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One of the things that I feel has really helped me a lot is when I spent a lot of dedicated time training inferior positions. What do I mean about inferior positions? I mean working your escapes, working your submission...

Individual Attention

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While you are in a class setting and working with many different people during class time, it is also important during your training to get some individual attention also. When your instructor is able to focus on just you, even if it’s just for a...

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People keep journals for many things. They use them to write down their thoughts. They use them when they need to speak to someone about something, but can’t. They use them to jot down ideas. They use them to keep track of their workouts, and many...

Train With Different Size People

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If you are small you need to train with big guys sometimes. If you are big you need to train with small guys sometimes. This is another aspect that many people avoid. They say hey “I’m 145lb so I shouldn’t be training with someone...

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While grappling in class is a great workout and many feel that they get enough conditioning during that time. Once it comes time to compete and they get on the mat they all of a sudden...

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I try to compete in grappling tournaments as much as I possibly can. Why is that you might ask? Well it’s for many different reasons:

The love of competition - The first reason is that I love to test myself and compete. I love the challenge..

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Belts have been in the martial arts for a very long time now and they do have their benefits...

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Many people nowadays practice the sport aspect of grappling and don’t often train...

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It’s very important that you make sure you check your ego at the door from your first day grappling. If you don’t control your ego, you may not realize it, but it’ll slow down your learning progress and improvement substantially...

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There are times in your grappling where you need to take a step back and see if it’s a good idea to take a little break from training. Many times this will be the case if you feel...