VIDEO: Movement expert Ido Portal is full of praise for Conor McGregor’s distinctive style

"Movement is medicine to me."

That's what Conor McGregor told Esquire magazine earlier this year as The Notorious attempted to explain his obsession with mastering human motion. The UFC interim featherweight champion is a vocal advocate of bringing animal-like movement into training and fighting. So groundbreaking is McGregor's style that movement expert Ido Portal has singled him out for praise in a recent interview with London Real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNry_JLb4yE We're not too sure how one becomes a movement expert but that's precisely what Ido Portal claims to be and he's explained how McGregor differs from other fighters and how his success is based more on a principle than it is on technique. "This principle approach is like a master key, it opens any door while the other opponent is fumbling around with a bunch of keys trying to find the right key for the door." "It's a principle superior to technique. Principles are much higher than techniques. They produce techniques, instantly!" It's all very abstract for us.