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St. Pierre firing a high kick at Matt Hughes. Photo property of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Canada.com has posted an article spotlighting Georges St. Pierre’s training camp for his bout at UFC 83 with Matt Serra. Here is some interesting information stemming from the article:

“I’m surrounded by a very good and solid team,” St-Pierre said. “When I go to the boxers or wrestlers, I go to play their game because they’re the best at what they do. I don’t play my game, so it forces me to develop, for example, my wrestling skills.

“When I wrestle a guy like David Zilberman, of course, I don’t get the best of him. Sometimes I do well, but most of the time I don’t,” St-Pierre said.

“But when I get to my sport and I have to score a takedown or get into a clinch position, the guy I’m fighting in MMA is not a guy who is as good as David Zilberman.

“It’s the same thing in boxing, jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai. That’s why I try to train with the best guys in each discipline,” he said.

St-Pierre trains six days a week, two sessions every day, even when he doesn’t have a fight coming up. With one on the horizon, a month before, he’ll do less specific discipline training and focus more on MMA, bringing together all aspects of everything.

“I mix everything together, like takedowns, kicks, punching, submissions on the ground,” said St-Pierre, who also works with a running coach and strength-conditioning trainer.

“It all helps to work the reflexes and gives me momentum for my fight.”

St-Pierre said he tries to eat as well as he can, but he’ll go on an actual diet to lose about 15 pounds to make the 170-pound requirement at the weigh-in a few days before he meets Serra.

UFC 83: Serra vs. St. Pierre II is scheduled for April 19, 2008 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec. Check out our rumors section for the latest UFC 83: Serra vs. St. Pierre II card.