#145

[@BPchadlite]

Learning BJJ isn't hard, you just show up almost every day and sometimes twice a day, don't have family responsibilities, go home and watch endless hours of footage in the first few years, reflect on your mistakes, show up with pages of dot points for moves, smoke reefer, be underemployed, have no kids, never do warm ups, torrent instructionals, stay back after class and force lower belts to roll and so on and so forth

[@cheyennemeredith1174]

Keep comin back 👍

[@Matto_Harvo]

You don’t do seminars?

[@BPchadlite]

@@Matto_Harvo Fuck no.

[@Matto_Harvo]

@@BPchadlite 3 hours for one hunjie? Cheap arse seminar.

[@Deletedact101]

Bro quit giving out my secrets😭😭😭😭

[@badxradxandy]

Lucky to have a coach that spends time deep diving on a single position for a while then something else and how they tie together.

[@stuartclubb4302]

Good perspectives. Survivorship bias is a thing that reinforces the process. Bigger and stronger people prevail more often and stick around to learn, get better and refine their technique. Smaller and weaker people fail more often and end up quitting - so they don't get better. If a school fails 90% of the students, you should not question the students. You should question the teachers. It's a rare coach that can actually speak to having a curriculum, let alone a written plan where students can know when they will get something that will fill in a blank.

[@Friendsgamingetc]

Finding revising on my own, watching videos and borrowing the brother in law to drill on, then going to an open mat, I have a mate that I then teach what I’ve been practising and he teaches me what he has been learning because teaching helps you learn, then for a whole month I only start in that position during rolling

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

100% agree. I discussed alot of these topics with BJJ mental models and Sonny (SO to Sonny!) too. I think it's very good how you guys say students should own up to their jiujitsu. As a coach you have to spread your time over 100's of students who, should be, treated equal. It's not easy, so realizing people are responsible for their own jiujitsu (at least for a part) is huge.

[@marcusaurelius841]

My gym just does whatever they happen to be teaching to the whole class that day. I think my first class ever the first thing I learned was single leg x before I even knew about mount or side control. Still, I did a lot of self-directed learning and online research and asked some people about the basic stuff. I can understand it's hard to tailor a class to each individual

[@jessegarciaiv5380]

Same here. Just hopped in with no prior grappling experience, and started on a single leg x day as well! Lol

[@marcusaurelius841]

@@jessegarciaiv5380 Lol single leg x is pretty fun and interesting anyway, it's ironically a good intro into jits

[@BjorsN]

When do you guys reckon someone should start learning takedowns? I know some coaches advocate learning the ground and bottom+escapes first. Im a blue belt and have been training for a little above 2 years and have recently started exploring the stand up world. Much love from sweden

[@sayville_silver]

I have been training for 6 months. My gym mixes in takedowns like once or twice a month.

[@Jiu-JitsuJourney257]

Man standup was something I was seriously lacking at white and beginning of blue. But my coach hammered down on takedowns like crazy for a while there. Then during warm ups, we’ll grip fight from standing and mix in “controlled takedowns” I feel much more confident at purple. Haha

[@bulletproofforbjj]

Learning take downs should be from day 1.

[@BjorsN]

@@bulletproofforbjj Where would you start? Any drills you'd recommend for it? Love the podcast guys keep it up

[@kyleblevins6349]

Oh rain on Christmas here everyone hopes it snows but not me I have to shovel it

[@poleag]

Christmas in February? When was this recorded?

[@sayville_silver]

I think they have an app? This must be released somewhere "subscription" based and then the free clips go on KZbin later on.

[@bulletproofforbjj]

There was a delay in production because of the release of the app. We are trying to get our KZbin channel up to speed with our Spotify and Itunes episodes.

[@alexalexander9434]

No warm up gets the best results half the athletes have done a class beforehand Some athletes prefer less warm up and others do an hour that's why the warm up should be up to the individual you warm down while you watch the instructor teach and they typically do the warm up at the start Most don't start out going 100% anyway so it'd debatable if a warm up is even useful for everyone

[@pattyrafter88]

The gracie barra system is by far the worst

[@chrisgarciart]

yall have a discord doe? 👀 cheers from texas

[@bulletproofforbjj]

Nah but tell us about it. Why should we?

[@SuperBilroi]

All classes should be open mat. Instructor is there to answer questions only. Change my mind.

[@jangobango2847]

🤣

[@bulletproofforbjj]

If that were the case- how would you have an instructor who understood all the techniques in detail to answer the questions at open mat - in the first place? Skill practice requires all levels of delivery.

[@SuperBilroi]

@@bulletproofforbjj Must all skill development come from formal instruction? Most skill is developed unconsciously before it can be explicitly taught.

[@bulletproofforbjj]

@@SuperBilroi BJJ is an extremely counter intuitive and technical skill set. Similar to coding it is a unique language of movement. Without specific & explicit instruction/ feedback it will take any individual the longest time to learn and I doubt they could achieve a good level of proficiency. Playing MineCraft is not the same as being able to code it.

[@SuperBilroi]

@@bulletproofforbjj Coding is best learned by project based learning. And the project needs to be determined by the learner himself. Sure, having someone there to help you but too much of instruction is about "here's the project, and he's how to start it etc". Better to leave it to the learner. Have them approach the teacher after they've grown tired of banging their head against the wall. Since reading "How Children Learn" by John Holt, I've completely changed my view on teaching. Teaching (i.e. unsolicited advice) is a vice.

[@ericparis224]

Greg is a little much and is trying to be a contrarian and creating a controversy to gain popularity. He has a tendency to view himself as an expert on eco, however expertise is not proclaiming to know all, it tends to be more humble and unsure... true expertise that is.