In this episode we talk about pinning, and the dynamic between control and submission threat. The various pins from side control, north south, mount, and routes to submission vs control and maintenance. 

In this episode, we dive into the front headlock position and the dilemma between the go behind and submission threats. Hope you enjoy!

In this episode we recap Josh's recent trip to Standard Jiu Jitsu with Greg Souders. Leg entanglement games, scheduling, culture, and more. Hope you enjoy!

In this episode, we mashed up some of the highlights from our conversations with Trey Hucks, Kabir Bath, and Greg Souders on all things ecological dynamics, constraining to afford towards the invariants in jiu jitsu, game design, and much more....

In this episode, Jake and I talk about my last competition and areas to work on when it comes to attacking from guard, off balancing, entering the legs, wrestling up, taking the back...etc. Hope you enjoy! Here's the

In this episode, I talk with Patrick Robinson who's won mutliple world titles at blue, purple, brown, and black belt in both Gi and No Gi in his age brackets. He's consistently one of the best grapplers for his age. We talk about his competitio...

In this solo episode, I reflect on what I’ve learned about myself from my first four competitions and nine matches as a white belt. I focus mostly on the mental/emotional sides of the journey and less on the technical. A little different than w...

In this episode, I get to be a guest on the BJJ Meditations Podcast! Hope you enjoy this week's swapcast.

In this episode, we talk to Zach Maslany and Miha Perhavec all about CJI and the experience judging it. We go into the nuances and deep dive into the art and science of judging this new format. We cover the ruleset, format, the Andrew Tackett v...

In this episode we talk about Josh doing jiu jitsu at burning man, behind the scenes into Jake's development with the Outlier Database, some ideas with Sherpa Journal that I'm working on, and then we dive into Levi Jones Leary's guard retention...

In this episode I talk to Randall Dibble, who was a two time state qualifier in HS wrestling, a wrestling coach, and jiu jitsu purple belt who has competed extensively. We dive into how to get approach learning wrestling for beginners and go th...

In this episode, Jake and I talk about our thoughts after ADCC / CJI last weekend. We share highlights and thoughts on the format. We also discuss updates on the apps we're working on! Hope you enjoy.

This episode is a little different! I do a solo episode and share some thoughts I have on the power of journaling for performance, sports psychology, and give some thoughts about the design of the alpha version of my new app!

In this episode, I ask Jake about his thoughts on the CJI bracket and the ADCC divisions. He goes over stylistic match ups, and game plans for several athletes as we look at the brackets and divisions together. We also talk about our excitement...

In this episode, I talk to Jake about my recent injuries with turf toe and pulling a muscle in my hip/glute area twice. We brainstorm some standing and grip fighting games and talk to Jake about his knee and rib injury and what it was like to c...

In this episode we discuss all things leg lock defense, we start the conversation discussing saddle / cross ashi, then move into straight ashi / single leg x, 90/10, 80/20, and 50/50. We mentioned the

In this episode, Jake and I talk about learnings we're finding with tripod passing, helpful games and techniques to try to progress, takeaways from the recent Greg Souders interview, and updates on progress on Jake's Outlier Database and Sherpa...

In this episode, we talk to Greg Souders. We hope you can use this framework to help design practice on working certain skills of destabilization, isolation, and segmentation. We deep dive into his conceptual framework of what jiu jitsu is, and...

In this episode, we talk about passing half-guard, clearing the knee shield, and dealing with the butterfly half guard. We also discuss progress Josh is making with the seatbelt, and finishing the back take. At the end we revisit ideas from des...

In this episode, we looked back at the WNO 24 Gordon Ryan vs Josh Saunders and lessons learned from that match and others, and lessons learned from our recent injuries with Jake's rib and Josh's foot. Fun times. Hope you enjoy!

Josh has been wanting to add leg entanglements into his guard to make his guard more dynamic and offensive. We discuss potential games to play, and talk about how get started with leg entaglements!

In this episode, we talk with Josh Beam. We talk about his story of becoming a nomad and traveling the world while competing nearly every weekend. He shared insights into his mindset and philosophies, including Stocism, and how that shows up ...

In this episode, we talk about how to upgrade your back control from when you secure a seatbelt but have no hooks. Josh has been having trouble establishing better back control from this position and Jake provides some insights and details. H...

In this episode, we talk to Andy Moon from BackOnTheMatPT! We discuss the most common injuries he sees, how to treat and prevent those injurie...