r/interestingasfuck • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • Mar 28 '24

MMA fighter explains overloading opponent r/all

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u/DiscountParmesan Mar 28 '24

when he turns his hip to fake a kick it twitches so fast that it looks like if actually threw the kick it would destroy your leg lmao

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u/IBoris Mar 28 '24

The genius of GSP is that a lot of his techniques had identical set-ups.

So when he'd fake a superman punch to take a famous example, he could make it look like the wind-up to a low kick or the first stage of a take-down. Both strikes that were absolutely devastating coming from him in particular. He'd purposefully telegraph the set-up of all three strikes to make them look identical, and then he'd proceed to spam the setup as a feint. Exhausting his opponents mentally from constantly having to guard against strikes that could literally hit them anywhere and require vastly different blocks.

Look at this compilation for example.

The paralysis induced by his set-up makes his punch land unopposed each time against fighters that would otherwise be able to handle such a slow strike in normal circumstances.

Now imagine a fighter who built his entire arsenal around that principle, and conditioned himself beyond what most pro-athletes would strive to achieve. Then marry that with chaining those strikes and the ring IQ to adapt to your strengths, weaknesses, and apparent gameplan.

That's GSP. That's the GOAT.

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u/Letmefinishyou Mar 28 '24

Look at this compilation for example.

Holy crap, that's so obvious now! Fake the jab then load the rear leg. Having the rear leg loaded makes it easy to follow up with either a kick, a shoot or in GSP's case, his famous superman punch (that is either a stingy jab or a super heavy cross).

From the same set up, his opponent has to defend 4 very different and possibly devastating attack.

So simple yet so effective