Cory Sandhagen on Striking, Range & Stance | Joe Rogan | JRE MMA Show 138

Cory should open up a gym full time once he retires. He sees the fight game with such a rare perspective that would be wasted if not passed onto the next generation.

Max Holloway mastered everything Corey is talking about

I think I get what Cory is trying articulate. When I boxed I always described it as high stakes chess. Which is I think similar to what Cory means when he talks about a battle for space.

Not only is switching stances great, but it's a great way to display feints also. It really comes down to if someone is ambidextrous.

He is talking about distance, not space. I think they just smoked a blundt.

Don't know much of him. He is right at everything he said, but the pace. Never underestimate pace. The one who controls the pace will always be favorite

Sounds like hes talking outta his ass to me

He should’ve been what Sean o malley is.granted still top 5 fighter in his division

It’s weird though. Like a street fight you don’t really have a “ patient” fighter like organized fighting

Cory vs. Yan was so beautiful to see. A rematch with a full camp for Cory this time would be interesting to see.

Corey deserves the next shot

I evolved as a striker by listening to this.

Was this supposed to be profound or something lol?

Yes

Finally an intelligent conversation on strategy

Not much space if you get chocked out by Aljamain Sterling in a min and 30. Also lost to fighters nobody else has problems with.

He's talking chinese classical writing on fighting. No one dishonored the traditional arts as much as traditional martial artists. These concepts were all writing down 100 years ago and older.

He worded everything so beautifully.

I was high watching this and I was literally thinking he was talking about the neutral game in For Honor

Space. Got it. 🫡

I love when I come to this level of truly understanding a topic.. Like the point where you thought you knew something already but suddenly you see the same exact thing but in a whole new light or from a different angle/view than before. However trying to explain your thoughts and views and comprehension of that subject out loud to another human is usually quite difficult.. as we see here in this video😂.

Conor understood space better than anyone ever in his prime... Am I wrong?

You can tell that he thought he was struggling to explain what is in his head but he actually explained it BEAUTIFULLY. He's coming for that Bantam strap...Yan n Sterling got the best of him once, I don't think they'll do it again.

Damn he's hard to listen to. Sounds like he's about to cry at all times, with cottonmouth.

If you don’t understand him then you don’t understand the space

ambidextrousness is correlated with schizophrenia.

v=d/t

I have been a long time Tekken player and now am a black belt in Kyokushin karate a well as been training Kickboxing for over 6 years. The biggest things I learnt after I built a solid foundation in martial arts was from Tekken. I always tried to react to things and be faster but as I got older I learnt very fast I wasn't as fast as I thought. I had so much trouble dealing with fast and tricky fighters. But Tekken taught me about 'option select' which in the game was basically using movement and spacing to understand the range of risks that could be thrown at you at a given spacing so you have to calculate the least amount of options in your brain and predict moves and counter appropriately. This changed the way I fight because it's easy to be overwhelmed in a fight when the person is fast and tricky. But understanding the relationship between the space and the strike reduces that feeling and allows you to reduces your sensory overload, thus reducing fatigue, thus increasing efficiency. When I paired 'option select' with 'whiff punishing' and 'challenging' I noticed my fight IQ really grew and my success went up. Don't get me wrong reactions are still essential in combat Sports but it's not everything it's made to be. Sometimes reacting to a combo isn't just the 'physical' reaction, it's reading the space and conditioning of the opponent that made the opponent's settup readable. Once you've committed to the educated low energy mental decisions you commit to the counter with 'confidence'. And the more confident you are in your reads the less taxing the body movement will be. In theory the better your deduction skills under pressure the better you are at effectively fighting.

I made this comment on a GSP video a while back where he commented about a fighter he knew would count frames just like in a fighting game and used priciples from fighting games to help build his IQ. This really connected with me about 5 years ago. Though I'd put this comment here for people to see because it might help you and sort of connects to what Cory is saying.

My money is on Rob Font

Fluid striking at its highest level

Stance switching is like fighting two different people
If your not well verse on how to match both stances with your own you will indeed get fried

GSP said the same thing when he fought BJ Penn the second time. Overloading the opponents brain will information will overload there central nervous system. No matter how focused it just throws some people off

Cory is an artist

What happens when Aljo grabs him ….

This is why Sandhagen is my favorite fighter, the way he speaks about his art is just amazing.

Reminds me of my fencing days. Measure, move, time and find the advantage. It is not about what you see. You look for what is possible and in the blink of an eye you strike. Either attack, parry or counter but find an opening your opponent is not aware of yet.

This dudes fight IQ is even higher than I thought before watching this video.

You know when Joe just shuts up and listen that wise words are being spoken.

Well that was a joy to listen to.

I bet Sandhagen would be a decent chess player.

I see Yoda 🤯

This guy is talking 😴 😴 nonsense

he'll be champ soon

Cerebral...

I look at Sandhagen and think of a 90s sitcom like Maclom in the Middle. Wtf is happening?

Great clip! This is my favorite subject and I’ve rarely heard discussions about it

Podcasts are the best thing to happen to Athlete's fanbases.

Not to disagree
Roberto Duran would use touch and feel for his striking.

Same as Loma uses tactile stuff.

Though eyes are 99% for striking.

He is describing the basic principles of fighting games, not very eloquently though.

lol look at chuck liddells remarks on head movement. no wonder he got knocked out often