem with eyeballs is yeah these guys yeah see how he's doing that yeah he's getting kicked in the tank his balls I can even see the way his sack has pulled up see that little thing that he's got on there but still he's right yeah he probably has a little ball still unfortunately it's stupid either way that's stupid that doesn't if that was the only way like if you could train that way and you know like a lot of the ties they kick banana trees and kick sandbags and we have a sandbag out there it's so brutal to kick but if you do that enough you'll develop those micro fractures on your shins and it'll make your shins much tougher you can't make your balls tougher you can't make your balls tougher yeah I think there's no no no reason just punch it himself with the dick reason this is so ridiculous is this so ridiculous this guy's usually take oh no fuck man oh no don't do it oh god he's get slammed in the nuts for a log he's got to sit each other the balls but again I think if you step to one of those guys and front snap kicked them right in the balls and then it fall down this is stupid.
You know what I really like to say the like a lot of masters of of a lot of masters of of these comfort doing these weird stuff and all these things so there's a way to like about obsession of the of the martial arts of the doing something in in your life to the deepest level hmm but still this is a fighting yeah about this is about the win so I don't know if this will and can will help you to really defeat the no no especially this is just defense yeah okay so you are the preferred prepared to defend your your balls and yeah so man really like think about it like in real don't don't be don't don't give it too much on these on these side of an art of the like just doing it's good to to know one thing one two right one two really really deeply so you can time that timing that in every situation to know how to what how to do this movement in every situation but these movements they're not an effective use of your time yes yeah it's not going to help you be a better fighter.
It's there's a lot of ancient movements that are probably good for the development of your consciousness and they're probably good overall for your ability to be a better martial artist because they teach you certain movements which are almost like a form like kata a lot of people talk about forms and they say it's a waste of time but I think it's a moving meditation I used to think it was a waste of time when I was a young man everything is when I got my black belt I just learned the katas and then afterwards I forgot to know yeah as soon as I just learned them so that I could pass the next test and then once I knew all the forms and the katas I didn't care anymore I just wanted to fight so like yeah but but all these moves they're important are written in in your in your body in yes maybe maybe you don't realize that yet but in hardest situation in maybe there will one move will right will jump up and bomb because you've trained your system you've trained your system with those things like the neo in the matrix man yeah I know the kung fu I know kung fu yeah yeah they think they're gonna be able to do that now this is a they I was just reading an article about that and they were comparing it to neo in the matrix they think they're going to be able to download skills into people's brains man it's what sucks.
This is no but it sucks because it's I want them to learn the way you learned I think no man there's a the ego the force the force we will do that by I will take it and this there it is me the me tree it has the me tree hey the me tree hey and instead of like to take a take a find a real snake and whatever I I kind of did this right describe on the on the snake so I know you're saying let's train those movements so when the punch comes you block you counter no then that it's in your mind you will take some information and by the force you will give it in in yourself yeah to I don't know which which form you you meant like like the way they like the matrix we spoke let's let's google that because they were Jamie will find the article maybe like I'm a mask have that neural link I don't think or something like that I don't think it was that.
Invasive I think it was with some other technology that they think they're going to be able to utilize scientists use matrix style learning to write skills into human brains see non-invasively so they don't have to inject anything okay okay okay a wire in your brain techniques use real-time brain imagery and neurofeedback it bypasses learning processes that require effort study or practice with our method not only can we nudge complex patterns around in the brain towards known ones but also for the first time right directly a new pattern into the brain and measure what effect that has on a person's behavior said doctor Coraline lordin lead author of the study an assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester that's crazy okay and this is this is the one one side the second side how I'm how I'm looking at how I'm taking that is about right now I have no antenna right but but it's not about about just about the hair it's about to be open to be connect with the with the consciousness and there I don't know how it's working but it's working to be just connected for all the information what's what ever happened and will happen is there in this moment right here right now and it's just about the state if you are if you can be really connect for that right because I don't know where many moves I didn't rehearse them I didn't trained they just came out they just came out yeah and in the fighting in the fight.
