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When it comes to teaching self defense I think most martial arts schools have it backwards. They teach the basics first and then build up slowly, focusing on perfection and working up from the foundation. This is a good method, however, the problem is that people don't get realistic training until way later, or worse, not at all. This is why I use what I call the "Crash Method". I give people a crash course in concepts and drills to get them immediately indoctrinated with things they can use im… Continue

I think I figured out another way to get to the UFC, since I don't have too many fights. I'm going to make a training video, a super badass one, and I'm going to post it up on Youtube. The key lies in mine and the video's level of awesome. Once I get it up, it will be cool enough that someone will notice it. (I'm also going to send one to the UFC, because the worst they can say is no, not yet.) If the UFC doesn't like it, someone else will contact me, and so on and so forth. After that I will ha… Continue

Been doing MMA for awhile now and I've always hated only one aspect of it: there are a lot of meatheads that do mma. Contact sports seem to be intensive asshole magnets, and given that mma is the most extreme of all of them, they seem to gravitate towards it at an exponential rate. One thing I do want to say is that not all of us are asswipes. The more I think about it, the more I realize that yeah, there are these types of idiots in every sport. It's hard not to judge mma based on the behavior… Continue

http://www.graciemag.com/news/144/ARTICLE/13149/2009-01-29.html Too bad I couldn't have met you. Continue

I stumbled upon this the other day on the SW site and man -- what an awesome thing! I did notice they do their certs and affiliates just like CrossFit does, not a bad model at all, but I think I'll start off with just the Level 1 certification (I could be a certified Catch Wrestling trainer!) without the Toe-Hold Club affiliation. We could do that later on. Again, my skepticism comes into play, but the cert comes also highly regarded by some pretty world class wrestlers. We shall see I suppose,… Continue