The wounded warrior membership is probably the coolest idea I’ve ever heard of. I tore my hamstring and just stopped going. All healed up and ready to get back in there. I wish I would’ve go back earlier and just rode the airdyne.
I don't know if you've already talked about this in a video, but I recently heard Greg Souders talking about his approach to teaching/learning jiujitsu and I was curious about your experience in relation to the teaching/learning structure that seems to be a little-discussed standard in the jiujitsu world. I've been training since 2012 and in all the gyms I've been to over that time, in my city, the structure never seems to change in general terms: warm-up, position, repetition of position, combat. The only differences I've noticed are the time taken for each of these moments from gym to gym.
I opened my gym 6 months before the pandemic... It was awful, but thankfully we managed to make it out alive. After 5 years, we've had 3 different head instructors, two of which were poached by other gyms. Dealing with students/people can be exhausting, dealing with black belt instructors can be even worse. The gym is now prospering though, but there are many days where I wish I just remained a student and paid a tuition. lol.
I love how honest this channel is about injuries and the real blueprint about us hobbyist is surviving the whole process from blue to purple without getting injured so much you have to quit. I've said it before I started learning boxing non-competitively and I didn't suffer a single injury for 2 years, which is just not possible for BJJ. We invested in BJJ without learning any solid takedowns and real fighting yet we paid money and suffered injuries, that's a problem never solved, I wished there was something on the market that would waterdown the takedown and fighting and still train it inside of cutting it all out, there are real MMA and Wrestling/judo out there but the injuries honesty would not justify doing as a hobbyist .
Interesting conclusion at the end. Even on some of my resting days I decide to go to the gym, or passing by, just to be there for a while, see whats going on, say hello to my teammates. When you already feel you're part of that community It's a good vibe anyway, so you don't wanna miss it, even if it's just to take a look now and then. Modern church, indeed. Cheers from Brasil!
So recently I've been getting a little frustrated with the bjj classes for my daughter (age 9). The class runs age 7 - 11 and during rolls the gym rotates rolling partners on each roll with someone they've not rolled with. My daughter does pretty decent for 60lbs and being in bjj for about 16 months but when she goes against two of the boys in the class they just go ham on her. One of them is age 11 and just uses his strength and size to overpower her so he's on top and then just triangle chokes or arm bars her. Unfortunately there's no consideration of him toning it down some to match my daughter and focus on his technique and defense at all. The other kid is age 9, shorter than my daughter, and has dreams of being a cage fighter. This kid goes spaz and ends up sometimes kicking or kneeing his rolling partner (unintentionally I believe) or he rips arm bars instead of applying them in a slower more controlled manner to make sure he's not going to wreck someone's arm. I'm not sure if I should let it all slide and expect my daughter to just toughen up more, have a talk with the parents that it would benefit their kids to tone it down some to work other aspects of their game, or have a talk with the owner of the gym. There's been some minor talks with the owner in the past on the once a week kickboxing class and his statement to the kids was "don't punch or kick harder than you're willing to be punched or kicked." which doesn't really equate well when it's a 11 or even 9 year old boy vs a 9 year old girl. Been a bit frustrated over this the past couple of weeks and even had a hard time getting to sleep last night because I was playing different scenarios out in my head of talking to either the owner or the parents. Could really use some solid advise here. :/
Hey, Mike! Sorry to hear this. Yeah, agree with the other comments: talk to the coach, in private. It's his/her gym, so he's the authority and he should fix those kind of problems (an easy way to fix this is dividing girls from boys, which is pretty common even for adult classes). If the owner is not able to manage this, you may consider find another gym for your daughter. However, I don´t know anything about your relatioship with your daughter, and anything about being a father myself, but I'm assuming she's demonstrantig some frustration as well? Cause sometimes even if they are hammering her, she's possibly kind of OK because she might feeling it "that's part of the game"? Again, I don't have much information and I might be talking BS, but kids surprise us all the time. Anyway, I hope for the best, for you and for you daughter. It's a special thing to star BJJ at such a young age, I guess. Cheers from Brazil! Oss!
@@fabriciocordeiro921 Thanks all for the responses. I spoke with the owner and he has talked with the one 9 year old, the one that's bent on being a cage fighter, and his parents. The owner told me that If the boy keeps going hardcore without consideration for his training partners that he will have to find somewhere else to train bjj. The other boy that's 11 isn't as much of an issue and he'll be moving up to the adults next year. So after that talk I'm feeling a bit better about the situation.
Just found this podcast. Also started my own school on the side out of my garage, so it was a timely coincidence. Cool show, great points, well done.
The wounded warrior membership is probably the coolest idea I’ve ever heard of. I tore my hamstring and just stopped going.
All healed up and ready to get back in there. I wish I would’ve go back earlier and just rode the airdyne.
