Thoughts on Danaher on Joe Rogan's Podcast

As a guy who is at Renzo's Mon-Friday each week and occasionally the weekends as well, I'm no stranger to how Danaher can cut through to the base of analysis. I can affirm that he is a genius. How knowledge just of grappling along, Gi or NoGi, confirms this. His knowledge of fighting and the various ways the sports and disciplines intersect is perhaps even more startling. The fact fact that it is one man is even more hard to fathom. This would all be true even were it not for physical limitation brought on by the issues he discussed on the podcast. The dude comes in without fail to teach his classes day in and day out often getting off a late plane flight and/or coming directly back to the gym to teach.  

I'm lucky (by that I meanI packed up my life and left and now have built all my jobs and work and lack of a personal life around training here in NYC under Danaher). In the shadow of his recent involvement in sport grappling it's easy to forget his role in the careers of GSP and Weidman. If excellence and mastery is the ability to replicate performance on demand, it's hard to argue with his ability to coach and be involved in highly successful combat athletes in a way that is transformative and essential and powerful. He's a storehouse of anecdotes, and stories of travel, history, and insight that it just not articulable in words in this blogpost. His name will be in vogue for awhile now because of the podcast, but the man is there day in and day out tirelessly giving of himself to the school and his athletes. It's staggering when you stop and consider his accomplishments even up to this point.