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The Primal MMA Coaching Podcast

Scott Sievewright and Ben Schultz

The Primal MMA podcast brings together coaches, athletes, and sports scientists to discuss training and practice design for Mixed Martial Arts. Exploring the science of skill acquisition, human motivation, and sports psychology, the podcast seeks answers to the question, can we get better quicker?
Episodes
#47 - "ACTION ~ perception" Coach James de Lacey on building action capacities for combat sports. February 21, 2024
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#47 - All Choking Aside - Dr Andy Bass talks about self-talk, attention and focus and how these can interfere with us all on game day.February 05, 2024
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#46 - The gimmicks of the Gram - Coach Jon Mackey returns to discuss agility ladders and other questionable training tools. November 15, 2023
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#45 - Game on! - Kit Dale and Greg Souders on ditching the drills to become better quicker!November 01, 2023
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#44 - A student's perspective - Standard's Noah Shaffner talks about learning to grapple at the black temple. October 24, 2023
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#43 - Managing Expectations - Rory Singer on playing the long game in developing Mixed Martial Artists. September 29, 2023
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#42 - Demystifying Strickland's win over Adesanya - Shawn Myszka joins me to discuss last week's UFC title fight.September 15, 2023
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#41 - Grappling with memory and perception - Ed Ingamells on July 13, 2023
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#40 - On the shoulders of the "Aliveness" Giant! - SBG's Adam Singer on alive training environments.June 25, 2023
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#39 - 'Second Guessing the Traditional Approach' - Coach Josh Root on doubling down on the Ecological Approach. June 13, 2023
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#38 - 'It takes two to Tango' - Professor Alan Dunton on 'information rich' training practice to develop metastability. May 18, 2023
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#37 - 'Light for Learning' - Coach Jon Mackey on Kickboxing Training and Sparring Culture.May 10, 2023
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#36 - Developing wizards from Oz - Ricky Pachon on taking his Gracie comp team ecological. February 17, 2023
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#35 - The Black Temple's Greg Souders - Coach Souders interview with Brian Willis. January 13, 2023
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#34 - On the other side of the mic - My interview with Brian Willis talking about Primal's approach to practice design for striking and MMA. January 13, 2023
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#33B - Battling the Biases! Josh Peacock on resistance to change in combat sports training. January 05, 2023
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#33A - Fighting the fallacies! Josh Peacock on resistance to change in combat sports training (PART 1 of 2). January 03, 2023
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#32 - Embodied and Embedded! Danny Hatcher talks about Ecological Dynamics and how we learn skills. December 15, 2022
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#31 - Another Drill Ditcher! Kaboom's Kabir Bath talks to me about going full ecological!December 02, 2022
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#30 - The Reddit Technique Debate! Greg Souder's clarifies some misconceptions.December 01, 2022
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#29 - Shifting the Red line! @Doctor_Kickass on increasing physical capacities. November 17, 2022
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#28 - If Fred learned to fight! Professors Blau and Wagman discuss their new book, 'Introduction to Ecological Psychology'.October 31, 2022
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#27 - Play the whole game every day! Greg Souders is back to talk about practice design. September 26, 2022
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#26 - Pugilist turned Professor! Dr Andy Lane, chats about developing psychological skills for combat, in and out of the ring.September 21, 2022
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#25 - Thoughts on Coaching! Dr Tom Parry talks about his recent twitter thread on effective coaching. September 09, 2022
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