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Training MMA Skills Under Pressure

It’s easy to train an activity when you’re calm, relaxed and not tired.  But being able to execute those same movemen...

Sensitivity Training for Grappling

Physical attributes are really important for Brazilian jiu-jitsu and submission grappling (a point further discussed ...

No, no, no. Sharpen your blade first!

Friendly rivalries on the mat often turbocharge your grappling progress. Recently I was corresponding with a BJJ play...

Never Satisfied!

  Today, at the gym, a young grappler asked me a question he’d obviously been wondering about for a long time.”How lo...

Sleepwalking Through Your Sparring

Back in my early teens, when I was infatuated with Kung Fu, I read a book purporting to describe about 50 supernatura...

I Only Got Tapped Out Twice!!

A few weeks ago I went to a training session with the goal of working on and experimenting with the so-called “Sao Pa...

BJJ Wrist Injuries and My Guilty Conscience

Today’s tip comes from my heart, because I learned this lesson first hand when I injured my first BJJ teacher (and fr...

Box a fighter, fight a boxer

“Box a fighter, and fight a boxer.” This old saying isn’t only limited to boxing – you can use the very same princip...

breath, breath, BRIDGE!!

One of the things I talk about in my Beginning BJJ online Course is the importance of not telegraphing your moves, pa...

How to Master Any Grappling Technique in 100 Words (Honest!)

I set a challenge for myself while compiling, editing and contributing to the book Mastering BJJ. Inspired by the min...

Slaughter on the Mats…

Today my BJJ sparring was a battle for survival. Maybe you think it’s because I sparred with a bunch of high-level bl...

The Give and Take of Jiu-jitsu

I remember seeing a small magic show at a local library when I was about 10 years old. At the time I thought that the...
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