The Arts in This Family
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- Catch Wrestling: An Instructor's OverviewYour first catch wrestling class starts the way it has started for a hundred and fifty years: on your feet, one hand fi…
- Catch Wrestling: A Beginner's First MonthsThree weeks into catch wrestling, the soreness changes character. The first week it was everywhere. Now it lives in spe…
- Catch Wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Cousins, Not TwinsPut a catch wrestler and a BJJ player in the same room and the first minute looks like a family reunion. Same takedown…
- Stuck on Your Back: Beating the Ride and the Pin ClockYou are forty seconds into the round and nothing has happened yet, and that is the problem. He rode you flat off the fi…
- Caught the Double Wristlock, Cannot Finish ItYou have done the hard part, or it looks that way from the outside. His wrist is in your hands, his arm is bent, the fi…
- Locks That Hurt Before They HurtThe toe hold goes on the way it always goes on in drilling: your partner takes the figure-four grip, turns the foot, an…
- Your Takedowns Work in Drilling and Die in Live WrestlingYour double leg is a good-looking takedown. In drilling it fires on time, the penetration step lands deep, your shoulde…
- The Deck of Cards Workout: Gotch's Bible and the Honest Arithmetic of ConditioningSomewhere in your gym there is a grappler who can train for two hours and another who is finished in twenty minutes, an…