Teaching Martial Arts by Combat Learning

Today I'm joined by Dr. Ian Renshaw, Associate Professor in Exercise & Nutrition Science at Queensland University of Technology at Brisbane. Professor Renshaw is a major researcher in the Constraints-led Approach to motor learning. In fact, you'll see his name on several of the books and studies recommended throughout the Combat Learning Podcast. In this episode, Professor Renshaw teaches the "Environment Design Principles," a set of 4 considerations that help guide us into creating effective constraints-led training sessions. Those principles are:- Session intention. - Constrain to afford.- Representative learning design. - Repetition without repetition. If you've ever struggled to take the broad principles of CLA and create a framework for consistently designing good practices, this is the missing piece for you. So if you're excited to jump in, hit the subscribe button on your podcatcher and enjoy the show.---Join the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Find Professor Renshaw:Website: https://www.theconstraintscollective.com/Email: i.renshaw@qut.edu.au---Produced by Micah PeacockIntro Theme by Micah PeacockOutro Music is Synergy by Juche This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.combatlearning.com/subscribe

Join Greg Souders as he revolutionizes Jiu Jitsu teaching with an ecological approach, shifting away from traditional techniques. Learn how he introduces submissions, designs practices, and coaches athletes in a completely new way. Explore the benefits of sand training and the unconventional path to mastering Jiu Jitsu.

Join the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Today I'm joined by Adam Haniver, a boxing coach out of the UK and one of the founding members of The Box Gathering, which is a community of practice for boxing coaches.In this episode, Adam talks to us about how he has moved his boxing program away from the traditional approach to a constraints-led approach. Of particular interest, we discuss why padwork is not very good training (because it pairs the wrong affordances with certain movements), and then we discuss what you can do instead of focus mitts to make training more effective.If you're excited to jump in, hit the subscribe button on your podcatcher and enjoy the show.---Find Adam:Website: https://www.theboxgathering.co.uk/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Hz9bo30cUIW5NHBaViozg/videos---Produced by Micah PeacockIntro Theme by Micah PeacockOutro Music is Synergy by Juche This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.combatlearning.com/subscribe

Join the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Today I'm joined again by one of my best friends, Master Thomas Huskey, a 4th dan in taekwondo and a fairly accomplished Olympic TKD coach in his own right.In this episode, Thomas and I begin by explaining in detail why martial artists outside of taekwondo are wrong in their criticisms of it. Then we transition our ire inward towards the taekwondo community itself, and why it is also wrong about its own criticisms of the Olympic style.Please be forewarned, this was immediately following a lot of drama after the summer Olympics last year (2021). Our tone is generally very condescending and bombastic, but we don't mean to upset people who have made these criticisms before. In reality, our tone was in direct response to a few individuals who decided they were going to be obnoxious and unfair in how they responded to some significant victories for Team USA in the Olympics at that time. So full disclosure, we were agitated.If you're excited to jump in, hit the subscribe button on your podcatcher and enjoy the show.---Find Master Huskey:YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5c8lmpzg1boA6BjMt0C95g/videosWebsite: https://cybertaekwondo.com/---Produced by Micah PeacockIntro Theme by Micah PeacockOutro Music is Synergy by Juche This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.combatlearning.com/subscribe

Join the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Today I'm joined again by Greg Koval, a 6th dan in taekwondo and owner of Devil Dog Martial Arts.In this episode, Greg and I catch up from when he first appeared on Combat Learning. Since then, Greg has taken the Constraints-led Approach and overhauled his entire curriculum to great success. We also talk about training terminology and other problems going on in the taekwondo training world.If you're excited to jump in, hit the subscribe button on your podcatcher and enjoy the show.---Find Greg:YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh5-5RJmb96cYOH8lgykHswWebsite: https://www.devildogmartialarts.com/---Produced by Micah PeacockIntro Theme by Micah PeacockOutro Music is Synergy by Juche This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.combatlearning.com/subscribe