I don't know I don't know where and I didn't train spinning elbow never really never man really I didn't train that never that's crazy and just follow your side I'm just there I just following the flow following the movement because there is a one elbow okay you have to and it's going really slow you have a second here it is yeah you have the second elbow see it here's that boom boom and between one and second one there was a long conversation of you can do that try to do that okay I don't believe that no do that please and this was such a phenomenal exchange people love that antenna too they love that crazy here are you gonna bring that back I like you like this man I stream line I'm worried about that antenna like that could get caught in something do what it could get caught like if you're in a mission situation and you know people grab shorts I don't think I want you wear shorts either I think you were tight maybe I can grab it like that you could yeah you could you know what you could and it would be legal.
Dominic rest coach me in in a guillotine in guillotine and I was there and and I said my fuck my I have the hair big fucking hair I can't can't give the the heads up so yeah that's what I'm saying that was the problem yeah that's what I was in that moment yeah yeah I think shaved is better for you but it looks cool and that's when I'm saying like it's not about right right now I feel like no it's not about hair it's not about anything is just about to to love to say to to be there be here and now that's yeah that's yeah that's all what no bullshit just be in the moment especially right now you have all this momentum on your side because of that spectacular victory so you must be very energized right now you must be really feeling like you're on the right path yeah but still this is this state and this feeling you have the two sides yeah.
So that's why I because I know how it is to be a champion how is this all these feeling and still how is what is the to not be the champion to really lost like like a like like a shit like a shit fell on the ground like a shite and uh so I realized that it's about to be just here and now to be just here and now in this moment and show through yourself right not playing not you don't do stupid shit don't do uh don't have the warrior be angry be no just be that's it show your true self that's all yeah that's and that's what I like on on this dates on on America like they everywhere like they are they are okay with that to show yourself through yourself and we in Europe we have some special special thinking about America they're like there is something something better than something better than uh everywhere. right and you and you here just uh pushing more to everyone to just live through yourself and maybe I'm wrong no you're right but but but freedom this is freedom fuck man freedom allows you to be your best self yeah and this is something what man what is for me so inspirational yeah but still it's a gift a big gift but a big uh how to say big weight uh yes big responsibility responsibility yeah big responsibility because if you don't know how to work with the gun it can be dangerous right yeah so right right right yeah with great power comes great responsibility.
Where um you you sit right now at the top of the heap like uh after uncle iav especially after that performance it's very likely that either you or a lot of people forgetting about yon bohovich always like to give him his props because yon bohovich is still one of the best fighters in the world and I would like to see him get another shot because he's also 41 or 42 I think now yep and you know he doesn't have much time left in his prime yeah and yon is maintained like even at 40 years old still yep doesn't show any signs of deterioration that's right man um when I thought about appointing my next opponent there was just like these guys uh uncle iav perera the perera is most but let's see how how the negotiations will be the perera uncle iav and maybe the bako h so these three guys I see still there I see the uh challenge yes the challenge because I want to go somewhere where I will feel I can because every time when when there is a challenge there is a new you and there is a new something new what you need to overcome what you need to uh rule what you need to um which you need to observe yes yeah there are the elite level of the game yeah.
You know yon bohovich he's one of the I think the only gods to go the distance with perera other than brunel silver right yeah because you have the hands up also that guy's made out of iron I mean I never get the fight with uncle iav when he was just going shin to shin with uncle iav and uncle iav could barely walk yon bohovich is made out of rocks man that dude man I felt like he won that fight but very close very close fight but you could definitely see giving it to yon bohovich there's a lot of those fights here's another thing that I think should happen in the ufc I think we need more than three judges I don't even think that the judges some judges are very good I think the judging in california was very good I think uh overall I think we need at least five judges I think three is too little I think we need because there's too many times where two judges get it wrong and the crowd is like what the fuck I think if you had five judges then you have two judges that would counterbalance that other and there'd be three two in the right direction and you would get a good result.
Okay I think you're more likely to get a good result an accurate result of what the fans and the experts see about the result of a fight then you would if there was only three judges or fighting till win yeah fighting till win well that that's the mean what gordon likes to do gordon ryan likes to do is no uh no time limit fights he does no time limit fights with uh no points like we said we're going to submission this is what this game is about is a bit me strengthening you this right yeah yeah yeah imagine that if they start doing the ufc like the old ufc like ufc one no rules maybe for somebody it will be a little bit so like they will not like it because we'll maybe sometimes it will belong maybe but maybe so what yeah.
