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Kenneth Brown
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Failure was an absolute certainty
Recently, I started re-reading Mindset by Carol Dweck. It’s one of my favorite books in the world, and I consider it to be required reading for anyone who is serious about excelling in anything. In fact, I would even rank it significantly above the Inner Game of Tennis, which is a damn fine book as …
Lesson learned from playing on the bad side
Over the last few days, I’ve been making a conscious effort to drill and play half guard on my bad side. As a result, I’ve had a revelation about the mechanics of the tilt. I realized that there was a way to magnify the force generated in the sweep. One that I simply hadn’t been …
Committing blatant homicide on the elbow escape
Many years ago, I discovered a small little counter to the elbow escape from mount. It’s a micro adjustment in the truest sense. And it absolutely slaughters the escape. In fact, it’s so bad that I would even call it murder in plain daylight. Let’s explore: When it comes to the elbow escape, I break …
The curse of triangle orthodoxy
Not that many years ago, the most common methodology for finishing the triangle required that you lift your hips, pass the arm across, and pull down on the head. It was gospel. Hell, you can even say that it was orthodoxy. If you did it any other way, you were dead wrong. But hidden in …