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Golf and BJJ
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I don’t like golf. I’ll probably receive a large batch of irate emails because of...
I Can’t Run: The Excuse List
If you are a longtime reader of this newsletter you know that I think very highly of running as a conditioning method...
Keeping the Will to Fight
As is so often the case, Mark Twain said it best: “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fi...
Hard Come, Easy Go
In a previous tip I talked about how one often makes the fastest progress by working on one’s weakest area. An unfort...
Grappling with Competition Anxiety
I don’t do a lot of competition these days, and I do miss it (and the wonderful focus it adds to your training).
One...
The Berserker
There’s one at almost every club. The guy who can’t lose. The guy who always goes 100%. The guy who applies every sub...
Combatting Claustrophobia
At first I thought that this particular question was going to be simple. Someone, let’s call him ‘Bob’, wrote me abou...
Just Get Dressed
Last week I talked about how you sometimes have to bail out of a planned training session. Well let’s turn the situat...
Trust Your Spider Sense
Most instructors, motivators and ‘experts’ will tell you to train, train, train. Today I am going to tell you the exa...
Chess and the Mat
Several years ago I posted excerpts from a Peter Gzowski book that took research conducted on chess grandmasters and ...
Blood in the Water: MMA Killer Instinct
On June 4th Denis Kang did it again. Fighting in the Pride Middleweight Grand Prix he took on feared striker Murilo “...
Strengths Hiding Weaknesses
Sometimes a strength can be a liability, because it impedes the development of other areas. Let me give a personal ex...