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KICKERS BREAKFALL/TSU SQUAT KICKS MONKEY WALK BEAR CRAWL ALTERNATING SIDE PLANK SIT THROUGH/THREAD NEEDLE SCOOT SKYDIVES FLUTTER KICKS BIRD DOG BIRD DOG DEAD BUGS BOAT POSE
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INSIDE HEEL TOUCHES
TWISTERS SIDE LUNGES MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS MOMENTUM STAND HOP SHOT/SPRAWL STACKING PLANK UP IN BASE HIGH KNEE FRONT ROLL/BACK ROLL HIP UP HIP UP TWIST TRIANGLE TANTRUMS DOLLYS NEGATIVES JUMP ROPE
GORILLA PASS MOMENTUM STAND PUSHUP SNOW ANGELS WIND UP Recently we've been having a lot of new people walk in that are reasonable skilled in other athletic endeavors...that's awesome. However, unless the other sports you've done before were grappling based, you're almost guaranteed to be terrible at jiu jitsu. John Danaher just posted a story today about a former Kenyan Olympic long distance runner (that made his living running around New York City as people's jogging partner) who took one of his classes and gassed well before the end of training. I really don't believe that anyone walking through these doors is in that kind of shape, therefore cut yourself some slack. Not only is physical fitness relative to the skill you are involved in, but you also have no idea what you're doing and probably won't for a long time. A lot of the people we think about when we think of "naturally gifted" jiu jitsu practitioners may be somewhat naturally gifted, but they are also obsessive. If you have the resources and the ability to train multiple times per day, every day, all week then the gym is here for you. If you don't then what you expect of yourself shouldn't be a world class level of BJJ in a month of classes. There's no magic pill to get better at grappling, and the only thing that prepares you for it is grappling. So if you are putting in the time, effort, and energy to get better, you will get better, if you're not then you won't. Set your expectations based only on the task at hand and not on past experience to hopefully lessen the burden of how tough the beginning of this sport is.
When you walk in the door for our mixed levels class you might think we are crazy. The first thing we ask of you is to partake in 15 exercises 1 minute each with a fifteen second break in between. We call it the 15 Minutes of Death. Most BJJ gyms don't do this, some even frown upon such "warmups", but my goal in these exercises is only to increase your mobility and conditioning. It is not about practical skill development. I know that there are many people who only exercise at the BJJ gym, not everybody is on a strength and conditioning program in their off time. However, one of the primary goals when people walk in the door is to get in shape, so instead of complex drilling sequences, we emphasize strengthening our bodies in ways that help our jiu jitsu. When I first started every class was a 30-45 minute warmup, I didn't enjoy it or understand it at the time, but as I began to train other places, I noticed people of equal or higher skill level wore down more quickly, and came around to the benefit of such torture. What we do is a condensed version of those warmups. They're quick, easily doable in small spaces, and posted online so if you can't make it to class you can do them wherever you are. There is a benefit to this madness, but you just kind of have to trust me until future you figures out what it is.
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JUMP ROPE SHOT/ SPRAWLS SIT THROUGH/THREAD NEEDLE PUSHERS ALTERNATING V UPS HOP
HOP SIDE LUNGE ARMS FORWARD ARMS BACK MONKEY WALK BEAR CRAWL SWIVEL SHRIMP SHRIMP INVERSION BUENO TRIAD SIDE BICYCLE ROCKETEERS BOXER KICKS ZOMBIES WIND UP 100 JUMPING JACKS
90 SPLIT JACKS 80 TANTRUMS 70 CRUNCH PENGUINS 60 DEAD BUGS 50 PUSHUPS 40 SQUAT JACKS 30 GORILLA PASS 20 SHUFFLE SPRAWLS 10 MOMENTUM STAND HOP Drilling in BJJ has become a controversial topic, and I can understand why. Oftentimes when you walk into a gym, you see people going through the motions, not really focusing on what they're doing, not utilizing their time wisely to make their techniques more efficient and effective. This type of mindless drilling is useless, it's ineffective, and it builds bad habits. Personally, I am a proponent of drilling to execute, usually being my drilling partner is work. We hit reps continuously with decent intensity until time is up. Both people are always looking to correct pressure, limb placement, positional differences, and anything else that would make the technique we are working on better overall. When I watch Cobrinha or the guys of AOJ drill it's always very precise and smooth, which is another avenue of drilling, but it requires more accountability as both uke and tori. Without a concept of the realistic execution of the moves, the steps of execution you go through in your mind must be bulletproof to then hit those moves in a less relaxed situation. The branch off of drilling that probably needs to be explored more in a lot of BJJ gyms is specific training. When we teach a position it behooves all involved to then try and execute those things within the same day. By going straight into rolling without parameters, a vital piece of the learning process is missed. I am guilty of this as are a lot of instructors, because people sometimes just want to scrap. I suppose the main point is there is a way to make yourself better through drilling, but it might not be the way you're going about it now.
Grappling is an individual sport, but you need other people in order to be successful. You need a team. Every member of that team then has to be on the same page about their goals. The vast majority of people walking into a jiu-jitsu gym will not be world champions, but those people deserve as much if not more respect in training than the everyday grinders. These people are responsible for a lot of your success and improvement. They put their body on the line to allow you to get better, they give you the puzzle. Then they get up the next day broken or not and head to work, take care of their kids and live a life not all consumed by choking others unconscious. As a group the least we can do is look out for each other. This is something I wish I'd figured out earlier and now something that I try to impart to my students. You need to take care of yourself, because that's how you have a long training career, but also take care of your training partners, because if you don't you either won't have training partners or they'll be at the gym they just won't train with you. It's a hard balance I know, but the path to better jiu-jitsu may not come from the traditional last man standing philosophy, as a sport we may have to find the middle ground of super soft training and murder, death, kill. In the long run being smart and conscious about how we train leads to a better overall environment and better overall collective grappling skill.
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