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Introduces the problem of information overload in jiu-jitsu and explains why trying to learn too many things at once leads to confusion. The speaker argues for focusing on one position per week as the foundation of better retention.
Today, it seems like learning jiu-jitsu is getting more and more complicated every day.There are more people than ever doing the sport, which means there are more people teaching the sport, and there are thousands of videos coming across your screens every day while you're doom scrolling in bed with the misses beforeyou go to sleep.Cutting through this noise is harder than it should be.So, in this video, I'm going to show you a step-by-step process to do so that I've used to coach hundreds of students to make sure that they can hit the podium over 91% of the time and focus inthe key areas that they need to to get much better much faster.And no, it's not studying for 2 to 5 hours per day like they would have you believe or quitting your job.Although quitting your job does help, especially in my case.
So, before I get into the steps, why is what I'm about to teach you so powerful at reducing confusion?Have you ever lied to yourself and said that you're multitasking?Like right now while you're watching this video, trying to learn from me whilst most likely consuming some sort of meal, whether it be breakfast, lunch, or dinner, therefore not really learning from me and not really enjoying the foodthat's in front of you.You can't do two things at once.So stop eating and pay attention.Jiu-Jitsu is the exact same.If you try and focus on too many things at once, you're going to miss everything.to show you how to get the most out of your jiu-jitsu sessions so you can actually feel like you're retaining the information.We're going to focus on just one position per week.Yes, I understand that that can seem pretty boring or ineffective and you might even be wondering where you can start in the first place with your single focus, but we're about to cover that next.
Explains why deep focus on one area creates better technical development and more meaningful training rounds. The speaker shares a personal example of discovering a weak point through competition and using that to guide months of focused training.
When you focus on one area at a time, you actually give the technique the depth that it deserves.It's not enough that you can just hit it in drilling a couple of times, then put a big red stamp on it, forget about it forever.Because even the best in the world still work on the fundamental positions that they use every single day.When you do this and you do give it the focus that it requires, you end up developing little nuances in your application and little things that you didn't otherwise know or haven't even been shown before.And this can start to frustrate even the most competent training partners because you're actually focusing.Shifting away from that idea of one focus is going to be bored or the need for constant novelty is actually the thing that's going to give your rounds a meaningful direction so that you can avoid exhaustion and confusion
as the only things you can remember.Now, this next step is absolutely critical to finding where you should be implementing your focus so you can actually ensure it's what you need, not these stupid flying triangle variations that you keep watching on Instagram.I'll show you how to use it in a second.When I first came to my current gym, I did not have this focus.I did not know what I needed to work on.And so, unguided, my three main party tricks that I would use against people, a single leg, a dar, and a flying knee cut from 2 and 1/2 m away.Yes, I was a spaz just like you.And because I was significantly larger and more athletic than every single person I'd ever rolled against, it worked pretty well.So, I didn't really have any motivation to stop doing it until I ended up on my back in a blue belt competition and ended up losing because I couldn't find my way reliably back to my feet without exhausting
myself.And so, this gave me the ammo to realize what my main focus should be in my training, avoiding that shitty situation from happening ever again.So, for the next 6 months, guided by excellent coaching from my current coach, I played off my back.And in the first couple of weeks, it was brutal.I'm not going to lie.It sucked a big old bag of dicks.And I hated it.But I persisted.I figured out how to problem solve.I figured out some links between guard play and pin escapes and generating offense and all that jazz so that I could guarantee that I would avoid that same scenario in competition and avoid losing very winnable matches.This led to a skyrocketing in my skill development and to be fair, my motivation in training because it was such a brand new and exciting toy that I got to play with that I otherwise hadn't used before.
More importantly, it gave me the confidence to believe that if I was put there in competition again, I'd have a reliable pathway forwards that I could now use.
Covers practical ways to identify what to work on when the answer is not obvious. The speaker recommends coach review, filming training, and asking training partners for feedback.
So, what if you don't have an obvious event like that to choose what you need to work on, and you aren't quite sure what you should be focusing on?Well, first of all, most of you need to work on your pin escapes.But if that doesn't satisfy you, the best method to finding costly mistakes in your training is having your footage reviewed by an excellent coach.They're going to be able to spot the things that you can't even see yet, and stop you from making mistakes for years on end.If you don't have that available to you, there's the second best method, which is taking a camera to training, making sure you get permission off your coach and your training partners, and deconstructing your own rounds when you gethome from training.Now, look, I don't expect you guys to have a world-class perspective where you can see all these intricate little details, but what you are going to have is the ability to see all of the same patterns that you're
making that are leading to costly mistakes without the exhaustion and the pressure of being in that round.Most of you guys try and do this simultaneously, but you don't have the skill set to be able to do that yet.So, separating the two is actually a really good idea.If for whatever reason you can't film your sessions or you feel awkward about doing that, you can always ask your training partners what they think the most obvious things you need to work on are.Now, obviously, if it's a 48-year-old IT worker that just does jiu-jitsu for fun or maybe masochistically just wants to come and wrist lock the trial class kids, it may not be the best perspective to base your training offof, but it's probably going to be better than nothing.If you do want me to review your footage personally so I can critique your training and your matches so you can avoid making crucial errors and losing very winnable matches, there's going to be a link down below.
