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Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat SkillLearning to Fight - Episode 6Send us a textLearning to Fight Podcast — Conversations in Combat SkillAfter a year-long hiatus, the Primal MMA Coaching Podcast is back—Rebranded, and refocused as the Learning to Fight Podcast: Conversations in Combat Skill.Your hosts are:Adam Singer — Co-owner and head coach at SBG Athens, BJJ black belt, long-time MMA coach, with years of developing novice to elite level fighters. Student of Matt Thornton and SBG's philosophy of 'aliveness'.Scott Sievewright — Co-Owner at Primal MKE...
2026-01-2959 minLearning to Fight! Conversations in Combat SkillLearning to Fight - Episode 5Send us a textLearning to Fight Podcast — Conversations in Combat SkillAfter a year-long hiatus, the Primal MMA Coaching Podcast is back—Rebranded, and refocused as the Learning to Fight Podcast: Conversations in Combat Skill.Your hosts are:Adam Singer — Co-owner and head coach at SBG Athens, BJJ black belt, long-time MMA coach, with years of developing novice to elite level fighters. Student of Matt Thornton and SBG's philosophy of 'aliveness'.Scott Sievewright — Co-Owner at Primal MKE...
2026-01-081h 02Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat SkillLearning to Fight - Episode 4Send us a textLearning to Fight Podcast — Conversations in Combat SkillAfter a year-long hiatus, the Primal MMA Coaching Podcast is back—Rebranded, and refocused as the Learning to Fight Podcast: Conversations in Combat Skill.Your hosts are:Adam Singer — Co-owner and head coach at SBG Athens, BJJ black belt, long-time MMA coach, with years of developing novice to elite level fighters. Student of Matt Thornton and SBG's philosophy of 'aliveness'.Scott Sievewright — Co-Owner at Primal MKE...
2026-01-0553 minLearning to Fight! Conversations in Combat SkillLearning to Fight - Episode 3Send us a textLearning to Fight Podcast — Conversations in Combat SkillAfter a year-long hiatus, the Primal MMA Coaching Podcast is back—Rebranded, and refocused as the Learning to Fight Podcast: Conversations in Combat Skill.Your hosts are:Adam Singer — Co-owner and head coach at SBG Athens, BJJ black belt, long-time MMA coach, with years of developing novice to elite level fighters. Student of Matt Thornton and SBG's philosophy of 'aliveness'.Scott Sievewright — Co-Owner at Primal MKE...
2025-12-1955 min
Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat SkillLearning to Fight - Episode 2Send us a textLearning to Fight Podcast — Conversations in Combat SkillAfter a year-long hiatus, the Primal MMA Coaching Podcast is back—Rebranded, and refocused as the Learning to Fight Podcast: Conversations in Combat Skill.Your hosts are:Adam Singer — Co-owner and head coach at SBG Athens, BJJ black belt, long-time MMA coach, with years of developing novice to elite level fighters. Student of Matt Thornton and SBG's philosophy of 'aliveness'.Scott Sievewright — Co-Owner at Primal MKE...
2025-12-1056 min
Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill'Yappin about Scrappin' - Primal MMA Podcast relaunchSend us a textLearning to Fight Podcast — Conversations in Combat SkillAfter a year-long hiatus, the Primal MMA Coaching Podcast is back—Rebranded, and refocused as the Learning to Fight Podcast: Conversations in Combat Skill.Your hosts are:Adam Singer — Co-owner and head coach at SBG Athens, BJJ black belt, long-time MMA coach, with years of developing novice to elite level fighters. Student of Matt Thornton and SBG's philosophy of 'aliveness'. Scott Sievewright — Co-Owner at Primal MKE...
2025-11-282h 00
The Adaptable Athlete PodcastWhy Exploration Beats Perfection: 25 years of Coaching Fighters w/ Adam SingerSend us a textAdam Singer is the head coach of SBG Athens, where he and his brother Rory have been developing fighters for over 25 years. A longtime practitioner of ecological dynamics in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA, Adam has coached multiple athletes to the highest levels of competition, including two world champions. He’s also a co-author of a landmark paper on ecological dynamics in combat sports with Shawn Myszka, Tyler Yearby, Scott Sievewright, and Andy Grahn. Known for blending sharp insight with humor (and reminding everyone he’s both handsome and fun...
2025-09-241h 35Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill#48 - Hot Off The Press - The Boys from Emergence talk about their recently published Ecological Approach to MMA Journal Article.Send us a textThe boys from emergence are back to discuss their recently accepted and published paper on "Applying an ecological dynamics framework to mixed martial arts training". This paper followed their previous publication from 2023 "(Re)conceptualizing movement behavior in sport as a problem-solving activity".Both of these papers were supported and co-authored by Professor Keith Davids himself a titan in the skill acquisition community and a pioneer of ecological dynamic. SBG's Adam Singer, The Academy's Andy Grahn and myself were also able to provide modest co...
2024-03-271h 35Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill#43 - Managing Expectations - Rory Singer on playing the long game in developing Mixed Martial Artists.Send us a textToday I talk with Coach Rory Singer. Rory is the younger brother of Coach Adam Singer and together they have run and coached MMA in Athens Georgia for several Decades. Rory is an UFC Vet and lifelong martial artist.In this convo we spoke about the expectations we have for new students entering the sport and particularly those who have the aspirations to fight at a high level. We talk about gym culture, duty of care for fighter and of course our philosophies of aliveness and ecological l...
2023-09-291h 43Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill#40 - On the shoulders of the "Aliveness" Giant! - SBG's Adam Singer on alive training environments.Send us a textAdam Singer joins me today to talk coaching, culture and continuing the SBG philosophy of aliveness through an ecological lens.
2023-06-262h 12
The Box Gathering Podcast www.theboxgathering.com50th Episode celebration! Talking ‘Great Coaches and great coaching.’Wow! 50th episode! Thank you to everybody who has supported the podcast - guests and listeners. I’ve enjoyed every moment. We invited on my Box Gathering colleague Ivan Cobb, Preya Dhanecha, John Stubbs, Scott Sievewright, Chris Lodge and Mick ‘considerably richer than yalll’ Maguire to talk ‘great coaching.’ Check out www.theboxgathering.co.uk for all things boxing coaching! Free membership!
2020-11-201h 10Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill#1. Can we do it better? A talk with UK Boxer, Coach and Educator Adam Haniver.Send us a textIn this first episode, we talk with Boxing coach Adam Haniver. Adam is a former competitive boxer, coach, educator, and host of his own coaching podcast, 'The boxing coach podcast'. Adam and I discuss our similar journeys into coaching and our embracing of the a non-linear and constraints-led approach to coaching boxing and mixed martial arts.Adam is a very progressive and forward-thinking boxing coach from the UK and is constantly questioning and pushing back against the conventional wisdom and traditions of British Boxing coaching and training. A...
2020-07-0250 minThe Box Gathering Podcast www.theboxgathering.com#40 - MMA vs Boxing Coaching. With Scott Sievewright. 🏴 🇺🇸A fascinating chat with Scott Sievewright from Primal MKE MMA gym in Wisconsin, USA. We talk about our approaches to coaching our different sports and make sense of coaching buzz words. You can contact Scott at https://www.primalmke.com/
2020-04-0356 min