As I said, at the elite levels, I think it's quite important. But I'm not elite. It's energy that can be expended on sport-specific skills. If I were Bruce Lee, I would probably lift weights. But Bruce Lee was already pretty damn skillful. (side note: he also died at age 32.)

I'm open to the idea that my idea is wrong. I do weight train, just not frequently. It's very possible I would benefit from more of it. But I can also do a lot of S&C stuff that isn't heavy lifting that doesn't kick the **** out of me and leaves me able to still work hard in MMA/BJJ/MT/wrestling/etc. sessions.

Aldo -140. Leg kicks. Looooots of leg kicks. Not as one-sided as the Aldo/Faber fight, but a similar kind of thing. Edgar probably lands more strikes and takedowns but loses a close decision.

I agree Hendricks is unquestionably the biggest threat to GSP at 170. I would bet on him if he were significantly north of +200. The style matchup is certainly fascinating with JH's incredible wrestling pedigree and sick power.

Aldo is probably my favourite MMA fighter (he was my PokerStars avatar for a while), because he's so technically beautiful to watch. So much precision and power. Beautiful combinations. Underrated ground game. But it's hard to argue he's underrated in P4P. Who is he behind other than Anderson, GSP and Jones? GSP and Jones have had a tougher schedule of competition, and Anderson has just kicked way too much ass to not be considered #1.

Matt Hawrilenko would kick my ass in MMA Poker. His wrestling and jiujitsu are way too much for me (and he's better than me at stud games and triple draw). I'm drawing pretty live to be world champ in my weight class though unless Daniel Negreanu and Joseph Cheong have secretly been kicking bamboo trees in Thailand/leglocking polar bears in Russia.

- Heh and Gavin only saw me when I was cutting to 130. This will be far worse.

- First fight is 6:30pm; I'm the 3rd fight.

Vitamin D and fish oil, that's it really. And BCAAs during workout. Other than that, just good old fashioned clean real food. (Btw, bacon counts.)

- I feel like I sorta answered this first question in one of the previous posts. I've lost grappling matches that I should have won because of little dumb mental errors. But I think usually skill wins. Obviously if you make a big mental mistake, you're probably going to lose. But most of the time I think the fight is won or lost in the gym and not the cage.

- My pre-fight mentality been different for every fight. I could write a lot on this but I posted my immediate pre-fight thoughts for all of my fights in their respective blog entries.

*** Fight one in September of last year:

*** Fight #2 in Korea in March of this year:

*** Fight #3 in Hong Kong was the scariest/most nerve-wracking for me.

There's a consistent theme in each case that I'm worried/anxious about *something*, basically being ready/warmed up in time. By nature I'm one of these people who likes when things go according to plan and I hate worrying about loose ends. I kind of want everything to be mapped out and taken care of so when there's a wrench, it throws me a bit. It's something to work on because I shouldn't worry about things I can't control.

I think this fight will be different. I'm 3rd up on the card so there will definitely be plenty of time to warm up and I can't foresee any difficulties. So I imagine positive visualization will be what I strive for.

I would say I'm very relaxed when the referee says go, all things considered. Obviously the crowd is roaring, you're fired up, adrenaline is coursing through the system like crazy, and that's why you see less-experienced fighters start emptying the chamber with sloppy haymakers and poorly set-up takedowns. But I'm probably like 95th percentile in this aspect.

I will take your word for it; I trust you have a lot of experience in that regard. Since you have a picture of some random graph as your avatar maybe I should get some chain links and flaming skulls on mine.

And on that note, I'm outta here until Sunday (or maybe later, maybe I'll be writing from the hospital ) Also if I missed any questions at all please let me know. Thanks so much for the support, everyone!

BOL Chan, thanks for all the info.

Good read.

Bad read.


Why are you wasting energy here while you should be preparing for a fight?

a while back andrew robl challenged any poker player to an mma fight for 50k. you should get some scratch together and beat his ass.

Here are some perfect low and round kicks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDLTbjOCSTY

You want to learn to make them like that the last thing you do is lifting weights.
Every experienced fighter knows that and every decent gym will tell you that.


LOL, you'd get the 50K in no time.

Don't talk like that about poker or MMA with someone who's better than you at both

gtfo

^^^ That's very funny. ^^^

You would be right about the MMA part but FD sure has a lot more fighting experience with the best gym in the world. His teacher was Jan Plas for many years.

I agree with him, because Chan seems to be more dedicated to this thread than to his fight.
You just don't spend time behind a computer answering questions so short before that.

