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The Danaher Diaries
- Over 100 of John Danaher's Musings on Jiu-Jitsu, Kaizen, Training, and Living
- Narrated by: David Sweeney-Bear
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Publisher's summary
Since he burst onto the scene as George St. Pierre’s grappling coach in the late 2000’s, John Danaher has risen to be recognized as one of the foremost minds in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and competitive grappling.
More than just a coach, Danaher has garnered a reputation as a philosopher of the art. His social media is read by hundreds of thousands, serving as daily inspiration for students around the world. Danaher is able to take the complex and often contradictory rules of jiu-jitsu and break them down into universal concepts.
And it’s not just talk: Danaher’s student’s are a who’s-who of combat sports. From MMA champions like George St. Pierre, to grappling phenoms like Gary Tonon and Nikki Ryan. His work speaks for itself.
We’ve assembled John Danaher’s most timeless and thought provoking writings, over one hundred passages in short segments. At just a few minutes per passage, they make for the perfect quick listen before hitting the gym, a quiet moment during morning coffee, or a long afternoon listen.
Included are Danaher’s famous concepts of:
- Division and unity
- The fundamentals of guard passing and retention
- Kaizen and the mindset of constant improvement
- Building the perfect armbars, strangulations, and leg attacks
- The power of asymmetry-breaking paradigms in jiu-jitsu
- The value of creating systems amongst the chaos of daily training
Scattered throughout are the fascinating little stories of John’s life, from a philosophy major in college, to a bouncer in New York City. It’s an amazing glimpse into the thinking of a modern jiu-jitsu master.
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By: DDJ Publishing, and others
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Essential Tennis
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In Essential Tennis, listeners—players and coaches, alike—will learn how improving at tennis actually happens and how to easily implement these lessons and integrate them into better play on the court. Players will hit stronger shots, make fewer errors, and beat players who are currently beating them. Coaches will look differently at what it means to provide a student with a holistic learning experience.
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Mental Combat
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Finally! An easy way to use the science of sports psychology to skyrocket your performance! You may already know that pro athletes use the power of sports psychology to boost motivation, manage nerves, and become top performers. The problem is that many of these techniques are kept secret, and other guides are heavy and full of jargon.
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Jailhouse Strong
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Bryant and benShea share the blueprint, explained in layman's terms, for taking your mental game to the next level. The Successful Mindset is for the competitive athlete, the entrepreneur, or anyone who strives to get better and be the best.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Zen Tennis
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From the best-selling author of Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game and the tennis champion and world record holder of the Golden Set comes the most innovative and powerful book since The Inner Game of Tennis. Combining deep Eastern wisdom and practical tennis expertise, Zen Tennis will help you get out of your own way and into the zone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Satatosh
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By: Bill Scanlon, and others
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The Inner Game of Tennis
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This phenomenally successful guide has become a touchstone for hundreds of thousands of people. Not just for tennis players, or even just for athletes in general, this handbook works for anybody who wants to improve their performance in any activity, from playing music to getting ahead at work.
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For anyone who wants to perform
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The study of budo, or the Japanese martial arts for self-cultivation, is a lifelong path toward perfection of character. Here, Dave Lowry, a sword master who has practiced and taught budo for over 40 years, addresses the myriad issues, vagaries, and inconsistencies that arise for students of karate-do, judo, kendo, kenjutsu, aikido, and iaido as their training develops.
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By: Dave Lowry
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For everyone seeking mental and physical harmony - whether in golf, tennis, martial arts, music, or everyday life - best selling author and world champion athlete Dan Millman shows in this revised and updated audio edition of his classic The Inner Athlete how to transform training into a path of personal growth and spiritual discovery.
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Body Mind Mastery
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese kung fu in the world today, with more than four million practitioners. This guide will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the martial arts, from beginner to master. The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than 300 years. Until now, no one has ever stepped back and taken a critical look at why this art's techniques are presented and performed the way they are.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Can’t we move past this.
