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Teaching Martial Arts by Combat LearningWhat are the Fundamentals of Striking? w/ Scott SievewrightMMA coach and ecological approach to martial arts pioneer, Scott Sievewright, returns to Combat Learning to discuss his newly published academic paper on ecological dynamics for MMA and his evolving conception of martial arts ideas such as “the fundamentals.”We also talk about problems of practice in the constraints-led approach, especially how difficult it is to scale proper constraints-led coaching to a growing mat.On top of that, there’s lots of talk of little tactics that have been working for Primal MMA on coaching striking in a safe but representative manner.If you ar...2024-10-011h 36
1-800-BJJ-HELP#76 Michael Marrewa: Reviewing Ecological Dynamics Jiu Jitsu Camp, Eco, Constraint Led Approach, and MoreIn this episode, we talked to our buddy Michael Marrewa. Mike is one of Josh's main training partners for their ecological/constraint-led approach training at the home garage. Mike just got back from the Ecological Dynamics camp out on the East Coast with Greg Souders, Josh Peacock, Scott Sievewright, Rob Cole, and others and shared his recent learnings with us. Hope you enjoy!Use the code "BJJHELP" for 50% off your first month on Jake's Outlier Database to study match footage, get links to resources, and more.Download Sherpa, the free AI-powered journaling app for athletes...2024-03-311h 25
The Primal MMA Coaching Podcast#39 - 'Second Guessing the Traditional Approach' - Coach Josh Root on doubling down on the Ecological Approach.Send us a textToday I am joined by Coach Josh Root from Gravitas Martial Arts in Arkansas. Josh has recently re-visited an Eco D approach to grappling after initially abandoning it due to uncertainty.With a deeper understanding and support from Standard's Greg Souder's, Coach Josh is not looking back and has been all in on the approach. Enjoying some early success he is starting to get his team on board and trusting the practice design.Josh talks about his switch from a highly prescriptive and high volume drilling approach...2023-06-131h 01The Primal MMA Coaching Podcast#33B - Battling the Biases! Josh Peacock on resistance to change in combat sports training.Send us a text(PART 2) Today my guest is my friend and fellow podcaster Josh Peacock.Josh is the host of the Combat Learning Podcast and a fellow advocate of an ecological approach to combat sports training.A real student of the science of skill development, teaching methodologies and the history of combat sports, Josh is also a 4th degree TKD coach/practitioner and more recently a student of BJJ and submission grappling.In this episode Josh and I discuss some of the common pushbacks and arguments we hear against the...2023-01-0550 minThe Primal MMA Coaching Podcast#33A - Fighting the fallacies! Josh Peacock on resistance to change in combat sports training (PART 1 of 2).Send us a textToday my guest is my friend and fellow podcaster Josh Peacock.Josh is the host of the Combat Learning Podcast and a fellow advocate of an ecological approach to combat sports training.A real student of the science of skill development, teaching methodologies and the history of combat sports, Josh is also a 4th degree TKD coach/practitioner and more recently a student of BJJ and submission grappling.In this episode Josh and I discuss some of the common pushbacks and arguments we hear against the ecological...2023-01-0359 min
Teaching Martial Arts by Combat Learning"Drilling is a Waste of Time": A Purely Ecological Jiu Jitsu Program w/ Greg SoudersJoin the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Today I'm joined by Greg Souders, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and the owner of an academy called Standard Jiu-Jitsu.In this episode, Greg reveals how he runs a totally, radically "ecological" grappling program, where he doesn't even teach "techniques" in the way we've always seen them taught. Greg has stripped down everything we take for granted about teaching martial arts and rebuilt his program around the Ecological Dynamics and constraints-led coaching frameworks. He's changed everything, even the way he talks about jiu...2022-10-181h 23
Teaching Martial Arts by Combat LearningThe Opportunity Cost of Traditional Training Methods: Ecological Dynamics for MMA, Part 2 w/ Scott SievewrightJoin the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---In part 2 of 2, Scott Sievewright returns to discuss the opportunity cost of traditional training methods. For those who haven't heard that term used for training, opportunity cost basically refers to the benefits to learning that we're potentially missing by spending time that *could* have been used on live training methods to do dead, formal, or isolated training methods instead.We also talk about the problem with copying elite coaches and how our biases surrounding them has screwed up talent development pipelines inside of combat sports and led...2021-12-201h 43
Teaching Martial Arts by Combat LearningBalancing Representative Practice & Safety: Ecological Dynamics for MMA, Part 1 w/ Scott SievewrightJoin the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Today we're joined by Scott Sievewright, host of the Primal MMA podcast and an MMA striking coach who teaches a striking program almost entirely on an Ecological Dynamics or constraints-led approach to motor learning.In part 1 of 2, Scott and I work through why Ecological Dynamics is so hard to get the hang of. We have a discussion on how to balance representativeness and safety in training, since greater levels of representativeness make training more like competition and thus more risky. We also talk about when more isolated...2021-12-201h 11
The Perception & Action PodcastJournal Club #33: An Ecological Approach to Martial Arts and MMAHow can we apply an ecological approach to training martial arts and MMA? How can we redesign practice to make it more alive and representative? A discussion with Rafe Kelley, Shawn Myszka, Josh Peacock and Scott Sievewright. More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content 2021-09-281h 22The Perception & Action PodcastJournal Club #33: An Ecological Approach to Martial Arts and MMAHow can we apply an ecological approach to training martial arts and MMA? How can we redesign practice to make it more alive and representative? A discussion with Rafe Kelley, Shawn Myszka, Josh Peacock and Scott Sievewright. More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content 2021-09-281h 22