he is xD , he is the boss of the DDS

I’m level one crook

What do you mean “could be”

Nowadays people understand that accelerating your growth is more important than trying to hide some little piece of secret info. I think Craig's one of the best examples of that mentality and it's great.

I fucking thought that was him but, I'm still thinking that people wouldn't mix training camps (such an old way of thinking)

Anguel Roumenov Bogoev yeah, and you’ve got to give to get...

Brandon that is his camp now. He is on the DDS team now.

wtf, that makes weirdly good sense haha

Who’s iron man tho

@@DevPatel-if2jj garry tonon

Hullk?

@@champlife6353 Nick Rodriguez would be the hulk

Under rated

You must not do alot of judo

He a Judo and BJJ black belt... Gary St. Leger. For the record, thats not even one of his 3 best throws.

Seriously! I thought they were cool dudes, this reinforces that notion for sure.

Right. What sports might those be?

Why do people hate Gordon Ryan? For being the best grappler in the world? Obviously he's on steroids but so are rest of the bunch.

Edmund Dichoso yes

At the source! Cool to see them mingling.

Yup thats me, oss

It says so much about those guys that they let Craig into their school. Is there a world class champion in their gym in the same weight class as Craig. I could see that being much cooler then with the other athletes. But honestly, i think Danaher has always be open with his knowledge. Maybe right before a fight in camp he will be different, like when he helped GSP, and only talked about strategy afterwards. But afterward,s he was always open about what strategy he had. So respect a guy who is confident enough to share his knowledge.

Go learn wrestling from a wrestler and judo from a Judoka

He is finally doing it! It's called Feet To Floor, and will be the next instructional he releases!

That's my cousin

That's Bee Ryu, seems like a BJJ groupie who's with Nicky Ryan.

Aidan Thorne Danaher has really terrible hip and knee problems. They’ve been plaguing him since he was a young adult. I believe he got hit by a car or something, and New Zealand didn’t have the proper surgical capabilities (in the 90s) to properly fix him up. So overtime things have added up and he’s basically constantly in pain. That being said- I’m surprised to see him moving and showing techniques so much. He speaks about it in more detail on the episode of the joe rogan podcast he’s on.

a yo Was a rugby injury to his knee and a bad surgery that causes the knee problems and then led to hip problems later in life. Was late 80s as well not 90s.

well there ya go. lol. thanks for clarifying.

i'm pretty sure he was supposed to have knee surgery. Maybe he did, and that's why he's finally able to move a bit more.

He's adding another D. The Danaher Death Squad from Down Unda.

It’s a reap in ibjjf as you’re not allowed to bring your foot across the hip. However, I think most over tournaments allowing reaping nowadays.

@@matthewelsom9356 only if you atack or block the entangled leg (keep in mind that opponent standing on the foot counts as blocked leg). As long as you only grab the other, free leg, everything is legal. Will you still get DQ'd because nobody really understands this reaping bullshit rule? Quite possible.

I get what you're saying but going into their gym to learn from them is a great idea too that'll help everyone there to improve in the long run

Yes OR No. Craig and his team were doing just fine anyways. Have you seen olympians like Olympain judo players, wrestlers training in their rivals' home soils? No they don't. If needed, they exclusively invite a good coach to their country for their athletes. Do you know the reason why Japanese judo players don't like to compete that much often at international tournaments? although they get better seeded at Olympic games when they have higher scores form those competition? Because they want to expose themselves as least as they can. Korean Judo players were doing very well before the last Olympics at different international tournaments but they didn't do that well at the last Olympics? you know why? it's because they got exposed too much thus their opponents analysed them very well already. Jiu Jitsu is still a minor sport that is not supported on the national level because it's not one of the Olympic games. Most people do it as a hobby. Therefore, many do it based on bro-science. I get what you are saying too but for Craig, it, being there for a long period of time would work against him unless he wants to join DDS. DDS guys and Danaher must have analysed Craig greatly. From some people, it's possible its benefits outweigh the costs but for Craig who competed very well against Gordon already, the costs must be greater. Not to mention, DDS is well known for being secret about their special techniques and Jiu Jitsu ideas.

Where I train, many students, including black belts come in and out of our gym. Just last night a well respected black belt in our area came to teach a class, my instructor/coach his demo partner. One of the most beautiful things I've seen happened on the mat during drills. My instructor was asking the visiting black belt to demonstrate the details of the drill to him, while us other students were drilling. It was as if they were both students themselves which we all are, no matter the rank. TLDR - When ego is eliminated from the equation, there is limitless room for expansion. IDK just my take on it. Craig jones seems like a pretty laid back dude for such a killer on the mat.

Craig is still at the stage where he is changing his game around, and it's a rare chance to train with other leg lockers at his level.

lol like you know his level very well right?

mrtjcombo7 i remember danaher say khabib with his boys visited his place and rolled with the squad on rogans podcast

GSP went to Danaher for a lot of grappling sessions when he was the champ

I think it's because of his wide torso and lack of the Cobra looking lats which give the illusion.

d barnett There are rules in BJJ, genius. You can't be a 16 year old black belt.

How the fuck is he sandbagging when he has competed against black belts, fucking genius

K. Sham 😂😂

I agree to take your left testicle if he is ever a ibjjf worlds champ.

Rome wasn't built in a day. Gi's do add a lot of control but at the end of the day grappling concepts are all the same and with the time Gordon is putting in, he is going to have a higher rate of learning than anyone else. Oh btw check out how Oliver Taza is doing great in gi.

Aladdin Jiujitsu no no he’s right it’s a totally different game just with grips , not even mentioning the lapel stuff

K. Sham it is not “more technical” in the gi and also not necessary to learn

d barnett would be good to start him off in the brown belt to see him progress through Brown if he’s going to compete. Serious monsters at brown. Meregali and Isaque both battled it out at absolute in 2016 and Meregali won the next year at black and Isaque this year. Brown would be a solid division for him to build his skills.

although he is at the level of a black belt he has to stay on each belt for a certain amount of time otherwise at most tournaments he can't compete @@ryanparkercolour

Seth Botham I’m not sure how it works with colored belts.. Hinger I think went straight to brown. I may be mistaken but I don’t remember him ever competing at blue of purple. Could ask him through Facebook