Yeah this is it yeah that's fighting people watch baseball yeah no no offense against baseball but that shit's boring as fuck compared to fighting you know what's my theory about that so there is a sports a lot of sports but the first one first sport first uh first version of sports for the version of version of sport was like one man wants to overcome the second man yes and it came from DNA from DNA from fight from fight for this piece of from caveman for food from eat from food fighting from yes this is this that's why it came from and in the in the in the time there was like let's let's do some other another competition.
another competition right to know to be so violent so violent but then to be honest the realest one competition is the one man against the second man that's why that sport translates through all languages is the only sport that translate like cricket cricket is huge in other parts of the world nobody watches cricket in America in other parts of the world is it billions of people watch cricket nobody gives a fuck about cricket here put cricket on tv you no one's gonna watch and we in the time we gave the some rules the kimonos the all these things no let's well that was the beauty of the first UFC the first UFC was just wild no weight classes no no no no real rules other than I post you there's a there's a there's a see Joe Joe Saun was fighting Keith Hackney and Keith Hackney was caught in a guillotine and he's just punching Joe Saun in the balls it's a famous. scene yeah yeah I said I was like I remember watch that go oh this is awful this is awful
there's another one in Brazil big daddy goodrich was fighting this guy named the the page look at this just pure nut shots just one after the other right to the balls this is horrible watch show me the monk training but here's the thing if he's wearing a cup especially if he's wearing a tie cup a steel cup yeah which I also think should be illegal no I don't think you should have steel cups because steel cups act as a leverage point as well okay you know not only that you could break your foot on it it's a unnatural object and then if you get someone in an arm bar with a steel cup you could break it it's like it's like it's like bending a stick over a rock you see it like a weapon yeah and you can't even floor and you so always fight with a tie steel cup and he's like I don't know why anybody would fight with anything else because it hurts them when they kick me yeah and it really is like a good leverage point
it's also good for the mount if somebody mounts you there was a guy that he used to train with a mirror in a party and he used to get on top of you and mount you and drive his cup he's driving his dick in your solar plexus and you want a tap it was horrible but it was smart I mean if it's legal it's just it's a smart thing yeah find a way between the laws imagine if nobody had cups of cups were legal there'd be so much more nut shots you know maybe somebody will find a way how to jump with these cup to do the face like those guys I don't think so I don't think that's real that other that would work
but other than that the you know the rules they're pretty good they're getting a little bit better I'd like knees on the ground as well knees to the head I don't think a opponent should be allowed to be in a turtle when your head is vulnerable you have to move you have to avoid those knees and that's a like before my last fight right now the the referee referee sorry I didn't with the with the big moustache a mic beltron my belt yes sorry my belt because he's a good guy and uh he tried to uh to tell me like how to when because I didn't know that the change of the rules change of the rules like when the hands down right when he's not the when he's not the elbow when the hands down and you're staying and the legs and hands down you can neither opponent the hands still
so man that's that's better that's better much better much better because guys were gaming the system they put a hand down so they couldn't get need in the face that's crazy yeah that doesn't make any sense you should not be doing that yeah that that's a good rule that they changed another rules the 12 to 6 L well that should be leaked you know that's legal again that's the only reason for John Jones ever having a loss you know so there's this good movement on the rules rise and allow uh knees to the head to a grounded and kicking yeah did you get accustomed to that and have to like get that out of your system when you came to the U.S.A.
is there any moments where you like thought about throwing a sorry no no I didn't thought about that but I'm when you are still when you are in the control in in the fighting what's the I think the the biggest biggest thing in of the fighter in the fighting to to to stay in in the control so you know what to do what can't do do and but some there's a moments when you don't don't control yourself too much so it's dangerous but in raising I use that I you I did that like I think twice yeah yeah it's very effective it should be allowed yeah I think it should be allowed.
