Chris Malgeri

Why I value fun more than good

Because you stop caring for even a serious hobby when it stops being fun My old friend and teacher Christian Malgeri was in town last week and I was reminded of not only what excellence, but the pursuit of excellence looks like. It was humbling, motivating, and fun, and—all respect to my local martial arts[…]

Ronda Rousey go-to moves

Your go-to moves

Develop 2-3 go-to moves for each art you practice They’re famous–Ronda Rousey’s arm bar, Mirko Cro Cop’s left head kick. Go-to moves that are unstoppable even when you know they’re coming. There are 2 main benefits to having go-to moves aside from winning. First, it will quickly give you some measure of success and therefore[…]

Kombat Arts Mississauga

Building a successful gym: Kombat Arts & Joey de los Reyes

Advice from Joey de los Reyes, head trainer at Kombat Arts in Mississauga, ON on building a successful gym When I first met Joey de los Reyes’s group the first thing that struck me was their friendly demeanor. Having driven 4 hours to attend a seminar that evaporated due to miscommunication, they took it in[…]

your martial arts dollar

Your martial arts dollar

With a few seminars coming to town in March, I thought I’d write about how to get the most out of your martial arts dollar, and if you teach, how to advise your students for a better long-term relationship. First thing’s first: pay your teacher on time. They don’t write off aging-AR, they just close[…]

Deciding what techniques work for you

Be first (in adopting new techniques)

New techniques and how to add them to your fight game. Here is a flow chart that we intuitively use when adding new techniques to our arsenal, but is useful to write down explicitly: I’ll write more on this below, but recall my video on using hubad training from Filipino kali as a quick way[…]