Chris Burns’ core warmups for jiu-jitsu: We did some shin rolls, twists, pigeon, cobra movements to precede these, and on Chris’ video he also does the movements to disengage from a top armbar – turn, both hands on the ground push up to mount, post on the arm you just damaged, windshield wiper the feet…
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Channels and Podcasts I follow
Youtube Channels Absolute MMA St Kilda / Submeta.io These are Lachlan Giles’ channels. The Absolute MMA St Kilda Youtube Channel has a TON of free stuff, I have stolen SO much from here for class ideas, etc. Submeta.io is his recent subscription channel, but he published a lot of free stuff there, some of which…
The Jiu Jitsu Belt System
“I don’t care if I’m a white belt for ten years. want skills not belts”. “I’d rather be a white belt submitting blues and purples than a blue belt getting submitted by whites”. Not really. We all decry “belt chasers”, those shallow souls driven only by the next stripe, the next belt … But avoiding…
Martial Arts: A Post-modern Approach
This came about after I read a long essay on post-modernism in programming by Larry Wall, one of the developers of the Perl programming language. Larry Wall clams Perl is a post-modern programming language. After much reading and listening to Jordan Peterson’s lectures, podcasts, and talks as well as getting older and hopefully a little…