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MMA Takedowns: Running CSW Style

Erik Paulson shares some running takedowns for MMA and Self Defense from his CSW playbook.

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MMA Techniques: The Mat Wars Saga Episode 1

On a Tactical level we look at paradigm shifts. Sometimes, you get so stumped trying to untangle the limbs and levers, the weights and pulleys of a technique that you basically hit a dead end. A mental block if you will. When I experience these I usually try and attack the problem at the tactical level. That is, to look at the problem itself from a completely different vantage point.

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MMA Striking Techniques – CSW Style

Some videos more or less speak for themselves. This is one of them. Ben “The Badger” Jones, puts some mojo on Coach Kiser during the 2011 CSW Fighter and Instructor’s Camp. Jaw Breakers, Liver Shots and Sweep Kicks abound. Ahhhh, I love being the camera man sometimes.

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The Long Sit Out

A season filled with countless losses and 1 victory over the only kid skinnier and weaker than myself coupled with the humiliation a scrawny kid feels after being pointed at and laughed at while wearing his wintergreen tights and doing bridges on the mat in the pre-match warm ups, pretty much sealed the fate of my wrestling career (if I can call it that), and the lesson on the Long Sit Out would have to wait another 20 some odd years

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Extreme MMA Techniques – The Taint Lock

And then you put his toes where?!? That’s right, that taint your @$$ and that taint your scrode. Yes folks, it’s come to this, the infamous Erik Paulson, “Taint Lock”.

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CSW, CACC, BJJ, MMA Training, Oh my!

Erik Paulson 2010 Utah Seminar, Billy Robinson CACC Certification 2010 Utah, Annual CSW Fighter and Instructor’s Camp California 2010, Ica Medina BJJ X-Guard and Advanced Half Guard Seminar Utah 2010 and everything in between.

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4 Principles That Changed My Grappling Game

After watching this, scene unfold, time and time again I asked my instructor Khru Will when it was that he determined when to fight for top and when to start working the bottom game techniques. His answer was simple. “If you have gas in the tank, it should be used to get to the top.”

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Shooto Lockflow Series

Published on 12:28 am by in Featured, Submissions, Video

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Shooto Lockflow Series

O.k. Superfans, this week I stumbled upon a series of videos that is absolutely awesome. Especially for those of you who enjoy the culture of technique and Martial Art as much as you do watching the latest moves on the mat. This is a timeless classic that holds an important place in the history of [...]

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Rolling Elbow Compression Lock

Combat Submission Wrestling Coach and Thai Boxing Instructor Khuen Khru Alvin Chan, state CSW representative for Maryland shares one of his favorite submissions, the CACC Rolling Elbow Compression Lock.

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I’m sure I’ve said it before, but I’m going to keep on saying it until the day I die. My favorite part of training in the Martial Arts is meeting the wonderful, high class people. Some of whom have become good friends of mine. Khuen Khru/Coach Alvin Chan out of Baltimore Maryland is one of [...]

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