Our next guest on the podcast is writer, educator and combat sports specialist, Mr Rama Reddy. He is well known in the industry as an instructor, educator, combat sports commentator and founder of MMA gyms and organisations. Rama has combined his passion for education and love for martial arts to create pedagogies for coaching and training the various combat sports.In this episode, Rama discusses his journey into combat sports and the role that his background in education has played throughout.He also delves into a new and interesting concept that he has been working on, called Athlete Psychographics. This concept represents various archetypes of athletes that can be applied across all sports and competition, and how that plays out in their approach to tactics, preparation and technique. This gives us an insight into how we may train the different archetypes as coaches and instructors.We also discuss the effects of COVID on combat sports and the ways in which Rama and his team are getting around it.Please refer to Rama's post on Instagram (@ramareddy.mma) for further details and an illustration of the Psychographics. Be sure to check out Rama's work on pedagogies and other content such as blogs and articles on a wide variety of topics based on martial arts and education. His reflection upon the pedagogical and technical shortcomings that were present at the time of introduction to wrestling. The Dan Gable Effect and a small account of wrestling around the World.*Please refer to the post on Rama’s Instagram page (@ramareddy.mma)“The competitor (spike) is most likely to find the most effective way as quickly as possible.”