I don't know if you've already talked about this in a video, but I recently heard Greg Souders talking about his approach to teaching/learning jiujitsu and I was curious about your experience in relation to the teaching/learning structure that seems to be a little-discussed standard in the jiujitsu world. I've been training since 2012 and in all the gyms I've been to over that time, in my city, the structure never seems to change in general terms: warm-up, position, repetition of position, combat. The only differences I've noticed are the time taken for each of these moments from gym to gym.
I opened my gym 6 months before the pandemic... It was awful, but thankfully we managed to make it out alive. After 5 years, we've had 3 different head instructors, two of which were poached by other gyms. Dealing with students/people can be exhausting, dealing with black belt instructors can be even worse. The gym is now prospering though, but there are many days where I wish I just remained a student and paid a tuition. lol.
The wounded warrior sounds awesome ...
I love how honest this channel is about injuries and the real blueprint about us hobbyist is surviving the whole process from blue to purple without getting injured so much you have to quit. I've said it before I started learning boxing non-competitively and I didn't suffer a single injury for 2 years, which is just not possible for BJJ. We invested in BJJ without learning any solid takedowns and real fighting yet we paid money and suffered injuries, that's a problem never solved, I wished there was something on the market that would waterdown the takedown and fighting and still train it inside of cutting it all out, there are real MMA and Wrestling/judo out there but the injuries honesty would not justify doing as a hobbyist .
Interesting conclusion at the end. Even on some of my resting days I decide to go to the gym, or passing by, just to be there for a while, see whats going on, say hello to my teammates. When you already feel you're part of that community It's a good vibe anyway, so you don't wanna miss it, even if it's just to take a look now and then. Modern church, indeed. Cheers from Brasil!
Thanks
31:54 Breaking Bad reference when opening a gym…??…lol. Joey bruh, got to put a roll on the bill of the cap
how much business knowledge or money do you need to start one?
Everyone remember.. only s*** c***s tap to buggy chokes
1rd!
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So recently I've been getting a little frustrated with the bjj classes for my daughter (age 9). The class runs age 7 - 11 and during rolls the gym rotates rolling partners on each roll with someone they've not rolled with. My daughter does pretty decent for 60lbs and being in bjj for about 16 months but when she goes against two of the boys in the class they just go ham on her. One of them is age 11 and just uses his strength and size to overpower her so he's on top and then just triangle chokes or arm bars her. Unfortunately there's no consideration of him toning it down some to match my daughter and focus on his technique and defense at all.
The other kid is age 9, shorter than my daughter, and has dreams of being a cage fighter. This kid goes spaz and ends up sometimes kicking or kneeing his rolling partner (unintentionally I believe) or he rips arm bars instead of applying them in a slower more controlled manner to make sure he's not going to wreck someone's arm.
I'm not sure if I should let it all slide and expect my daughter to just toughen up more, have a talk with the parents that it would benefit their kids to tone it down some to work other aspects of their game, or have a talk with the owner of the gym. There's been some minor talks with the owner in the past on the once a week kickboxing class and his statement to the kids was "don't punch or kick harder than you're willing to be punched or kicked." which doesn't really equate well when it's a 11 or even 9 year old boy vs a 9 year old girl.
Been a bit frustrated over this the past couple of weeks and even had a hard time getting to sleep last night because I was playing different scenarios out in my head of talking to either the owner or the parents. Could really use some solid advise here. :/
just talk to the coach,, easy problem to fix..
I Second this ^^
Communicate to the coach, let them handle the students / parents
Hey, Mike! Sorry to hear this. Yeah, agree with the other comments: talk to the coach, in private. It's his/her gym, so he's the authority and he should fix those kind of problems (an easy way to fix this is dividing girls from boys, which is pretty common even for adult classes). If the owner is not able to manage this, you may consider find another gym for your daughter.
However, I don´t know anything about your relatioship with your daughter, and anything about being a father myself, but I'm assuming she's demonstrantig some frustration as well? Cause sometimes even if they are hammering her, she's possibly kind of OK because she might feeling it "that's part of the game"? Again, I don't have much information and I might be talking BS, but kids surprise us all the time.
Anyway, I hope for the best, for you and for you daughter. It's a special thing to star BJJ at such a young age, I guess. Cheers from Brazil! Oss!
@@fabriciocordeiro921 Thanks all for the responses. I spoke with the owner and he has talked with the one 9 year old, the one that's bent on being a cage fighter, and his parents. The owner told me that If the boy keeps going hardcore without consideration for his training partners that he will have to find somewhere else to train bjj.
The other boy that's 11 isn't as much of an issue and he'll be moving up to the adults next year.
So after that talk I'm feeling a bit better about the situation.
I'm 2% black now. lol