Fundamental system
Hi, I've seen the different fundamentals options on the guide, tons of great videos. I was wondering if there actually is a simplified version of a system to teach to my new students. I obviously have one, but I've been studing others to see how it compares and if I'm missing something. I'm talking about something like the blue belt requirements of Roy Dean or the Gracie Combatives...a bunch of essential techniques. Right now I teach a couple of options from each position that work good together, the essential moves to build your game upon.
Thanks guys!
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@@BCNTOPTEAM are you talking in terms of a rotating curriculum to follow?
Exactly!
Jasons spoken before about having a curriculum not really being a thing outside of brand new white belt to blue belt level which I wholeheartedly agree with. Maybe he has plans to build a fundamental 'curriculum' in that sense which would be fantastic. I personally have taught charity MMA a few times, where people sign up for an MMA fight and have 8 weeks to learn everything they can for fight night. It's three times a week and we split striking out from grappling, striking once a week, grappling twice a week.
Because that's such a short time to cover all of grappling (including takedowns) I focussed on one position a week. One session would have an attacking focus and the other would have a defensive focus on the same position. This was done for standing, guard, mount, back control, side control, half guard and turtle with a linking move between them (i.e. to transition from guard week to mount week there would be a scissor sweep to link them). The last week is usually positional rolling to test what they know and answer any questions that arise. There are usually 3 (4 at most) techniques in each session which tend to interlink (e.g. if this doesn't work, your opponent is probably doing this to stop it so we counter it with this). I don't bother with daft warm-ups like shrimping up and down the mat but usually they are functional and ingrain grappling into their muscle memory but are probably too 'boring' to focus on in the main body of the lesson (fighting for single legs, hand fighting, etc.).
The overall progress we see in complete beginners to 8 weeks is amazing so something clearly works with this dumbed-down simple approach. Message me if you're interested at all in my feeble attempts at an 8-week course and I can share.
Current system of fundamentals used in most schools is designed for teaching classes with many students. If we had more coaching type of teaching (one on one), I am sure that fundamentals would be more concept based not technique related like now.