The weekend of July 16th, 2021 gave fans and athletes one helluva pair of events! First on Friday, July 16th there was Shoot Pro Wrestling – REBIRTH! This is my vision for competitive grappling done under professional wrestling rules (i.e. pro catch wrestling).
THEN, on Sunday in San Diego we held our open tournament, THE KING OF CATCH WRESTLING. It was 7 hours of amazing matches!
Be sure to check out our Fall schedule below and join us at an event!!!
Dick Cardinal, respected American At Show catch-as-catch-can wrestler, passed away on Christmas Eve, 2020 at the age of 93.
He was a great wrestler, a great man, and a great friend. I included a lengthy interview with Coach Cardinal in my 2011 best-selling book Say Uncle! too.
My friend Mark Hewitt wrote an amazing eulogy here. Please enjoy this clip of Coach teaching keylocks from 15 years ago (he was 78 here!):
I am so happy that BJJFanatics.com has given the sport of CACC a broader platform from which to share it’s bag of tricks with the grappling world at large! I was honored that they asked me to do some instructionals for them. My most recent instructional, The Nelson Family, is the very first comprehensive application of the Nelson hold for grappling (special thanks to SW Coach Jesse Marez for all the help)!
My first two, Catch Wrestling Takedowns and Catch Wrestling Submissions have gotten great reviews (thanks to SW Coach Sam Kressin for helping), check them out here:
Volume 1 covers Standing CACC and is absolutely jam-packed with takedowns and throws.
Volume 2, Catch Wrestling Submissions, picks up where Vol 1 left off, showing you how to finish the match On-Top via scores of submissions and pinning set-ups and combinations. Additionally, I cover Underneath escapes and reversals too!
I am very proud of these DVDs. I hope you pick them up (and if you do, please leave a review on the BJJ Fanatics site)! This is CACC specifically for grappling although any in either martial arts or professional wrestling will radically benefit from studying these as well.
If you want to accelerate your CACC knowledge then, in addition to the legendary instructionals that I produced for Scientific Wrestling, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND the following titles:
Fujiwara’s SHOOT FIGHTING SUBMISSION SYSTEMS is the follow up to his EPIC SUBMISSION MASTER instructional available at ScientificWrestling.com:
Josh Barnett’s CHAMPIONSHIP LEVEL CATCH WRESTLING (rounds out his original trilogy: BREAK A LEG, ATTACKING THE GUARD, & PUNISHING RIDES from Scientific Wrestling.
Erik Paulson’s KILLER CATCH WRESTLING COMBOS is a fantastic complement to his NECKBREAKER instructional from ScientificWrestling.com:
If you have a few hours to burn learning about catch-as-catch-can grappling related stuff I have been a guest on a few podcasts since we’ve been locked down.
First, listen to the brilliant Sonny Brown interview me on the Sonny Brown Breakdown here.
Then I was on Kaleb Planks’ InfernoCast , on Coach Brian’s Teach Me Grappling, Chris Marten’s BizJitsu podcast about my DVT and discovery of my carotid artery dissection/mini-Stroke last September:
Then it was awesome the Josh WARMASTER Barnett gave me a shout out on the Joe Rogan Podcast (at about the 59:30 mark):
The most fun are the podcasts I do with friends and younger athletes that I admire like Josh STARLORD Leduc:
…and Emil Fischer on his Baking Cookies, Taking Limbs podcast:
Hope you all are doing ok during Lockdown. Hit me up if you have an questions or ideas for me! Thanks.
In addition to initiating the modern era of competitive catch-as-catch-can wrestling and providing top-shelf training opportunities with legends Scientific Wrestling prides itself on providing Grade A online content too. Check out these recent articles by esteemed CACC wrestling historian Mark Hewitt:
Before MMA #1: Wrestlers versus Boxers, Even the Promoters Got into the Act
BEFORE MMA #2 – East Meets West-1905: Catch-As-Catch-Can Takes on Jiu-Jitsu
And if well-sourced, well written scholarly articles on CACC aren’t your cup of tea, sit-in on these exclusive RARE but lengthy audio conversations with “God of Wrestling” Karl Gotch himself:
Also, one of my gonzo journalistic endeavors where I cobbled together scraps of lost footage from my 7 year apprenticeship with Billy “The British Lion” Robinson:
DO IT AGAIN – The Lost Training Camp Footage with Billy Robinson
Also, please subscribe to and listen my new podcast, “Do It Again” with great guests like Wade “Pinisher” Schalles, Guy Mezger, Josh “Warmaster” Barnett, D.B. Smith, Brandon Ruiz, Marty Jones, and many more:
