Fight Study 165 – UFC 322, ONE 173, RWS
We are back! Discussing UFC 322, ONE 173, and RWS. Fight Study is essential listening for thoughtful martial arts fans.
Southpaw posts
Adapting to Training Frequency
(Originally a social media post, so the audience is non-LMA "coaches.")
Training frequency determines the approach and the results. Coaches love to imagine ideal pro...
2025-11-15 16:03:57 +0000 UTC View PostCTE in Combat Sports
Important documentary about brain health in combat sports
To access the complete 2025-11-13 23:58:42 +0000 UTC View Post
November 2025 Highlights: Part 1
This is a highlight from two recent muay Thai exhibition matches featuring LMAists (black headgears) from the Liberation Martial Arts Learning Lab.
It's been over two years of LMA—no muay T...
2025-11-10 20:10:56 +0000 UTC View PostHead and Neck Sugo
Head and Neck Sugo invites us into one of the most vulnerable and sensitive regions of the body—the head and neck—where even slight pressures can ripple throughout the entire system. I...
2025-11-08 00:48:33 +0000 UTC View PostOver-Under Sugo
In Over-Under Sugo, we explore one of the most fundamental relational puzzles in contact movement: how two bodies share and contest the space between their trunks. The framework is simple...
2025-11-03 19:35:34 +0000 UTC View PostAn Education on Training Gloves
Understanding your gear will make you a better fighter.
Remember to spray protectant on your training gear when you first get i...
2025-11-01 16:03:35 +0000 UTC View PostHead-to-Head Sugo
A spirited activity exploring balance, structure, and connection through co-regulated pressure with the head and neck.
Where Solo Neck Wrestling built stability and mobility, and
2-on-1 Sugo
Through the tangling of the arms, 2-on-1 Sugo develops spatial reasoning, pattern recognition, and creative problem-solving through the body. It cultivates a keen spatial awareness and the...
2025-10-23 00:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostSunday LMA Class
We have a Sunday Liberation Martial Arts group class in Los Angeles. Get hands-on live experience from day one. $20 a person.
2025-10-20 19:49:20 +0000 UTC View PostUnlocked: Have Gi, Will Travel (Supercut)
This trip took place in 2008, and this series originally aired in 2014. These experiences sowed the seeds for Southpaw and eventually Liberation Martial Arts.
To access the comple...
2025-10-19 15:58:55 +0000 UTC View PostUpper Arm Sugo
Fostering adaptive, embodied grappling through sustained struggle over upper arm control.
- 2025-10-17 16:31:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Safe Hands, Spirited Contact
Protecting your hands means strengthening your fingers, stabilizing your wrists, and learning to shape your hands.
Shaping your hands is not just about self-protection—it's also about preve...
2025-10-16 02:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostTrauma-Informed Intuitive Eating
Diet simply means the way one eats. In theory, everyone has a diet (as in eating pattern). But these days, when someone says they’re “going on a diet,” it implies something prescriptive—a s...
2025-10-14 01:41:06 +0000 UTC View PostStable Roots, Spirited Play
Strong ankles and feet don't just need mobility—they need stability. Joint stability means your joints stay in place when force is applied, helping you transfer force and prevent injury. That's w...
2025-10-13 00:38:24 +0000 UTC View PostUFC 320: Cory Sandhagen Was Onto Something
When I'm analyzing UFC events, it's not always the headliner that grabs me—it's the fights that offer something to dissect. At UFC 320, that fight was Merab Dvalishvili (c) vs. Cory Sandhagen for...
2025-10-08 00:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostWhy Wellness Is Getting MORE Conspiratorial
Health and fitness spaces have always been political. What’s new is the acceleration of old patterns—purity, distrust, and “clean living”—which are now louder and more profitable through ...
2025-10-03 21:10:05 +0000 UTC View PostAgainst Japanism
As a Korean radical, I am regularly horrified by the persistence of Japanism—a fandom for Japan shaped by colonialism and soft power—among Western-educated people. By "Western-educated," I not ...
2025-09-30 01:54:44 +0000 UTC View PostReinforcing Our Roots
These activities are invitations to reinforce your roots—not by drilling them into rigid form, but by creating the conditions for strength, balance, and composure that future activities can grow ...
2025-09-29 18:52:12 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A With LMA
Someone asked us some questions about why LMA is worth supporting, and we're sharing our answers here in the hope that they will resonate with you, too.
Q: Why support Liberation Mart...
2025-09-24 00:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostPush-Pull
A partner activity that fuses elements of Bulldozer and Tow Truck. Partners share weight and momentum at collision range, learning to recycle gravity, foster safety, and transform...
2025-09-23 20:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostCrisscrossing Crabs
Fostering shared rhythm, tempo, haptic sensitivity, and co-created movement
The activity asks practitioners to dwell in this unstable coordination, learning t...
2025-09-16 16:09:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Attached Crabs
Exploring how attachment alters movement, awareness, and intuition
This is not about smoothing movement into uniformity but about discovering what gets co-sha...
2025-09-12 16:30:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Crisscrossing
Co-creating rhythm while progressing through space—no talking, only communicating through touch.
SDS9 – S5E26: "Call to Arms"
This episode was recorded on August 31, 2025.
We recap "Call to Arms" and discuss the things to come.
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2025-09-08 20:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostSDS9 – S5E25: "In the Cards"
This episode was recorded on August 3, 2025.
We recap "In the Cards" and discuss how even the baddies have interior lives.
You can also listen to this episode directly from your favorit...
2025-08-31 16:37:50 +0000 UTC View PostHead-to-Head Connection
This...
2025-08-29 22:08:55 +0000 UTC View Post