When I first started teaching Jiu-Jitsu, coming up with curriculum for my classes was my favorite part of the job.
Creating fancy sequences, using the sequences to explain concepts, and helping each student hit the sequence perfectly.
It was fun. I filled notebooks and note pages in my phone with as many classes as I could.
Recently, however, I’ve been gradually changing the way I run my classes.
This is for a few reasons:
I’ve learned more about grappling this year than ever before
Most of the students in my classes are pretty experienced and benefit from a more modern approach to their Jiu-Jitsu education
I don’t want to run classes that are very different from the way that I am training myself to these students
And thus, here we are.
Here are some things that I’ve learned from experimenting with CLA in varying degrees in my classes:
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