Fencing

Then he missed qualifying for Paris after coming back, and then nearly retired again.

We talk about why he keeps choosing to come back to fencing, what he tells his teammates after a fourth place loss, and why he thinks the sport's best lessons come through losing.

This is Kaito Streets.

Thanks, Kaito, for coming on The Will to Win.

We're goofy in different senses.

And yeah, just wanted to show my other side.

And actually, like, in fencing side, I'm very serious.

Like, when I'm on the piste or, like, even at training, I'm very serious.

Right.

He famously said that if learning Jeet Kune Do makes you less able to listen to and learn from a Western boxer or a wrestler or a French fencer, then your cup has become completely full again.

Oh, wow.

The overflow of that cup is what we proudly call loyalty to a style.

He refused the traditional rule that said a Wing Chun practitioner is not allowed to throw a Western boxing jab because it isn't Chinese.

Oh, I see.

Or that a Chinese martial art would somehow be polluted or dishonored if it incorporated a French fencing footwork technique.

Right, the purity tests.

Ross is like steed in old German.

Fechten is fencing, so hand-to-hand combat with a sword or a, or a hand weapon where the horse has to be as maneuverable as a human martial arts person, i.e., they've gotta be sitting, but of course they do this in nature.

And what's called doma classica, which is what we think of as dressage, which is prancing about in a rectangle being balletic.

Those are all different forms of dressing, putting together a horse.

Um, the other Gimnasia, uh, it's bizarre that they have multiple clubs named the same thing.

So Gimnasia i-i and Esgrima, um, there's one in Mendoza and one in La Plata.

There's also an Estudiantes in both.

Or sorry, there's two Estudiantes.

Take care.

Jay Busbee, Yahoo Sports, joining us on the Stanley Fencing and Gates Hotline.

Appreciate Jay's time as always.

Jay's the best.