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Less is More: Keeping your game simple.
‘You’re only as good as the time before.’This is something I believe about live-rolling and mma sparring.I’ve gotten promotions over guys that were there longer, I’ve beaten higher belts, and it was...
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Self Defense Foundations – Escaping Headlocks from the Side and Front
Over the last few weeks we covered some quick and effective techniques for common street grabs that are likely to occur in a variety of situations and from multiple angles. Along with some conceptual...
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Self Defense Against Awkward Clothing Grips and the Unexpected – Avoiding...
Being a student of both the Jeet Kune Do philosophy and framework, I always appreciate efficiency. In an homage to efficiency, today’s article will kill two birds with one stone. I’ll wrap up Jerry...
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Product Review – Brutal Street Grappling Essentials
Having had the demand for, and great response to, taking a shift from pure sport based submission grappling articles towards grappling applications for and within self defense, I was also asked to take...
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Self-Defense Fact or Fiction? – Technique
There are a lot of controversies and battles fought within the martial arts and self-defense community/communities (another controversy is whether they should be counted as one or two), but one of the...
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The Value of Breathing in Exercise and Fighting
IntroductionBreathing permeates every movement, and is as closely tied to your performance as your musculature, technique and attitude, and just like with the musculature, technique and attitude, if...
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BJJ Combinations And Why You Need Them
You can’t defend two things at the same time.It’s just not possible for the human attention span.Particularly in times of high stress when we are super focused on the problem at hand.Attacking...
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The Three Ranges of Fighting
In this article, we’re going to take a look at the three main ranges of physical altercation; their main dangers, a couple of methods of defense against those dangers, and one or two ways in which you...
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Self-Defense vs Streetfighting, Part 1
What Is Self-Defense?With self-defense, as with everything, we have to establish some sort of definition before we can say anything about it without constant misunderstandings.I don’t know any...
View ArticleKnife Defense Technique Breakdown: “Duck and Trip”
An edged weapon attack that happens on the street, in your home, or anywhere else is different from a ‘knife fight’. In an edged weapon attack, knife fighting expert Master Jerry Wetzel advises us not...
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THOU SHALT PASS: Choosing passes that are right for you
Perhaps due to the huge popularity of guard pulling, a great deal of competition jiujitsu lies in passing of the guard and sweeping. Coaches who’ve been around for a while, know this. So a large focus...
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Give and Take: The Double Edged Sword
One of the fundamental priniciples of Wingchun, Aikido, Judo and the various Yin styles: is that we cannot use force-against-force, if we are smaller and weaker than our opponent. So what’s the...
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