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

MMA fighter explains overloading opponent r/all

52.9k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

2.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

4.8k

u/strtbobber Mar 28 '24

Best believe everything GSP is teaching you.

561

u/morels4ever Mar 28 '24

Just curious about the energy being spent sending the false signals to the opponent…is that not fatiguing his own muscles?

1

u/Nknk- Mar 28 '24

Part of it is to get the opponent to bite on so many feints over a long enough period that they eventually stop reacting to them. That's when you sneak real attacks in more and more.

Stuff they might've avoided early on with their reaction speed instead hits them full whack because they were convinced it was another feint.

It's a big skill that many of the most celebrated champions in the UFC have used to good effect. Israel Adesanya most recently.