Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill

Send us Fan Mail (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 o...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail Danny Hatcher joined me to talk more about ecological dynamics for sport. Danny is a Podcaster , youtuber, educator, coach and sport scientist from the UK. We connected after I watched his terrific y outube video on Ecologica l Learning. Among his many endeavors, Danny has spent a lot of time researching in the areas of psychology and learning. This has given him a robust understa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I welcome on Coach Kabir Bath , founder and owner of Kaboom Jiu-Jitsu in Surrey, British Columbia.  Kabir is a Raphael Lovato Jr Black belt/affiliate and was a Lovato associate coach of the year 2017. As Kabir explains in the episode, he recently and abruptly shifted to an ecological approach while abandoning the more typical traditional format for learning and tea...

Send us Fan Mail Today I welcome back Standard Jiu-Jitsu's coach Greg Souders. Greg and I were chatting about a very recent reddit post aptly named, 'Training at a gym that doesn't teach technique'. The post was specifically posing the question about Standard's training approach and garnered many perspectives and opinions. Greg, and I decided to talk about the post, some o...

Send us Fan Mail On this epsiode, I welcome Dr Mike Piekarski aka. @doctor_kickass about to talk about S&C for MMA. As I discuss with Mike, I've believe that in being so focused on skill development in practice, I've been  guilty of undervaluing the role of S&C, in particular when it comes to competition. My concern with not cutting into valuable 'learning' time, inevit...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we delve a little more into the underpinning science of Ecological Dynamics. I recently read ' Introduction to Ecological Psychology ' written by Dr Julia Blau and Dr Jeff Wagman which was a terrific read. The book was just recently published in the summer of 2022. Had this book been available years ago, it might have saved me countless hours of confusion...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk with again with Coach Greg Souders of Standard Jiu-Jitsu , Rockville MD (Maryland). Greg is a black belt who founded Standard Jiu-Jitsu several years back following many years of training and competing with Team Llyod Irvin.  A product of the high repetition and traditional development approach, Greg largely abandoned the conventional ways in favor of a mor...

Send us Fan Mail Andy Lane is a professor and researcher in sports psychology at the University of Wolverhampton UK.  Andy joined me to discuss strategies and methods for developing and building psychological skills in training and competition. A former boxer with 50 fights, Andy is an advocate for responsible and ethical training/sparring and suggests alternative and effective ways to battle read...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Tom Parry is the founder and owner of Kestrel Performance Psychology . He has a Ph. D. in Human Performance from Indiana University with specializations in Skill Acquisition and Psychology. ​He wears many hats including Professor, Father, Coach and Consultant. These roles have blessed him with a detailed understanding of human behavior from various perspectives and the nuanced...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk with Coach Greg Souders of Standard Jiu-Jitsu , Rockville MD (Maryland). Greg is a black belt who founded Standard Jui-Jitsu several years back following many years of training and competing with Team Llyod Irvin.  A product of the high repetition and traditional development approach, Greg largely abandoned the conventional ways in favor of a more ecologica...

Send us Fan Mail For 30 years, Coach Greg Nelson has overseen the training and development of thousands of combat sports athletes at his gym The Academy in Minnesota. Among these fighters and champ that he has helped produce, Brock Lesnar, Kaitlin Young, Brock Larson, Sean Sherk, Dave Menne and Nick Thompson. He is also a regular part of UFC Straw-weight former reigning champ Rose Namajunas team....

Send us Fan Mail I finally snagged the boys from Emergence to come and talk to me about MMA. I have been following Shawn Myszka AKA @movementmiyagi since coming across his youtube channel several years ago. Shawn is an NFL skill coach and movement consultant, co-founder of Emergentmvmt.com, regular podcast and skill conference presenter and co-author of the recently published paper " Applying...

Send us Fan Mail UFC vet and UK MMA pioneer Leigh Remedios returns to chat on the Primal MMA podcast. Ireland's 'Team Torres' Coach Martin McLaughlin also joined the chat. Martin is diving deep into the Ecological Approach and speaks about how he is implementing the theory and principles of the Eco D practically on the mats. This was largely an informal chat between the coaches and...

Send us Fan Mail Todd Fossey is the founder of and Chief Instructor at Integrative Defense Strategies in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Today he accepted my invite to chat with me about managing anxiety and arousal in training and competiton, and how getting the right levels can help promote learning, skill development and performance. Todd has been in the sport coaching and motor-learning space for seve...

Send us Fan Mail Todd Fossey is the founder of and Chief Instructor at Integrative Defense Strategies in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Today he accepted my invite to chat with me about managing anxiety and arousal in training and competiton, and how getting the right levels can help promote learning, skill development and performance. Todd has been in the sport coaching and motor-learning space for seve...

Send us Fan Mail Cal Jones is both a Judo coach and practitioner from North Wales (UK). He also recently completed his Master Degree in sports science with a thesis on "Representative Learning Design". Cal is well connected in the skill acquisition community and is a frequent guest on the coaching podcast circuits. Should you want to reach out or follow Cal, he can be reached on his twit...

Send us Fan Mail Cal Jones is both a Judo coach and practitioner from North Wales (UK). He also recently completed his Master Degree in sports science with a thesis on "Representative Learning Design". Cal is well connected in the skill acquisition community and is a frequent guest on the coaching podcast circuits. Should you want to reach out or follow Cal, he can be reached on his twit...

Send us Fan Mail My old pal and returning guest Will Massey PhD,  Sport Psychologist, educator, coach, and practicing martial artist. In this episode, Will offers his insight into how we can foster and cultivate independent and self-directed learning within a group setting.  We cover, learned helplessness, implicit learning, practicing for performance vs practice for learning.  Motivation theory a...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest brings both a practical and theoretical perspective to skill development in marital arts. Dr. Alan Dunton is a former Irish National TKD team competitor and now a researcher and lecturer at Cork institute of technology.  Alan received his PhD in Skill Acquisition under the guidance of  former guest, professor  Ed Coughlan. ( aka. Dr SkillAcq ) . I really clicked...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest brings both a practical and theoretical perspective to skill development in marital arts. Dr. Alan Dunton is a former Irish National TKD team competitor and now a researcher and lecturer at Cork institute of technology.  Alan received his PhD in Skill Acquisition under the guidance of  former guest, professor  Ed Coughlan. ( aka. Dr SkillAcq ) . I really clicked...

Send us Fan Mail I finally snagged him! After months of pestering, Professor Rob Gray joined me to chat and answer some of my questions on skill development in martial arts. Rob is a giant in the skill acquisition space, and his voice has become all too familiar to me after spending much of my last few years working through his huge catalogue of podcasts of his show 'The Perception Action Pod...

Send us Fan Mail Coach Leigh Remedios is the owner and head coach of VT Jiu-Jitsu in England UK.  He is a life long martial artist, former professional fighter  and UFC vet, and a recipient of 4 different black belts.  My first contact and introduction to Leigh was an exchange over a post I'd made on a BJJ FB group about shrimping and bear crawling in jiu-jitsu practice being a waste of time....

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