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105 - Matt Thornton on Conor McGregor, Skepticism and Aliveness in the Martial Arts

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December 23, 2017 · 1:26:34

Matt Thornton is the founder of Straight Blast Gym, the organisation that produced Conor McGregor. He's also a skeptic with many harsh words for traditional martial arts and traditional training methods. Don't listen if you're easily offended!

00:51 - Matt's martial arts background
10:26 - The concept of "Aliveness"
20:41 - The "I" method of teaching and training martial arts
26:14 - John Kavanagh and Conor McGregor
32:37 - Where did fantasy martial arts come from?
42:55 - The evolution of martial arts
65:54 - False positives and negatives
73:26 - Skepticism

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