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The Art Of Teaching BJJ
How the Beginners’ BJJ Intensive works
One of the most common questions we’ve been asked about the Beginners’ BJJ Intensive goes something like:
“How does the Beginners’ BJJ Intensive work?”
That’s a really important question because, on the face of it, it might seem crazy that you can get a beginner into your main classes and able to learn after as little as three hours of teaching.
However, it is totally possible because the course follows a specific layered structure that continually reinforces the previous lessons and concepts.
Rather than try and explain the structure, check out this short video in which we share some of the secret sauce behind the beginners intensive.
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Why the Beginners’ BJJ Intensive
I remember looking at our class attendance for the coming week and just feeling dejected. Sounds weird to say that you feel dejected because every class was almost 100% full, but it’s the truth.
We had a tonne of people wanting to start BJJ and no way to get them going.
As moving to a mega facility and as was running a full beginners programme were out of the question, so Chels and I decided to try short, intensive course.
The results were staggering… check out the video to see what happened and why a beginners’ intensive might be the answer to your prayers:
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The Art Of Disguised Repetition
Teaching is different from doing. In the Jiu Jitsu community, there are far more good athletes than there are good teachers, and that’s completely normal— most instructors spend years mastering grappling skills, not teaching skills, and find themselves teaching as a byproduct of that mastery, rather than teaching because of a love of teaching. And that’s perfectly fine! Not everyone is drawn to teaching, and most people certainly don’t find it to be second nature.
The problem arises when instructors don’t treat their teaching skill development the same way they treat their BJJ skill development. We assume— all the time— that things are self-evident or self-explanatory when they need to be practiced, often with thousands of repetitions. But if you’re anything like me (and your students likely are), the idea of practicing the same thing over and over again ad nauseam makes you want to throw things and rage quit Jiu Jitsu forever. This is where the art of disguising repetition comes in.
Watch the video below where Tom and I talk about it:
Repetition is fundamentally necessary for building good habits, but how do we keep students engaged for those thousands of repetitions? We have to hide them inside other drills, techniques, and skills.
There are numerous benefits to using disguised repetition in your classes, but to effectively design BJJ drills that serve your purpose, you need to be able to drill down into your purpose for teaching a specific Jiu Jitsu technique or Jiu Jitsu skill. BJJ techniques are complicated! There are always drills that you can add to focus on different parts of a technique.
I like to pressure test students with the part of a technique most likely to go wrong so that they become comfortable with different outcomes in a low-pressure training scenario. It builds comfort with the technique, but it also keeps them from becoming bored as they work their way through the thousands of repetitions needed for mastery.
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