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Originally Posted by Phil Nurse "He didn't throw a punch for six months," "He came in a couple weeks ago and what I was looking for, mechanically, was that he wasn't shying about that leg, that he wouldn't want to do certain things because of it," "So I told him ‘let's just spar,' because with sparring you can't really predict what's going to happen. In sparring and fighting you don't know what is going to happen, how your opponent is going to move. You just know he's trying to hit you and that you're trying to hit him." "I'll show him a move while we're sparring. He'll see it, try to shut it down and then he's learned it and he'll start being more creative with the same move. ‘Coach, could I use that move like this and like this in there? And could I disguise it like this and put it there at the same time?' "If you're thinking about an injury, you wouldn't be so creative. To me, I didn't see nothing much different. He's the same old Georges. He's still creative, still trying things out. There was no, ‘I can't try that because of,' he just carried on."

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Originally Posted by Renzo Gracie "His Jiu Jitsu was already good before, but when he came in here and trained [a couple weeks ago] I could tell he must have been doing a lot of work," Gracie said. "His technique is even better than it was before the injury. He had the same strength and explosiveness as before, but was more technical. He's always learning, that guy. Everywhere he goes, at all times, he's studying and doing whatever training he can."