Josh Waitzkin

Yep.

How do you feel about Ryan Hall's game in MMA? Because he also, he's entering the MMA game.

How do you feel about Ryan Hall's game in MMA? Because he also, he's entering the MMA game.

How do you feel about Ryan Hall's game in MMA? Because he also, he's entering the MMA game.

Yeah, I know. But I mean, when he entered the game, he came into it with a repertoire that was so unusual for him.

Yeah, I know. But I mean, when he entered the game, he came into it with a repertoire that was so unusual for him.

Yeah, I know. But I mean, when he entered the game, he came into it with a repertoire that was so unusual for him.

Yeah. He's a brilliant guy. He trained at our school in New York, I think from 2010, 2012, that range. And it was so interesting watching him and Marcelo. Because Ryan had a huge amount of humility relative to Marcelo. And he wanted to train with him. And Marcelo was so curious about Ryan's game. But Marcelo never studied anyone's game.

Yeah. He's a brilliant guy. He trained at our school in New York, I think from 2010, 2012, that range. And it was so interesting watching him and Marcelo. Because Ryan had a huge amount of humility relative to Marcelo. And he wanted to train with him. And Marcelo was so curious about Ryan's game. But Marcelo never studied anyone's game.

Yeah. He's a brilliant guy. He trained at our school in New York, I think from 2010, 2012, that range. And it was so interesting watching him and Marcelo. Because Ryan had a huge amount of humility relative to Marcelo. And he wanted to train with him. And Marcelo was so curious about Ryan's game. But Marcelo never studied anyone's game.

A core principle of Marcelo is if you study my game, you enter my game, and no one will be better at my game than me. And so in competition, the guys would be studying tape of everybody. He would never study one's tape, never study one's fights, but he'd watch them, the fight before they went against him, and he'd pick up on some kind of elemental read. He's what I call a low-rep learner.

A core principle of Marcelo is if you study my game, you enter my game, and no one will be better at my game than me. And so in competition, the guys would be studying tape of everybody. He would never study one's tape, never study one's fights, but he'd watch them, the fight before they went against him, and he'd pick up on some kind of elemental read. He's what I call a low-rep learner.

A core principle of Marcelo is if you study my game, you enter my game, and no one will be better at my game than me. And so in competition, the guys would be studying tape of everybody. He would never study one's tape, never study one's fights, but he'd watch them, the fight before they went against him, and he'd pick up on some kind of elemental read. He's what I call a low-rep learner.

His ability to learn from a single repetition is just unbelievable.

His ability to learn from a single repetition is just unbelievable.

His ability to learn from a single repetition is just unbelievable.

And it was really interesting watching him and Ryan because Ryan just came and visited me in my home a month ago. And we were talking about how formative those training experiences with Marcelo were. And it was like one way that Ryan described it is that he had this like layers of traps seven steps in. But Marcelo had this deep understanding upstream of that.

And it was really interesting watching him and Ryan because Ryan just came and visited me in my home a month ago. And we were talking about how formative those training experiences with Marcelo were. And it was like one way that Ryan described it is that he had this like layers of traps seven steps in. But Marcelo had this deep understanding upstream of that.

And it was really interesting watching him and Ryan because Ryan just came and visited me in my home a month ago. And we were talking about how formative those training experiences with Marcelo were. And it was like one way that Ryan described it is that he had this like layers of traps seven steps in. But Marcelo had this deep understanding upstream of that.

And it was like watching Marcelo put himself like right next to the fire, like right next to Ryan's game. He wanted to learn the edges of Ryan's game but never enter it. And his ability to play right at the threshold of all of Ryan's traps, which he could pull almost everyone else into in just pure grappling. But not just – his ability to learn. It felt like a cat.