It’s over. The secret is out. It takes a lot of facilitation skill and creativity to come up w these games. The first revolution of jiujitsu learning was having access to instructionals. The second revolution comes from creating these games to transmit knowledge more effectively through the power of play.
Yes sir. I’ve been developing this for about 8 years now and we are starting to share what we do. We’ve adopted the ecological approach completely in all of our practices.
@@gregsouders9648 a black belt colleague of mine and I tried a business model in San Francisco in which we employed these ecological approach to skill acquisition. The goal was for the 1:1 training session to be a learning playground in which the black belt gave all the right looks and at the appropriate speed and intensity for the student to ramp up. Imagine an army of “jiujitsu personal trainers” employing your methods… they could charge like high end personal trainers (and why wouldn’t they, they’re putting their body on the line) and make a total killing.
Yes in a way he could of been more selfish and just totally destroyed for afew years before letting everyone in. Schools that do t adopt this are just fools
Sincere seggestion: make a compilation of games by topics (same as in this video, belly up v standing, side control, back plus whatever other topics you might think of) and then do instructionals (yes plural), per level. Each level would have a complete set of “grills” for a complete practice from beginner to advanced. I am 100% positive that this would change so many academies and practices worldwide and it would probably grow a network of academies further down the line. It would also boost your business as an immediate advantage. Also, major point I think, this would make it possible for families to “play” jiujitsu at home! This is a game changer for real!
I am a gym owner that kind of lost passion in teaching as it has become uninteresting and overwhelming. This have renewed my passion once again, thank you 🙏🙏🙏
I remember years ago Kit Dale was getting trashed for teaching “concepts.” I also remember it being eye opening for me. Especially when he said that every sweep is basically pushing your opponent toward a broken post
Spaced repetition in a dynamic context is spaced exposure to the same problems to solve rather than spaced repetitions of a particular solution or individual tactic.
Thanks for posting this. Have been checking you and CLA out. A collection of jiu jitsu games (book, video product) would be something I'd check out, for sure!
Fascinated, I feel like your students will understand jiu jitsu far better than traditional show move and drill. I need to make it down there on a weekend.
I've been listening to every podcast episode you've been invited to, trying to understand your method better... This video and the examples make it so much easier to understand the whole approach. Thanks for sharing Greg.
Awesome, been trying this in our classes and had a lot of success. Of course coming up with games that make a desirable behavior emerge takes time and imagination. The juice is definitely worth the squeeze tho. Thanks Greg
This is amazing, I cant wait to start incorporating this at my academy. One of my blue belts was telling me about this concept. I love it, this is an absolute game changer.
Absolutely fantastic knowledge of creating opportunities for learning and using other strategies such as recall in a BJJ environment. Love to see it and I try my best to emulate this in my own sessions. Thanks Greg!
I now have a name for what I have doing with my striking and ground .I called it, "Using no Way as the Way (Bruce Lee).By applying a form of Gestalt analysis where segmented goals were given as specific task then reassembled into a whole once these task were adequately experienced...Ecological training about sums it up.....Great revelation
I am blue belt and in the game for 7 years. This ecological approach is mind blowing, it keeps the class interesting whilst acquiring grappling skills. This is exceptional!
This is a great way to learn and incorporating games makes it fun. I’m stoked to see how this system progresses and to see the results of the students. Thank you for sharing!
This was so cool!!! I wish I had this when I started learning back in 1994. I run my kids class very similar with 95% games and almost no explicit technique. My goal was to keep my own kids (age 5 and 6) interested in "playing" jiu-jitsu because my older brother who is a 3rd degree professor was not able to get his own 5 kids to stay interested in jits. So far my kids class (ages 5 to 12) has had 100% retention. This video helped me form additional ideas on how to run the games. Please, please, please can you create more of these videos with more game examples? This content is invaluable. Thank you.
Honestly, this is really phenomenal. I’ve been to Way too many classes that assume ALOT of The prerequisite info(like this foundation stuff) I need get and keep the dominant positions for even being able to finish a move. Super kudos on how you teach. Really love this
Well dang. You got a new subscriber today. I love the ideas on how to teach jiujitsu better. I remember seeing Bruce Hoyer's stuff on individualized learning plans a few years back and being enthralled with it. I've been trying to figure out something like what you're doing but don't have the background or the jiujitsu teaching experience to have gotten very far in it. This is fantastic!
