After reconnecting with Master Rickson Gracie for a private session in Vero Beach, Alan Baker reflects on the depth of Jiu-Jitsu fundamentals, invisible mechanics, lineage, and why a living art must continue to grow with the practitioner.
A field-tested examination of Predator Alert in Keysi Fighting Method: how to maintain visual awareness, articulate the Pensador, and keep the larger environment online under close-range pressure.
A monthly range session forced Alan Baker to reconsider a familiar handgun grip. The result offers a larger lesson about adaptation, coaching, and the continuing path toward mastery.
Education should do more than inform you. Alan Baker explains how self-education, practical application, feedback, and humility build a more capable life.
After years of training with Joe Autera, Alan Baker finally began to understand what it means to feel your way through a driving problem. This reflection from Pocono Raceway explores intuition, simplicity, protective driving, and the lifelong work of becoming more capable.
Situational awareness is more than a slogan. C-TAC teaches students to prepare, train their eyes to see, recognize developing pressure, and make better decisions while they are still ahead of time.
Technique gives a martial artist the notes, but the Nucleus teaches the student how to play the music. Sifu Alan Baker explores how Keysi develops adaptable problem-solving through drills, laboratories, progressive variables, and self-education.
C-TAC students study two essential continuums: the range of responses available to them and the escalating behavior of a threat. Training both helps students recognize change, avoid falling behind in time, and make better decisions under pressure.
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.
