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Situational Sparring and Positional Drilling
Situational sparring and positional drilling is a training method used by virtually every single black belt and high ...
How to Win Lethwei World Championships,
Today’s we’re talking about training a fighter to become a world champion in an incredibly intense full contact marti...
Don’t Concede the Guard!
I used to make a very specific mistake all up until about purple belt: I would just concede the guard.
Conceding the...
How to Get Past a Plateau in BJJ
When you’re training and training and training but just NOT getting any better that’s called a ‘plateau’.
It happens ...
Rehab and Prehab for Martial Arts
It was a pleasure to talk with Dr Mark Cheng about injury rehabilitation and rehabilitation today on The Strenuous Li...
Podcast Episode 181: Why is Sparring So Hard? (Audio + Video)
Ritchie Yip is the brains behind The Precision Kickboxing Masterclass, and in this episode he and I sat down to discu...
Podcast: Exposing Martial Arts Frauds with McDojolife!
Rob from McDojoLife has been relentless in his attempts to expose martial arts frauds, exposing everyone from from ch...
Is Starting From The Knees Stupid? Ramsey Dewey Says Yes
It’s a pretty simple thesis: Don’t start on your knees and you’ll get better at jiu-jitsu faster. Dewey Ramsey is a f...
10 Pieces of Advice for BJJ White Belts
A Guest Article, by Rhett Burch
There are many articles for BJJ beginners, but not many of them are written by a pur...
UFC 229: Conor McGregor sought another Alliance black-belt to prepare for Khabib Nurmagomedov
With two weeks to go until UFC 229, Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov are making the final adjustments for the l...
Dealing with Doubt and Fear in the Martial Arts with Ando Mierzwa
I’m thrilled to have Ando Mierzwa back on the podcast in episode 165 to discuss dealing with doubt and fear in the ma...
What Am I Supposed To Do When I Spar (Roll) Jiu-Jitsu?
When you are first starting out in BJJ you will probably look to “win”...