Firas Zahabi On Successfully Learning a Martial Art

[@mikehunt4797]

"A true master never quits learning."

[@sweetswing1]

"Learning moves me down the path of mastery."

[@susom7188]

If you are the smartest guy in the room, you're in the wrong room.

[@joshaustin9119]

Gotta find one of them rooms where everyone's the same

[@Lorendrawn]

Firas trained a man who later became a hero for fun.

[@normaulhumanbeingwatchingn9927]

this is the greatest most insirational speaker ive seen in a long time amazing firas you are my new mentor

[@victorrain]

The mountain on Mars that Firas is talking about is Olympus Mons.

[@andreaskjrchristensen495]

MAKE THE GOAL LEARNING.

[@josephramirez557]

He's so wise no wonder his camp created one of the greatest fight champions of all time. Firas,s mindset is awesome-he should seriously write a Tony Robbins or Dale Carnegie style of book (I'd want an autographed copy for sure).

[@PabloCruise91]

I'm getting ready to compete for the first time and I found this really helpful. THanks.

[@danbo586]

3:20 onward is a great life lesson

[@jontez1340]

Firas i can listen to your martial art all day

[@bennycb6256]

This guy is dropping gems

[@hydrolicaladdin8453]

Damn, this guy is deep.

[@BYGODYOUARESPECIAL1]

Brilliant philosophy.

[@davidferlandd9276]

Why we d'ont learn that kind of speech at school ?

[@ashwinnair4816]

All your questions were awesome,thanks

[@EnglandPresley]

Thank you Firas🙏

[@simonsreckovic]

great stuff, great thinking in all the videos

[@MichaelAndreula]

Awesome!

[@iansinclair6256]

Loving the videos. He has a good way of expressing things. :)

[@acenuera2255]

thank you so much for the inspirational speech,, more powers idol profesor firas zahabi

[@6komodo6]

gotta love Firas...great coach wonder what's his BJJ lineage??

[@KillingBuddha]

+Hisham “Komodo” Abdalla I believe John Daneher taught him.

[@6komodo6]

+Killing Buddha no wonder why he's good!!

[@tobi7691]

This guy is gonna be with me on the way of becoming a champion. This guy and Jesus Christ are really the only thing you need.

[@josephdouglas2783]

"Punches and kicks are tools to kill the ego. The tools represent the force of intuitive or instinctive directneess, which unlike intellect or complicated ego, does not devide itself, blocking it's own freedom. The tools move onward without looking back or to the side." -Bruce Lee

[@Myo.mechanic]

Killing budda. Bud. Too bad you stopped making videos. I like your concept

[@KillingBuddha]

Sorry about that my man! Thanks though.

[@anashm7496]

"you have to loose a lot to be great " Firas

[@n1c98]

Yeah but the issue is MMA classes monthly cost close to 150 to 300 dollars. When money comes so does classes. As a beginner, I'm starting off with becoming fit and hard working enough to have money to afford the classes. 🤗

[@muayboran6111]

The way I did it over years: Grappling- go to class tired after gym Striking- go to class completely fresh Both- go to class, leave your ego at the door or someone will rip out your ego

[@rkurniati11]

what does it take to become successful in jiu jitsu 0.29 there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so 3.12

[@nickyocean]

what killing Buddha means?

[@mostafaa7572]

Messi did not, he was born a master😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@CryptoTransactions]

What is the meaning behind killing Buddha?

[@esakhan4295]

what about natural talent. you are saying as long as you have a sound mind you can have no talent in martial arts and still be good - i have no talent in martial arts but i do have a good mind

[@jesseswarbrick7895]

Esa Khan well how can you acquire talent with out the training? Like he said, everyone starts as a beginner

[@quinntolchin3080]

Martial arts out of any sport allows the most room for tactics over genetics

[@EMAN-tx7lp]

Firas vs Ali bjj no Gi who wins

[@eugenesong8357]

MJ was cut as a freshmen from the varsity team. He still took it as a failure and an insult to his pride though.

[@gallilos]

why kill buddha

[@KillingBuddha]

+gal lilos killingbuddha.co/about

[@AntonioMontana_7.5]

Experience over learning from others?

[@rajjoshi8022]

Good advice and coach but aka has produced a lot more world champions

[@lupus4687]

I don't think you can ever produce a champion. If that was the case then everybody would be a champion in AKA. To be a champion means you are top 1% and for that you need to be born with talent. Now AKA is famous and in the USA so most of the fighters with high level of talent go there thus AKA has more Champions. Why would a talented fighter who lives in the USA go to Montreal to train in Tristar than to train in AKA.

[@ksharky888]

Be a human robot. Essentially one of the core messages in this video

[@martingrand6646]

firas president lol

[@samacumen]

Good video. But why is the name Killing Buddha? Who killed Buddha - no one! Name is not justified.

[@spasticplastic]

You don't know about things,do you?

[@haitianxu]

My uncle grew up with Wayne Gretzky, and that's why I know for a fact Firas is full of shit. Grettzky was dominating in hockey at the age of 7...against NINE-YEAR-OLDS. The other 7-year-olds who started playing hockey AT THE SAME TIME AS Gretzky, didn't hold a candle to him. Similarly if you look up Usain Bolt's 100m times you'll find he broke the all time Asian record when he was like 13. All these Asian sprinters who train hard for a decade+ are jokes compared to Usain Bolt who's barely hit puberty. Similarly over the course of 2 years a home-alone Issac Newton formulated the universal law of gravitation, 3 laws of motion and created calculus as a tool. Most people wouldn't be able to finish a shitty college physics degree in that time, regardless of how hard they worked. It's like Firas thinks Jordan's gravity defying stunts are all due to his hard work and he had to suffer the same failures and hardships in basketball as your neighbor's NBA wannabe kid. What a load of cock shit.

