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The Three-Stage Model of Skill Acquisition For Mixed Martial Arts
The skill acquisition process in martial arts is an incredibly complicated topic with multiple competing theories, each with its own body of research backing them. A simple way to look at this process describes three separate stages of skill...
A Brief History Of The Kimura Lock Technique
History Of The Kimura: The following is a guest post written by Vlad Koulikov & Javier Palomo Kimura ... If you’re into Jiu-Jitsu, grappling and MMA you might have heard that word once or twice. For those who do not know, it’s an arm lock (or...
The Importance of Sleep While Cutting Weight for a Fight
In this Guest Post From Dr Ian Dunican, He looks at the aftermath of UFC 233 where Tony Ferguson suffered an injury resulting in a missed bout and how it relates to the requirements of combat athletes to sleep while cutting weight. Although bouts...
Grappling Playlists for BJJ, MMA & Wrestling Training
A selection of genre-specific grappling playlists for striking & strangling during your bjj, wrestling or mma training workouts. All put into spotify playlists! 80's Montage Metal Ready to go over the top, win the day, prove them all wrong and...
What Does “Leave Your Ego at the Door” Mean?
"Leave your ego at the door" is a common phrase you will see written on the walls of martial arts gyms everywhere. But it has always amused me because it would be almost impossible to do unless everyone had an existential crisis as they walked...
The Talent Code Summary & Notes By Daniel Coyle
The Talent Code Summary, a book written by Daniel Coyle says that developing talent requires three elements: deep practise, ignition, and master coaching. The central theme of the book would be the concept that talent comes down to practice and not...
The Spectrum of Teaching Styles for Grappling & Martial Arts
The spectrum of teaching styles for grappling & martial arts appears as a unified theory of teaching that aims to describe the structure of all possible teaching methods. It starts from the basis that education will be a chain of...
A Game Sense Style Pedagogy for Teaching Beach Wrestling
I have recently discussed how we prepared for the "King Of The Beach" competition on a podcast. I noticed that what we did was very similar to how Andy from the School of Grappling recommends structured training and the Game Sense pedagogy I...
Rise of the Gracie Hunter – A Kazushi Sakuraba Documentary Script
The Script of the Kazushi Sakuraba Documentary – The Rise of the Gracie Hunter. It Explains His Catch Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Roots on His Rise Through MMA.
