
Ibland är det ord och inga visor när Josh ”Warmaster” Barnett öppnar munnen. Denna gång tar han fram ”pickan” skickar han iväg en salva mot andra fighters.
Frågan är om det ligger något i det han snackar om eller ej? Såhär sa Barnett i en intervju nyligen med BloodyElbow:
Well, I think most fighters are incompetent when it comes to understanding this game. Most are just a bunch of athletes that are put through a routine, that go out and execute that, until they lose a bit of athleticism, or until the main aspect of their routine that made them successful fails, so then they have nothing else to go back on.
The first thing they want to do is drop a weight class, but they haven’t changed the factor that made them lose in the first place. They’re just not a good enough fighter yet. They need to learn to be more skilled, and learn how to adapt in a scenario, instead of just going out there like a robot, and doing the same thing.
Then they want to go in and change camps. Sometimes it works for these guys because mentally, it resets them, and they think, ‘Oh, I’m invincible again’, until they lose, and then all Hell breaks loose. Then they start scrambling like mad. One fight, won or lost, does not make a career.
Barnett har också lite ”visdom” när det kommer till vad fighters möjligen gör för fel när det kommer till brottningsmomenten i MMA:
They do this ”one and done” thing. They go in on a shot, or something, and they try one finish, and if it gets blocked, they stop moving, and then they end up in a stalemate, wasting energy trying to hold on to people instead of hitting one move to the next to the next, and finishing the takedown, and spending the energy there. They end up in a slower grind, and not getting anywhere.