[@beefbroth6539]

+haitianxu So you're saying Wayne Gretzky and Usain Bolt were world champion right after they were born and never had to train hard their whole life? Damn, I learn something new everyday...

[@beefbroth6539]

***** Hahaha,are you really that frustrated with your own failures that you have to hurl generic insults on the internet? Dude, he never said everyone will turn into Usain Bolt if they train hard enough. Yes, everyone has different potential and will progress at different rates but one thing in commmon is that everyone has to work hard to achieve THEIR OWN potential. Imagine if Usain Bolt and Gretzky didn't bother to learn and slowly improve on their skills, they'll probably still be beating 7 year olds and 13 year olds right now. Yes, Isaac Newton was an accomplished physicist at a young age, but did he get there by doing fuck all or spending time on facebook all the time like a typical college student? No, he spent most of his time reading in the library, trying to /make improve on various creations like windmills, carts etc, worked day and night for years on his theories (and failing countless times) before he finally managed to solve them. Some random people who failed multiple times: - Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda: Turned down by multiple companies and was jobless for years, so he spent his time making crappy scooters at home and slowly improving them over time before someone took notice. - Babe Ruth: Held the strike out record. - Henry Ford: Went bankrupt 5 times. - Oprah Winfrey: fired and was told to be unfit for television. - Tom Landry (won 2 Super Bowls, 5 NFC championships, record for most career wins): Didn't win a single game in the first season, and won less than 5 times for the next 4 seasons. - Stephen King: Rejected 30 times and was told to have no talent before publishing his first novel. - Stan Smith (He won Wimbledon, US Open and eight Davis Cups): Couldn't even be a ball boy. Was told to be too clumsy and uncoordinated. - Bill Gates: Failed his first business. - Walt Disney: Fired, went bankrupt and failed multiple times, and was told that he lacks creativity and imagination. - Albert Einstein: Couldn't talk until he's 4, expelled from school. - Thomas Edison: failed thousands of times when trying to invent the light bulb, was told to be too stupid for school. - Charles Darwin: Considered to be a below average student. - Colonel Sanders: His recipe got rejected over a thousand times and it's only when he was in his 60s that he landed his first restaurant. - Vincent Van Gogh: Could only sell one painting in his life. To a friend. - Beethoven: Was told to be hopeless in music. - J.K. Rowling: Lived on welfare and her work rejected multiple times. - Steven Spielberg: Rejected from film school 3 times.

[@haitianxu]

Beef Broth You're so full of shit and you still don't realize it. Again, watch the video, and read my post before you respond with utter nonsense. Did I say world class athletes and geniuses didn't have to work hard to maximize their potentials? No I didn't, how about you stop being a fucktard and present an actual argument? I said nothing about maximizing one's potential, I'm comparing them to the average person, and world class athletes and geniuses do not, in general, need to work hard or experience much failure at all to achieve what the average person can achieve, that's a fact. What did Firas say? He said people only see the results of a black belt, they don't see the building process, and if they did, they'd realize the belt belt was once the same as they are, and had to evolve just like everyone else. Which is complete bullshit. Issac Newton was never like anyone else. He never evolved like anyone else. Who else becomes one of the greatest physicist of all time at college age? Which Asian sprinter breaks the all time Asian record in his early teens? The fuck are you talking about? Gretzky never had to deal with the same hockey failures your average hockey wannabe had to deal with. Newton never had to struggle with concepts and assignments the same way your average college physics student struggles with. Using Firas' own analogy, their "Eiffel towers" look nothing like, and were not built remotely the same way as, the "Eiffel towers" of normal people. You must be one of these deluded retards who thinks he'll become world class at anything by working hard. Isn't that why you cling on to all these anecdotal stories of how great people failed repeatedly? Oh by the way, Edison was never the smart one, Tesla was, do yourself a favor and get educated on their history. Edison was the dumb one

[@beefbroth6539]

***** But he didn't use a top 0.001% genetic elite as an example, he was using a random black belt practitioner that's been practicing for decades as his example. Having a background in powerlifting, I see this many times. Young people seeing the veterans bench pressing 450+lb and deadlifting 800lb and then asking them what their secret is. The answer was years and years of learning and consistency. Those kids didn't see the vets struggling with just 135lb when they first started out, they didn't see the older lifters struggling to add just 5lb to their total in a year. They only see the end results. You're using the elite among the elite as an example to counter his argument, but in this world there are over 6 billion people, how many of those do you think have the same potential and ability as Usain Bolt? Do I believe that anyone can become world class just by putting their time in, training hard and smart? No, only a select few will. The rest will just have to settle with becoming an elite athlete. Or a millionaire instead of a billionaire. Or a Professor Emeritus instead of a Nobel laureate. Or a professional lifter instead of a world record holder.

[@beefbroth6539]

***** But Firas doesn't just cherry pick his students based on who he thinks has the best potential to be a world beater, he said he accepts anyone and everyone as long as they are willing to put in the effort in (and can afford the fees lol). There are many black belt practitioners from Tristar that were not naturally gifted but managed to get it anyway due great coaching, hard work and years of consistency. And it's these people that Firas is using as examples. Sure a 5' girl will probably never be able to lift half the weight that someone like Brian Shawn uses, but does she still have a fighting chance to be classified as an Elite lifter in her category? Provided that she's reasonably healthy, not too old and has the time, I'd say yes.

[@srebrnimedved]

There is no "planet" Mars

[@taekfute]

I keep disliking cuz of the name