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In that promo I saw a fighter sitting in a certain position and he went for an inverted heel hook on his opponent. An inverted heel hook is a move that enables you to twist the lower leg from your opponent while his upper leg stays in the same position. You can actually twist it about 180 degrees. Needless to say, that’s not good for your knee since you can twist it out of the socket. Anyway, I was still “green,” only had four fights over there, so when I saw that technique I thought, “Hey, that’s a cool move, I should remember that.”

The next day I am fighting and what do you know? I am in that position! So I figured, “Let’s try that thing I saw yesterday.” Now since I had never trained for this, I had no clue what would happen; I just did what I had seen the day before on the big screen.

It resulted in me snapping my opponent’s shinbone in half—apparently his knee was stronger than his shinbone. It freaked me out. That was the moment when I realized that “submission fighting” might be even worse than “striking.” I mean, you can break or dislocate pretty much anything in the human body when you are wellversed at submissions.