A simple 4 step formula to greatly improve your jiu jitsu

[@mattmgarza]

I think this is analogous to automotive repair. I'm far from the most experienced, but, because I have rebuilt an engine, there are things I understand about an engine that I don't need to memorize or look up. That one engine rebuild project helped me have a very deep understanding of the basic fundamentals of how an engine works, that is far greater than memorizing a series of questions and answers. Instead of needing to read about the importance of not over-tightening bolts, I KNOW the importance of that concept because I have cost myself many extra hours of labor because of over-tightening a few bolts. I've felt the bolt snap. I don't need to memorize the importance of engine oil, because I've seen and replaced bearings and connecting rods that failed due to lack of proper lubrication. I've seen cylinder heads that were all sludged up because of infrequent oil changes. I know this isn't the perfect analogy or metaphor or whatever, but I hope what I'm saying makes sense. :)

[@MrChipsXT]

When can you teach us the rerlect guard please lol

[@bahtiyar.d]

While learning some BJJ techniques, I started recognizing similar patterns among them. It got clear to me that BJJ is built on concepts. I 100% support and agree with Kit's approach. Conceptual learning is foremost important in BJJ. Kit, please, produce more content on BJJ concepts. Thanks!

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Great to see a video of someone explaining things beyond just techniques. 20 years ago I trained as a Nurse and we used the same model to assess patients. We named the steps Assess, Plan, Implement, Evaluate but it is clearly the same process. Thanks for this video!

[@silismo]

Ive always focused on movement over taking technique as gospel. this video helps it put into words, thanks Dale

[@y2m13]

This sounds very similar to OODA loop. Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. Develeoped by Air Force Colonel John Boyd, Boyd applied it to combatoperations. Very similar to what you are describing here.

[@mopholo]

Yep my thoughts exactly, though OODA goes far deeper it's conceptually the same thing. He should develop a OODA-JJ course for the US marines, they love OODA based stuff

[@scorpion32]

I did this instinctively as a white belt but not on this level. I would find common errors I make and have a deck of possible solutions I would try every week and stick to one that matched my natural instinct.

[@kitwarchilddale]

yes!! very good

[@mopholo]

I have a better acronym, if you're willing to accept that step one is really just step 4 during the real time loop ( you have re-arranged the pieces, now start your loop again, assuming mission is still in progress ) but you can use Reflect in the Acronym as well if you wish. ACT(R) Assess ( Evaluate ) (OO) - Filter my choices Choose ( Select ) (D) Try ( Execute ) (A) -- Reflect While I am a Old - BJJ Newb I have used OODA in Tactical Combat Loops, SCUBA instruction, Skydiving Instruction etc. I have found that a shorter ODA or ACT is conceptually easier to people to grasp for real time chaos management, because the OO/R process feeds back into all the phases which can be hard to do real time I get what you are saying of course about not turning a neural path into a neural groove ( path vs. canyon ) and the temptation of mapping that into ODA/ACT by ignoring R, so I usually present it as bump out ( learning ) loop Practically applying ACT(R) to BJJ is something that greatly interests me because not having a fluid and systematic approach to learning bugs the sh.t out of me ;-) so please do keep making videos that map the conceptual to the practical application of ACT(R) Cheers, Todd

[@daalhead1098]

What the fuck r u on about

[@flintflyer575]

i'll preface this with i dont watch much jiu jitsu,but i'm a big over weight guy and i couldn't do alot of the tekkers i was shown but i would trawl the internet and try stuff in class. so after about two years of training and working stuff out i lost quite a bit of weight and started watching more jiu jitsu and found orlando sanchez and we have very similar games,thing is watching kits videos about learning really helped me about six months in so cheers mate.

[@xpansionteam1537]

Another great vid cheers

[@kitwarchilddale]

thanks!

[@werolljudo8401]

Guys my advice, save download and repeat the videos of Kit, very rich information!

[@amplifymysound]

ahh yes the most important step, rerlect. Great video mate.

[@larkhallman]

I try to see the common denominators in the techniques, from there is the formula, then build my learning on these fundamentals.....Great Video

[@alvinmartino3738]

Thank you sir! Lessons for jiu jitsu and life!

[@NicolasCeo]

thank's mr dale. like a white belt this kind of video helps me a lot! I beginning to feel i'm not grow and that is really frustrated. I practice almost like a year and i know a lot of techniques, but don't can apply in my training, just isolated movements than i can't mix. i hope this videos can help me to think outside a box thanks again from Rosario city Argentina, Gracie Barra academy Oss!

[@WAYT00Much]

Very cool concept! That's the very helpful

[@ItzzRiaz]

Btw kit , can you please upload more of these videos regularly. They are very helpful and informative!

[@kitwarchilddale]

We are going to be doing live streams and more coming later this year! Thanks for the kind words.

[@deebonash4487]

Great advice. It applies to alot more than jiu jitsu. Very wholesome and much appreciated Proffesor. 🤙🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@kitwarchilddale]

thanks man!

