Protective driving instructor coaching beside an SUV on a cone course, with the title ‘When Less Becomes More: Becoming an Intuitive Driver.

When Less Becomes More: Learning to Become an Intuitive Driver

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.

Two martial artists training striking skills while developing an intelligent physical culture.

Build Your Own Intelligent Physical Culture

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.

Sifu Alan Baker training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu during a live grappling session.

When One Submission Becomes Many

A submission is not the end of the conversation. Discover how intermediate grapplers learn to see connections, reactions, and opportunities instead of isolated techniques.

Sifu Alan Baker teaching the Corte De Manga Elbow from Keysi Fighting Method. Keysi Fighting Method close-quarter elbow training with Sifu Alan Baker. Corte De Manga Elbow training from the Keysi Fighting Method. Keysi Fighting Method shielding and attachment training. Sifu Alan Baker teaching Keysi close-quarter self-protection.

The Corte De Manga Elbow in Keysi Fighting Method

Sifu Alan Baker teaching the Corte De Manga Elbow from Keysi Fighting Method.
Keysi Fighting Method close-quarter elbow training with Sifu Alan Baker.
Corte De Manga Elbow training from the Keysi Fighting Method.
Keysi Fighting Method shielding and attachment training.
Sifu Alan Baker teaching Keysi close-quarter self-protection.

Rorion Gracie speaks at the CSW World Conference about the garage years, the Gracie Challenge, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in America, Royce Gracie, and the birth of the UFC.

Rorion Gracie at the CSW World Conference: The Garage Years, the Gracie Challenge, and the Birth of the UFC

At the CSW World Conference, Rorion Gracie shared a powerful firsthand account of the early days of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in America, his journey from Brazil to the United States, the garage years in Hermosa Beach, the challenge matches, and the vision that eventually helped launch the UFC.

This video captures more than a speech. It preserves a piece of martial arts history from one of the men most responsible for introducing Gracie Jiu-Jitsu to the United States and helping reshape the global martial arts landscape.

The Superpower of Selective Attention

In today’s world, your attention is under constant attack. At any given moment, there are countless forces competing for your focus. Notifications, messages, news, social media, conversations, and problems are all pulling at your awareness, trying to redirect your attention away from what you are doing and toward something else. Most of the time, that “something else” has very little value.