If you’re going to be wasting time on the net, you might as well be wasting it in the right places.

Here have been some of my current favorites.

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/

In my opinion, the biggest and baddest MMA forum on the net. There are some reasonably smart and well trained guys posting in there, so you’ll probably be able to find decent answers to what you’re looking for. Also, if you desire to start a huge war about which fighter is the coolest, look no further for hours of entertainment and smack talk.

http://stickgrappler.tripod.com/

This is an oldie but goodie. It has a wealth of information, some MMA related, some traditional martial arts related. While combing the net for some solid advice on boxing, I found it here and have kept coming back. Pretty neat, like this brief, but accurate post on clinching without getting hit.

http://www.t-nation.com

I know, it’s a body building site. I hate bodybuilding in general BUT… many articles written there have a semblance of science backing them up. You’ll see a few authors put the “works cited” section at the bottom with references to real medical journals and such. All in all, if you’re trying to find something specific, you might browse around here for a while. Plus, they’ll have little gems pop up from time to time.( Like the “Hammer Down” MMA workout series – part one Strength and part two Endurance.)

http://www.submissions101.com

Ari Bolden and his jujitsu-loving team put together a nice website. Every video here is good quality, well presented, and technically sound. You want training on the Rubber Guard? Oh yeah, this is the place. The forums are pretty decent too. They have a good number of guys, and the useful-information-giver vs trolling-douche-bag ratio is very favorable. In a nutshell, it’s like the reverse of youtube.

Submissions 101

Just in case you’ve been hiding under a rock, the guys over at submissions101.com are spitting out high class instructional video’s like it was Christmas already. You can’t a find better introduction to Eddie Bravo and the rubber guard than sub101′s site.

Aesopian’s Tottaly Awesome Journal

Aesopian give’s his two cents on Brazilian Jujitsu over here. His commentary on different moves and techniques are unusually insightfull.

GrappleArts: Building A Better Grappler

Blackbelt Stephan Kesting is one good grappling Canadain.  The stuff on his site is solid, useful grappling info. Here’s a page full of different moves.

Gracie-Barra Marbella

“Sururu” Edson Jorge, runs two MMA / Submission Grappling gyms in Spain, and this is his website. His dojo’s are a great example of how things run well, as well as the vid’s he post every so often are great too.

Enjoy – and don’t forget to hit the mats!