Come on out to learn some of my most sneaky submissions and techniques including 3 ways to tap your opponent out in less than 3 seconds! Always fun to do I must say.

The workshop is being held at Joslin’s MMA (436 Concessions Street, Hamilton) from 1pm-3pm on Sunday, March 14, 2010. Come a little early, warm-up on your own and we’ll jump right into 2 solid hours of technical practice.

Perfect for students of all levels, this workshop will leave your training partners shocked and surprised next time you roll with them.

It’s going to be a fun one to teach!

To sign up or for info on this and many other of my workshops CLICK HERE

See you on the mats!

Learn the techniques that will make you the one doing the hitting, not the guy that’s getting hit.

In this series your learn:

- Tire and frustrate your opponent by making him miss while slipping and rolling away from every one of his punches.

- Smash your opponent with combinations that are specific to each evasive head movement.

- Hit way harder with less effort through the use of key technical details.

You can purchase the online video series and begin causing major problems for your sparring partners and opponents by CLICKING HERE.

Live BJJ, MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing and Submission Wrestling Technique plus a lot more!

It’ll all be available on a new page I’ve just added to the site and  I’m really excited about it. The page is called Jeff Joslin MMA live! and can be accessed through the Learn-MMA menu tab.

Look for future live streams from my home and workplace at Joslin’s Mixed Martial Arts. Content will include live group classes, private lessons, live special events, a weekly MMA show and anything else that will help provide MMA technique, info and entertainment for those in search of it.

Check out the page by CLICKING HERE.

I started the high school self defense program almost 14 years ago after one of my teachers asked me, a few years after graduating, to come back and teach martial arts to a few of his classes. Over time the program has evolved a lot and now I’m pretty busy running it all.

I have a few hours off now before teaching an MMA class at Joslin’s MMA tonight…

Should be fun a fun lesson to teach.

Anyways, I was up most of the night editing the videos from the X-Guard workshop that I taught last weekend. All 14 videos are now up online in the new PREMIUM CONTENT SHOP.

In addition to all the free basic instructional techniques already offered on the site, the Premium content shop will be the place to find intermediate and advanced level technique plus many new specialized video training series that will help you improve your game fast.

You can view a sample video from the X-Guard workshop on the Premium Content Shop page by clicking HERE. Enjoy!

I think it’s great to have a highly accomplished boxer within the ranks of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and I’m really looking forward to seeing him go at it in the Octagon. His success will depend on who he gets matched up with first.

From a style standpoint the ideal fighter for him to fight would be someone who likes to strike but possesses less than stellar take down skills. With some basic wrestling training, consisting mostly of drilling defensive movements, I believe Toney can prove to be very dangerous against any fighter who fits that description. Give him a fighter with solid take down ability  and I think he loses the fight sometime in the first round.

It’s all going to come down to what the UFC’s plans are with James Toney. Do they want to see him dominated in his first fight to send a message to the boxing world ? Or do they want to help him climb the ranks and build on his already substantial star status,  by giving him fights in which he has an average to good chance of winning?

Anyone in particular you think would be a good match up for James Toney?

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I ended up covering nearly everything I had hoped to at the workshop.

1. Basic X-guard entry and control
2. Two sweeps from the x-guard
3. Two x-guard entries from standing
5. Two x-guard entries from the guard
5. One mount escape into the x-guard
6. One back escape into the x-guard
7. One way to pass the x-guard

Next workshop will be taking place this coming Sunday. I’ll be focusing on one of my favourite aspects of striking, head movement. Learn how to slip and evade punches and fire back with some devastating combinations.

For more info on the head movement workshop or other upcoming workshops CLICK HERE.

In the morning I had the beginners work on some mount escapes and taught them how to avoid and defend the “cheap shot” type of punch that commonly happens in the street, at school, at the bar and many other places.

For the advanced class we focused on back control and how to properly choke your opponent when they are in a spot from which  they can easily defend the common collar chokes.

After the technique drilling we rolled for five 8 minute rounds alternating partners for each.

Man, I’ve been having so much fun rolling with the gi as much as I am. I really don’t think no-gi grappling compares to training with the gi. In no-gi training I find myself always doing the same set of movements and although they work well for me, it feels way too repetitive from time to time.

Gi grappling, on the other hand allows me to play so many different styles of jiu-jitsu; I use the spider guard, the x-guard, butterfly guard and several other styles of guard on the bottom and when it comes to passing the guard and submitting my opponent the options are almost endless.

A lot of fans watch the sport of  MMA fighting, where fighters do not wear the gi and come to the conclusion that wearing one is not an important part of training. I strongly disagree! It’s been my experience in Gi competitions and in training while wearing that traditional Japanese garment over many years that has honed my ground fighting skill set.

Also, an extremely high percentage of the ground fighters that have been successful in both MMA and submission wrestling –where fighters only wear short and a tshirt/rashguard– come from a traditional grappling background having done most of their training with their gis on.

Up next…An X-guard workshop tomorrow afternoon…with the gi.

For more info CLICK HERE.