Combat Learning

Boxing Combos are Information-Driven w/ Adam Haniver

Effective boxing combos can't be taught. They emerge to solve striking-specific scoring problems as a function of interaction between opponents.

Jul 17 • Josh Peacock

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How to Map the Constraints-led Approach (CLA) to Taekwondo

It looks like we've broken containment--here's some pointers to help prevent confusion while TKD coaches get more educated on, and experiment with, CLA.

Jul 8 • Josh Peacock

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June 2026

Attention, Knowledge, & Memory: Bridging Constructivism and Ecological Dynamics

Exploring 3 Research-based Practices from Educational Psychology and how the Relate to the Ecological Approach

Jun 5 • Josh Peacock

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April 2026

Attention, Knowledge, and Memory

3 Research-based Practices from Educational Psychology

Apr 28 • Josh Peacock

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February 2026

Aliveness as a Training Methodology

How many key principles of nonlinear pedagogy and the constraints-led approach are enveloped by the aliveness philosophy in martial arts.

Feb 22 • Josh Peacock

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December 2025

Best of Combat Learning 2025 & 2024

Looking back on the first two years of the Substack era.

Dec 21, 2025 • Josh Peacock

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September 2025

Ecological Dynamics of Injury Recovery

Exploring an ecological and constraints-led physical therapy practice from the angle of another practitioner.

Sep 24, 2025 • Josh Peacock

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July 2025

You Need More Variability w/ Andre Grandbois

You could always use more variability. We discuss game selection variety, injury prevention, differential learning, and more.

Jul 31, 2025 • Josh Peacock

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Why Details and Drilling Don't Work for Us w/ Andre Grandbois of Grappling Garden

Coach Andre and I talk about our experiences training jiu jitsu and the disparities between the expectations our coaches gave us versus the results we…

Jul 16, 2025 • Josh Peacock

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June 2025

Coach Firas Zahabi's Big Dumb Oopsie

They're sending their best now, and their best are not the best.

Jun 30, 2025 • Josh Peacock

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Notes on Skill Games and Kicking Pressure

What I learned about CLA from a few minutes back at coaching.

Jun 19, 2025 • Josh Peacock

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May 2025

The Task Complexity Taxonomy

Version 1 of a classification system to help you reliably scale games from simple to complex--and how to use it.

May 29, 2025 • Josh Peacock

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