Episode Transcript: #749 - Carlos Condit & Erwan Le Corre

thanks for doing this appreciate it of course thanks for having us um so how first of all

for folks who are not aware of the situation what's going on uh carlos professional mma

fighter one of the best in the world just fought for the welterweight title extremely close fight

against robbie lawler and you spent a lot of your time uh this camp or how i mean how many camps was

it were you training with erwan two now two now yep and erwan you are a movement specialist and this

is all the rage in mma right now it's really kind of fascinating as this sport grows and develops

we're looking at a sport that's really only realistically been around since 1993 that's

when it sort of formed martial arts of course have been around forever but as a sport where people

really started picking it apart and trying to figure out what's the best way to pursue this

it's really only been since about 1993 when the ufc first started and the most recent trend is guys

trying to improve upon balance movement and their ability to close distances and uh and attack

and be in a position to constantly be able to do that in between those techniques so instead of

concentrating on just hitting pads or just doing you know shooting doubles or doing various drills

you're concentrating on the movements that take place in between those techniques is that a fair way

to describe it um yeah and and i think that the movement uh also helps um in in in the techniques

themselves you know we we can focus specifically on on you know martial arts techniques which are

you know on a base level movement right right and how did you guys get hooked up uh i reached out to

to carlos yeah actually it's one of your comments that you were commanding on one of those ufc events and

you you talked about the current state of the welterweight division and at some point you talked about