Takedown: The DNA of GSP
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- 2014
- 90 min
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(DANAHER):
When you look at the sportthere's a mysterious element to it.
there can be only one winner,
the odds of victory
should be roughly 50/50.
And if you look at the career
of the average
mixed martial arts athlete,
that's exactly what happens.
They win one, they lose one.
They win one, they lose one.
But then there
are the champions.
"What makes them different?"
(GROWLING)
(CAR HORNS HONKING,
SIREN WAILING)
(DANAHER):
I usedto teach a beginner's class.
to the sport of jiu-jitsu.
And one night, Georges walked in.
I had no idea who he was.
He just looked like
a young, athletic fellow
and came in like anyone else.
He spoke very little
English in those days.
He knew that
you paid money to train.
BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO ASK:
"How much do I pay?"
Georges walks in, takes
all his money out of his pocket
and just puts it on the table
and looks at me.
And that's how he would pay.
He would just walk in.
In the end, it became,
like, a weekly thing.
And then, after a couple weeks:
"I can't take any more of this.
Just keep your money!"
And he would come in and train.
(BIRDS CHIRPING,
(SPEAKING FRENCH):
(CROWD CHEERING)
(MALE ANNOUNCER): Ladies and gentleman,
4 minutes, 8 seconds!
(MAN GRUNTING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(ROCK MUSIC)
Baby, bring me back to the house.
Yeah, I found my way back home.
I found my way back home.
- The first time I wanted to...
that I heard about
mixed martial arts
is I was at my friend's house.
He rented a DVD.
(CROWD CHEERING)
The guy that won the
tournament was Royce Gracie.
He was smaller
than everyone else.
He looked, literally, like
(CROWD CHEERING)
And right away,
when I see him win, I got inspired
and I wanted to become like him,
and I wanted to become champion as well.
(CROWD CHEERING AND WHISTLING)
came in here, it was made...
It was on the Native
American reserve in Kahnawake,
because it was illegal at the time.
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CROWD CHEERING AND WHISTLING)
(GEORGES):
I saw Kristof.He knocked out the guy
in, like, 9 seconds.
He was, like, amazing.
(MEN):
Yeah!(CHILDREN SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
(SWINGS CREAKING)
(GEORGES):
I was not a popular kid.
Girls didn't like me.
I didn't have much friends.
(CHILDREN SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
When you're not cool,
you hang out with not-cool people.
Things are hard.
I remember I was at school.
I was not listening to what
the teacher was explaining to me.
I was thinking about
how I'm gonna get out of school,
reach the bus before the kids, uh...
grab me and beat me up, you know?
(CHAIN-LINK FENCE RATTLING)
(BOYS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
I was a very proud person,
so I had a lot of ego.
And even young...
It was a big problem for me.
(BOYS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
So I come back,
and I remember I swing
one of them as hard as I can.
(BOYS SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
I took such a beating.
(CHILDREN SCREAMING
AND SHOUTING, INDISTINCT)
I knew I was doing the right thing,
and I was like:
"Man, these guys,
next time they mess with me,
"they know, at least,
I'm not an easy target."
And, you know, I was
a proud person, you know.
I always wanted to be respected.
(CROWD CHEERING)
(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
(CHEERING, SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
- He began taking
the beginner's class,
and I noted immediately
he was physically strong.
Nothing crazy,
just a good, athletic fellow
who seemed to be very
interested in the sport
and trained
with gusto and enthusiasm.
But really nothing exceptional.
There was nothing that
made me look at him and say:
"My God, one day this guy's
gonna be a world champion."
(CAR HORNS HONKING)
As I trained with him more,
I discovered that he was, in fact,
travelling all the way from Montreal.
And he would
show up most weekends.
And I also learned that
he had very little money.
(SIRENS WAILING)
He would stay at very, very
cheap flophouses in the city.
And I was immediately
impressed by his enthusiasm.
I had students
who complained about coming
15 minutes from Brooklyn to class,
and this guy was coming
7 hours from Montreal,
coming across an international border.
As the weeks and months went by
he just kept
showing up, showing up.
(MAN LAUGHING,
SPEAKING FRENCH)
(MAN LAUGHING,
GEORGES TALKING, INDISTINCT)
(BELL RINGING,
MEN TALKING, INDISTINCT)
(LAUGHING)
(MAN LAUGHING)
(MEN LAUGHING)
You could start out like this.
(MEN LAUGHING)
(MEN TALKING, INDISTINCT)
There's an interesting question
you can ask about Georges St-Pierre.
And he's very honest about this.
HE'LL TELL YOU:
"I'm not the best wrestler.
"Nor am I the best boxer,
nor the best kickboxer.
"Nor am I the best jiu-jitsu guy."
(CROWD CHEERING)
And yet, his career
clearly shows him dominating
extremely talented people
who, apparently,
in all of these areas.
(ANNOUNCER TALKING, INDISTINCT,
CROWD CHEERING)
SO YOU GOTTA ASK YOURSELF A QUESTION:
"How is that possible?"
(ANNOUNCER):
And down again!
- And that's a fascinating
question. How did it happen?
Not just once, but
throughout his career.
- Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap!
in ways that his competitors
couldn't keep up with.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(DANAHER):
He's the only student I've hadwho taught me more than I taught him.
(CROWD CHEERING)
- I see tons of guys
the potential to be big stars.
You never know until
they really get to a level
where they start to fight
the best in the world.
Georges St-Pierre was just dominating,
destroying guys at that level.
(CROWD CHEERING)
- As Georges progressed,
he had some early
successes in the UFC
was put in to fight Matt Hughes
for the world championship
at a very young age.
(CROWD CHEERING)
He fought a dominant
world champion...
with no more than
10% to 15% of his potential
and was winning the fight.
Made a critical error,
a beginner's error, really.
(CROWD CHEERING)
Georges lost to a basic submission hold.
It never should've happened.
(CROWD CHEERING, HORN BLOWING)
He lost not so much because
Matt Hughes beat him,
but because he made
(DANAHER):
So, we talkedafter this, and he said:
"Train me not so much
in jiu-jitsu, but in fighting."
(CAGE DOOR CREAKING)
And that's when things
started getting interesting.
(DANAHER):
Turn and mount.From half-guard scenario.
Let's give it a try, fellas.
As he goes to elbows,
then score, score, score!
Good. Now flatten him out. And now...
Beautiful!
(DANAHER):
Beautiful!- I have a wonderful crew with me,
of trainers and training partners
that I'm lucky to have.
- The guy who puts it all together
is Firas.
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