Crocop Interview One Month After Mir Fight & Short Training Video

Video is on Croatian language, translation below it.

-He says the herniated disc has really been giving him pain lately and really hindered him in his preparations for Mir altough he says in the fight itself he felt fine and doesn't want it to be an excuse

-The problems caused him fear he might end up as an invalid

-He's been doing special exercises for his back muscles which you can't exercise in your usual training routine for a fight and physical therapy for the last month and a half... the emphasis is on strengthening the muscles that support the spinal cord which when weak are prone to discus hernia

The injuries from the OWGP onward:

He says the broken foot he suffered in the OWGP and the following 4 knee surgeries prevented him from doing the usual streching exercises and completely elimated some of the exercises which were crucial for his high kicks in the last few years. He had trouble doing simple splits unlike when he use to do splits on two chairs with ease etc.

He says the back exercises have finally allowed him to begin with the old streching routine he used to do back in the days and he does 100 high kicks per training now

The Mir loss

He says the Mir loss has given him the same motivation that his loss to Michael McDonald in K1 in 2001 did.

After that loss he wanted to fight as soon as possible and that's when Pride came with the offer of fighting Fujita.

He says if that loss hadn't happen he might have never done MMA.

Training routine:

He says he does the strengthening exercises for his back and stretching every morning now.

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