[@doca8792]

Great approach.

[@sienjong2762]

Thanks, kit.

[@kitwarchilddale]

No problem!

[@rollinOnCode]

What is "Rerlect" ?

[@MathewKoder]

Excellent video!

[@joaoandre1594]

Great!!! thanks for the video!

[@kaistigerboy]

Cheers mate great philosophy on training the mind and body awesome teacher Cheers

[@kitwarchilddale]

Thanks so much Mate!

[@samurai74785]

Sounds very similar to the OODA loop from Boyd

[@kitwarchilddale]

Sam White yes very similar concept

[@pant0sand0hat]

Thanks.

[@ArunMadTrad]

Does that say "rerlect"?

[@rok64305]

reflect? as a Korean watching UTUBE i was quiet confused searching "rerlect" on the web. but no matter thanks for providing very basic yet important understandings of BJJ. Appreciate it

[@veganmma7221]

ive been doing no gi and mma grappling for over 8 years about a year ago i went to a traditional gi bjj gym and i was trying so hard to roll calm and with technique not using strength trying to use gi grabs etc and i was getting my ass kick by white belts etc and i made me feel like shit cause i came from been top grappler in my mma gym been told im brown belt material to getting submitted in 1 min so one day i said " fuck it i am going to roll like i am not using gi" funny thing when i started doing more of my wrestling/grappling i started *no pun intended* rolling thru guys in the gym with ease

[@lrwhiteley]

@kitdale how can I get the book???

[@chrisforchrist1308]

Great vid!

[@1NoSlack]

What are those books you recommended?

[@SpartanDrazen]

Does anyone else have a problem with the reflect stage? there's no time to reflect during rolling and when rolling is over i can't remember half of what happened.

[@Brascobadboy]

You must smoke too much

[@FR-ty5vn]

SpartanDrazen I just reflect on what I remember, the key points...for privates ask if you can videotape...

[@NoBody-ro3xj]

I know this is late but my buddy and i roll like we are in an ultra slow motion mode and you will remember better if you go slower.

[@montanabaker1713]

You don't need to remember the entire roll; if you can remember a few key moments you will learn from those. But keeping memory during stress is a skill that will get better with practice. Start by remembering what defeated you; think about what might have worked better. Ask the person you're rolling with as well, a lot of people will give you helpful advice or even show you things if you prod them a bit.

[@memorycloud4173]

Great video Kit. Just got a bit annoyed that you wrote Rerlect instead of Reflect. Sorry

[@hailshonny]

Very profound. This is why the kind of martial arts that limit sparring in their curriculum always gets fossilized because the students never get a good chance to expand their mind by trial and error. Your martial art training and knowledge went beyond the science of physical interaction and reached a philosophical level. One can literally take your teaching and apply it to everything else in their lives. I hope you teach and not just compete. I will be signing up for your gym lol.

[@johnnyk5385]

Excessive sparring makes you sloppy. Drilling comes 1st then specific then sparring.

[@Bradley9967]

@@johnnyk5385 I would have thought the reverse. If you training partner capitalises on your "sloppiness" then that will correct you.

[@johnnyk5385]

@@Bradley9967 Sparring is crucial, but you should first learn concepts and discover what it is you're trying to accomplish in sparring without learning to force things in sparring. That's how bad habits are made.

[@zoommair]

Came for the Rerlect comments

[@ItzzRiaz]

What would you recommend to someone , who can only train once a week to get his blue belt quickly?

[@xMikzux]

I think you should concentrate on the basics and forget the belt. I'm a white belt myself and i've seen many people give up who trained two to three times a week and didn't get blue belt in like year. You'll get it when you're ready. Concentrate on the journey and let the promotions come when they come.

[@CamJamCoach]

Did you get your blue belt?

[@MatrixJiuJitsu]

Kit you have the tree on the arm, it wasnt necessary to paint it on the board

[@goku-pops7918]

Most schools do not adapt their teaching method it is very frustrating

[@FDonovan1979]

When you roll Kit, are you going in with a definite plan as to what you want to do? I'm a white belt 1.5 yrs training and I forced mysekf to stop passing guard 9 months ago to focus only on bottom full guard. I got pretty nifty at that but now my training partners know exactly what I'm up to...it's become too much of a habit. I suppose I'm looking to implement your ideas into my training but I'm.not sure if I understand completely. You advocate situational work and then lots rolling? What form should that rolling take? Is it 'see where I end up' or am I going in always with a gameplan? Bit of a BJJ existential crisis sorry! Would be very interesting to see a video of you rolling where you commentate over it referring to the ESER ideas you talk about here

[@benhallo1553]

Start adding wrestle ups in

[@thepaperninja1081]

i persoanlly found drilling good for the way i can move on the ground, like even though an armbar was a movement on my back, i could move much better being on top or bottom, it just helped with ground movement :)

[@kitwarchilddale]

The Paper Ninja yeah it should help you with that as its training your body to move that way! Trick now is to take off the training wheels and start freeing yourself up to move any way

[@thepaperninja1081]

+Kit Dale oh awesome bro, would you say to drill less and roll more to free my technique?

