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When’s Episode 2 coming out?!

I don't think having a "gym rival" is necessarily a bad thing as long as both of you are aware of the rivalry. Healthy competition can drive growth pretty rapidly... Plus it can be way more fun to have a hard round with your buddy

Wonderful. Criminally low view count. 👍👍 this would be a great day one week one

Thanks for posting a wrestling tutorial. Have you also done jjiu-jitsu or Muay Thai? Any differences from the wresting set up?

These days, bjj practice has so many rules; this move is illegal, that sort of contortion is illegal, on the premise that it is “unsafe”. IBJJF & UFC has a bunch of rules to in order to make their competitions “safe” but has that really stopped injury rates? Any technique has the potential to be dangerous, but the key question that needs to be asked is “what causes situations during practice (or competition) to be dangerous?” The reality is that regardless what technique your partner uses, if your partner has zero control of himself & his own intensity (especially if he’s going super fast; i.e: using a lot of power) it is always dangerous. The reality is that the lack of control any particular student (or instructor) has of himself & his own intensity that is the real cause of danger during training & competition. However, that is unfortunately the very thing that you have limited ability to train & instill if you are a technique-based-learning-system like bjj. That is exactly the reason why bjj white belts (especially if they’re young, athletic, & full of ego) are the most dangerous on the mats. I guess the most any instructor can do is not pressure or guilt trip any student to roll if they don’t feel comfortable, and as a student, if you have an instructor that keeps insisting you roll even when u don’t feel comfortable, you should remember u have the right to stop taking his class (or even walk out that very moment if u feel rolling that moment would cause serious injury or death).

Watching this video last year and doesnt understand. But few week back something click and I rewatch this, now this make sense. Thank you coach❤, kind regards from Vietnam

A 100% Chris. I think this is such an important subject and one that needs opening up in the sphere of grappling combat sports. As a former educator in a School of Medicine in the UK - teaching patient safety, 'never events', learning from medical mistakes, human factors, etc, via the use risk assessments and making implicit practice more and more explicit via daily briefings and reflections, check lists, posters on walls, induction contracts with expectations of behaviour, just a few for example) could all, in my opinion, be implemented into gyms to create a safe, enjoyable and ultimately more competitive atmosphere where fear of injury becomes almost non-existent (never completely). Of course, this would demand a far higher level of education, teaching skills and experience from the coach than simply being a black belt or how many competitions they may have participated in. I imagine a lot of push back in this respect but I can only say it's good to hear you drawing from your experience from the fire service to make the implicit more explicit in your gym. In many ways, modern medicine had to learn from other industries (airlines for example) who manage risk and safety on a day by day basis to improve patient outcomes despite push back from surgical teams. Hope that makes sense to borrow your phrase? I live a little too far away to visit but one day would like to do so 🙏

That was cool, thank you for hosting!

Rob Bernaki.. the sheep that required vaccinations to enter his gym.. I can’t take him seriously

The dorsal and ventral systems are the 2 visual systems that go from the eyes to the brain. They are functional systems. The fact that they exist does not prove or disprove any theory of motor learning. EcoD, IP, or otherwise. It does not mean that perception is both direct and indirect. That would be like saying I have 2 ears, so I must have 2 different perceptual systems.

This is like The Avengers

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Love this.

Love it! Minimum instruction with maximum results.

Enjoy your way of thinking and the way you look at BJJ. Like the vibe and culture you are creating as well!!

Brilliant! Huge fan of your work and this is great stuff, thanks!

Awesome conceptual instruction and learning.

"Staying over your shadow" is deceptively insightful. Thank you!

Brilliant stuff, Chris! Inspirational as always.

More of this please! Really appreciate your verbal cue’s - spot on IMO.

1:36 I love this. Viewing your club, training partners and instructors as part of a team is what prevents it from becoming a cult mcDojo imo.