Join the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Today I'm joined by Todd Fossey, founder of Integrated Defensive Strategies and a leading figure in the combatives community.In this episode, Todd unpacks how to systematically inoculate yourself against the stress caused by the fight or flight state during high pressure situations. We also discuss the problems with typical reality-based self-defense approaches to this process as well as issues in affective and representative learning designs for training.If you're excited to jump in, hit the subscribe button on your podcatcher and enjoy the show.---Find Todd Fossey:Website: https://thisisids.com/---Produced by Micah PeacockIntro Theme by Micah PeacockOutro Music is Synergy by Juche This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.combatlearning.com/subscribe

Join the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Today I'm joined by Alan Dunton, a PhD in skill acquisition, human performance specialist, and lecturer at TUDublin. He also has a background in ITF taekwondo.In this episode, we discuss a couple important studies done on self-organization and how to simulate a more realistic level of anxiety to competition. Then we discuss how the point system for sport taekwondo can be manipulated to aid constraints-led training of specific tactics without over-constraining learners. Finally, we clear up how to understand the difference between predictive and prospective control of movement, which is one of the key divides between Information Processing and Ecological Dynamics theories of motor control and learning.If you're excited to jump in, hit the subscribe button on your podcatcher and enjoy the show.---Find Alan Dunton:Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlanDunton---Produced by Micah PeacockIntro Theme by Micah PeacockOutro Music is Synergy by Juche This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.combatlearning.com/subscribe

Join the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---In part 2 of 2, Scott Sievewright returns to discuss the opportunity cost of traditional training methods. For those who haven't heard that term used for training, opportunity cost basically refers to the benefits to learning that we're potentially missing by spending time that *could* have been used on live training methods to do dead, formal, or isolated training methods instead.We also talk about the problem with copying elite coaches and how our biases surrounding them has screwed up talent development pipelines inside of combat sports and led to resistance to new and scientific ideas in training methodology.If you're excited to jump in, hit the subscribe button on your podcatcher and enjoy the show.---Find Scott Sievewright & Primal MKE:Website/Blog: www.primalmke.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/primal.mkeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChx8iNb2b8VSBrAoEybCLpw---Produced by Micah PeacockIntro Theme by Micah PeacockOutro Music is Synergy by Juche This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.combatlearning.com/subscribe

Join the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Today we're joined by Scott Sievewright, host of the Primal MMA podcast and an MMA striking coach who teaches a striking program almost entirely on an Ecological Dynamics or constraints-led approach to motor learning.In part 1 of 2, Scott and I work through why Ecological Dynamics is so hard to get the hang of. We have a discussion on how to balance representativeness and safety in training, since greater levels of representativeness make training more like competition and thus more risky. We also talk about when more isolated training methods might be warranted.If you're excited to jump in, hit the subscribe button on your podcatcher now and enjoy the show.---Find Scott Sievewright & Primal MKE:Website/Blog: www.primalmke.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/primal.mkeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChx8iNb2b8VSBrAoEybCLpw---Produced by Micah PeacockIntro Theme by Micah PeacockOutro Music is Synergy by Juche This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.combatlearning.com/subscribe

Try Martial Arts on Rails -- the easiest gym management software you'll ever use -- 30 days FREE, no credit card or sales call required: combatlearning.com/rails---Join the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Daniel Marino, 4th dan in tang soo do and founder of The Naihanchi Project, returns today to talk about training progressions in traditional martial arts.In part 2 of 2, we scrutinize the logic, or lack thereof, behind highly isolated, scripted, and formal exercises that are often strung together as some pertained middle ground between basics forms practice and free sparring. These intermediary exercises bloat curriculum and delay experience in the most practical learning methods available: sparring and live drilling. As the up and coming generation of martial arts masters, we have a responsibility not to pass down these ineffective time-wasters down to the next generation of martial artists, our students.If you're excited to jump in, hit the subscribe button on your podcatcher now and enjoy the show.---Find the Naihanchi Project:Facebook: facebook.com/naihanchiproject/YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UC21N7Ijp_uq8dok6CKxpO7Q---Produced by Micah PeacockIntro Theme by Micah PeacockOutro Music is Synergy by Juche This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.combatlearning.com/subscribe