The New Fighter’s Cheat Sheet is a free guide for beginner and intermediate martial artists who want to feel calmer, safer, and more confident in sparring. Instead of giving you a bunch of random techniques, it breaks down the common mistakes that make people panic, get hit, freeze up, or feel embarrassed during sparring.

This is for newer martial artists, hobbyists, and returning students who want to improve their striking without feeling overwhelmed.

It is especially helpful if you have ever thought:

“I don’t want to panic when sparring.”

“I don’t want to get hit all the time.”

“I don’t want to embarrass myself.”

“I want to feel calm and in control.”

No. You do not need a lot of sparring experience.

This guide is made for people who are still learning how to relax, defend themselves, manage distance, and make better decisions under pressure.

If you are brand new, it will help you understand what to look for before bad habits set in. If you have already sparred, it will help you identify what may be holding you back.

You will learn the 5 beginner sparring mistakes that cause a lot of unnecessary frustration, including mistakes that lead to panic, predictable movement, bad defensive habits, and getting hit more than you need to.

You will also learn how to approach sparring in a calmer, smarter, more manageable way.

It can help you get hit less by showing you the habits that make you easier to hit.

No guide can make sparring risk-free, but most beginners get hit more than they need to because they make predictable mistakes. This course helps you spot those mistakes and start correcting them.

No. The point of this course is not to overload you with more combinations.

Most beginners do not need more techniques right away. They need to understand why they panic, why they get hit, why they reach, why they freeze, and why they become predictable.

The course focuses on awareness, control, simple adjustments, and better sparring habits.

Yes. The ideas apply across striking styles.

Whether you train boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, karate, MMA striking, or general stand-up sparring, the core problems are often the same: distance, panic, reaching, overreacting, poor defense, and bad habits under pressure.

Yes. The Fighter’s Cheat Sheet guide is free.

You just enter your email address and the guide will be sent to your inbox.

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Coach Joe is a lifelong martial artist and striking coach who teaches practical sparring concepts for real students.

His coaching focuses on helping people stay calm, understand what is happening in front of them, and build confidence without pretending sparring is easy.

No. This is not only for fighters or competitors.

It is for regular martial artists too — people who train after work, have families, want to improve, and still want to feel more capable when sparring.

You do not need to be young, shredded, or trying to fight professionally to benefit from smarter sparring.

That is exactly who this is for.

A lot of people think they are bad at sparring because they get nervous. In reality, nerves are normal. The problem is not that you feel nervous — it is that you have not been shown how to manage what happens when pressure starts.

This course helps you slow things down and understand what to focus on.

No. This course is not a replacement for live training or coaching.

It is meant to support your training by helping you understand sparring better, ask better questions, and avoid common mistakes when you are practicing.

After you enter your email, you will receive the Fighter’s Cheat Sheet guide in your inbox.

Read the first lesson, take one idea into your next training session, and start noticing which mistake shows up most often in your own sparring.

Your email is where the cheat sheet is sent.

It also lets Coach Joe send you more sparring tips, breakdowns, and training ideas that can help you keep improving.

No problem. You can unsubscribe anytime.

No hard feelings. No pressure.