105 - Matt Thornton on Conor McGregor, Skepticism and Aliveness in the Martial Arts
From The Strenuous Life Podcast
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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