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Lex Fridman
Training With A Legend 0:00
Lex Fridman opens by saying he is training with Khabib, calling him one of the greatest fighters of all time and a great human being. He mentions feeling beat up from training with the team the day before, and texting Georges St-Pierre for advice, who told him "if you die, you die." Lex says he is the luckiest guy in the world and that he will also record a podcast with Khabib the next day.
Rolling Under Heavy Pressure 2:35
Once on the mats, Lex struggles under Khabib's weight, repeating that the pressure is heavy and insane and that he can't do anything. He compares himself to a white belt despite holding a black belt in jiu jitsu, while Khabib explains he holds the sambo rank of Master of Sports and that sambo uses levels rather than belts. Ali warns Lex that Khabib will not try to submit him but will instead make him suffer through repeated scrambles until he drowns him.
Mentally Smashing Opponents 18:02
Khabib explains he wanted to show Lex real pressure through scramble after scramble, and Ali notes that most training partners eventually stop while Khabib never does. Khabib says nobody has done that to him since he was eighteen or nineteen, always training against high level guys in his gym, sometimes going ninety minutes nonstop against four or five opponents. He compares his mindset to Dan Gable's, always trying to make himself quit and never getting there, and says he loves this life, feeling worst only when he travels without sparring partners.
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