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Kenneth Brown
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The best way to show someone nothing
Since its inception, I’ve made radical changes to the micro adjustments course. The last being the restriction of content to just 15 lessons at any one time. It’s not something that went down without some blowback either. In fact, here’s an example: “Noooooooooooo! Not the bow-and-arrow technique!!!!!!!!!! Is there really no way we can have …
The backtake that killed dreams
I’ve told this real life tale of utter domination before. But at times, it bears repetition because of the principles that can be discovered within its depths. Anyway, too many years ago to bother counting, I watched as a teammate of mine harvested souls one after the another with the same exact strategy. It didn’t …
By axe or by guillotine
Something morbid to think about on this fine Saturday evening: At the height of the French Revolution, there was a familiar scene. One after another, those who were condemned to execution stumbled down from carts and were marshaled into line, as each in turn was led up the steps of a scaffold, where blood soaked …
The most basic of underhook half offensive loops
The first game that any half guardian worth their salt must develop is the underhook game. Just having one attack there won’t serve you that well though. Eventually, you’ll run into those base gods that make coming up to knees and driving across an arduous task. That’s why the easiest way to improve your offense …
The Malys approach to submission grappling
As I was coming up the ranks, one of my biggest influences in the academy was a guy named Tyler Malys. He was a blue belt when I first started, and we used to often get partnered up because he was also a big guy. But he wasn’t just as big as me. He was …