On the mat · Guard passing · Fundamentals · Mindset
The Warm-Up Was the Technique
The beast walk everyone treats as cardio was the entire pass. Why the boring thing at the start is so often the technique itself, in disguise.
We spent the first several minutes of Sunday’s class doing beast walks — crawling forward on hands and feet, knees pinched, hips twisting side to side, dropping to a forearm and back to a palm. To a newcomer it looks like conditioning: sweaty, awkward, the sort of thing you endure before the real class begins.
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