Fighters Only<\/a>. \u201cMaybe like, twice a week. Really? Yes, of course. Yeah. That\u2019s how I study fights.\u201d<\/p>\nThe South African fighter said he initially took time before revisiting the defeat, but has since made reviewing the bout a routine part of his training and analysis.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say it took me around three weeks after the fight, before I actually watched it again, and then since then, I\u2019ve watched it quite often to make sure that, you know, it\u2019s part of my training,\u201d the South African said. \u201cIt\u2019s watching my fights and knowing what I did wrong and seeing the mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Du Plessis also described a detailed process when studying the fight, sometimes reviewing it during cardio sessions and other times taking notes to break down the action more carefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I\u2019m doing it more technically, I\u2019ll have a pen and paper and I\u2019ll write down exactly what I see,\u201d Du Plessis explained. \u201cYes, the devil is in the details. Things happen so quickly and then you see the mistakes you make, especially at this level. It\u2019s not massive mistakes. It\u2019s always your one foot was too far away. Your balance wasn\u2019t there. And that\u2019s the kind of stuff we need to work on in training.\u201d<\/p>\n
Du Plessis added that correcting those small technical errors will be central to his effort to regain championship form following the loss.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose small mistakes, as you fix them, they make big mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis says he has been repeatedly reviewing footage of his title loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-514177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}