A 7-chapter, self-guided preparation work for competition-focused fighters. Backed by real-world practice to close the gap between training and competing in MMA, BJJ, and submission grappling.
- No advice changes a thing
- Your head is full of motivational quotes
- Patience is wearing thin
Because the right inputs change the game quickly. This is what this program does. It reorganizes how you think, train, and respond under pressure.
Noticeable shifts can show up within 1–3 months.
A complete decision-making and preparation system breaking down the brain-body alignments relevant to competition results — structured across seven chapters. Includes practical exercises, thinking drills, and illustrations to speed up application.
Each chapter isolates one crucial area that cannot be adjusted by training harder, thinking positive, or copying others. Each piece stands on its own, but the system is the real weapon.
Chapter 1
This chapter maps the demands and internal mechanisms related to fight sports. You’ll review your fight-relevant features and learn how preparation changes the default settings. You also build a framework for structuring your prep work.
Chapter 2
This chapter goes through how confidence forms, how it collapses, and why it’s often misunderstood in fight contexts. You’ll learn what brain–body dynamics shape confidence, and why other factors often matter more under pressure.
Chapter 3
A step-by-step look at what changes in the brain and body during competition. Using short case studies, this chapter shows how opponents are read, risk is assessed, and the responses that drive the game are selected before conscious decisions are made.
Chapter 4
This chapter focuses on building long-term preparation routine with fundamental impact. Through structured exercises, you’ll develop internal stability, responsiveness, and decision-making patterns that holds under the pressure of a competition.
Chapter 5
Preparation doesn’t stop until the first grip is made at the event. This chapter covers methods used in the days, hours, and moments leading up to matches, helping you stay functional in noisy, high-pressure environments.
Chapter 6
When results stop improving after a certain point, the issue is rarely effort. This chapter discusses common plateaus in competition and provides practical ways to reorganize how you go about competing.
Chapter 7
Losing carries more potential than winning, but only if handled properly. This chapter looks at how lost matches affect future ones and how to work with them to get the most out of the experience.
This handbook condenses multiple years of work with fighters and coaches, supported by targeted research into operating under pressure and resilience in close-combat contexts. It was developed as a response to motivational noise, suffer-culture, and quick-fix mindset advice, focusing instead on underlying dynamics and approaches that hold up in competition.
A strategic framework built for serious fighters who want a rare edge.
The work done with the Brain & Combat chapters permanently changes how you prepare and compete by aligning how you think, train, and fight. No theory for its own sake. Everything is meant to have an impact.
The Brain & Combat framework breaks the pattern and gets you out from competition traps.
7 strategic chapters that stack into a complete competition system that permanently changes how you prepare and compete.