MMA/Submission

MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), also known as "no-holds-barred" and "ultimate fighting", is the fastest-growing professional sport in the world. MMA encompasses the most effective combat tactics from multiple disciplines and styles of martial art. MMA is a complete fighting system. Students develop a variety of skills for striking, grappling, groundwork, submission holds, joint locks, and takedowns, as well as conditioning for speed, strength, endurance, and flexibility.

Submission Wrestling (also called Submission Fighting, and technically referred to as Submission Grappling) is a sports modality and a general term that is used to describe the aspect of martial arts and combat sports that focus on clinch and ground fighting with the aim of obtaining a submission using submission holds. Submission wrestling as a separate sport integrates many grappling arts into a single system, and can include techniques from a wide range of arts.

How I teach and what I teach:

Conditioning-Positioning-Striking-Submission
These four words make up the Training Continuum.

Conditioning

Notice that conditioning is first in the continuum and thusly forms the foundation on which all else is built. I believe that fights are won in the gym not in the ring. You may have all the technique in the world but if you don't have the gas in the tank it is all for naught.

Positioning

Is second in the continuum but seemingly last in most combat arts. Before the first punch is thrown, before the first shot is set-up, before the first submission is forced there comes the strategic positioning of your opponent's body and your own. Having knowledge of the inherent engineering weaknesses and strengths of any and all positions whether they are horizontal or vertical, static or fluid is integral to truly accessing the power of the final two components of the ESP continuum.

Striking

Is the third in the continuum I prefer the JKD/Pugilist base for my striking arts.
And it takes on a whole new ferocity when you have an appreciation of the training modality (functional drills) and positioning concepts. You can literally triple the power of your existing strikes just by adhering to the positioning concepts

Submission

Is the last but not least in the continuum? My submission wrestling is an exciting combination of both Eastern & Western grappling arts. It blends together the arts of Scientific Wrestling, Greco-Roman, Freestyle, all Mediterranean basin wrestling styles, Russian folk wrestling, Sambo, Pankratium, and of course English All-In Wrestling and Catch-as-Catch-Can. I train in call and response chains that present moves/counters/re-counters pursued to their feasible conclusion. I train this aspect of the game in this manner to better ingrain responses as logical flow rather than just a random series of "tap" choices.

After training with a who’s who in the grappling world I came upon a man that truly embraced all aspects of grappling and had a true understanding of what works like no other man I have trained with.I am very fortunate to hold the rank of Head Coach under one of the most knowledgeable progressive submission grapplers in the world Mark Hatmaker and I teach all of his material under his direct tutelage and authority.