Brazilian jiu-jitsu isn’t a sport that you can practise effectively or entirely on your own. Being a good BJJ training partner by building and maintaining social connections with your fellow teammates will make your experience in the sport and those around you...
Kano Jigoro lived his life as an excellent teacher and athlete and left a legacy as the founder of Judo. He would start university in 1877; wanting to learn a martial art, he looked for Jiu-Jitsu teachers who would take him on as a student. He figured that the best...
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 acquisition (Cognitive,...
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 shoulder lock as...
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 getting cancelled,...
“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 through the...
A Cutman at an MMA fight is responsible for treating a fighters lacerations or swelling in the one-minute break between rounds. Therefore, a cutman’s duties include getting the fighters to perform at their highest level of ability by minimising the effects of...
The Australian colloquialism where your jovial mood is suggested to be “As Happy as Larry” finds its etymological roots in the early bare-knuckle pugilism of a Sydney prizefighter and undefeated middleweight boxing champion at the turn of the 19th century....
The question of Cryotherapy vs Ice Baths has a surprising answer for combat sports athletes. Competitors training MMA & Jiu-Jitsu will often experience muscle soreness after heavy training sessions and are always looking for efficient recovery options and if...
