Questions for the boicast

Hey jack could you recommend some general wrestling and bjj instructionals. Along with that could you recommend some specific tutorial eg about a certain concept/move. Iirc you recommended some demian maia tutorials which ones were those?

What's your white belt recommended instructionals (for grappling)?

is there, in any capacity, any usefulness or benefit that could be gained from studying systema ?

what do you think of the Nemean Fight System and Gregory Koval

Did you watch the sumo basho? And what are your thoughts on aonishiki, the new 21 year old ozeki from Ukraine?

How do you think bam rodriguez would match up against junto nakatani and naoya inoue?

Any advice for landing the right straight? Besides double jabbing. Also, any suggestions for entering clinches? besides plugging clinch positions in after punches. Cheers!

Hey Jack I have a fight coming up in muay thai against a pressure heavy opponent that loves to sweep the leg after grabbing teeps, what are some ways to land my teep to keep him off without getting it caught and swept and what are some ways to keep balance while getting hit which is another thing I struggle with

Rewatching anderson Silva finishes, it’s impressive to see how effective and precise his gnp was. Have there been any other fighters with that level and style of gnp? It seems like a takedown artist combined with that skill set could be extremely deadly

What should be the goal of kickboxing rules? Entertainment potential, encouraging variety, safety, etc.? In a recent podcast you mentioned that kickboxing’s 3x3min rounds are not really sufficient to show off what striking can be. What rule changes do you think would best bring out the different dynamics of striking styles that go into kickboxing? Time, gloves, elbows, clinching, scoring, ring - all choices come with trade offs, but do you think any particular configuration would preferable?

Please give us an in depth review of the hit FX television series The Shield.

Technical question; in open stance situations you are typically told that outside foot position is the be all, end all of the battle for angles (to create the optimal pathing for your cross). I have been playing with conceding the outside foot after feigning my own desperation to secure it, then launching stiff, fencer-like jabs from the inside as soon as the opponent/partner "wins" the footing battle, sometimes getting to rebound off and away, or step the rear foot up and walk in the cross for a sneaky 1-2 or old faithful crash into a clinch. Thoughts on playing 4-D chess with the footie? Examples of anyone doing so? I understand the risk attached to really flirting with the opponents power hand, but feel this to work well as just another variable to make them keep track of. The Darren Till of being a Jack Slack Patreon shill, bless.

1. When da fuck is volk supposed to fight? 2. Does John get an interim title if he comes in while tom is still blind? 3. Will the bullet lose to amañada Nunez again? 4. who has the worst take down game in the UFCs top ten of all men’s divisions

Whats the craic Jack? I've been watching alot of Marcelo and Danaher instructionals as of late and perhaps I'm projecting here but can't help but feel there is a certain aggressive quality to Marcelos attack the attacker style, compared to Danahers cold calculated systematizing of applying there game. I'm definitely more of a passive player if that makes sense and was wondering have you ever heard of having to have a certain mindset to apply a style or series of techniques in combat sports. E.g Wrestling Tough by Mike Chapman Appreciate the content as always.

What are your thoughts on the new KSW rule that automatically deducts a point in the first round from a fighter who misses weight? Could you see this being adopted in other promotions?

Morning from australia Your interest in sifu is well documented, but i was wondering if youve ever played or heard of Sleeping Dogs? While not a very similar game it still draws heavily from the martial arts icons like enter the dragon and jackie chan, and is quite fun. Sergei pav fistically transferring his excitement to waldo, bless.

Hi Slacky, I’ve recently started coaching at my boxing gym. So far me and my head trainer have had pretty decent results, we have a small group of boxers and are starting to hit our stride with cards in various events. I’m having trouble with one in particular. He’s a fast slick counter fighter but he has a problem of getting in his head and being closed to the ropes. He suffered three defeats, two of which razor close. Despite drilling getting of the ropes and circling, while keeping distance with strikes, I have a feeling that his issue is mental rather than technical. Is there no solution aside from fighting mire and sparring with purpose?

What is the 80/20 of clinch fighting in MMA? What can be completely thrown out and what stays?

Best tactics to use vs a taller/longer fighter in open stance

Do you know anything about the history of kung fu in actual competition from before the modern era of sanda? It seems hard to find reliable sources on it as so much of it seems to be semi mythologized.

Do you think the type of crowd that fighting attracts has held back some of the advancements in athlete training and skill development that we've seen in other sports? I'm talking specifically about things we can tangibly prove, that people continue to deny. Can you imagine a baseball coach handing someone a bat, watching them bend their arms 90 degrees at the elbow, hold the bat perfectly parallel to the floor, and keep it stiff while using only waist rotation to swing, then telling them "You can't teach power. You have to be born knowing how to swing a bat."? Why is instruction like this acceptable in combat sports? Athletes in pretty much every other sport would be shown how to use their kinetic chains properly, and you can see good fighters doing it in the ring/cage.