[@kitwarchilddale]

The Paper Ninja inwould look to eventually remove drilling completely

[@thepaperninja1081]

+Kit Dale ok thanks bro :)

[@FR-ty5vn]

Great video - this is exactly what I do, in addition to group & private class drilling techniques - check your spelling for reflect...thx!!

[@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511]

how the hell d'you get to black belt in four years??? i've been at it for about three and can't even earn a second stripe on my blue belt. i train 6 times a week sometimes twice a day

[@Medreg1983]

Trying too hard?

[@BL0HARD]

This guy sounds like one of those lucky people that is just naturally good at sport, drilling is important to people that aren’t naturals.

[@johnnyk5385]

Not to tear apart your philosophy but perhaps you could explain to me why the students at my academy who place greater emphasis on live rolling than on drilling the techniques and correcting bad habits are some of the easiest to defeat in rolls? If you don't spent most a lot of time drilling how can you hope to pull off techniques in real time? Andre Galvao states the overlooked importance of drilling and my experience concurs with his assessment. Drilling elevated my game not excessive rolling where there is no time to reflect.

[@kitwarchilddale]

There are so many variables that come into play. When you say you easily defeat the guys that place less emphasis on drilling, that could mean so many things that have little to do with the exercise in itself. One could be that they’re simply there for fun, and you are there professionally, you train more, harder, are therefore fitter than them. So that could be one thing. The others are although easily debunkable with your thoughts on Galvao, but I not the time to articulate that in a comment. If you’re serious about doing some real study on this. Check out the art of learning jiu jitsu. Where I explain all of this in great detail. Also years after I recorded this. Which to be honest I can’t remember what I said lol

[@johnnyk5385]

@@kitwarchilddale Thank you for the response. Fitness between myself and them is roughly equal, most of them are younger than me and compete more frequently. I'm defeating them because they are predictable and when the tempo increases their patterns are the same because they have a limited arsenal they're comfortable applying in real time. I'm very curious on your argument debunking Galvao's statement.

[@johnnyk5385]

@@kitwarchilddale You are correct about one thing however. I do train harder than them. Me and a partner will drill sequences til we are exhausted and then do specifics in addition to our regular training.

[@xDeviLRed]

How do you get a black belt in 4 years .. there's a few blue belts in my school that are training for 4 years and they are really really good still blue belt though. Maybe It's because we do sport jiu jitsu for IBJJF which takes a lot to get a medal at a certain belt but still 4 years for Black belt wtf

[@kitwarchilddale]

Georgi Danailov I won blue belt world pro. Purple belt world Pro and brown belt world pro silver so I kinda had to go to black lol

[@sfkingalpha]

I am having trouble rerlecting.

[@sasori9116]

how can u train and learn a technique if u don't drill it or use it often ?i think i don't get ur concept , all martials arts have this " do it over and over till its perfect " way of thinking , why not bjj ?

[@moo3992]

sasori 911 I think he is talking more about application of technique after evaluating the situation.

[@johnnyk5385]

Most new school bjj experts have conceded that drilling is far more important than live rolling some are slow to get it apparently. You have to polish a technique or sequence if you want to hit it in real time.

[@pl4645]

Cool vid! just one thing, you spelt reFlect as reRlect lol

[@montanabaker1713]

Bruce Lee also said "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

[@werolljudo8401]

Bro I tried to find your website on Google kitdaletraining.com but the result wasn't satisfactory yet, show a lot of Instagram, facebook, other things except your page, I suggest you try to improve some positions on Google about your page, something like tap your name and come up your page, you doing s great job about learning materials.

[@ns81]

R.A.M.

[@heytony4162]

Must have a great inrerlect. Too inrerlectual for my tiny brain though.

[@vladx3539]

as in a blend of steroids?

[@evangelistjoaquinorosco3391]

nice penmanship

[@LoungeActVideos]

Rerlect? Rurrito?!!!

[@mikeharvey1597]

I'd say mat time is best. Not trying to be a smart ass, I just mean I don't like to over think things like technique. If it comes, it comes. And it will eventually.

[@kitwarchilddale]

mike harvey there's just way to much evidence that this is incorrect. But I get you don't want to think about too much. But this is for the people that do want to think

[@jitsulee652]

Seems he trolled us all with double talk!

[@s51fish]

Rerlect

[@caninbar]

Total Alpha Male!

[@mattleonard6568]

bruh, stop skipping left arm day

[@navtejsinghsaini4945]

Black Belt in 4 yrs ? Something seems off

[@F.G.30.4.91]

Navtej Singh Saini belt promotion due to success in tournaments ;)

[@FR-ty5vn]

Great video - this is exactly what I do, in addition to group & private class drilling techniques - check your spelling for reflect...thx!!