Training with Khabib Nurmagomedov Inside the Sparring Session with Lex Fridman

[Lex] All right. We're training with the Khabib today. One of the greatest fighters of all time. Great human being. It's unbelievable that I have the honor to be able to train with these guys today. I trained with the team yesterday as well. I feel a bit beat up. I, actually before this texted Georges, GSP asking if he has any advice at all I told him I'm training with Khabib. He said, "If you die, you die." Thank you very much for that advice, George. I love you, brother. You can tell on these mats. has been champion after champion after champion.

You can feel the history. I'm gonna do a podcast with you tomorrow, so this is epic. I'm, I'm the luckiest guy in the world. So I know we're going to get back to training. Let's go. [Khabib] yes, how are you my friend "Как дела" [Islam] Ready? [Lex] Ready! [Ali] It's my brother Khabib he's my friend [Lex] How are you doing, brother? [Speaker_2] I was like, is that Lex Fridman? Nice to meet you. [Lex] Thank you. Wait? [Khabib] Yes [Ali] Tomorrow training with him.

[Lex] Okay. [Khabib] I wish he's in. [Ali] Tomorrow in the morning, same energy [Lex] Always got a smile. [UFC Embedded] You got some of the greatest of all time on the mat right now. Alex, Khabib, Amanda. [Khabib] Brother, talking is gonna win. Just be quiet and go to the mats. He touched wrong leg. [Lex] That to touch which leg? I need to touch. Help me! Cheating.

[Ali] He tried to run like nothing. I hope his legs. [Lex] This is not gonna end well. [Lex] He is heavy [Khabib] Let's go, Lex! [Speaker_5] Don't tap, Lex! Hold on, bud! [Lex] This shit is heavy I can't do anything! [Lex] This right here, this pressure is fucking insane. [Khabib] Let me make him tired. [Ali] If you don't get good research, you got go on Google. But give me.

[Lex in Russian] Do I have anything here or not? [Lex] I feel like a white belt. [Ali] What's your belt, brother? [Lex] Yeah, black belt. [Speaker 6] Jiu jitsu or sambo? [Lex] Jiu jitsu. [Lex] Good point, good point. [Speaker 6 to Khabib] What's your belt? [Khabib in Russian] I'm a Master of Sports (International) [Speaker 6 to Khabib] Does Sambo have no belts?

[Khabib] they have, they have, levels. they have levels, not belts. [Lex] And you get them for competing. I can't do shit. [Ali] I don't know, this guy is not going to try to submit you He is going to make you suffer. You don't try to submit people. He just drown you [Ali] you're gonna be stressed

[Lex] John Smith. Low single. [Khabib] Let's go, Lex! [Ali] First round, First round [Khabib] No, we'll go five. [Speaker N] Five minutes? [Khabib] Yes [Lex] We'll be getting one more. [Khabib] Next time I'm gonna make you work. How are you feeling? Good? [Lex] I shouldn't have gone with him first [Khabib] It's not about this.

[Lex] It's just this? [Khabib] No. I'm heavy first of all [Lex] Amazing training partner. [Khabib] No, no, but no injuries,no injuries. [Lex] No injuries [Khabib] But the heavy. [Lex] Just heavy. [Khabib] Stay heavy, stay heavy, stay heavy on you. [Lex] A quick shout out to LMNT. Thank you for supporting this video. LMNT is my go to zero sugar electrolyte drink and has been for many years. I bring these, LMNT packets everywhere I go.

It helps me replenish electrolytes I lose in training and fasting. Check them out in the description. drinklmnt.com/lex All right. Now back to training with Khabib. [Glover] Can you give me a lesson? [Khabib] I'm here. [Glover] Alright [Khabib] Try. Try [Glover] I try! [Khabib] It's OK, go!

[Ali] Okay, guys, finish, finish. [Speaker_6] Keep going, keep going. [Glover] Amazing! Thank you. [Khabib] Thank you. Lex, we go again. [UFC Embedded] He's got to! Let's spar the champ. [Lex] "Wrong leg." [Ali] Now beginning at this club, okay?

[Khabib] Let's go. Let's go, Lex. Let's go, Lex! Now you understand? [Lex] Yeah. [Khabib] Squeeze with legs. Now, for example, you move. Move [Khabib in Russian] Give me your hand. [Lex] It's all this. [Khabib] Yeah. [Lex] Nothing here. [Khabib] Understand? [Khabib] Let's go, brother.