Interesting! Cool seeing how the games quickly helped the athletes naturally / instinctively create the movements for open guard which tends to be the most pain in the neck position for a lot of players. 👍
I'm seriously impressed by this approach. I've been in and out of the BJJ community since 1993/94, and have never seen this. It aligns very closely with some approaches used in second language acquisition (my former field). This is a VERY intelligent way to design classes and I am really interested in learning more about how to implement this (i am a blue belt in a nowhere town teaching; I want to give my students the best I possibly can despite my limitations).
I have watched several instructionals, and noticed a pattern with how I learn from them. I typically don't learn the individual moves very quickly. I learn the goals of the position and pathways. In sparring I would then focus on those goals and pathways and let my experience and creativity improvise solutions. I learned a lot of good behaviors very quickly. I do also like learning individual moves, or coming up with variations to things I have seen. I think this is a really cool style of running practice I would like to try this. If you sold an instructional outlining these games, I would purchase it. How do you teach proper finishing mechanics on submissions? That would seem difficult to gamify. I would be interested to hear what your reading regarding the science of learning. Any good recommends?
This type of training seem it would be perfect for remote/online training. Games for various positions just grab a partner and get going. When are the instructional coming?
Just starting to get exposed to this and I hope you put out more content and examples on how to do this from more positions. Thank you for this content!
Wow! That was amazing! I watched this video after seeing the ecopalooza seminar video and Im so glad I watched it and this video of an actual class! Your theory concepts and style are very interesting and educational I like how it's basic easy to understand and makes sense it reminds me of how in the animal kingdom the lions teach their cubs to hunt in a playful active way as they don't speak or exactly have a language they don't tell them what to do same with the cubs and how they play is all geared to the hunt and learn via action active movement situations not in drills and told how to do a technique for example no one tells them to jump and grab on the back of a zebra use their body weight and claws to take them down pin them to the ground and bite the throat of the zebra anyway this is my humble opinion also I'd be interested to to know if these theory and concept can work with other martial arts more the striking rather than grappling? Hopefully you will be able to reach the UK as I'd love to get taught this way..
Wonderful! How I did not come through it a year ago 😁. Thank you for sharing sir. Question: how long a normal session is? And how is it designed? Thank you in advance
Thanks Greg for sharing this video. Was the first exercise about the inside leg space and destabilization the warm up? Do you actually do warm ups at all or the warm up doing useful stuff like the first exercise? Love it. Share more of those videos please.
New subscriber here. I really enjoyed this, as it represents a facet that I've not had access to at the gym. I find myself having to make up small sequences like this with my partners to drill foundational concepts, but I certainly not doing as good a job at figuring out high-value fundamentals to drill.
Awesome video. Have been doing bjj for 5 years in the traditional way, attending to classes and trying to remember the techniques. Eventually I would get some of the principles analysing, flow rolling with people or watching certain "professors" videos, but this is another level. The explanation/example of the video (with the 3 concepts of dominanting inside position, getting connection with hands and legs and breaking your opponent posture) is a great example that how I would like to learn. Then you could apply those same principles without needing all the details.
It’s specific to the level of the class and what kind of game is being played. In general, a continuous game where they don’t flip flop positions when they win or lose will be 3 minutes for each person in a foundations class. Games where they flip flop with win conditions go for 6 minutes, and advanced players in our other classes play games for up to 10 minutes since they have developed the stamina.
As you continue to revolutionize the world of jiu-jitsu through your application of the ecological dynamics concepts, it would be awesome if you or someone else could create an online resource where like minded academies/schools could be discovered by students exploring these concepts. I am an absolute beginner in jiu-jitsu, but have been using these same concepts in coaching volleyball and strength & conditioning for almost 20 years. I would love an opportunity to explore jiu-jitsu if i could find a school that used these concepts near me.
