A Guide To Strength & Conditioning For Combat Sports
“Focus on performance, not failure.”
– Art DeVany
Power Up Your BJJ Skill Development With Personal Challenges.
“Study hard and all things can be accomplished. Give up, and you will amount to nothing.”
– Yamaoka Tesshu.
The Three Phases of Technical Skill Development
“The Way requires patience and constant practice, because there is no end and no goal, there is just the practice. We need to constantly remind ourselves of this fact.”
– Tadashi Nakamura
How To Take Notes Like A Black Belt
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.”
— Yogi Berra
Training BJJ – Managing Good and Bad Days On The Mats.
“The greatest value lies in following the way and gradually achieving victory.”
– Jigaro Kano, Founder of Judo.
How To Spar – A Guide For Athletes and Coaches.
“Turn your sparring into play – but always play seriously.”
– Bruce Lee
The Six Practices of Being an Athlete
See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training. – Miyamoto Musashi Athletic Practice Your sport or art should obviously be the primary component of these six practices. The key here is to understand that your athletic practice is the most important […]
How To Master Any Technique
1. Learn the broad strokes. When you begin learning a new technique it’s easy to get lost in a virtual sea of detail and nuance. At this stage of the learning process don’t worry about these smaller details but instead focus on breaking the technique down into three to five key steps. These key steps […]
The Kimura Trap & Positions of Transition
The Kimura Trap leads to an excellent series of transitions and submissions. It has been popularised by David Avellan and frequently utilised by such names as Andre Galvao, Keenan Cornelius, Andris Brunovskis and Dominick Cruz. It is also an example of one of the most difficult positional concepts to understand in Jiu Jitsu: A Position […]
How to start training BJJ (or any martial art)
Training in a martial art can be one of the most rewarding and positive experiences you can have in your life providing benefits to you physically, mentally and emotionally. That said, getting started can be daunting and for a lot of people just walking through the doors of an academy for the first time is […]