Powerful basic concepts! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you

I'm recovering from an ACL recon. I'm coming back to training because I'm too stubborn to be forcibly retired by another person but I'm fairly sure this is my last year. I'm a small woman, the sole provider for my daughter and I need to be able to walk etc to work. The risk is of BJJ to my ability to parent effectively is just unacceptable long term. I was injured at an open when visiting another gym. It happened in a takedown done in super slow motion by a higher belt when I had made a decision NOT to fight his grip - I decided - this is tight and I'm tired so I'll let him have it and ha took several slow moments to set it up. He had my knee hooked and pinched between his knees and he scoop pushed me sideways over the isolated knee. I assumed I would be safe as I took the scramble / speed out of the situation by standing there waiting. I assumed he would just run the pipe or step over the leg and transition his grip to take me down with a rear body lock etc. Since then I learned that another woman received the exact same injury - ruptured ACL and tibia fracture from a bad takedown by a guy a month before in the same gym. After I was injured he knew exactly what the damage was to my knee. I didn't know until I had my scan but immediately afterwards he sat next to me and told me a guy he knows had a ruptured ACL and his leg was never the same again. He knew EXACTLY what he did. You can have these risk matrices by psychos still exist. Small, single women my age who don't have any status or importance in the BJJ community are just perfect targets.

Common sense, once again!

On the nail! Good stuff.

Great summary and super helpful for novices like me 🙏🙏🙏

Can confirm. I was guillotined relentlessly at a Globetrotters camp trying to take him down.

Awesome. As ever, a bunch of concepts and ideas to ponder and play with. 👋

saw a bloody flying scissor sweep in sparring this week, my coach and I just facepalmed and cringed so hard

trouble is i rarely hear safety discussed. at most we get a general reminder, but rarely any indepth analysis and instruction so people understand.

Great minds think alike. Been trying to get more people to understand and use a risk matrix for decision making. Heuristic modeling for the win.

This is simply my opinion. I don't believe that it is the job of an instructor to look after the well being of a student. Students just like competitors are responsible for their own safety.None of us walk into any combat sport with our eyes closed to the potential risks involved. I feel that you maybe attempting to control situations that are quite honestly out of your control. I would be very interested to hear what your insurance company would have to say in this matter. If you feel that a student has been injured due to you not controlling what they and a training partner are doing will this result in a possible payout for negligence on your part ? I'm not being a knob these are simply my thoughts.

This is definitely an important video/idea. There’s a gym I’ve trained at, PandaRoll in Lynnwood WA state that has a sandwich-board with posted rules on it, specifically stating that no jumping techniques are allowed and to do so will result in immediate permanent removal from the gym. Do you post rules at your club Chris?

I like the concept of the five second rule...

Such a unique video topic 😮 I never heard anyone talk about this. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who finds this useful 😊

Maybe a deviation from your normal format, but if you want to know about Dina's work, why not interview him?

Chris is the best! I learn so much from his videos, Patreon and weekly Reap the week!

chris is back!

What is kindle? I hear you mention it in a number of your videos

What about from the back? How do you defend the cross collar choke from the back?

Very important topic. Thank you. Important aspect is what kind of composition makes for a good photo. Perhaps a future video.

That bit at 4:27, brilliant

It paines me to watch this

elbow to asshole got it

I'm about to use it in an hour just on time for the training today :) Thanks :D

brutal!

@josh. By all means, please continue to demonstrate your lack of understanding. Ecological Dynamics is a theoretical framework underpinned by an assumption of how people learn to move. It is incoherent to mix assumptions. There lies your reason. Of course, you are free to expose people to whatever you want. Similarly, I am free to point out that you do not understand the framework you are criticizing. My other points were about your misrepresentation, and that you should probably have a deeper understanding of what the approach actually assumes before you use it one day a week or critique it publicly. It's acceptable to be ignorant, but if you bullshit publicly, expect to be called out. Again, this approach is not suited for coaches who are too lazy to do the necessary homework, or who need to be the 'sage on the stage'. But I guess there are six other days of the week for that."

Thanks for listening! I appreciate your points and take exception with one and obviously just diasgree with others which is cool. I dont mind others views. If you think its dumb to expose students to different ways of learning on different days offer reasons why. In my experience people are different and learn in different ways.

Who is this charlatan?