UFC trailblazer trained with Shaolin Monks
UFC trailblazer Dan Hardy discusses travelling to China when he was 19 to train with Shaolin Monks.
Hardy said: 鈥淚t took me four flights to get there and then like a three or four hour drive out into the mountains and it was in this old castle on the side of a hill.
The Englishman was the first British fighter to challenge for a UFC title against Georges St-Pierre in March 2010.
Hardy said: 鈥淭here was no scientific approach to it at all, it was holding stances for long periods of time, carrying rocks and conditioning your hands in buckets of sand,
"We would be kicking each other and kicking trees and it was the most raw and basic training form of training that I鈥檇 ever done."
Georges St-Pierre will soon fight Michael Bisping for the the UFC middleweight belt, Hardy hasn't fought since 2012.
This clip was first broadcast on 'At Home....with Colin Murray', Friday 28 April 2017.