yeah I think the only problem with soccer kicks is the cage so the cage if your head is right there and you get stomped you can't move yep yep so this it's the unnatural barrier of the cage that's the problem that's why I think basketball court yeah maddened down basketball court that's good yeah two men in the center of it have a warning track yes you go outside the warning track too many times you lose points.
yeah because you're trying to avoid the fight plenty of movement yeah plenty of time to and if someone gets you down I was just trying to add it right to imagine it and it's better it's good it's much better yeah it's better because you wouldn't be able to just stall the fight up by holding someone against the cage yes sometimes fighters are exhausted they'll just clinch against the cage try to catch their breath that wouldn't be allowed you couldn't do it there would be no opportunity to do that.
that's right that's right also if you got taken down you'd have to get up with skill you can't just use the cage to get up it's very hard especially if you got a great wrestler like Islam on top of you very hard to get up any other way than wall walking yeah just right now I'm thinking about I think about about the I was the name of the movie hunger games yeah just to put somebody and somebody somewhere yeah and they will find each other's in the natural environment environments and they will fight together and everybody will watch that.
so yeah so give them weapons well if you seen those they do have like people with armor on fighting sword fights now yeah yeah craze yeah just a matter of time before they take that armor off yeah yeah that's right and some crazy country yeah some wilder country that's yeah yeah million dollar per purse you fight with swords or jeez then you're back to the Roman days the Colosseum.
yeah but still how I see that when we are going higher in understanding everything we have to go maybe I'm wrong deeper in in the in the these role roles things yeah we want to see more role because to be not to so yeah to go close and you understand me yes I do because the consequences are higher you have to get more pure so balance.
did you ever read any me and Multimousashi you know I read yeah of course I don't even have to ask but the book of five rings he talks about that because me and Multimousashi was such a great sword fighter that he he believed the only way to fight at your best is you have to be a balanced person very balanced you have to be an artist you have to be able to do calligraphy and write poetry you can't just be aggression you have to be completely balanced and he believed in that so strongly and taught that so strongly in the book of five rings that if you if you think about how he applied it to sword fighting it makes sense everything what you're saying makes sense because you have to be completely pure when it's just two men and and swords yeah you kind of any bullshit you can't let the ego get you on the wrong line because you're not just going to get punched in the face you're going to lose your head that's right yeah that's right there is no yeah no time and that's why that's why I don't like it there's no time for a talking there is no time for a bad word in your talk no time for a bad move in a fighting so your mind have to stay controlled stay present and use do do nothing what's not what's not useful for this moment.
yeah right now we are natural here but when the our life will these podcasts these talking maybe when you will not talk your everything true everything honestly it will cost you a life so we will ever move we both we will pay attention of every hour word because in in that ages of Miyamoto Musashi there was a even the word can cost somebody's life yes so that's why they were so precise in everything in every that's the Japan every movement every even the even the teapot even the tea ritual is the is the art so so that's why they was and still they are so precise in the thinking and expressing in expressing your true self not just talking whatever metaphor hey how are you how are you how are you how are you what's up I do this is something what I don't like to to to to America like everybody ask you hey how are you and and don't care about your and they don't care about your your answer so and and I want to stay and hey I'm great how are you today no way he's don't care and he's going somewhere right.
so so why why why you why you ask me why you doing this so right so it's a figure speech yeah but still it's a it's a kind figures yeah I know I know I know I'm just real yes but it's not real they don't really care what you're doing I don't care how I'm I'm just then yeah so let's let's be real but sometimes don't don't push it too much to right to the I'm important every my word is important every movement so the true power is coming is coming with a lightness to be lightness and lightness is not to take in so much seriously and take in too too much light so taking like like don't care about what I'm saying so some balance balance this is balance is constant of balance and staying pure staying you're and do you is that what you're feeling when you stare your opponents down because like these one of the fights with Pereira and the fight with Jamal Hill you you just lock on your opponent and you stare and is that what you're doing in that moment just trying to be completely present just can empty yourself of all bullshit that's the yeah this is the moment but before the fight yeah it's all about that because there is no opponent there is a just the moment this moment I'm everywhere that's all I like it I'm everywhere but this is not something what I'm telling you that because I'm gonna be cool no no I don't think you are this is a real truth yeah that's all.
