He progressed to become a Canadian junior karate champion and from there to mixed martial arts, establishing himself as the three-time welterweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).īut fear and self-doubt have followed him every step of the way. GSP took up karate, which gave him the confidence to stand up to his tormentors. “There were a group of delinquent teenagers and they were picking a lot on the younger guys,” GSP said in his interview. That dedication to self-improvement reaches all the way back to GSP’s youth in his hometown of Saint-Idisore, Quebec, when he was bullied at school. Up close and personal, I could study this brilliant martial artist in the hopes of seeing what it takes to achieve greatness in a field.Īnd, in GSP's case, it really comes down to three things: the constant search for one's own weaknesses, the joy in discovering them, and the commitment to improvement when you find them. While filming the TSN/W5 documentary profile of Georges St-Pierre - also known as "GSP" - I had the privilege of travelling, eating, training and living with one of the great combat athletes in human history.
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