1. We are lucky enough to have jiu jitsu black belt John Kavanagh over this weekend at the Griphouse. John has been coaching me from the very start of my career and has also been a great mentor for the whole running a martial arts gym business. He will be coaching for 8 hours over the weekend and covering a lot of great no gi guard variations. Theres still a few places if your interested thegriphouse@gmail.com.
2. Ive been giving some serious thoughts to giving myself an off season of sorts. An off season is present in most sports, its a period of time when you dont train for the sport but focus on making yourself a better athlete.
Up to this point i have been trying to do everything at the same time jits, wrestling, Muay thai and strength and conditioning. I cant help but thinking that im limiting development in all these areas by not specialising.
The shear volume of cardio we do training for the sport has got to be limiting strength gains and I am constantly banged up which can...