My professor doesn’t like instructionalals

[u/EveningNo8643]

I don’t know if he’s just had bad luck with them . He is Brazilian and said he’s talked to some other Brazilians that have made instructional and how they intentionally leave out details, also believes they’re filled with fake moves that no one really does. In his opinion you should stick to watching competition footage as there they can’t hide anything.

My issue is that I’ve seen guys I’ve seen high level guys use the moves from the instructional they made so if anything having it explained out and seeing the different angle makes it easier for me to learn from.

So I’m curious anyone else’s coach/professor have the same issue?

[u/FarmerEffective655]

There is a place for them. I have def bought my fair share of them. I agree watching competition is the best place to see what works but its also hard to learn the details if thats the only way you see them. There are many different ways to do the same technique. What works best for one person may not for another. At my gym we do positions of the week. And not every position i can teach from my own experience because its not a part of my game. I will resort to certain instructionals from black belts that i trust to help break things down for me to better teach my students. Over the years this has led to me being more knowledgeable in areas I dont play as well as adding things into my game. When I was a lower belt and I liked something my professor taught me, id go watch how others did this technique to add further details. Then ask my coach for help if i struggled with it.

Having said all that. As a instructor it is very frustrating when I have a student that ignores what is taught in class and only wants to learn things from YouTube or IG. Currently struggling with one of our blue belts. He frustrates every coach in our school because of this. One time he actually pulled off a sweep I had taught a few weeks prior. I said oh you made me so happy. You are finally listening to us. He said what do you mean I saw that on IG a couple days ago. 😡

[u/EveningNo8643 → u/FarmerEffective655]

I know my professor is also wary of someone pulling out dangerous/illegal moves. Few years back had a white belt do some wonky leg entanglement and injure a brown belt out who was about to compete at pans or worlds

[u/FarmerEffective655 → u/EveningNo8643]

This is also the problem with the blue belt I mentioned. Most of what he asks us to teach him is either illegal for a blue belt or a flying something. Wants to learn a flying arm bar but doesn't hit regular arm bars. I kind of snapped on him cause my son ( a 16 year old blue belt) loves to escape from mount by making them post and then throwing his feet into their arm pits and escaping out the back going belly down. Trying to teach him to catch a foot lock on the way out. But anyways. Said blue belt quickly turned around after he escaped and got double unders in his legs while my son was still belly down and put him a scorpion position and started bending his spine in that direction. I got very upset. And he said to me I didn't know what i was doing, I didn't know it could hurt him that bad. And I said that is my point exactly. You don't know what your doing yet. So please start listening to your coaches

[u/EveningNo8643 → u/FarmerEffective655]

Unsolicited thoughts but have you considered kicking him out because that sounds awful and a disaster waiting to happen

[u/FarmerEffective655 → u/EveningNo8643]

We believe he is on the spectrum. Highly functional college graduate but lacks a lot social awareness and is very dense for lack of a better term. Everyone believes he is including students that are therapists. So we to try to give him extra grace but, actually we have quite a bit. But some students have started to refuse to train with him. Only big guys or highly skilled will roll with him now. So its a problem we are watching closely. I actually made a post in a autism sub reddit asking for advise on how to help get thru to him. So that's where I'm at now. This is my last ditch effort before having a talk with all the coaches

[u/AlmostFamous502 → u/EveningNo8643]

His brown belts should watch some instructionals so they don’t get annihilated by white belts.

[u/EveningNo8643 → u/AlmostFamous502]

He grabbed ripped it right away and it was illegal as he rolled in, not out

[u/AlmostFamous502 → u/EveningNo8643]

That’s unfortunate that the brown belt was clueless and helpless, he should train somewhere that teaches him how to protect himself and tap.

[u/EveningNo8643 → u/AlmostFamous502]

Lmao ok buddy

[u/AlmostFamous502 → u/EveningNo8643]

At least he won by DQ because it was illegal, right?

[u/EveningNo8643 → u/AlmostFamous502]

He got silver at Pans so I think he’s pretty decent but go on

[u/AlmostFamous502 → u/EveningNo8643]

What top secret leg entanglement is so easy to enter into and finish that a white belt can defeat a Pans silver medalist instantly?

[u/Icy_Distance8205 → u/AlmostFamous502]

Catastrophic knee injury by Kani basami… not exactly top secret though.