Sometimes I go in with no actual plan but I think things through before class and generally follow this schematic that I've gathered from Standard: Usually All Levels consists of 2 to 3 games for 2 to 3 scenarios (Standing, Guarded, Chest-to-Chest, or Chest-to-Back) with 6 or 10 minute rounds. Sometimes it's 10 minute rounds for each of them, doubling up on a situation, etc. Lately Competition is 2 games each for 3 scenarios (Standing Disconnected, Standing Connected, Grounded Connected) for 3-5 minute rounds. The final round is an additional format like first to score, first to submit, neutral scrambles, etc. Mostly to push the pacing and urgency, once there's more people I'll probably do groups of three or mess with them psychologically. Eventually I'd like to go off what's immediately in front of me and whatever people need, sometimes I'll have a lesson or theme then ignore it to work on my improvising. I think the hardest part of working on the fly for me is being able to assess what's in the room, then quickly and clearly adjust. When it comes to titles I struggle with walking the line between conceptual abstractions and, "Games for 'X'". Going forward I'll at least timestamp each situation, we finally started filming short-form content and it's harder than expected lol.

@ thanks for the thorough response.

@@SpiralBJJ nice title! When I think of creating my title I try to put it in the language that average grapplers might use so that they can find the video based on their own words. Or walking the line between the two

@ yeah maybe too abstract 😂. I don’t even think I want to push this channel, it’s mostly for the students and critiquing my coaching. Maybe I’ll create a paywall for refined things when I’m not majorly stressing over every single practice.

@ I feel you on the stress part. I’m gonna have to make a separate yt channel as a class resource but I’m just too lazy to manage them. It’s definitely messing up my subscribers KZbin algorithms

😂 my camera’s clock is off and I never bothered to reset it.

@@SpiralBJJ so this is what grappling in the year 3000 looks like…

@@BeginnerMindset Thank you so much, not gonna lie I felt great about this class 😂. The owner / other instructor and I are planning on filming some short form content we’re just trying to sort out how it’ll be styled.

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@@BeginnerMindset once my shoulder is healed I’m going to drop in for one of your classes.

@@SpiralBJJ 😮

@@BeginnerMindset I promise to not use a vague reference to a researcher suggesting it’s maybe ok to be prescriptive to justify invalidating the entirety of all the research available to us like another KZbinr who loves Jiu-Jitsu.

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@@unfortuanately my training partner opened a gym and brought me on as a co-instructor. www.ctgrapple.com/

@@BeginnerMindset still on the hunt for good crowd noise, somehow it’s hard to find 😂.

@@BeginnerMindset I struggle with scaling the task complexity sometimes but I try to see how much noise and variability the room can handle that day and go from there. I’ve improved my language a lot but I’m generally unsatisfied, some days coaching feels effortless others it’s an existential crisis lol. It’s funny we met and trained at Standard yet you coach in Long Island and myself in CT.

@@SpiralBJJ I’ve never been to standard. Maybe we never met? Have we? Also your classes look like what I wish mine would become. It’s a gift to be able to coach and have this approach. We are lucky 🍀

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Nah man that was WAY before Shavkat time. Satiev was 80s-90s.

Good match just seen this was on KZbin today 😂

All of these games were taken from Greg Souders and Standard Jiu-Jitsu, check out their Instagram page for a better example.

@@SpiralBJJ Thanks for the reply. Really enjoying the concepts.

I am considering removing many of my class videos as my understanding of how to apply this teaching approach is still growing and I don't want to put out uninformed content. Join the Ecological Dynamics for BJJ discord server and read the suggested material.

@@SpiralBJJ Looking forward to that coming to life.

@@JannersBJJ discord.gg/dj4BmnW5FB There's some very good coaches in this group collaborating and sharing ideas. Rob Gray's books and lectures are a perfect start.