As a striking coach, as someone that teaches this stuff, what is it about that diversity and giving someone all those different things to worry about that is so effective and so important for more people to start adapting and try to implement
Madden: For me, as a coach, this is such a big part of my philosophy, and when you boil down fighting, you need to give the opponent more problems to solve, and you have to be able to solve their set of problems quickly.
If I’m only giving you the problem of dealing with my left and right hand over 25 minutes, it’s still a tough problem to solve, but you have time to figure that out. But if I introduce not only the body work, but kicking the legs, kicking the body, kneeing the body, introducing elbows up top,too — and Max can do all this stuff really well — you have a whole other list of problems that you have to deal with and solve, all while you’re trying to give me an issue, as well.
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Output is one thing, but output and diversity of strikes is a whole different ballgame, and Max has that ability. He’s good from both stances, he’s good top and bottom, left and right; he has weapons inside and outside. To win this fight on Saturday, he’s going to have to present all those weapons and give Dustin multiple looks in the striking.
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