During my visit to see Professor James yesterday, I asked him some questions about breathing, injury prevention and rehabilitation. Please like or leave a comment if this is material that you are interested in.

Special visit from Professor Jack Taufer. Recently, kuzura kesa gatame has been a position many of us have been working on. See you at tomorrow's Q&A session. (Premium members look in the classroom next week for some techniques that Professor Jack shared)

Good Morning All. Today I'm heading over to see my Martial Blade Instructor for running knife fighting drills. It has been a good week running gun drills and paring up with a BJJ coach to do even more drills. I'm a self defense all around guy. Who else here might get into more self defense applications than BJJ?

Choose your two subs

This week, when you are playing on top, think about making your partner carry as much of your weight as you can. When you open the guard, keep forward pressure. Don’t give your partner a chance to set up defenses and make space for frames. Don’t worry about completing a pass or catching a submission. See if you can exhaust your partner. When on the bottom, practice staying calm under pressure. Breathe and stay safe and try to find the easy way out. Don’t force anything. Build up resilience to the pressure by finding ways to breathe and stay calm.