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By: Danny Xuan, and others
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The Champion's Mind
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- By: Jim Afremow
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 976
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 801
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 792
In The Champion's Mind, sports psychologist Jim Afremow, PhD, LPC, now offers the same advice he uses with Olympians, Heisman Trophy winners, and professional athletes, including tips and techniques based on high-performance psychology research, such as how to get in a "zone," thrive on a team, and stay humble; how to progress within a sport and sustain excellence long-term, and customizable pre-performance routines to hit full power when the gun goes off or the puck is dropped.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent content, mediocre narrator
- By Chris on 10-08-14
By: Jim Afremow
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60 Tennis Strategies and Mental Tactics
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- By: Joseph Correa
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
This audiobook will teach you how to beat any style of play and will help you over come mental hurdles that most of us normally have during competition. Knowing what to do and when are key questions when your under pressure and wish you had a guide to get you in the right direction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First Rate!
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Front Sight Focus is a concept and mindset that is used by US Navy SEALs to plan and achieve success on and off of the battlefield as it reveals 10 phrases that lead to efficiency at all levels of learning, training, and productivity! By using an easy to implement, common-sense approach, the author presents the tools for establishing a "front sight focus" mindset that shows you a plan of progression that will lead you to establish a system for attaining your ultimate success in your life's true passions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get your head squared away
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Nick Lavery is an active-duty Green Beret within the United States Army Special Forces. Although injuries sustained in combat resulted in the above-the-knee amputation of his leg—Nick not only remained in the Army, he returned to his Special Forces detachment and continues conducting combat operations to this day. Objective Secure is the methodology Nick employed to return to operational status. It is also the methodology he uses today as he continues this unprecedented journey in service to his country. It is a battle-tested guide forged by fire—literally.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Read for Military and Civilian alike
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 349
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Story5 out of 5 stars 348
Dr. Nate Zinsser has spent his career training the minds of the U.S. Military Academy’s cadets as they prepare to lead and perform when the stakes are the very highest—on the battlefield. Alongside this work, he has coached world-class athletes including a Super Bowl MVP, numerous Olympic medalists, professional ballerinas, NHL All-Stars, and college All-Americans, teaching them to overcome pressure and succeed on the biggest stages.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Redundant and uninsightful
- By Chris Rogers on 06-06-23
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It's All Mental
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24
From sports idols like Michael Jordan to the regular office-going person, mental challenges have spared none…they can easily knock you off your feet and leave you drained, both mentally and physically. But there is some good news: You can rewire your brain and train it to focus on what’s essential to achieving your goals. There’s no better success than becoming the best version of yourself—and this guidebook is armed with psychological tips that have proved incredibly helpful to athletes and their likes to become the best in their class.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Success through Sports!
- By Richard on 10-21-22
By: Blake Silverman
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Every Shot Must Have a Purpose
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As coaches to some of golf's top players, Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott have designed and refined a revolutionary way of teaching the game, with great results. They don't believe in prescribing the same stance, grip, and swing to everyone, followed by hours of purposeless drilling. They don't even believe in beginning with physical technique. Their success has proven to them that a great game begins with a great vision. Every Shot Must Have a Purpose offers cutting-edge techniques for integrating the physical, technical, mental, emotional, and social parts of a player's game.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must for every golfer
- By David Hadzicki on 01-29-19
By: Pia Nilsson, and others
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For world-renowned professional fighter Georges St-Pierre, the greatest asset is not physical strength or athleticism - it’s a sense of purpose. From his beginnings as a small, mercilessly bullied child first discovering karate to his years as a struggling garbage collector who spent all his free time in the gym, his hard-fought rise in the sport of mixed martial arts, and his long, painful recovery from a career-threatening injury, Georges never lost sight of his ambition to become the greatest martial artist of all time.
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Great! Great Book
- By Berserk on 05-03-13
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Quitters Never Win
- My Life in UFC
- By: Michael Bisping
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Featuring an entirely new chapter for US readers, the story of his induction into the UFC Hall of Fame, fresh insights about his fighting career, never-before-told stories about his film and TV career, and a harrowing account of his fighting off attempted kidnappers while filming in South Africa, Quitters Never Win tells the incredible story of how he went from rough and humble beginnings and then on to a legendary mixed martial arts career capped by winning the Middleweight Championship in one of the greatest upsets in UFC history.
