Dave Chesser is a bright young martial arts teacher who contacted me earlier this year about some practical combat advice. On seeing his picture, I was stricken by how much of an MMA body he had, and accused him of being some kind of wrestling mutation in an e-mail. He responded that he was a late-bloomer physically, and that he was now a fitness instructor, as his attempts to maintain a commercial school teaching actual combat methods was a bust, forcing him to go the fitness route to stay in business.

This has been a common experience in the area of the Eastern U.S. where I live and coach, and have achieved pariah status for pursuing and promoting actual combat training. It fascinates me to no end that Dave has faced the same materialistic rot a half a world away, in the so-called cradle of martial arts in the Far East!

Check out Dave’s podcast with Mike Massie at the link below.