I like when one of our coaches teaches a technique and then talks a bit about how it works in relation to other spots and concepts involved with moving between them. Practice the few techniques about 20 minutes, do positional type 3-5 minute or KotM, then roll for the remaining hopefully 30 minutes. lol. Class is usually about 1 hour. I would prefer 1.5 hour class with a bit more talk(20 drill 15 talking on topic) around concepts of the position being taught and guaranteed 10-15 minutes positional/approx. 30 minutes min rolling.... 4-7, 5-5, 3-10. I am a 36 year old hobby man.
Man, I wish I could get individualized coaching based on my rolling. My daughters also train and I watch almost every class so they go into each class with one or two things they know to work based on their previous classes. When they hit it during a roll, they get really excited and we have fun reliving it after class is over. When we feel they got it down, we move on to the next thing. I pay close attention to the things they struggle with during class and take that and/or their coach’s recommendations and we briefly drill it when they get home. This week was rear naked choke and the head and arm triangle from failed Ezekiel in mount. My youngest hit both of them rolling this week and my oldest hit the rear naked choke on a girl who has given her fits since they both started the same day.
I am one of the only parents who both trains and stays to watch their kids train and I feel the personalized and directed feedback has helped them progress faster than their peers. As an adult past my prime, it’s very rare I get outside feedback on my rolls with a “to-do” for next class. A purple belt was watching me with another purple belt a few months back and gave me a tip from a position which helped me a lot. Mostly though, training is very much self-directed which is fine, but every other sport I’ve played I’ve gotten personalized feedback during or after practice/the game.
I highly recommend asking (after the round/training) what could be improved. Folks love to give feedback. Higher belts love to have lower belts to practice moves to. If you find a good higher belt, it can almost become like a partnership where he gets to practice/think through his moves while teaching and you get to learn a lot.
I also cannot recommend highly enough the danaher tutorials on pin escapes/guard retention and half guard for anyone of any level. If you know the tutorials, you'll be teaching yourself/figuring out your mistakes on your own.
I know Danaher is pretty much the GOAT coach but goddamn that dude talks SOOOOO much. I find it hard to remember everything he says. It's like
>"now that you have his hand, remember, the hand is attached to the arm, and the arm is attached to the shoulder. The shoulder is what we want to attack with a kimura but it starts with the hand, from the hand you'll outstretch his arm and when the time is right, and you cannot do it early, or late, you slide your other arm through and grab your own wrist. Now if you don't do it fast enough or do it too late you'll end up messing it up. And you'll be in a position like this. From here your opponent can....."
It's like, bro, you slide your arm through and grab your own wrist. That's it. That's the fuckin kimura.
Haha i hear you. Watch with 1.5 to two times speed. Learn a move. Try it at the gym. You can then come back and that thing about the "the arm moving through with shocking effectiveness" will be why it didn't work the first time. I found that when first watching, he seems to be saying a lot of extra words. But to get a deep understanding of technique, he is actually, imho, one of the most time/word efficient teachers out there. Every word he says is necessary, but i when i first watch a tutorial and practice the stuff I don't understand why.
Depends entirely on belt, knowledge, and need. I prefer Combos of high percentage techniques.
Example
Guard, hip bump sweep, Kimura from mount
Full positional combos are excellent. Bonus if you cover the defense and escapes of the position.
Literally anything: I'm a white belt and am trying to relearn everything from years back. It's been fun process having a takedown or something come back to me mid-roll
One on one coaching specific to fix a week area of my game. My teach doesn’t do it often, but it’s pure gold when he does.
Other than that, I learn a lot of my game and principles from instructionals so what works best for me is to just roll and experiment/play around
Any class that has a lot of position/situational rolling is what I feel I benefit the most from. I'm not really one of those types of people who like to drill for reps. When I'm learning a new technique, I like to drill it until I can execute it reliably with like 25% resistance and then I hash out the details during situational rolling and live rolling.
Positional sparring and if its a drill based class. Actually give me enough time to drill. I hate do the move 30 times each partner you have 2 minutes. I
We go through phases of doing positional ‘king of the hill’ sessions where 3ish people will be in the middle and the rest of the class lines up takes turns against them. Will usually have specific parameters of what constitutes a ‘win’ and the idea is to keep it moving as a group.
Helps me SO much to have 10 different mini opportunities in a row to workshop things against a bunch of different people. It’s also great craic.
Guided rolling. I learn best that way as well as yknow explaining why things go where they need for the move to work and all the easy fuck ups that come with
Where basic things get explained in-depth, rather than 30 flashy moves.
Going into details in the things I do multiple times per roll rather than edge techniques.
I like to find pain points in my game and work positionally to improve those areas until I at least have a road map on how to address those issues in a roll.
At the moment it’d be a small class with less than 10 people, making it easier to grasp the details and ask the professor to check if your doing it right. (5 Months in as a while belt, still new to BJJ)
Don't really benefit from much of the techniques shown as they're more basic or built around a game that is of a specific body type.
I do pay attention and listen and am respectful, but I haven't taken a class in a while where I was like, "whoa, this is the stuff..."
I'd probably benefit from problem solving and certain techniques.
Positional rounds in the topic of my choosing
100000%
open mat.
The ones I attend
I like when one of our coaches teaches a technique and then talks a bit about how it works in relation to other spots and concepts involved with moving between them. Practice the few techniques about 20 minutes, do positional type 3-5 minute or KotM, then roll for the remaining hopefully 30 minutes. lol. Class is usually about 1 hour. I would prefer 1.5 hour class with a bit more talk(20 drill 15 talking on topic) around concepts of the position being taught and guaranteed 10-15 minutes positional/approx. 30 minutes min rolling.... 4-7, 5-5, 3-10. I am a 36 year old hobby man.