Are you aware of anyone besides Emanuel Augustus using a drunken boxing style?

Do you believe it would be better for someone switching from Taekwondo to MMA to mainly focus on clinch fighting and sweeps instead of boxing and double legs. And how can fighters be more active while pressing somebody against the cage wall for control time

To the Joanna J of Koala MMA Been a boi since the fightland days. 1.Favorite fight scene choreography from cinema? 2. As an average height manlet with too many tall friends, what are some ways a shorter fighter can use the heigt difference for their advantage in either wrestling or striking?

Favourite fiction books?

Jack, what is the missing move for JDM and DDP to escape the pin. I've been watching Kenny Florian's YouTube channel and him showing bladed escapes with mummy arms instead of frames. He is often turning away instead of towards in half guard/side control. Thoughts? P.S. still waiting for more gaming with the Slacky Jay

Interested to hear your opinion on S&C for fighting and what programming you use yourself (if any), I have a distant memory of you mentioning squatting in the past.

Hey Jack, there’s a lot of hay made by boxing historians about how older fighters (SRR, Barney Ross, Tony Canzoneri, etc) could be transplanted into today’s sport and make a good account of themselves. Sure this skill gap is lessened the further into the twentieth century you get, but are there some skills/traits that these fighters possess that particularly standout as ahead of their time

Ilia asking for a fight at catchweight lol. But, do you favor Yan in a rematch with Merab?

Jack I do some amateur blacksmithing, would you like me to (try to) make you a Jack Slack hotdog brander? Probably won't look great but I can give it a shot.

I know you primarily do analysis for striking, but you've also done some breakdowns for grappling like the FCG for Marcelo Garcia. Would you be able to break down i.e. make a verbally informal FCG on some of your process on how you analyze athletes and if it differs between the grapplers vs strikers?

Jack, What's the deal with Keith Floyd? As an uncultured American I don't understand the finer points of being British. I came away from his show not learning how to cook only that he likes to drink a lot and "shag" old ladies.

Hi Jack, do you have any advice on throws from the body lock in Muay Thai? I consistently manage to get it while clinching & I’ve had great success with the knee bump throw, but I was wondering if there were any other good (legal) throws from there?

Thoughts on leg locks in amateur mma? ( No heel hooks allowed). Also striking off your back in mma. I saw Ryan Hall using the outside funk position and it looked like a good position to strike from

Any fun striking thoughts from clinch and ground positions? I've been using short hook kicks to the calf in clinch scenarios and it's had good effects so far. Also, any opinions on the possibility of knuckle variations coming back in mma gloves? Especially in the ground/clinch?

Hey Jack, With kyoji horiguchi making a triumphant return this past weekend, are there any fighters from rizin that you think could put up a great performance in the UFC?

Hi Jack, I've been working on a fighting approach in MMA that I was hoping to get your thoughts and advice on. As predominantly a striker, I try to keep my distance and use long tools to manage the fight. The response my opponents usually go to is pressuring and trying to close the distance and enter the pocket, where I don't tend to do particularly well. The result is me often backing up far too much. I've been thinking about punch and clutch as an approach to handle that - work from the outside and immediately enter the clinch to stifle my opponents punches and eliminate the offence, pressure and dangerous middle range. Even against a wrestler, I can't keep just going backwards and entering the clinch on my terms should allow me to establish a stronger position and structure. Since thinking about this I've been looking a lot at Leon Edwards who actually does this a lot. Just last week Nicolas Dalby also entered the clinch often against Saygid Izagakhmaev in their fight, which helped him to manage and win the fight. Can you think of other fighters that took this kind of approach? Do you think it could be reliable as a general strategy? Thank you for you thoughts.

what are your thoughts on Joe Lewis's (Not the boxer) kickboxing instructionals? A lot of them are free on youtube

Hi Jack, Where do you think Leon Edwards goes from here? For the past couple years the consensus online seems to be that Leon Edwards was never good, given his recent slide do you think there's any truth to that or do you think he is simply semi-washed? He still looks good athletically and I can't imagine him losing to Buckley or Bonfim despite the talk online. I may be bias as I'm from Dudley/Brum but I genuinely view him as an elite fighter, he may just be experiencing the WW cursed falloff.

How would you see a matchup between Ilia and Islam going? What would be the paths to victory for each? Could you also breakdown a hypothetical matchup between Ilia and Khabib? Would this be an easier or more difficult challenge for Ilia?

What do you think is the least utilized technique that has function in MMA? I think the full Nelson being banned in every other martial art has created a blind spot for it in MMA. I know Aljo used it against Cody Stamann... and that's all I can think of. I'm sure a 20 minute video could be made of fighters falling off the back because of jiu jitsu style back takes.