This is brilliant, as a 1 year white belt, I've been looking for this type of basics. I feel like I've been dropped into highway traffic with a lot of classes
yes, Jiu Jitsu needs more teaching like this. This is what guys like Priit Mihkelson have been promoting but for some reason the general Jiu Jitsu population just dont get it.
how do you get a beginner to refine a technique such as " figure 4" to properly finish a kimura or americana ? at some point you have to dive into specific details for proper application.
Does anyone know how they go about cycling in standing engagements? I know Greg said they alternate pinning and guarded situations. I also know that he has said they don't do as much as standing with beginners. But I wonder how much standing the I intermediate and advanced do?
It saddens me that I've been training jiu jitsu wrong for about 7 years (with breaks in between). At least now I know that there are some places where they train like I'd like to
The feeling that you’re feeling is why I started to change the way I thought about Jiujitsu and the way I structured practice. Learning is a journey, in and of itself. Regardless of how long the road is, and where it takes you, every lesson has value.
@gregsouders9648 oh cool! He's at ASU. That's where I did my undergrad. I was in an adjacent department. I'm based out of Phoenix. I'll definitely check him out. Thanks.
I see the genius in his style of instruction. I practice BJJ but if i had this type of instruction in the beginning, i would have improved by leaps and bounds. I wonder if Danahar teaches this way....which is why his students are exceptional 🤔 It's very likely.
It's amazing that you found an alternate method of teaching BJJ. How do you think this method would work if you were to incorporate maybe 1 or 2 days of the week where you showed the students random techniques with no context? Then you could let them figure out where those techniques fit into the games/sparring they are doing in class. Also, it is interesting that the woman "invented" the tripod sweep during her roll. Using your method, do you think a student would ever "invent" complicated techniques like rubber guard, or a D'arce choke?
“Using your method do you think someone would “invent” complicated techniques like rubber guard or the D’Arce choke?” Didn’t this happen before? Who taught rubber guard yo the first person to do rubber guard? And how would they have drilled it if it didn’t exist yet?
Record every class charge as much as you want for a monthly patron, I’d pay for it if it was as much as my heat bill
I second that!
Agreed
Agreed
In an episode Greg stated he didn't want this info behind a paywall. But I agree recording few more classes would help understand the concept better.
Agreed
It’s over. The secret is out. It takes a lot of facilitation skill and creativity to come up w these games. The first revolution of jiujitsu learning was having access to instructionals. The second revolution comes from creating these games to transmit knowledge more effectively through the power of play.
Yes sir. I’ve been developing this for about 8 years now and we are starting to share what we do. We’ve adopted the ecological approach completely in all of our practices.
@@gregsouders9648 a black belt colleague of mine and I tried a business model in San Francisco in which we employed these ecological approach to skill acquisition. The goal was for the 1:1 training session to be a learning playground in which the black belt gave all the right looks and at the appropriate speed and intensity for the student to ramp up.
Imagine an army of “jiujitsu personal trainers” employing your methods… they could charge like high end personal trainers (and why wouldn’t they, they’re putting their body on the line) and make a total killing.
Yes in a way he could of been more selfish and just totally destroyed for afew years before letting everyone in.
Schools that do t adopt this are just fools
@@razzle-dazzle 👀👀 I really like this idea!! 🙌🙌
@@gregsouders9648 would really love to visit and train for a short period of time next time i am visiting dmv.
Sincere seggestion: make a compilation of games by topics (same as in this video, belly up v standing, side control, back plus whatever other topics you might think of) and then do instructionals (yes plural), per level.
Each level would have a complete set of “grills” for a complete practice from beginner to advanced.
I am 100% positive that this would change so many academies and practices worldwide and it would probably grow a network of academies further down the line.
It would also boost your business as an immediate advantage.
Also, major point I think, this would make it possible for families to “play” jiujitsu at home! This is a game changer for real!
I have been doing Jiu-Jitsu for several decades. This is exceptional content.
I am a gym owner that kind of lost passion in teaching as it has become uninteresting and overwhelming. This have renewed my passion once again, thank you 🙏🙏🙏
I remember years ago Kit Dale was getting trashed for teaching “concepts.” I also remember it being eye opening for me. Especially when he said that every sweep is basically pushing your opponent toward a broken post
Kit has been ahead of the game for years in this regard, he just didnt quite have the advanced language or acedemic credentials that Greg has.