Also I can imagine -being a fighter myself- it pisses him off Chan doesn't seem to take it seriously.


Good thing though this wasn't posted in the MMA section, this belongs in NVG.

People prepare in different ways. I don't see how taking an hour out of someones day to answer questions/gain a little following is not taking a fight seriously. Since you are all fighters shouldn't all of the prep for a fight be well concluded by three days to a fight? Its not like he is cramming 30 hours of training and study of opponent 3 days before a fight. Take any sport and you can find guys who are extreme competitors and never seem to take a minute of seriousness off leading up to a game (Jordan/kobe) and there are people like Lebron/Durant who are carefree before a game - dancing/tweeting/cracking jokes. All four of these players are at the top of their games and have totally different personalities, but I am sure they all worked their tails off all their life in the gym and on their crafts. Walking around three days before a fight with a hardy and foaming at the mouth may be your idea of serious but a lot of people don't need that to be prepared.

I'll be there tonight as promised, glgl Terrence

-Ryan P

gl man, big fan

Good luck from your newest fan.

Good luck!

GL bro, rootin' for ya.

It is not good for your muscles or your focus.

Of course there are more indications he doesn't take this serious, for example he knows absolutely nothing about his opponent. Imagine in a few months you have to play the most important HU match in your life, wouldn't you find out everything you can about your opponent?

Apparently his opponent was knocked out last match.
So how did that happen, does he have a weak chin or liver or poor stamina or what?
OP should at least know that.

That image is brought to you by -American- television and got nothing to do with reality.
The most important part of the preparation is sleep and rest.

Bubble- Maybe answering questions and sharing his time makes him feel better. Perhaps it's important to him to know that people in the poker world wish him the best and maybe that motivates him. Fighters and all atheletes do all kinds of odd things if it makes them feel more comfortable. Give the guy a break.

Tito Ortiz puking 5 minutes before every fight probably from a stamina standpoint is not a good idea, but he has nerves, and so he pukes and that makes him feel better.

Looking forward to the PPV after stealing some of your Limit prowless to crush the 3 dollar micro million LHE 6 max tourney.

Great thread,

Good luck in the fight, have fun!

Gl op and I enjoyed the thread

So... hey... eh heh......soooo

do you like to fight?

How often does this happen?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...6pLid%3D237548

Gl Terrence!

How do you know what Terrence Chan really knows? Do you think he is really sharing 100% of his knowledge of opponent in this thread? Do you honestly think that what Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao says before a fight = 100% fact and 0% BS???

In other words, you don't know anything, and judging by your questions you also don't know much about fighting, so why don't you just STFU then?

Say what?
If you don't see how these are relevant it is you who doesn't know much about fighting.


I have no idea what Chan really knows about his opponent, but he told us he knew as much about him as we did and I don't see why he would lie about that on a poker forum.


You realise by the way I am supporting Terrence by saying what I did?
This isn't Rocky 24.

I think TC said there was no tape available to him by the promoter, I didn't put this in last post cause I thought it would be overkill to repeat something that has been said. His opp. record is 0-1 how much information of him is available outside of his camp? I'm not claiming to know anything about MMA but I would guess that his opp. trainer isn't giving away free info on his style to TCs camp. Maybe there would be other avenues to get this stuff, but it seems he is fighting on a small scale (maybe not) and he would not know too many people well enough to be like, 'hey give me a rundown on this guy" and someone would actually know. I think your HUNL analogy would be the same if I was playing an important match and my opponent was pretty much unknown and this was a small scale game (not in vegas) but big enough to be the biggest game of my life (like 10-20 or w/e) how would I go about finding information about this guy? To me poker a lot different than a fight, Im sure it is also to you, and basically you are just saying being prepared is important, and I 1000% agree with that, but I just don't see how you do it in either case. FWIW Im one of the types who is very serious when competing - I just have seen people way better then me in w/e be very relaxed leading up to a match and it works very well for them. hope this makes sense I ramble.

There's really nothing he can learn about his opponent without getting a spy in his camp.

I was at BFL 18 which was the card that had this Ryan Comber guy's first fight, and the guy was obviously nervous for his first fight, and fought a guy named Gagan Gill who I assume is related to Kultar Gill (who competed in Japan in K-1 Kickboxing and MMA ("Hero's" for those who remember that org)). Gill had a huge reach advantage, which won't be the case for Terrence.

Seeing how a guy fought in his first fight, which only lasted 2 minutes, with a completely different approach to the fight, is not gonna be much help