In Your Corner
Train Your Mind Like a Fighter to Face Life Like a Champion
Javier Mendez founded the American Kickboxing Academy (AKA) in San José, California, coaching and cornering for MMA icons like Khabib Nurmagomedov, Islam Makhachev, Daniel Cormier, and Cain Velasquez. In Your Corner is part memoir, part mindset book, because Javier’s goal wasn’t to write a book about fighting, but to show what fighting taught him about pressure, preparation, and the people in his corner. We built it together, from hours of recorded interviews through round after round of edits, and we couldn’t be more excited to share these stories.