[Khabib] Let's go, Lex. [Khabib] This in. I hook. No, don't pull look here And I pull Boom. [Lex] And you just pull that. [Khabib] Or this one. But this one is better. But sometimes when I want to put. [Lex] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Khabib] Just stay here. [Lex] Just stay. [Khabib] I don't need to do nothing. You have to. You have to spend your energy to get up. You understand? Why I have to force? Do you understand? I make you work. [Khabib] I'll make you work!

[Lex] Now I understand why people run. [Khabib] Let's go, let's go, let's go. move, Magdi, move! [Ali to Magdi] You grapple like it's a wrestling match. This is not grappling. [Speaker_3] Oh, no. Khabib look, look, [Khabib] be careful, Islam.

Hey. Be careful. [Lex] It's so much pressure. shit. You can't tell with the pressure in the hips is insane. He's singing too. [Khabib] Hip, hip, hip. Do understand me? Hip. Push. [Lex] I mean you asked for viewers! [Lex] Thank you, brother. [Khabib] Thank you so much. You know, I want him to feel pressure. Because I play he play.

Yeah, I can play with anybody, anytime, but I go. I want to show him a little bit, like pressure you understand, Scramble after scramble, scramble after scramble, and I put him in my position, [Ali] But you know what interesting? Many guys stop. You do never stop. You keep going. [Khabib] Good, it's good, brother. [Ali] You're my brother, You're a real one. [Lex] It's an honor, man. [Khabib] But, he feel, he feel. [Lex] I feel it psychologically too. I felt in a low place. [Khabib] Yeah.

[Ali] All my life, I feel psychologically, Like I want to give up. He don't give you a tap. He don't tap you. You keep going. Sometimes you tap, it's reset, start. [Khabib] Mentally smash [Lex] Has anyone ever done that to you? The last time [Khabib] With me, no. [Lex] Maybe when you're a kid. [Khabib] You know, since when I was, 18, 19, I was, I always was against, high level guys.

[Lex] Yeah. [Khabib] Because in my gym, I have, always high level guys. This who I grew up the ground game. [Lex] So they're always. [Ali] Brother I learned 12 years. This is true. I have never seen anyone pass his guard or tap him. [Khabib] Sometimes. Sometimes in gym, I just come change clothes. Sometimes we'll go 1.5 hour nonstop. One 20, one 10, one hour, one and a half other, more than one hour. Non-stop. Maybe changing four or five opponents.

10-15 minutes, another guy, 10-15 minutes. [Lex] You keep going, [Khabib] I keep going, I used to play too long. [Lex] And what happens to you mentally? [Khabib] Mentally, In my mind, I was like, thinking how somebody can make me tired. [Lex] I see you wanting to go on and. [Khabib] Keep going. All my life, keep going, keep going. [Lex] You know Dan Gable wrestler? [Khabib] Yeah. Olympic champion.

[Lex] Yeah! He said, he always said in practice he wanted to go until he quits. He never got there. He kept trying. [Khabib] That's why he's the best. he's Olympic champion. [Lex] Yeah Olympic champion. [Khabib] I just come back from, training camp. I have training camp in Dubai. I have 25 people they know. They know, every day I go, morning and night, and all the champions. Big, big names. [Lex] How do you feel? [Khabib] I love it. My body is very good. My body feel very good. sometime for some.

Sometime when I travel for one week. Yes. I feel so bad because I go on the run and lift Because there is no sparring partner. [Lex] And I miss it so much. [Lex] I could tell you still love it [Khabib] I love it [Lex] I can feel it. [Khabib] No, I love it. [Lex] Awesome. [Khabib] But no, no I'm gonna go. Now I'm gonna go to this. Be careful, be careful with this. [Khabib in Russian] You're giving that away every single time. be careful, hey, eh, eh.

[Camera guy] A lot of pressure? [Lex] You know, it's a lot of pressure, but it's a huge honor, man. [Magdi] I'll just say one thing. This witness, this witness, when I go with him he don't let me get up. I'm all the time in this position. [Glover] It's no way out.

[Ali] He is not small guy anymore. [Glover] Oh, he feel like 280 pound. [Lex] It's incredible man. [UFC Embedded] That's shooting around on Michael Jordan. [Lex] It's shooting with Michael Jordan, yeah. It's like one-on-one basketball at night with Michael Jordan [UFC Embedded] Yeah In the YMCA. [Lex] Yeah. In the YMCA. [Khabib] Thank you brother Thank you. Good job. tomorrow. We work tomorrow. Yeah, we'll go together, right?

[Lex] Yeah.