2024 marked the change from Combat Learning as a website and podcast hosted on WordPress and Anchor FM to hosted on Substack.

It triggered huge growth of the email list, and riding that excitement, I wrote a frenzy of new articles after only publishing three articles for the first four years of the podcast.

I’ve slowed down a bit since then, but I’m not done. More is to come! But in the meantime, I’ve assembled a list of posts that were most popular over these first two years of the “Substack era” of Combat Learning.

Best of Combat Learning ‘24 & ‘25

Combat Learning in 2026

I’ve had limited bandwidth between a demanding day job (I changed jobs this year), freelancing, and scraping through a doctoral program. I haven’t disappeared, and I am figuring out how I can carve out more time for my readers and listeners.

I also want to be a lot more active in promoting CLA in striking sports, especially sport taekwondo and karate. These are still virtually untouched spaces.

Combat Learning

Best of Combat Learning 2025 & 2024