The Way of the Fight by Georges St. Pierre

Author:Georges St. Pierre
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

That was another one of Bruce Lee’s lessons: that no two people are the same. This is important because it means that a system that works for one person won’t be perfect for another. It means that individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge. Bruce called this aspect of training totality. He wanted people to become the most complete individuals possible. For me, that has always meant one thing: to keep the knowledge that is useful to me, and to let go the stuff that is useless. When I was in college, I would work on karate one day, boxing the next, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu the next, Muay Thai the next, trying out different styles of fighting and filtering them for the most important, comfortable, useful elements. And even if Bruce Lee had been in the room watching my training sessions, I am the only one who truly knows what feels right versus what feels wrong, what I should keep compared to what I should discard.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware store, and every day I’m just walking through the aisles. All along the aisles they have these knowledge keys. Each key opens a different door. When I see or hear about something new that I like, I pick up the key and open the door. If what’s behind that door makes me better at being who I really am, then I take it home with me. Once I get home, I take that new knowledge to one of my three workshops, and I start working on it. The two basic workshops I have are a) the Physical Workshop and b) the Mental Workshop. So, for example, doing gymnastics goes in the Physical Workshop, while philosophical discussions about visualization, for example, go into the Mental Workshop.

The third workshop is the Fusion Workshop, where I put all that knowledge together in my own particular way. It’s where shootbox comes from. It’s what defines me best, to some.

MASTER: Shootbox has been perhaps the single most important ingredient in the development of Georges’s success as a mixed martial artist. Shootbox is Georges’s own term: it refers to the act of integrating striking skills with takedown skills. It is arguably the most important facet of MMA, because it gives the mixed martial artist the capacity to determine the direction of a fight. It enables a mixed martial artist to choose where the fight occurs, whether it occurs in the standing position, whether it is taken to the fence, whether it is taken to a clinch or whether it is taken to the ground. It enables you to take an opponent away from his strengths and toward his weaknesses. The man who determines the direction of a fight has a massive advantage in the context of mixed martial arts.

Georges is without question the greatest shootboxer in the history of mixed martial arts. No one integrates the skills of kickboxing, the skills of takedown and punching, better than he does. When did this first occur to me? The first time I saw him fight.

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