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This is a pet peeve of mine: rehab and exercise are the same thing: Adequately stressing tissue to create a desired response: strength, mobility, hypertrophy etc.. Rehab just means exercising injured or damaged tissue. What should you do? You should do proper rehab and make your body function...

http://www.bjjee.com/articles/developing-squeeze-chokes/

The straight ankle lock is NOT just a pain move. I wrote out an article and filmed a video explaining how the ankle lock works. The science of the straight ankle lock Article where I explain the submission: Article where I explain the difference between an ankle lock and achilles compression:

Yes I trained at Vamos for 3 years while I was in grad school and have since moved across the the country to the west coast. There are several options: Vamos: Awesome instruction, jiu jitsu + muay thai with a very accommodating schedule. I had a very good experience training at this school...

Good thing you got it addressed. Often people have broken wrist bones and don't realize thinking it was a 'sprain'. This causes necrosis of one of the bones which requires pretty massive surgery.

Tendinopathy means one of three things (or a combination of): 1. You lack strength / muscular endurance for the specified task ( jiu jitsu) 2. The structures (muscles) lack the necessary length 3. The task (jiu jitsu) causes more stress than the structures can tolerate. Most likely if you are...

Henry is the best jiu jitsu instructor I've ever met, no exaggeration. I was immediately able to incorporate details into my game from his lessons. He doesn't really shows 'techniques', but instead he focuses more on concepts and simple ways to make basic movements more efficient.

Typically any bulge or herniation is in the posterior, which is exacerbated by cervical/lumbar flexion/ forward bending of your neck/back. Any inversion-based guard will not be good. If playing butterfly guard make sure your trunk is rigid. Avoid getting stacked.

The problem with the 10th planet style for point tournaments is that all those positions are penalized. You get no points for getting to the truck, if you are on bottom half guard and your shoulder is pinned your opponent gets an advantage. The problem with rubber guard is it takes time to get...

Go to PT and if they feel you need an MRI then get one after. I always encourage people to try conservative physical therapy first before going the surgery route. FYI I'm a physical therapist so I am biased.

Go to a sports physical therapist. All these bit of advice are good but they specific to different low back deficits which you may not have. Prone press-ups and repeated extensions are good for radicular symptoms (pain that travels down the leg). Abdominal stability/core training can be...

I'm not a sambist, but I appreciate your efforts in growing the sport in America. I really like the idea and concepts of the martial art and would love to cross train if I had the opportunity.

Work + school + training + lifting = no social life and no sleep. Use lifting as a tool to prep you more training, you should cut out all the crap that is unnecessary. You should cut out cardio and only do 4 core lifts. In and out in 45 minutes. Quality over quantity when it comes to...

Tendinitis is acute inflammation of the tendon because the activity is stressing the tendon too much or the tendon isn't strong enough to handle the force. Activity modification, strengthen and lengthen as appropriate. Strengthen the entire arm, forearm + grips. Reduce your reliance on...

Agreed. I'm a new grad PT and without seeing you in person to put you through motions and tests I still can't make out too much. If there is anything from your subjective that would make me think ligament damage it would be the complaint of instability. Go see someone.

This is an awesome deal.

Just blue.

That's the problem with modern jiu jitsu. Old school jiu jitsu would address common responses that untrained people make. After a few months of training white belts start learning to avoid these mistakes. Since jiu jitsu now is more focused on sport and competition is rarely seen / taught how...

Eddie is a fun guy to watch.

Awesome! I'll try these out.