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Hand-Fighting as a Foundation
In a previous post, I tried to elucidate what I feel are the advantages of hybrid grappling and catch wrestling over the much more popular regime of Brazilian jiu-jitsu–you can find this brief below. One disadvantage of BJJ that became a prohibition against my continued practice of the art after 10+ years of study was…
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Four Reasons to Make Upper-Body Takedowns Your Grappling Nucleus
Most jiu jitsu schools coopt their takedown curricula–if they indeed offer any–from folkstyle and freestyle wresting techniques, and particularly leg attacks (although occasionally snapdowns, front headlocks, and short offense might occasionally be addressed if the respective coach has a scholastic wrestling background). This seemingly provocative claim is crafted with a strong degree of experience–in my…
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Family Class? Where’s the Kids’ Class???
You might have noticed here at HHGC our coaching staff are nerdy wrestlers, and we look to empirical research as often as we can—and when relevant studies are available—to influence our grappling pedagogy. As an example, peer-reviewed literature has greatly informed how we’ve setup HHGC’s ‘family class’, wherein we strongly encourage a parent or mentoring…
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How We ‘Teach’ Grappling at HHGC
As difficult for me at times as it is to accept, my studies to become a better grappling coach has exposed a nugget of truth–the amount of time I dedicate to instruct a technique or movement (or series of techniques or movements) may be irrelevant and/or indirectly proportional to a student’s eventual successful application of…
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Wrist Escape Primer–for the Playground, Mat, and Beyond!
In our previous post describing what I believe are the advantages of catch wrestling over Brazilian jiu jitsu, I added training without the gi as a plus in our catch/hybrid grappling system. Again, I’ll elaborate further on these points in a later post, but here’s an immediate observation to queue up the tutorial below, one…
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The Four Pragmatic Advantages of Catch Wrestling When Compared to Jiu Jitsu
If you live in or around Fort Collins, you definitely know about Horsetooth Mountain. But what’s with the ‘Hybrid Grappling’ part of our appellation? For our club, it’s the synthesis of functional wrestling styles, interwoven to create a complete grappling martial art, regardless of ruleset or circumstance. The foundation of our hybrid approach is catch-as-catch-can…
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Our First Classes begin Sunday, October 23!
Our classes begin on Sunday, October 23 and then will occur weekly every Thursday evening and Sunday morning thereafter. Your first class is free, and then $5/person/class thereafter. We look forward to seeing you there! Family classes Sundays, 10 – 11 a.m. Thursdays, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Adult classes Sundays, 11 a.m. – noon Thursdays,…
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