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Kenneth Brown
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Off with the table’s leg, and down it will tumble
A familiar scene: It’s another day on the mats, and the class is in its final phase. You’ve been partnered up with someone who always gives you a tough time, but this time, you were able to force them into your position. HAH, it’s go time now. You establish your grips and start setting up …
How to make people fear your submissions more
As you progress in rank, you start running into what I like to call ego hunters. They’re like those young kids in the wild wild west, who were always on the hunt for opportunities to make a name for themselves. At night, they would go to bed with dreams of taking out a big name …
Holy frames, Batman!
You know… When you step away from the whole rat race of trying to learn as many techniques as possible, you start to realize that there are a few principles that have broad applications in a wide variety of situations. Case in point: In almost every situation, the first step to effortlessly escaping a bad …
Hold up, son, my head ain’t that easy to control
An old training partner of mine stopped by the other day, and we rolled for a long time. On two separate instances (that I recall) I found myself in the back step half, and I was on the bottom. Yeah… So he was playing the position well. He had the deep lat grip. His hips …
A conceptual framework for understanding how to pass
Lately, I’ve been giving much thought to passing. And some improvement to my overall understanding of how passes work has occurred as a result. For example: I now categorize guards into two primary types. In one, control centers around entanglement of the limbs and/or body. Examples at the basic level would be closed and half …