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Good Book
- By Tullio708 on 04-22-20
By: Michael Bisping
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Zen Jiu Jitsu
- The 30 Day Program to Improve Your Jiu Jitsu Game 1000% (Volume 1)
- By: Mr. Oliver Staark
- Narrated by: Kirk Hanley
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you stuck? Struggle. That's the word that comes to mind when I think about the transition from blue belt to purple belt. For reasons that I can't quite work out, when I came to the later stages of being a blue belt I felt confused and lost in my game. Trying to put all the pieces together seemed like a task too far and quitting looked like an option, after all, most guys my age are hitting the golf course or surfing not rolling on the floor with sweat soaked people.
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Shallow and empty
- By Frequent Online Shopper on 12-10-16
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A Book of Five Rings
- The Strategy of Musashi
- By: Miyamoto Musashi
- Narrated by: Alec Sand
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and Zen philosophy. Required reading for any martial artist, business person or student of strategy. Includes the one hour Zen inspired soundtrack The Mysterious Sound of Wind in the Bamboo. Performed on authentic Japanese instruments.
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Read all of it in one day, then read it once a day forever
- By Luis Roman on 08-08-17
By: Miyamoto Musashi
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Comfort in Darkness
- The Invisible Power of Jiu Jitsu
- By: Rickson Gracie, Peter Maguire
- Length: 12 hrs
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A mythic figure in fighting and a legendary member of the “first family of martial arts,” Rickson Gracie is considered the godfather of what we recognize today as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Although Rickson’s three decades of total dominance in Jiu Jitsu is astounding, even more astounding is the serenity and spiritual depth of his approach to combat. Some consider Jiu Jitsu a martial art, others consider it a sport, but to Gracie, it is a philosophical system he uses to face and evaluate life’s challenges and maintain happiness and peace of mind.
By: Rickson Gracie, and others
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- David A Serrano
- 06-30-22
Good Stuff
This was a perfect "Intro" to BJJ book for me. I learned a lot of stuff that I was able to apply everyday.
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- RNCipponeri
- 06-23-21
Great insight from the jiu-jitsu mensch.
Mr. Danaher,
Thank you for your insight and wisdom. This book is one that I will listen to many times.
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- Kc
- 11-03-22
Will listen to this over and over again.
Rich with strategic and philosophical gems. A book that will be worth listening too multiple times.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-23-21
Great book for the BJJ lover
The narrator sounds just like Danaher. The book is phenomenal. it literally gets into skills acquisition all the way to mastery.
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- Samuel
- 01-23-23
To better understand concepts of grappling/jiu jitsu
This is my go to audiobook while driving. Usually i listen to music but on road trips, i listen to this to conceptualize jiu jitsu and helped with improving my skills on the matt
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-15-20
Great listen.
Need at least a basic knowledge of BJJ to enjoy. The narrator does a great job Nd even sounds like Danaher.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-10-24
Learned a lot
Learned a lot, easy listen and will be buying the next two books in the series!
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- Jamey Olsen
- 10-14-21
Great Book
As an old school Jiu-Jitsu guy, this was a great book. It breaks down several ideas and concepts in a manner that are not necessarily the way we were all taught. I would recommend this book and will be listening to it again for sure.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-20-22
Worthwhile, mind-broadening listen
Not exactly a compelling story or a relaxed easy listen, but a worthwhile way to absorb nuggets of martial arts truth, from one of the men most in touch with this truth
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- Michalis Petrou
- 07-09-21
Collection of golden nuggets from a genius
This is the collection of instagram posts from John Danaher himself. That does not sound very appealing but believe me, this is a must for every jiujitsu/grappling practitioner. Thoughts and advices from the grappling tactic point of view to general life and philosophical aspect, this is a great book to listen to every morning to motivate you. The description of this audiobook is very accurate and I would definitely recommend it.
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