Do you still keep up with sumo? If you do could give your thoughts on the current yokozunas and other rikishi you find interesting.

Probably answered this before, but how do you deal with the karate point fighting style, other than cornering and grappling? Say it was a match in an open field. Is it just the most op style to have in that setting?

How to fix the HW division? Maybe guaranteed 100k bonus per finish at HW? Would bring in better talent long term and the current ones would try harder.

You mentioned you suspect that Islam is a listener. If so what ideas do you think he has taken from you and implemented? PS. What is a good way to discern if an analyst knows what they are talking about vs just throwing out random shit, i.e Making random arrows on a screen and saying this is what's happening.

After watching the JDM vs Islam fight, was wondering what are your favorite fights you recall with the bottom guy getting back to his feet from bottom half guard? What are your favorite methods getting back to feet from bottom half in mma?

Heard this on heavy hands but then I started noticing this; most MMA fighters circle to their right, always seemingly to avoid their opponents right hand, but it leaves them never in position to line up their jab. Are there any any defensive moves/powerful counters you can think of that would dissuade/neutralize the stereotypical MMA overhand right? (Off the top of my head I can think of the jab - pivot - shoulder roll, which I think Ethyn Ewing was doing the other day)

Between a long standing fascination with lyoto machida, a recent love of Yoza, and the return of the gooch i dug up some of your old articles on fightland ("The Stylistic Subtleties of Rizin’s Karate Boys" and "karates holy trinity" if anyone wants a good read) and was curious what resources you might recommend for somebody with a more dutch kickboxing and muay thai style base to learn more about the crane kicking arts

Hey Jack, wanted to hear your professional opinion on some fellow personalities in the MMA sphere. Particularly in the Uncrowned crew around Ariel Helwani. When you mention Helwani you always seem a bit conflicted ("say what you want about him, BUT" kind of vibes). How do you feel about him as a journalist, a fight analyst and general MMA personality? Same question about his crew - Petesy Carrol, Chuck Mindenhall, Ben Fowlkes, Shaheen Al Shatti. Not to mention Eric Jackman and Conner Burks. Also, what other podcasts can you recommend that have a similar analytical/intellectual entry point to MMA as you have? Thanks and bless, your boy Felix

Hello Jack, I’ve been watching your film room on wangchannoi monthly because I find his style so fun watch and learn from, but one thing I never understand is how he’s getting away with pressuring while his hands are down by his waist. Any time I’ve tried to apply heavy pressure in my sparring it has required a tight high guard and defending tens of punches before I can start landing, then I watch fighters with great pressure and they seem to have a force field around them. Is there something stopping their opponents from punishing their forward movement relentlessly?

You've mentioned bringing knees to the head of grounded opponents in a couple podcasts now. If you could design your perfect ruleset, what would it be? Cage or pit? 10 minute first round, or no time limit? MMA gloves, or bare hands? What would the Ultimate Jack Slack Championship look like?

Alexa Grasso is the goat

Hi Jack, new to the channel and to combat sports in general. I love your content and I had a somewhat silly question about spinning ahit For the spinning elbows, which are having a wonderful year so far, I always see them used as a head hunting weapon (which makes a lot of sense), but I wonder if there would be any value in hitting another target? Like if you back someone up against the cage, fake throwing it high, and level change to make a dig at the body.

Please talk about some body jabbers jack

Given the unfortunate flop that PFL turned out to be, what could smaller organisations do to challenge the hegemony of the UFC? Oktagon, Cagewarriors etc.

Why does it tend to be more dangerous to “hook with a hooker” compared to “kicking with a kicker”?

I’m bored of MMA at the moment. If you had one recommendation for something to watch instead what would you suggest? Boxing, kickboxing or something else? Looking for something that’s a bit of a different flavour to what MMA provides at the moment.

Hi jack, what do you think it’s going to be or at least should be the next great grappling evolution for MMA? After the recent breakthroughs of the overhook throws, ninja chokes, champions using the knee reap, huge bums diving for heel hooks, people turning belly up once they get their back taken….

How would you feel about the ufc going back to the no holds barred era ruleset for 1 event

I made a website for checking who has fought who in a division, useful for when you want to see who has "cleared" their division. Might be of use to you https://pamcd.github.io/mma_matrix_web/

What are your favourite Winged C tekkas?

Can you talk about last week's boxing (Benavidez, Haney, Bam, Takuma/Tenshin)?

What are some of the most interesting rulesets in martial arts you've ever heard about? I have recently competed in ARB (army hand to hand combat) a variation of sport that Kopylov was doing. And honestly it's funniest ruleset imaginable. It's basically mma in gi with no strangels but soccer kicks and headbutts are allowed.

Do you have any advice for fighting southpaws who decide not to hand fight? Whenever I fight southpaws in my gym or switch to southpaw myself, most people just keep their hand by their face. What can I do to take advantage of this? Thanks!