Introduces a framework for evaluating training sessions and avoiding the trap of no feedback. The speaker walks through asking whether the session goal was achieved, what to do if it was, and what to examine if it was not.
Okay, so this next part of the process is going to save you from one of the biggest progress killers in all of jiu-jitsu that leaves you confused and wondering why you keep showing up.But we've all been in a situation where we wanted to ask a question, but the thing that holds us back from getting the results that we're after is the fear of embarrassment or it being a stupid question.Now, don't get me wrong, you're probably right in assuming that most of your questions are pretty stupid.But as coaches, we understand that you guys are beginners, and that really doesn't bother us all that much, unless it's, "How do I stop getting humiliated out there?"By avoiding this process altogether, you certify one thing that you get absolutely no feedback on your rolling.And no feedback means that you're just going to be lost in a sea of confusion.
More notably, Instagram reels and YouTube shorts of trying to find submissions to throw at your training partner.ending exhausted and confused.So, how do we set ourselves up to actually analyze our training and get feedback that will propel our results forwards faster than before?This is the framework that I've built to ensure that I'm focusing on the right areas after a session to make sure I actually get the results I'm after and avoid making costly mistakes for weeks at a time.First question you want to ask, did I achieve the goal of my session?Why or why not?This is very important.You're going to have to try and use your best deductive skills as to why you were successful and why you were unsuccessful.For example, did I achieve my goal of escaping side control?Yes or no?If yes, go straight to step two.
If no, you're going to want to listen pretty heavily to step three.So, if you did achieve your goal for the session, what your next task is not to just pat yourself on the back and say, "I can escape everybody's side control."It's to think about the logical next step you're going to need to develop in your game to ensure that you're not just going in cycles of escaping, escaping, escaping.What does that look like?It looks like wrestling up on single legs.It looks like going into dog fight.It looks like pulling people into lower leg shift or sitting back to guard once you have escaped side control.All of these things will be logical next steps that are going to guarantee that you know a link between your initial goal and then your secondary goal.You're going to have a very purposeful focus in each of your rounds that's being built step by step by step.
That's going to frustrate even the best training partners.If you can link your moves together, you're going to set yourself apart from the rest of your training room.So, what happens if you didn't achieve your goal?You're going to have to ask yourself, well, what information was I missing?Where was my focus?Was it on how exhausted I was, or was it on my next logical step?Did I try and apply it against a higher belt that's three ranks higher than me, which is going to obviously end in failure?Did I miss out on even attempting my technique because I didn't positionally train?Did I abandon the goal of my session as soon as I got fatigued or distracted when I found a foot floating in front of my face and just ripped on a toe hold instead of escaping side control?All of these factors are very important to notice and they add to the confusion and the noise of jiu-jitsu because you're going away from your core focus of the session leading you to just become distracted with very poor
results because you're trying to aim at too many things at once.In my experience, the reason why most people aren't successful in their application of the goal that they set before the session largely comes down to they applied it on a training partner that was significantly better than them andgave themselves very little chance for success.The second reason is they didn't positionally train hoping to end up in bottom side control instead of starting there.Or lastly, it was not reviewing the information they were taking into training close enough to the session.If you're watching a YouTube video at 8:00 in the morning and you've got your whole workday and feeding the kids and all that stuff between 5:00 p.m.when class starts, you're not going to remember a single detail from that morning study session.But we're going to review how to study information correctly in another video, so keep a lookout for that.
Summarizes the main system for cutting through jiu-jitsu noise and building a reliable improvement process. The video closes by pointing viewers to the next lesson on avoiding fatigue and poor competition performance.
So now you understand how to cut through the noise of jiu-jitsu focused correctly on one thing per week and how to analyze whether that goes right or whether it goes wrong and the next steps to take from thereso that you can build a reliable system that turns out way better results than just throwing at the wall and seeing what sticks ending confused and distracted.And if you're not just ending up confused and exhausted in your training sessions, but you are doing so in competition, click to watch this video next where you can learn exactly how to stop gassing out, being beaten inwinnable matches, and finally giving yourself the opportunity to post that gold medal photo so your nan can like it on Instagram.All right.