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Kenneth Brown
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How the young wolf staved off the old lion
Sometime ago, I invested some time in watching tape, and I found one match in particular interesting. It was the latest in the Xande Ribeiro vs Felipe Pena mat battles, and it came down to a razor thin margin. In fact, no point were scored at all. But I was riveted because of the lessons …
Most men would have let the sharks devour them
A few days ago, Unbroken became another of the few movies that I would enthusiastically watch more than once. It’s the story of Louie Zamperini, who was a US Olympian who later became a bombardier in World War II. And while searching for a missing B-24 over open water, several hundreds miles from Oahu, Hawaii, …
Crossface ain’t shyt
A few days back, I yapped about how preventing the cross face used to be all the rage among half guard “aficionados”. That tactical choice stemmed from two things. First of all, they hated being crossfaced, and that’s completely understandable. Good guys can make that position absolutely horrible. (Feeling that shoulder grinding hard into your …
Handing out punishment in the tilt matrix
Sometimes, it astounds me how many people to still fall victim to my hip tilt trickery. Yes, yes I know that I make them react to the wrong thing, but still… sometimes it just seems like cheating. And there is sooo much that can be done off of that one threat too. For example, as …
The experience left a bad taste in my mouth
Back in my purple belt days, I had an experience that still annoys me to this day. It happened not that long after my promotion, and the scene of the crime was a Grapplers Quest hosted up in PA. First of all, you should know that when I did local tournaments, I signed up for …