Grapple boxing: My average day is mostly concerned with teaching jiu jitsu, but sometimes my students compete in mma and then I teach a very different curriculum which I call grapple boxing. This is the merging of grappling and striking technique on the floor – very different from pure jiu jitsu. I always hated the usual term for this skill ground and pound” as it implies that only the athlete on top who has performed the takedown does the striking – which is not true at all. Moreover
