When you pick a martial arts gym, you're not just picking whatever you imagine to be the most effective art, you're also picking a long-term relationship for your mental/emotional life, self-esteem, and nervous system. Choose wisely.

Reviewing the popular budget glove from Proforce

The line from Squid Game 1, "If she moves to the US, you know what will happen?" hits so hard now

Many martial arts schools treat movement like factory work. Repeat a technique three or four times. Memorize it. Move on. Speed replaces depth. Compliance replaces learning. LMA activities operate on a different timescale.

What gets people in the martial arts door is making a safe place for beginners. But what keeps them coming back is taking them beyond beginner.

From zero experience to full-contact sparring. This clip comes from the Liberation Martial Arts online curriculum, where adults learn martial arts through care, play, and self-direction. This activity is part of a progressive system designed for people who never thought martial arts was for them.

Some people hide behind being ACAB and anti-authoritarian to excuse their terrible behavior and politics

Why Goon Guard, a microwaveable mouth guard, is the one I recommend most

One of the lasting things Southpaw did was introduce the term "chud" into the MMA and martial arts sphere 💪

Can we make this a thing? I really want this to be a thing.

Outside of the US, whenever a politician, political group, or government is being awful, they say "What are we, a bunch of Americans? And to highlight the message, they do face swaps of their leaders with various US Presidents, Israeli leaders, or just white billionaires.

Fans told us SDS9 is exactly the discussion they need in these political times. So we listened. Here is season 6!

Learning to be in your body is transformative

There's a whole lotta "I know what we did was wrong, but they liked it" coming from USians right now

The US really does love highlighting the lived experiences of the gusanos from every country

Trump says “we are going to run” Venezuela

We have an online curriculum that teaches people how to teach themselves martial arts. This video teaser is from a section that bridges wrestling to striking. But no need to be intimidated, our curriculum is progressive and will show you how to build competitive sparring skills from the ground up.

Normative claims are prevalent but the understanding of human motivation is lacking

Normative claims are prevalent but the understanding of human motivation is lacking

Training for the New Year

People may start a martial art or a combat sport for self-defense, but they stick with it because they fall in love with the art or sport, not because they fall in love with self-defense. What keeps you in the practice is a different motivator than what gets you in the door.

Whenever you're excited about something (for instance martial arts), there will be mean people ready to cut you down. Most of the time it’s not about you. It’s about what your excitement brings up in them. That's not your problem to fix.

Covered CA rates about to go up 97% for CA residents

Someone gave me these gloves but didn't know anything about them. So I did a deep dive.

It's also factually your highest percentage way to get to doing, you know, the actual jiujitsu & securing a win vs attempting a takedown. Stats back that HEAVILY. Takedowns don't matter AT ALL. What actually matters is what happens in the immediate aftermath of the takedown.

Types of US martial arts gyms 1. The pro cop and military gym 2. The pro cop and military gym 3. The pro cop and military gym 4. The liberal pro cop and military gym

Lots of training trauma comes out when people begin coming to the LMA Learning Lab. Not because that's intentional, but when confronted with a healthier alternative, they begin to see all the unhealthy things that happened that were first seen as normal

Unfortunately, in every community, there are people who are like, "Look! People who are happy. Let me go cut them down."

🚩 when people feminize or make gay jokes about guard pull or any martial art movement for that matter. People in alternative spaces, don't bring that over from chud spaces or normalize it in your new space

We're in a different place from where we started

Gear deep dives that are oddly satisfying

If you use your 16oz sparring gloves to smash the bag and pads, you no longer have 16oz sparring gloves

We have an online curriculum that teaches people how to teach themselves martial arts. This covers disrupting alignment through turning and tilting. We have hundreds of people who knew nothing about martial arts learning through our online program

FOIA releases some redacted US information 40 years after the fact, which oddly is when people think all the bad stuff ended 🤔

Being invested in consistency and getting better at martial arts means investing in being a safer training partner

Being a gearhead also means being a gear scientist. These are Vali Lancer Muay Thai gloves. I'm doing a whole forensic about how these gloves got destroyed and how to prevent it from happening to your gloves.

The most overlooked but most important context to martial arts training is frequency. If you're the teacher, how often people show up defines how and what you teach. For students, set your expectations based on your training frequency

It's sad, dangerous, and irresponsible to only be aware of brain damage when you insult people but not when it comes to sparring or fighting.

Learn how we use goals to build skills. In our approach, skills are what bloom in the backdrop of a goal. Whether you’re new to training or already deep in your art, LMA refines what you do and takes it further. — #Liberationmartialarts #LMA #LMALearningLab #LMAapproach

Trans martial artist describing her experiences inhabiting progressive, inclusive gyms built on conventional teaching and training models, and the worldview those models quietly carry. scarletfury.substack.com/p/free-to-be...

Analyzing these worn shin guards today

When I was a kid (80s), if someone could remember 12 phone numbers, they were just normal. Today, if someone can remember 2 phone numbers, I'm like, goddamn you're a genius!

Been in martial arts 40 years. Cornered pro mma fights to amateur muay Thai and was part of one of the best BJJ comp teams. Yet I still find inspiration from Webtoons. I am a dork lol

Sometimes I write a cool little thing in the LMA curriculum I'm proud of and I'm like, I hope someone reads that 🙏

My Favorite Value Mouthguard

The job of an LMA training organizer is to remind practitioners to try things because trying things is not intuitive for people raised in the Imperial Core.

Martial skills without knowing how to treat people are skills without soul. 90% of being in martial arts is being in community