Praxis

Another day at the office:

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Skill acquisition, skill adaptivity, and emergent skills are not separate processes—they are one singular unfolding event. #enactivism #activeinference #judo #wrestling

Mind without content
Intentional without intellect
Play without planning
Competence without comprehension
Covariance without consciousness
No self—no center

“The urge to destroy is a creative one.”
-Bakunin

Reject coaches, teachers, and professors to learn—even what I’m saying. Inspiration is fine, but following stops learning. Hoarding knowledge or bending to influence is corruptive. Learning is always new, innocent, and passionate—it’s intelligence. Adaptation to sudden, emergent changes requires no authority.

#са́мбо #柔道

“Fact-minded science makes fact-minded people.”

-Husserl

Intentionality is not goal-oriented. It’s manifold: intentionality-towards-meaning (lived experience); intentionality-towards-fulfilment (achievement of tasks and goals); intentionality-as-evidence (self-evidencing and proof of lived experience).

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“Fact-minded science makes fact-minded people.” -Husserl Intentionality is not goal-oriented. It’s manifold: intentionality-towards-meaning (lived experience); intentionality-towards-fulfilment (achievement of tasks and goals); intentionality-as-evidence (self-evidencing and proof of lived experience); intentionality-as-inference (prediction of preferred future states). Audio excerpt from the Primal MMA Coaching Podcast. Link in the bio. #jiujitsu #bjj #sambo #са́мбо #judo #柔道 #wrestling #grappling #martialarts #submissions #takedowns #activeinference #enactivism #ecologicaldynamics #constraintledapproach #phenomenology

I’m featured on the Primal MMA Coaching Podcast. I talk about the Contraints-Led Approach using the Active Inference Framework.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3A6QGCIja43qC9kz57Az5N?si=2EX14tPjQD29DOjn9kAY6w&t=990

Training Camp 2024
Approaches emerging from the past year:

1. Particular defensive structures are able to frustrate your opponent’s preferred grips in judo.
2. Other forms of back control to secure strangles in jiu-jitsu.
3. Wrestling groundwork as defensive / offensive structures.
4. Wrestle-outs and stand-ups instead of playing guard.

Select your two free trial classes. Link in the bio.

Multi-disciplinary. Experimental. Innovative. Our goal is continuously represent the highest expression of grappling on the spectrum. This August will be four years of Praxis Grappling. To commemorate, we host yearly free practices open to all athletes and academies. This year, practice is as follows:

Saturday August 3rd, 2024
11am: throws + takedowns (gi)
12pm: grappling (gi)

Sunday August 4th, 2024
11am: wrestling
12:30pm: grappling (nogi)

Thank you for your support.

Address: 187 East 11th Avenue, Vancouver BC

-Sony Sahota
Founder, Praxis Grappling

Athletes embody a generative model or a series of “narratives.” It’s how we expect the world and ourselves to be in order to guide our behaviour. Salience of the world is made via inference. Perception is “direct” if agents predict current and future states based on a history of structural coupling with the environment. The process continuously updates the generative model through the self-organizing capabilities of the player.

#柔道

“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”
-Heidegger

Content behaves in idealized situations. They are not physically real. They don’t exist in space / time. And they don’t participate in casual interactions. Practice or training is not jiu-jitsu. Or judo or wrestling. It’s a method—a tool for prediction. Not reality.

No matter how much content is pushed it rarely emerges in live training. Individual athletes structure their actions to what is relevant and viable. They mark their environments. Things have positive or negative value. Some are neutral. Others have no significance at all. There is no fixed pre-given world. Grappling is constituted as dynamic change. Adaptation is always required.

Grappling is precarious. As a consequence athletes cope and adapt by “bringing forth” their own unique “worlds.” Intentional and purposeful ones. In other words: grappling is sense-making through embodied action. Which influences (or perhaps determines) cognition.

#са́мбо #柔道

Praxis Grappling + Kensington Judo will be hosting Satoshi Ishii for a judo seminar.

When: Sunday June 30
Time: TBA
Cost: $50
Location: 187 E 11 Ave. Vancouver, BC

About Satoshi Ishii:
* Beijing 2008 Gold Medalist in judo
* 2 x All-Japan judo champion
* Pro MMA Fighter (PFL)
* Submission Grappler (New Wave Jiu-Jitsu)

#са́мбо #柔道