Jack, have you ever had a guy come into a gym of yours on some stupid anime shit and try to challenge people? Or even just some black belt come in with an ego and get checked. Some huge guy came into my boxing gym the other week claiming to be golden gloves champ (classic, I know) and wanted to spar the best fighter we had. My teacher was having none of it and just kicked him out but I never thought I’d see that happen haha

I saw a clip where an MMA fighters used a gut wrench to pull another fighter away from the cage. Do you think this will become more popular or don't or do you think letting people get to the fence and using mat returns will stay in vogue? Also can you re-share that clip of the 2 Russian fellowship using heaps of deep half guard and single legs. I have tried finding it but couldn't.

What happened to Roberto Soldic? He was such a hot prospect and I know he was injured for a while but he seems to have disappeared since sparking out that old guy at ONE in February

What proportion of fighters in the UFC do you think are using prohibited performance enhancing substances? Alternatively, you are an unscrupulous MMA coach with an athlete that you have emotionally manipulated since childhood into worshipping you. What cocktail of PEDs do you force him to take to guarantee fortune and fame that you can leech off from him? Bless.

Why are the fighters coming out of Khabib's "gym" so incapable of doing good damage on the ground? After watching Arman, a non-khabib fighter, absolutely smash hookers face in such a short space of time it made me wonder why khabib hasnt been able to pass his GnP skills onto the next generation - is it simply that khabib was miles better or are there some things the new breed can adopt to become more dangerous on the ground?

Is Usman vs Islam something you would like to see for the 170 belt? Even now I think Usman could do it

What are your favourite artists / albums? You always have MF DOOM instrumentals in your videos, but whats in your regular rotation?

Now that Horiguchi has entered the rankings (#8 I believe), how does he stack up against the rest of the top five? Who poses the biggest threat, who poses the least?

Jaxter Slaxter how the devil are you doing ? With Takuna Inoue’s win over Tenshin this week, it means that Bam Rodriguez will be gunning for his head, when he ends up going up to 118. If Heaven permits for the matchup to actually happen, how do you think Bam would fair against the younger Inoue brother? Also, I’m trying to get better with being a pad holder. Are there any instructionals and/or advice you may give me? Much love to you and the family💙

Do you know of any fighters who have had success with the straight ankle lock. it seems to never get pulled off and i've heard Bisping refer to it as a submission that is just "pain" and that fighters wouldn't tap to just pain. however Mateus shizincki is out here breaking people's shit. cheers

Has your passion for martial arts ever wavered or have you maintained a constant level of interest in the area since beginning to analyse it professionally?

What made salsa boy successful backing up to the cage with his hands up,and why didn't it work for menifield

Was One 173 better than any UFC this year

Our dearly beloved Masaaki Noiri got teeped and clinched to death. How do you think that a competitor should adress getting repeatedly fouled when the refree isn't doing his job? (Fuck you Coste) I've heard it suggested that you should punt your guy in the nuts. What do you think? P. s. Can you dedicate a few seconds to complaining about how consistently terrible Olivier Coste is at reffing? My goat is washed and doesn't use half his arsenal anymore, bless.

Does welterweight kind of contain 2 weight classes? Like JDM, Belal and Islam look so small compared to Morales, Garry and even Holland? If so is being huge really that big of advantage considering success of "smaller" fighters and what is best strategy to benefit from being bigger? Cheers! 😎

Hi Jack You might’ve answered it before but last week you said Islam Makachev is one of the best fighters you’ve ever seen. What are some other fighters you would put on that list?

Oi oi, it's ya boi. The Makwan Amirkhani of gassing out halfway through a bacon sarnie. When you look at the Abdulmanap school of Dagestani wrestlers, what do you think led towards Islam and Umar becoming more well-rounded than Khabib? Was Khabib just so dominant in his time that he could make do with being a step behind in the striking, or could it be, as you've mentioned before, that the pressure he brought in training forced the others to round out their skills?

Now for a real question, what are your thoughts on the cross guard for MMA? Have seen some versions of it popping up with Dustin or Susurkaev and Yuki Yoza's use of it to frame and parry kicks could be really interesting in MMA.

Hello, Jack! Have you ever heard of or seen the Ultimate Self Defense Championship? If so, what are your thoughts? It's a pretty fun show with a pretty fun set up, various martial artists representing different arts going through a series of self defense challenges/scenarios.

What has happened to modern ground and pound? Are athletes just better at getting up than they used to be? Or are top players just sitting on the lead by not wasting energy finishing Thanks slizzler

If kick with the kicker is viable. Then is wrestle with the restorer viable as well?

What are the main differences between being a good coach and being a good analyst? What are some of the similarities?

You ever think about death?

favorite balatro deck?