Erik is one of the most knowledgeable guys in our sport
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Cool Apple. I gave you a view and like Apple. I also subscribed to your channel.
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Always was a fan.
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His fight with Hume was awesome and Warring Had a death grip on the ponytail
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He is always a class act, way back in early 2000 ish, drove all night to attend a seminar. He arrived the night before and was suffering with allergies or hay fever. You could tell he was miserable but he put on one of his best seminars and I’ve been to alot with Paulson. I still have the old school Shooto shirt he gave me.
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Had many underground tapes of Paulson…knew his shi
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It’s just weird when he tries to teach pro wrestling style armdrags as legit techniques.
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His name is Erik Paulson!
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Thanks dude
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One of the most underrated coaches ever. Absolutely incredible depth of knowledge.
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I remember my girlfriend and her family getting the Erik Paulson leg lock videos for me as a gift back in the 90’s.
When my girlfriend’s mom called to order the tapes, Erik answered and talked to her for about an hour.
I’ve always thought it takes a pretty cool guy to do something like that.
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and he had cool and way ahead of their time and jappy leglocks, though he wasnt the prince of them ever
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No problem.
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Paulson is a great interview
Must watch
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TTT
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I’ll be watching this tomorrow.
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Apple
Great job
Your approach to this is a lot different than everyone else’s enjoy your content
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There are a lot of things now that when I go back and watch Paulson instructionals I see that are very close to things people use now.
He has mount escapes into SLX outside heel hooks from the early 90’s. Those are all the rage now. The only thing is that in a Paulson instructional it will be surrounded by 4 other things that don’t work.
I don’t fault him at all, he and those shooto guys were on the cutting edge and they didn’t have the benefit of 20 years of high level matches on film to really discern what does and doesn’t work at the highest levels.
I think the Roger/Danaher style is much more effective for competition, of picking a few movements that work at the highest and mastering them. Paulson’s style of “know 100 leg locks” doesn’t work as well at black belt level, but he there are a few things in there that people thought were bullshit that actually ended up being really important.
The grappling world needs guys like the lock-flow style people (like Paulson). They do the often thankless work of just figuring out the raw number of permutations of things you can do from any given position. Then others have to come along and try to strip away the ones that don’t work. The right thing to do from there is usually among all the options Paulson presents, it’s just a matter of identify which it is and then taking the time to understand the subtle mechanics of the implementation that will make it work on really good people.
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He’s been coaching mma forever, and just look at all the notable names he’s produced! Guys is totally legit.
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Eric used to come to my house to train when I lived in So Cal (Laguna Niguel). He is very knowledgeable and incredibly tough. We were rolling once and his knee popped out. He just indicated he needed a moment to pop it back in and then we continued.
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