Packed house at RJJA
Toledo today! Really great day of training through the kids/teens/adults
classes. AND I even got to teach a little bit today which was fun!! Taught a
basic mount escape to closed guard then the hip bump sweep from closed guard to
mount. What I realized most was that the little things you do when you’re
performing a move are the hardest to teach. Especially things like the timing
or the little details of where your hands need to be, when your guard needs to
be open, etc. Teaching is much harder than it looks, let me tell you. Luckily
the kids/teens at our academy are great about paying attention and learning.
Then adult class was a review of the KOB moves from this week and finished with
an hour of open mat training. Lots of people came today from other Ribeiro
schools in Michigan Canada, and Ohio and everyone had a lot of fun and a really
great day of training! I love when a whole bunch of our Ribeiro family gets together to help each other improve. It's always a great time.
Here’s what I learned today about gi versus no gi training
(since the kids/teens class is no gi).
It in THEORY shouldn’t matter if you only train in the gi, you should still be
good at no gi
if you’re good at holding positions and transitions. I,
however, learned my game is based entirely off grips (for example, right now my
favorite guard is spider) and this whole no gi thing is really tough for me to
transition to. I’m working on teaching my brain to think of a wrist as a
sleeve, the neck as the lapel, and the ankle as the pant leg. I’m also working
different kinds of guards like x-guard in no gi which I’m then transitioning to
more in my gi game. So I think it’s really interesting. But honestly, sometimes
when we train no gi open mat at the end of class, I end up flailing around
hopelessly. It definitely switched things up in my brain and has caused me to
think differently, which is always a good thing but boy… I am not good at it!
I’m back to training at least 3 days a week again during my
psychiatry rotation, which is wonderful! (Although, this psychiatry rotation is....interesting.... ) So I’m going to keep training for what will *hopefully* be the next
tournament in September. (Actually, it would be the tournament that was my
first ever tournament last year!
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Have a great rest of your weekend everyone :)
Labels: BJJ, BJJ no gi, BJJ teaching, RJJA, RJJA Toledo
