Seems like you've got a pretty hard perspective on how MMA knowledge is gained and applied - I try to be unbiased and just look at the fighters performance and the tactics/strategy they use to try and ascertain if anything was learned.
There's a difference in our approach... You claim unbias: however, looking @ fighter performance is looking through the glass door, from the outside in. Not talking down your work... just providing an introspective element which Dustin only got AFTER getting smeshed by Khabib. Too late.
I wouldn't call it "a stretch" to say that Dustin learned something from getting grapple-raped by Khabib; in the 4th round when he took Dan down against the cage he went for a leg-lace to mount to single-leg back-take to Dagestani hand-cuff - this is TEXTBOOK Khabib
True, I only threw out an impression. If one is truly @ a high level, though... that means prepared in advance. Not learning from some other-world competition who really doesn't represent the MMA cross section @ all.
I think your observation and point well taken.
grappling breakdown process and Dustin did an ok imitation of it (leg-lace his legs weren't crossed and he wasn't driving with his head into opponent). He's not Khabib so it's not going to be as effective, but that doesn't mean it won't still work.
Again, good points in support of your position.
Good fighters copycat the skills of other fighters, even if those fighters are better at applying those skills.
Ah, no. Fighters who don't understand the art of fighting... copycat others 'cause they don't understand what they are doing.
I'm not saying one can't learn something new... but the curriculum of the art(s) you train hold the answers. Not, Joe Schmo, the way MMA believes.
It doesn't mean you have to be Khabib to use Khabib tactics, you just have to have better offensive wrestling then your opponent (and technically Dustin is better then Hooker there, he is just also bad defensively because he can't help but jump guillotines).
Again, you are on top of the observation game. And substantiating your position.
Good fighters improve from losses, especially if they got exposed somewhere (as it gives them an area to work on).
Ah no, good fighters minimize losses because they are better prepared. MMA thinks competiton makes one better.,,, hardly so... Hooker getting his face punched in for hundreds of times over three rounds is NOT the martial definition of getting better.... no matter how exciting for fans, or How profitable for the MMA ecosystem.
That doesn't mean getting raped by Khabib turns you into Khabib,
We are on the same page here.
but in the process of the ass-beating if you have any type of awareness you have to look back and understand how effective it was
This is dumb as coaching. If your competitor got his butt whipped... wtf are you there for, coach? The Robert Drysdale syndrome.
and see if you can use those attacks/positions in similar ways if you are able to get there.
At that point, you are forced to,
unless you lack any type of awareness,,, which loads of people in martial arts do lack.
You don't learn the technique through the ass-beating, you learn of the technique and then in training thereafter work on defending and using it.
The free sparring approach... MMA style.
If you don't think Dustin has been training positions Khabib put him in since their fight you don't know a damn thing about fighting.
You were doing well until your closing line. MMA tells me this all the time... when it's readily been admitted I'm far above the MMA mind. TooK awhile.
Any how, I conceded your point(s),,, recognized them... and that is why I understand preparation while you understand observation.
One of the big myths of dumb ass MMA.
Looking forward to your next piece.
I said it.
And so the boat of preparation passes MMA by...............
Chill Bill.
You talk out of fear. Thanks for the tip off, Count Chockalat.
Have a buger for your efforts.
