Strong basics and fundamentals are essential if you hope to find success on the mat. To put it simply, those flashy techniques you see on YouTube aren’t going to work in a live situation if you lack basic skills. It’s sort of...

  When running into a stout defense your Offense can feel like hitting a wall. While there are probably numerous reasons why this may be occurring, often times there are ways that you can adjust a technique on the fly. When first learning...

O Goshi is classified as a koshi waza (“koshi” means the area above and around the sacrum and “waza” means technique) and as such is an incredibly powerful technique. As we are using our hips as the fulcrum of the throw we are...