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How to Perform an Armbar
Whether it’s wrestling, mixed martial arts, or self-defense, the armbar should be on your repertoire of locks and holds. Armbars may not look as spectacular as spinal locks or as painful as chokeholds, but they are extremely effective at neutralizing your opponent [...]
How to Do Muay Thai
Efficient attacks from a strong body form the core of Muay Thai. Also known as Thai kickboxing, Muay Thai is used by many people as a sport, as a form of self-defense, or as part of exercise. If you want to [...]
How to Host a LAN Party
Many computer games often get better when played with other people. Many first-person shooters, strategy games, and other popular gaming genres have multiplayer capabilities that make it possible for many people to play the game all at once. Many games, in fact, are [...]
How to Apply a Sleeper Hold
If you watch mixed martial arts (MMA) bouts or professional wrestling matches, you may hear the announcer call many chokes and submission moves as “sleeper holds.” The sleeper hold stays true to its name: it forces the opponent to be knocked out, as [...]
How to Do a Triangle Choke
In judo and jiu-jitsu, chokes are an important part of self-defense and high-level competition. One of the more flamboyant and effective chokes in the grappling arts is the sankaku-jime, or the triangle choke. If you want to learn how to execute [...]
How to Do a Guillotine Choke
Choke holds are among the most important skills in mixed martial arts. When properly executed, chokes can win competition bouts or save your life in self-defense situations. One of the most popular choke holds in mixed martial arts is the guillotine choke; here’s [...]
How to Learn Judo
For many people who want to learn a self-defense system, judo ranks high in the list of options. Judo is popular because of its simplicity and effectiveness as a fighting style. If you want to learn the basics of judo, here [...]
How to Learn Jiu-Jitsu
In feudal Japan, the samurai needed to develop special techniques and strategies to immobilize and neutralize their opponents. The fighting style needed to be quick, efficient, and can go for the kill in a matter of seconds. The samurai then developed a system [...]
How to Relieve Stress with Exercise
Working at the office is not a very physical activity, but it can get very stressful. Deadlines, meetings, and just about everything about your job makes you want to pop open your collar and get rid of all that pent-up rage and [...]