12:20 is “spaced repetition” and “free recall” in practice. This is awesome stuff.
Spaced repetition in a dynamic context is spaced exposure to the same problems to solve rather than spaced repetitions of a particular solution or individual tactic.
Brilliant, Just brilliant! You’re not wasting 15 min showing one technique that will be forgotten by the next day. This is just How see Jits! Dang it
Thanks for posting this. Have been checking you and CLA out. A collection of jiu jitsu games (book, video product) would be something I'd check out, for sure!
I love this kind of training! Coach we want instructional!!!
This was super helpful. Mind blown at the possibilities and the future of the art!
Look forward to watching this!
Fascinated, I feel like your students will understand jiu jitsu far better than traditional show move and drill. I need to make it down there on a weekend.
Come visit anytime you’d like. All visitors train for free.
I've been listening to every podcast episode you've been invited to, trying to understand your method better... This video and the examples make it so much easier to understand the whole approach. Thanks for sharing Greg.
Which podcast ? Can you share the link?
This is the most awesome way of learning a fantastic set of skills. Great job!
Awesome, been trying this in our classes and had a lot of success. Of course coming up with games that make a desirable behavior emerge takes time and imagination. The juice is definitely worth the squeeze tho. Thanks Greg
It is gold 🎉 thank you for sharing . Rare videos help us to conceptualise movements and techniques.
Got shivers watching this... Truly some incredible thinking here. You're amazing.
This is amazing, I cant wait to start incorporating this at my academy. One of my blue belts was telling me about this concept. I love it, this is an absolute game changer.
Intention focuses attention. I love this!
Absolutely fantastic knowledge of creating opportunities for learning and using other strategies such as recall in a BJJ environment. Love to see it and I try my best to emulate this in my own sessions. Thanks Greg!
Learned a lot from this video. Very clear instructions. Thank you 🙏🏼
I now have a name for what I have doing with my striking and ground .I called it, "Using no Way as the Way (Bruce Lee).By applying a form of Gestalt analysis where segmented goals were given as specific task then reassembled into a whole once these task were adequately experienced...Ecological training about sums it up.....Great revelation
this is awesome, can't get enough
This channel deserves way more videos
This is BRILLIANT! I'm sending this to my coach immediately - literally amazing ideas.
I am blue belt and in the game for 7 years. This ecological approach is mind blowing, it keeps the class interesting whilst acquiring grappling skills. This is exceptional!
I’m a fan of bjj, just about to start and this is the best thing I’ve ever seen.
i absolutely love this!!!!!!!! omg 😲 this teaches so many great aspects and concepts in a wonderful package
This is a great way to learn and incorporating games makes it fun. I’m stoked to see how this system progresses and to see the results of the students. Thank you for sharing!
This was so cool!!! I wish I had this when I started learning back in 1994. I run my kids class very similar with 95% games and almost no explicit technique. My goal was to keep my own kids (age 5 and 6) interested in "playing" jiu-jitsu because my older brother who is a 3rd degree professor was not able to get his own 5 kids to stay interested in jits. So far my kids class (ages 5 to 12) has had 100% retention. This video helped me form additional ideas on how to run the games. Please, please, please can you create more of these videos with more game examples? This content is invaluable. Thank you.
I’ve never seen anyone else do this. This is what I have been having our white belts do over the past few months. 🔥
Awesome as a student of bjj, I appreciate the time to put this together. Really helped connect the dots for myself but also to help others.
Honestly, this is really phenomenal. I’ve been to
Way too many classes that assume ALOT of
The prerequisite info(like this foundation stuff) I need get and keep the dominant positions for even being able to finish a move. Super kudos on how you teach. Really love this
Awesome info! This is the next level of learning.
i learned more here than in 4 months in my class, thank you
Love this, would like to see what games you do for stand up.
