Written
Books
Mechanics first. Written to be argued with rather than memorised, and honest about which ones are finished.
The Grammar of Grappling
The Mechanical Principles Behind Every Technique
Created by
Andrew Valentine
Andrew Valentine trains, coaches, and writes about the mechanics underneath the body — author of The Grammar of Grappling, and once a Grandmaster-level StarCraft II player.
More from Andrew
Homeostasis
A whole-life operating system: the future you want, connected to what you do today.
Ongoing · limited roster · training, nutrition and life
One-to-one coaching
Direct coaching for people who want to be told what to do and why. Training, nutrition, scheduling, and the rest of the life around them — how you spend a day, how you carry yourself, how you approach people — built as one system rather than separate plans that quietly contradict each other.
One-to-one · single sessions or ongoing
Dating & game coaching
Coaching on the part of life most advice gets backwards: attraction, approaching, conversation, and what actually governs how men and women respond to each other. How you present yourself, how you carry an interaction, and how you handle what happens next.
Single session · any subject
Advice
A straight answer to whatever you are stuck on — training, nutrition, dating, a decision, a business, a system that is not working. Bring the question and the context; get my answer and the reasoning behind it.
Digital · spreadsheet + guide
Strength programming
A calculated progression you can actually run: undulating loading, explicit progression rules, and automatic weight calculation, so every session already knows what it is asking of you.
Writing · 2026-09-26
A short guide to running a useful experiment
Field Guide Nº 3. One change, a fair comparison, and something you can learn from it — including the sessions that disappoint you.
Writing · 2026-09-25
A flowchart for Jeff Rockwell's Sit-Up Escape System
One page mapping the whole system — the core path, the escapes that branch off it, and where each one hands off to another. A review aid for people who already own the instructional.
The Valentine Dispatch
Follow the whole project.
New writing, training notes, and first word when the book and the programs open. One list, sent when there is something worth sending.