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Podcast Episode 98 – Why Don’t More Gyms Teach Take-Downs?

Are take-downs important even though so few BJJ gyms teach them, and can you get away with never training them if you...

Podcast Episode 95 – Increasing Mobility for BJJ

Some quick thoughts about improving the different forms of ‘mobility’ for jiu-jitsu, both in terms of movement on the...

Podcast Episode 90 – Finding the Best Techniques Using the 80/20 Principle

In this episode I argue that you should start by teaching and learning the most effective, most proven, highest perce...

Podcast Episode 84 – 3 Steps To Overcoming Training Plateaus

In this short episode we talk about why training plateaus are actually more frustrating than training slumps, plus I ...

Podcast Episode 80 – When Should Leglock Training Start?

What belt level should you start training leg locks at?  It depends a little bit on what your goals are and whether y...

Podcast Episode 77 – Should You Still Train When Exhausted?

I trained BJJ today despite being fresh off the plane, jet lagged and exhausted, so it seemed like a good day to tack...

Podcast Episode 76 – Mayweather v. McGregor

In this mini-episode I talk Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor with Ritchie Yip, and we both come to the same conclus...

Podcast Episode 75 – Training When There is No School Nearby

You want to train martial arts but there isn’t a good school anywhere nearby, so what are your options?  Here is my b...

Podcast Episode #73 – Grappling VS Striking

If you could only do one which would be better for self defense: striking or grappling?  The answer is grappling of c...

Podcast Episode #71 – BJJ and Training Q&A With Stephan

What would I do different as a white belt if I could go back in time?  What are the best guards that go together with...

Podcast Episode 70 – Picking a Good BJJ School

This is an important episode because in it I talk about how to find a  BJJ instructor and school that’ll work for you...

Podcast Episode 69 – Strategies for Dealing with Fear

In this episode I talk about the concrete steps you can take to control your fear and harness the power of the adrena...
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