GSP and Nate Marquardt wrestling workout
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They were not going nearly as hard as I expected, letting each other down real easy and such, I wonder if this was as “easy” day or this is how they normally train to prevent injuries.
GSP is amazing.
That is all. That’s a top-three guy in the weight division above him that he’s dominating.
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by The Kittitas Kid on Feb 2, 2010 1:23 PM EST reply actions
I don’t know if he was necessarily dominating him. We really only saw him complete one really nice high c on Nate. He almost had success with the front headlock, but it looked like Nate brought it back to neutral. Nate had a really nice inside switch against their trainer.
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by Neil Manich on Feb 2, 2010 3:07 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Taking this video at face value, I’ll note that one of the remarkable things about it was how easily GSP was able to handle Nate in a pure wrestling setting. In an MMA match, the gulf between them would in likelihood widen even farther because of all of the striking variety he brings to the table and how well he sets up his shots.
Nevertheless we don’t know who edited this video and whether any takedowns Nate had of GSP were edited out or whether they wrestled for an hour and the three or so takedowns we saw were the only ones that occurred.
In any case, good stuff.
by The Darkness on Feb 2, 2010 2:07 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
The thing that would work against GSP in an MMA bout, though, would be Nate’s reach advantage which would limit how and when GSP could try for takedowns.
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by AJB on Feb 3, 2010 6:52 AM EST up reply actions
GSP’s reach is actually 76", and is longer than Nate’s, which is 74". Nate is slightly taller than him though.
by The Darkness on Feb 3, 2010 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
It's a good thing that Hardy already expects to get taken down...
GSP is a beast.
You have to be the man... you have to be very, like, alpha male with her. You know? Decide what you do and everything. So, show her who's the boss, you know? - GSP
Yeah that’s what I noticed. Holy shit the guy is huge.
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Somewhere around the second Matt Hughes fight I noticed his legs start to get bigger and bigger. It’s like they have no cap space on how big they can go. But combine all that strength with incredible flexibility and that’s why GSP is so hard to sweep and stuff his takedowns. His upper body is along for the ride compared to his hips and legs.
His legs were always huge, it’s obviously a genetic thing; but he also hit that mid-20s “fill out” stage around the time of Hughes II, and the wrestling training probably doesn’t hurt him any.
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by AJB on Feb 3, 2010 6:53 AM EST up reply actions
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