Skepticism is your best defense against the lies, hoaxes and magical thinking that are so rampant in the traditional martial arts.

Join us on this Grapplearts Radio interview where I talk with Jeff Westfall about chi, the evolution of kata, insane martial arts teachers, Indonesian Silat counters to BJJ submissions, the chimpanzee brain, the fight or flight reflex, signs that you might have joined a cult, the differences between traditional training methods and reality-based training methods in the martial arts, and much more…

This podcast episode, along with all my others, are available on my Strenuous Life Podcast, which you can subscribe to with a few easy clicks! Choose your audio player below and click on it to open up The Strenuous Life Podcast and from there, you can click to subscribe, or simply search for this episode which is episode # 29.

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Stephan Kesting is a BJJ black belt and runs Grapplearts.com. You can download ‘A Roadmap for BJJ’ – his book about learning jiu-jitsu fast – for free by clicking here.

Jeff Westfall operates the Rising Phoenix Martial Arts Academy in Evansville, Indiana, as well as hosting the Martial Brain podcast.

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