so now that you have this big victory what happens next do you wait for the UFC to call you do you wait for Ankalaiv and Pereira to fight to see what happens next this is what I am what I am right now not expecting what I want to see the fight if if they fight will happen because they are translating that so much this this they are fight so so let's see let's. see who's the best and my attitude and right now I know that how I what to do to not to get better to do real serious preparation to get prepared for both of them doesn't matter who and be ready for for negotiation about about the next fight I want a title but I will let the life to give me who's before me right now who's the who's the challenge right now before me so it's just about whatever the challenge is accept it and then try to find your best self for that's next this next performance as well.
that's right it's an exciting time for you man how old are you right now 32 it's a perfect prime that's in your prime it's exciting time are you enjoying this life yes yes yes yes enjoying but oh man long time nobody asked me for like for this question so I didn't thought about that long time but but yes since I decide I want to go this way of the of the warrior over true man to to to feel the true power and take it to out to my life and live with that not just to feel that and go away but to to keep it in a daily life yes yes I'm I'm enjoying that and I don't know who who said that like watch watch yourself like and like an art like and like an David you are right you make a masterpiece master make a past masterpiece from your life and that's what I like to do in my meditations to take a step up watch yourself watch watch where you're going what who you spend time with where is your daily daily what's your daily routines how it make it better and then go into the deepest level of the present moment and live that and stay with these your best ideas what you what you are connected with yes so yes you ask me yes I live that but I didn't in the time right now I can I can say it right now I didn't expect it will cost you everything like it will cost you your old personality and you will reborn like a new personality.
yeah but still I know somebody my spirit whoever choose that because I know this is the way one of the things that I have to talk to you about was in the Alps Pararify you thought that they were using some magic spirit black magic yeah black magic yeah what do you why why did you think that you know okay I will take it from another start okay when I'm doing something I'm doing that like I'm extreme in everything in everything what I'm doing so I want to go to the to the bottom to the bottom of the to the start where it the the source source of that where where it's going and the source of the spiritual world of that question what is the spiritual world where is the where the source is if there is some weapons how then how they use that in the cage and I went in that so deep so I get lost really so I had I had I had another no other chance just to totally close this close these doors just believe that I am who I am who to believe just for ideas which I started with like the martial arts and all these things and just be in the gym and train don't do another these bullshit because with a Pereira I really get lost and I started to believe to another people to not just myself and this is something this is the this is the way to the hell to when you start stop believing yourself you're true yourself and when you start believing some spiritual guys who's trying to protect you or giving you something and trying to lead you and they know what's the best for you and that was my biggest school in this life I think to so yeah that was my like last preparation to just believe in myself go to the gym and train do a good camp do a camp.
what was the first your biggest inspiration so in Japan I made a camp in Japan then I made in high attitude training in Mexico then I went back to my city Bruno for my guys for my team and we made a solid good camp hard camp and the last fight I'm happy that happy what is it about getting down to the source that made you think he was using black magic yeah it's every time a big no big difference you know experience I said that that for big power when you are responsibility it's big responsibility not just big responsibility we are we are I want to speak right now so I don't want I don't want to speak about that fully because still it is it is something what I am humble for and I can say this is it this is it yeah too because everyone everyone has has the their own way and nobody is like even me prepared for to sing something what what can be for somebody like take it seriously you know maybe man again I get lost in in the so the thing is I just started to believe I will not speak about where is the magic what how to use the magic but you believed that there was magic working against you man I and that was the that was the biggest power.
to my for my opponent because I was focused for him north for me you know and that's where the black magic lies and then because it gets you outside of your own head is that that's it is that black magic or is that just his presence as a champion because that's the the aura of a fighter is a weapon he has he's real how to sign you when he's his prime has that like Tyson in his prime had that there's Anderson Silva had that there's an aura that champions have when they're in their prime that makes you think about them instead of yourself and it probably seems like black magic yeah but still this is the just for me is a pure self confidence and to be pure self confident you you can't think about your opponent and that was the that was something what I might that was something what I really went to another level yeah yeah so when you look at yourself now in this amazing performance against Jamal Hill do you are you imagining yourself even better are you constantly imagining yourself even more precise even more accurate even more effective yeah yeah sure but right now I'm more in reality about that not not just in a not just in imagination I want to see that in video right I want to be real I want to see the my the results of my work the all these things real not just the thing like still think about I can be better I can do this but I know I want to do I want to be a champion and I'm going for that and I want to show that to everyone that's all and I will show that and then then we can speak about about the black magic again no because so right now you don't even want to concentrate on the idea of that yeah.
