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Andrew Valentine
Andrew Valentine

Virginia BeachCurrently

AndrewValentine

I build systems for living, tools for thinking, and worlds for play.

Coaching & programsThe book

The world is full of badly designed systems. I make better ones.

Finishing The Grammar of Grappling, and building the strength programming the coaching runs on.

Andrew Valentine kneeling on a gym floor, one arm reaching straight overhead, looking up along it, lit from the side against a dark ground.

Start here

Four doors.

The book, the training, the person, and the record. Pick one.

The thesis

What connects the work

I'm interested in the hidden systems underneath things: the rules that govern a day, a body, a business, a decision, or a battlefield. My work is an attempt to make those systems clearer, more beautiful, and more responsive to human intention.

Signal

Where things stand

Updated by hand, not by a feed.

Homeostasis

A whole-life operating system: the future you want, connected to what you do today.

In development

The Grammar of Grappling

The Mechanical Principles Behind Every Technique

Manuscript in final revision

Latest 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.

The full pictureAll writing

Proof

Check the work, not the claims

Everything here is labelled by what it actually is today. Where something is not finished, it says so.

  • Read before you buy

    The Grammar of Grappling has a full chapter excerpt on its page. Judge the writing before it costs you anything.

  • Honest status

    Everything here is labelled by what it actually is today, including what is not ready.

The rest of it

Off the page

The training room, the conditioning nobody films, and the rest of it.

Andrew Valentine at the bottom of a loaded back squat in a commercial gym.
The arithmetic is written down before I get under the bar. That is the whole method.
Andrew Valentine sitting on a gym floor against a heavy bag between rounds, shirtless, head down on his forearm.
Between rounds. The rest is on the clock too.
Andrew Valentine skipping rope in a dim gym, shirtless, both feet off the floor.
Conditioning is the unglamorous half. It is also the half that decides the last round.
Andrew Valentine crouched on a beach with a dog, low winter light.
The long-term plan involves considerably more of this and a lot fewer landlords.

Collaboration

Work with me

Coaching, podcasts, on-camera work, and partnerships — the short list of what I take on.

One-to-one coaching

Training and nutrition built as one system, and the rest of the life around them: how you spend a day, how you carry yourself, how you approach people. Gym coaching, life coaching and dating are the same conversation — and if you only need one question answered, a single advice session is its own product.

Podcasts & interviews

Training and grappling mechanics, the StarCraft years, moral philosophy, the case against religion and veganism, and inter-gender dynamics — what actually governs attraction, and why most advice gets it backwards. Dating and self-improvement shows especially welcome.

On camera

Acting, film, skits, sketches, YouTube, and anything shot with other creators. I have wanted to act for a long time and have not had the chance yet — so this is an open door rather than a credit list. Bring the part, the bit, or the idea.

Brand partnerships

Long-form work with people making training equipment, apparel or nutrition products I would use anyway.

Systems design

Systems in the plain sense: a training block, a meal plan, how a business keeps its stations clean, the rules of a strategy game. Turning a vague ambition into an order of operations — what must exist first, what unlocks what, and what to cut.

See what I take on

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Last updated 2026-09-22