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Breaking Posture with the Shakedown

Here’s a little trick, or technique, you can use to prevent your opponent from establishing posture and passing your ...

One Simple Tip for Surviving the Smother

There’s nothing worse than tapping out to a smother. It is one thing to get caught in a nice technical choke and havi...

Targeted Sparring Concluded: Bad Positions

In this last installment on fine-tuning your sparring time I would like to talk about starting your sparring sessions...

Targeted Sparring: Limited Techniques.

A good way to get more out of your sparring sessions is to limit the techniques you can use. As has been pointed out ...

Targeted Sparring: Position

A ‘position game’ is usually characterized by tight transitions between positions, an emphasis on maintaining a posit...

Targeted Sparring: Mobility

Sometimes it’s good to just go and roll, with no plans, no goals and see what happens. You will make faster progress,...

Mobility and Position

There are two basic games in grappling: the ‘mobility game’ and the ‘position game’. The mobility game is based on sp...

Grappling for Self Defense

It’s very easy to forget all about the self-defense aspects of what you are doing when you train grappling. There’s s...

What the Hell is a ‘Valsalva Maneuver’?

Today’s question is: “should you ever hold your breath while sparring”. Many instructors would tell you that holding ...

Conscious Hyperventilation

I sometimes get asked questions about how to breath while sparring, in particular, how to control your breathing when...

A Roadmap for Grappling

When an uninitiated person sees grappling in action for the first time it seems very chaotic and confusing. There are...

Other Ankle Lock Mistakes

In a recent article I talked about the most common mistake novice leglockers make when trying to use the ankle lock. ...
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