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Chill Out! Lowering Your Arousal Level.

OK, so you’ve examined your performance on the mat and realized that you are probably too tense and have too much adr...

What is Your Personal ‘Optimal State of Arousal’?

Last week we introduced the concept of there being an ‘optimal state of arousal’ (or OSA) for martial athletes in gen...

The Optimal State of Arousal, an Introduction

When I talk about “optimal states of arousal” I usually get one of 2 reactions: disinterest because it sounds too ac...

Grappling with Jean Jacques Machado

One of my favorite grappling sessions of all time was only about 1 or 2 minutes long. It was with Jean Jacques Macha...

Fear Does Not Exist…

It is important to know when you can’t improve on something. This is the position I find myself in this week as I pon...

Shutting Down the Leglock Game

There is a certain type of opponent who is best described as a compulsive leglocker. You know the type: no sooner hav...

Three Pin Escape Movements

Escaping pins is never easy: if you get pinned in a match, then chances are that your opponent is either pretty good ...

One more thing about Choking

Before we leave this topic I want to point out that not all chokes occur at the neck.Of course squeezing the windpipe...

Air Chokes

For the last two weeks we have primarily been discussing strangles that cut off the supply of blood to the brain – th...

Recovery From Chokes & Strangles

If you practice chokes and strangles long enough you will eventually choke someone partially or fully unconscious – b...

Anatomy of a Strangle

This week we will discuss strangles and strangulations; this will be the start of series of articles on the topic of ...

From Silat to Submission Grappling

Last week I discussed some of the connections between traditional Japanese Ju-jutsu and modern submission grappling. ...
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