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the jurgen experience it's just interesting that you were able to fight and to train a full camp for a guy like volkanowski especially a rematch with no sparring with no partners with no nothing yeah we had a lot of we had a lot of like uh mental stuff mental training you know there's a lot of mental things and uh like visualization yeah like i got to visualize or even just think of think of new new ways to move or i i got to think of ways to set up stuff like i just had more time to myself to think about actual actual fight and and whatever and then even with the uh with the sparring like the second fight for the guitar we didn't spar but i moved with my partners you know we grappled or we had stand up we had ideas of this how he moves so i just got used to the movement and and we keep on on certain things and that's it but was nothing ever like cracking you you know like i would get i mean you know how it is you see all these guys they say like i got hurt sparring i got respond that's all my injuries came i got hurt from grappling hard or sparring hard so if you just take that out you know like you get a 200 percent of yourself but it comes a point like everybody thinks i'm i'm telling everybody to stop sparring you know i'm telling the young kid to stop smart i'm not telling the young kid to stop sparing when i was 16 i had to spar but it comes a point where you spar enough to the points where everything happens or even fights like i fought injured i sparred injured you know i got i got i got hurt i had to come to stuff like you need these times before the show because when it comes in the show and you get hurt in a fight or something you panic you get buzzed in the fight you panic but then if you do it in the sparring or these amateur fights then it's it's simple but when you get to that yeah when you get to that certain point then you start sparring and you save your brain because like right now i would say at least 85 to 87
or even close to 91 of the ufc fighters you don't have to you know if you didn't come true to the contender series i think you don't have to really uh spar anymore you know like yeah we're all at a high level already of thinking and doing this like there's other ways that you could do to figure stuff out you know and that's just what i think you know i'm not telling you so do you guys do a lot of drills with pads yeah pills with pads or even drills drills on drills you know like you know not like not really dutch way but like more uh towards a fighter yeah yeah yeah and then we practice it yeah and i'll practice it you know like we look we look for um whenever i watch tape we look for consistencies guys that they do consistent movements all the time and we work for those movements and then we go we apply we ask my partner to go and now it's much it's much more easier to ask someone to uh replicate this guy from me while we're moving versus to ask someone to replicate somebody when we're sparring hard because i would spar hard with them freak this i give him a better look when i'm training uh when i'm doing myself so i'm gonna go to that but that's not it you know even if you give me a better look as yourself i'm trying to i'm trying to get ready for this guy you know what i mean yeah and a lot of people that's when eagle and stuff come in and and so on and so on so i think uh i think so we figured out a way where it worked for me and and you guys got to see you know it's like i just i felt so good my bot everything was like everything was fun if you don't understand how good calvin kater is you don't understand how good your performance is because yeah i i talked to you yeah i thought kevin k was a and it takes two and i tell everybody with um with this the numbers and stuff you know like the reason why i didn't hit this numbers against uh against ortega is because we
went only four rounds you know what i mean like yeah just uh like i like our tech is a different beast too you know i think so the ref said what it said and that's what happened in that fight but like qatar had a like it was crazy because one of the rounds i think so like the third or fourth round i hit him and uh he was just gone like i was like he was gone attending it around i was like oh this guy's not walking out for the fifth round there's no way am i [ __ ] jumping up and down yeah like like it was the first round i was like i was like okay then there's my answer uh if you would you feel like getting punched some more my friend we're gonna we're gonna do this no he's tough as [ __ ] man because there were a lot of moments in that fight where he could have quit wait wait he could have and it's crazy because like you see it you see him you see him get to that moment like i feel it like it's right there and he just throw like a bomb and he he lands it on me i'm like i'm like what i like what i'm like come on man and then like i hear everything i can hear his corner yelling at him and stuff and this and that i'm like god damnit hater i was like you know i was like i was like one time i was like uh um what was funny was at one time in a fight like he was just [ __ ] throwing and he somehow landed a left hook or overhand on me and he was on the fence and i was like oh if i was about to get finished like come on care just like come on just do it but then you know at the end of the day it's like it's not my job you know i can't i can't focus on what the ref going to do what is what is uh if his team is going to throw in a tie it's got focus on him you know do you think they should have stopped that fight at any point in time i mean at the end of the day i'm in cater shoes like me talking as a fighter no way i was like give me a shot and this guy's you know this he's a puncher he's a puncher puncher like this guy can like put someone down you know but you know it's funny because like teddy
alice said the same thing but teddy is like telling me when i was on his show he was like oh he was like but max you never got dropped so i don't know the odds of the odds of him knocking you out because he's a puncher puncher he's still not there you know it stayed slim but it is there but at the end of the day i i can't speak on that you know because as a fighter i'd be like frick you know leave me in there you know i want to fight you know like even like even my way with even like even championship you know you want to find the best guy right and and the way i look at it is like if it's the best it's not a fight is a fight until until it's over and then it's people's pers uh perceptions on the fight so after the five rounds then it's a fight you know like but i thought this supposed to be the two best guys in the world you know what i mean like my my take on it was like why why don't we just have these fights yeah we have the rounds we're just going to someone wins the fight right instead we we keep this perception out of it we just keep going around after five rounds guess what we're going to six guess what we're going to say we're going to someone quit that's how you find the best fighter in the world at that weight jack johnson style why not you know that's the way i think because it's just perception is this a perception right because they'll never do that in america but they might do it in asia yeah like maybe you could talk one fc yeah one like i might be doing some wild stuff like that they see some wild stuff catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background by using other apps and can download episodes to save on data
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