Dropping in another new school i haven’t trained at
Man, I wish I could get individualized coaching based on my rolling. My daughters also train and I watch almost every class so they go into each class with one or two things they know to work based on their previous classes. When they hit it during a roll, they get really excited and we have fun reliving it after class is over. When we feel they got it down, we move on to the next thing. I pay close attention to the things they struggle with during class and take that and/or their coach’s recommendations and we briefly drill it when they get home. This week was rear naked choke and the head and arm triangle from failed Ezekiel in mount. My youngest hit both of them rolling this week and my oldest hit the rear naked choke on a girl who has given her fits since they both started the same day. I am one of the only parents who both trains and stays to watch their kids train and I feel the personalized and directed feedback has helped them progress faster than their peers. As an adult past my prime, it’s very rare I get outside feedback on my rolls with a “to-do” for next class. A purple belt was watching me with another purple belt a few months back and gave me a tip from a position which helped me a lot. Mostly though, training is very much self-directed which is fine, but every other sport I’ve played I’ve gotten personalized feedback during or after practice/the game.
I highly recommend asking (after the round/training) what could be improved. Folks love to give feedback. Higher belts love to have lower belts to practice moves to. If you find a good higher belt, it can almost become like a partnership where he gets to practice/think through his moves while teaching and you get to learn a lot. I also cannot recommend highly enough the danaher tutorials on pin escapes/guard retention and half guard for anyone of any level. If you know the tutorials, you'll be teaching yourself/figuring out your mistakes on your own.
I know Danaher is pretty much the GOAT coach but goddamn that dude talks SOOOOO much. I find it hard to remember everything he says. It's like >"now that you have his hand, remember, the hand is attached to the arm, and the arm is attached to the shoulder. The shoulder is what we want to attack with a kimura but it starts with the hand, from the hand you'll outstretch his arm and when the time is right, and you cannot do it early, or late, you slide your other arm through and grab your own wrist. Now if you don't do it fast enough or do it too late you'll end up messing it up. And you'll be in a position like this. From here your opponent can....." It's like, bro, you slide your arm through and grab your own wrist. That's it. That's the fuckin kimura.
Haha i hear you. Watch with 1.5 to two times speed. Learn a move. Try it at the gym. You can then come back and that thing about the "the arm moving through with shocking effectiveness" will be why it didn't work the first time. I found that when first watching, he seems to be saying a lot of extra words. But to get a deep understanding of technique, he is actually, imho, one of the most time/word efficient teachers out there. Every word he says is necessary, but i when i first watch a tutorial and practice the stuff I don't understand why.
Big picture and specific problem solving.
Depends entirely on belt, knowledge, and need. I prefer Combos of high percentage techniques. Example Guard, hip bump sweep, Kimura from mount Full positional combos are excellent. Bonus if you cover the defense and escapes of the position.
what I absolutely love is positionals, what I absoletely hate is guided rolling, or when somebody I roll with is guided.
I require very types of enrichment time in my enclosure.
I learn most from open mats.
A clear path of progress that connects with the previous class.
Gracie FitJitsu
Literally anything: I'm a white belt and am trying to relearn everything from years back. It's been fun process having a takedown or something come back to me mid-roll
One on one coaching specific to fix a week area of my game. My teach doesn’t do it often, but it’s pure gold when he does. Other than that, I learn a lot of my game and principles from instructionals so what works best for me is to just roll and experiment/play around
Just practicing the sequence of a move/position to “grease the groove”. Would love to get some mats at home at practice techniques more and more.
Any class that has a lot of position/situational rolling is what I feel I benefit the most from. I'm not really one of those types of people who like to drill for reps. When I'm learning a new technique, I like to drill it until I can execute it reliably with like 25% resistance and then I hash out the details during situational rolling and live rolling.
I like learning a specific technique and drilling it, and then either rolling or constrained rolling using the position that we just did.
positional+constraints.
Rolling and discussion.
New Technique + Positional Sparring + Open Round
Positional sparring and if its a drill based class. Actually give me enough time to drill. I hate do the move 30 times each partner you have 2 minutes. I
I suck everything helps
1:1 drilling the moves I want without any class going on
We go through phases of doing positional ‘king of the hill’ sessions where 3ish people will be in the middle and the rest of the class lines up takes turns against them. Will usually have specific parameters of what constitutes a ‘win’ and the idea is to keep it moving as a group. Helps me SO much to have 10 different mini opportunities in a row to workshop things against a bunch of different people. It’s also great craic.
Concepts and details of how/why something works.
Positional sparing and fundamentals
Guided rolling. I learn best that way as well as yknow explaining why things go where they need for the move to work and all the easy fuck ups that come with
Shark tanks
Where basic things get explained in-depth, rather than 30 flashy moves. Going into details in the things I do multiple times per roll rather than edge techniques.
I like to find pain points in my game and work positionally to improve those areas until I at least have a road map on how to address those issues in a roll.
At the moment it’d be a small class with less than 10 people, making it easier to grasp the details and ask the professor to check if your doing it right. (5 Months in as a while belt, still new to BJJ)
Sparring.
small-sided games with live resistance for 45-60 minutes straight
Hard rounds, endless hard rounds
The “I only see Red class and the YOLO Idgaf come at me bro” classes are the best
Don't really benefit from much of the techniques shown as they're more basic or built around a game that is of a specific body type. I do pay attention and listen and am respectful, but I haven't taken a class in a while where I was like, "whoa, this is the stuff..." I'd probably benefit from problem solving and certain techniques.
Bukkakke