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The Pre-Fight Check In
A few days ago, in class, it was time to spar. I walked over to an older white belt, new to the club, who was standin...
Lets Get The Groundrules Straight!
One of the worst organized MMA shows I ever saw was a small local show, back in 1996. Before I talk about that partic...
Refusing to Concede the Sweep
I trained with Denis Kang for the first five or six years of his MMA career. At some point during that time he became...
Slumps Vs. Plateaus
Acquiring new skill sets and polishing your existing skills is the very essence of training. When everything is worki...
The Stiff Arm (in Grappling)
The stiff arm on the Heisman Trophy is an iconic posture in football, and it is used by players in every single game....
Train Hard, Recover Smart
Quick: what’s the most important meal of the day?
If you said “breakfast” then you’re wrong, at least if you’re a har...
Leglocking Interview
I recently had a great discussion with Dan and Caleb from TheFightwork’s Podcast about the role of leglocks in Brazil...
Senior Jiu-jitsu
Stephan’s note: todays’s tip is brought to you a guest columnist, my friend Don Whitefield (www.jiujitsulife.com). No...
A Dangerous Time
We’ve been discussing injuries a lot recently, and it seems to have hit a chord with the Grapplearts readership. I do...
The Simplest Way to Avoid Injury
Several years ago I found myself waiting for a Jean Jacques Machado seminar to start: I was sitting on the mat, watch...
Always Injured, the Feedback
Several tips ago I gave some advice to a reader who had suffered a rather terrible string of orthopedic injuries whil...
Always Injured
A reader writes:
Q: “I’m in my forties and and started MMA training a few years ago. Since then I have had many injur...