The Pensador is one of Keysi Fighting Method’s most recognizable ideas, but it is not a single guard or shielding position. Sifu Alan Baker examines how its protective structures articulate, transition, strike, manipulate, and remain functional under pressure.
Physical training should do more than make you tired. Alan Baker presents 13 principles for developing an intelligent physical culture that improves how the human machine moves, performs, adapts, and serves you throughout life.
Serious education begins when experienced people can admit uncertainty, question assumptions, and pursue what they do not yet know. Alan Baker explores intellectual humility, thought tools, and the responsibility to build environments where knowledge and wisdom can evolve.
Stress does more than test performance. It can reinforce whatever responses have already been trained. Alan Baker explains why effective scenario training must be built through intelligent drilling, structured progression, and ingrained safety.
The Four-Man Box is not an uncontrolled four-on-one fight. It is a Keysi Fighting Method laboratory for developing 360-degree force and investigating how every action changes orientation, awareness, position, and the relationships surrounding the practitioner.
Greetings Living Mechanics Members! New Course: Living Mechanics Seminar – October 3, 2024
After a three-and-a-half-week teaching tour, Combatives at the Lake reinforced two enduring lessons: remain a perpetual student, and keep refining knowledge until what remains is simple, clear, and useful.
A submission is not the end of the conversation. Discover how intermediate grapplers learn to see connections, reactions, and opportunities instead of isolated techniques.
The Capability Academy exists because information alone does not create capability. This founding editorial explains why human beings need a lifelong path for developing judgment, discipline, awareness, communication, physical capacity, and the willingness to step forward when life demands action.
Most martial arts training begins after the fight has already started. Real conflict often begins much earlier, with emotion, argument, posturing, distance, and boundary violations. A complete self-protection system must give you lower-force options before assault tactics become necessary.
