Marcelo gives his students some advice about competing based on watching Marcos & Gianni perform at the Pan-Am: Emerging victorious in a match is a matter of persistence, resilience, adaptation, and seeking out your opponent's weaknesses. Don't waste all of your energy at a dead-end; systematically attack your opponent until you find the path of least resistance and can progress towards a finish. Knowing your limits in terms of cardio will be helpful for discerning when and where to allocate offensive expenditure. If you practice honing these particular modalities, it will be harder and harder for the competition to deny your will.