and to protect yourself from that you just don't think about it and be in your own it's aligned it's all about that yeah it's all about that because in them like I said the mind is a big great serve but the baddest baddest the boss yeah yeah so that's why it can run away from you yeah yeah that's why I had to go back to the Japan where like my all belief started to go really deep because there I started to be I don't know how to say like not not just in spard but to live live it really live it without without no you know anything so in in managing your mind I'm sure one of the most important things is to not have a lot of like negative influences not have a lot of negative thoughts and that do you spend any time on social media when you're in camp yeah yeah but but I'm doing just some posts and that's all yeah just post and post and yeah that's it that's how to do it no post then maybe some answer to my just a few few of my friends and that's all no no reading comments no reading anything because I'm here to right now I'm here to to show you my way of the martial arts or to my my way to the to the strength when I still feel the way and this is it.
what is the um the days that you spend in darkness and silence what does that do for you still it's about explore your mind keep your mind disciplined keep your thoughts on the ground observe the mind it's all about the mind and and then about the training because I train there too in that dark you mean that dark room and yeah yeah so meditation observing mind follow follow your and find the best the best of your what you can what you can achieve in this life what you can if you can if you want really and this is the question what everybody have to answer for to to to ourself which like we want to live which thoughts is the useful which not which I need to let go and which I want to keeps in my life.
so and so it's just a deep exploration of your own mind yes maybe the because there is a lot of lot of levels like imagination see the some visualization some some live dreams all the all these things because after three days that it's there is an opening the third third eyes opening and you can see you can you can see truly who you are. and maybe sometimes it somebody needs more days without foods so it's going to be then it's without food it's going to be like more intensive everything's going much faster so yeah so when you started doing this you you do no food do you just drink water when you're in there yeah and if you to to understand me all these things I'm doing because I really decide like to use everything like a weapon in a fighting to use my mind use my visualization use the everything and that's that's why I went to the this trip of the spirituality so deep because I fall I thought there will be some special weapons what I can use in a fighting and the biggest special weapon is to be yourself the realist yourself that's all there is the that's the key that's the key.
yeah well listen brother I'm a big fan I love watching you fight I really enjoy talking to you I wish you nothing but success and I can't wait to see you get after it again and I'm very happy for you in your improvement the last fight was incredible and thank you for everything thank you thank you tell everybody give a website give a website sure mine what is your website I have just just a brand that you mean like do you have a website or you just have social media social media yeah just Instagram your prosca your your capra huska yes in Instagram Twitter to Twitter is a yeary BJP there it is yep that's it what is BJP stand for wow man this is wow what I came from the stands that's that's young yeary not young yeary the the true yeary who's but you have seen it like that because I'm trying to tell them like this is the best yeary pro huska but in the real is in check is a bombiac picture and that means like bombs as fuck.
好的,听我说,兄弟,我是你的忠实粉丝。我非常喜欢看你的比赛,也很喜欢和你交流。祝你一切顺利,期待再次看到你的精彩表现。我为你最近的进步感到高兴,上次的比赛真是精彩绝伦。谢谢你,真的谢谢。你可以告诉大家你的网站是什么吗?哦,你是说有没有网站,还是只有社交媒体?只有社交媒体,比如Instagram,对,用户名是Procha和Capra Huska。Twitter也是,用的是Yeary BJP。对,就是这个。BJP代表什么呢?哇,伙计,这是我来自的地方的一个象征,年轻的Yeary,不是年轻的Yeary,而是“真正的Yeary”。你们可能会这样看到,因为我想告诉大家,这是最好的Yeary Pro Huska。但是在捷克语里,它其实是“bombiac”,意思是“酷炸了”。
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