I would love to see more videos from you guys. I like your approach.
this is a game changer for me, thanks a lot for this content, please more videos like this
9:47 that feeling when you finally understand the concepts, been there lil man
I'm moving back home to Maryland in a few months. I'll be checking this gym out 💯!! This instructor seems awesome. I'm excited!!!
Well dang. You got a new subscriber today. I love the ideas on how to teach jiujitsu better. I remember seeing Bruce Hoyer's stuff on individualized learning plans a few years back and being enthralled with it. I've been trying to figure out something like what you're doing but don't have the background or the jiujitsu teaching experience to have gotten very far in it. This is fantastic!
Thanks Greg that is great to see.
Wow, that's sick! Thank you for letting us into your class. I really like this approach!
Interesting! Cool seeing how the games quickly helped the athletes naturally / instinctively create the movements for open guard which tends to be the most pain in the neck position for a lot of players. 👍
Excellent. Now how does a white belt go about influencing the head coach to consider adopting this style of pedagogy?
Prayer, luck, or high level persuasion skills 😅😅
Love this. Trying to learn more about ecological learning for Jiu Jitsu.
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you sir!
You’re welcome
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing this! 🙌
This makes so much sense. 🤙
Interesting brotha very interesting
This is really great! I could do with this kind of training. It shows purpose rather than technique.
Thank you Greg 💪🙌 superb and inspiring class structure and great information.
I'm seriously impressed by this approach. I've been in and out of the BJJ community since 1993/94, and have never seen this. It aligns very closely with some approaches used in second language acquisition (my former field). This is a VERY intelligent way to design classes and I am really interested in learning more about how to implement this (i am a blue belt in a nowhere town teaching; I want to give my students the best I possibly can despite my limitations).
So good. Bravo! 👏👏👏
I have watched several instructionals, and noticed a pattern with how I learn from them. I typically don't learn the individual moves very quickly. I learn the goals of the position and pathways. In sparring I would then focus on those goals and pathways and let my experience and creativity improvise solutions. I learned a lot of good behaviors very quickly. I do also like learning individual moves, or coming up with variations to things I have seen. I think this is a really cool style of running practice I would like to try this.
If you sold an instructional outlining these games, I would purchase it. How do you teach proper finishing mechanics on submissions? That would seem difficult to gamify.
I would be interested to hear what your reading regarding the science of learning. Any good recommends?
This is an open mat game changer.
how could this great channel get only 500 followers! No way!!!!
This type of training seem it would be perfect for remote/online training. Games for various positions just grab a partner and get going. When are the instructional coming?
More like this plz.
Just starting to get exposed to this and I hope you put out more content and examples on how to do this from more positions. Thank you for this content!
Wow! That was amazing! I watched this video after seeing the ecopalooza seminar video and Im so glad I watched it and this video of an actual class! Your theory concepts and style are very interesting and educational I like how it's basic easy to understand and makes sense it reminds me of how in the animal kingdom the lions teach their cubs to hunt in a playful active way as they don't speak or exactly have a language they don't tell them what to do same with the cubs and how they play is all geared to the hunt and learn via action active movement situations not in drills and told how to do a technique for example no one tells them to jump and grab on the back of a zebra use their body weight and claws to take them down pin them to the ground and bite the throat of the zebra anyway this is my humble opinion also I'd be interested to to know if these theory and concept can work with other martial arts more the striking rather than grappling? Hopefully you will be able to reach the UK as I'd love to get taught this way..
Wonderful! How I did not come through it a year ago 😁. Thank you for sharing sir.
Question: how long a normal session is? And how is it designed? Thank you in advance
very cool. i feel like a hybrid of this and traditional classes would be the optimal way to learn jj
Love the approach!
This is dope af, as a white belt who has been mostly top game I wish I could of been at this class
Would be awesome if you could show this with your advanced competitive students!
I absolutely love this thank you ❤
This is great class
What an awesome coach!!!
This is absolutely FANTASTIC!!!! Man I wish I could learn with you!! How did you come with all these games and ideas!!!????
Can't wait for more content.
I teach nogi, love innovating on training methods, and these are damn good.
Excellent! Really nice approach! I have one question: How long is one game round?
Maybe we will see an advanced class structure in the future?
exceptional content
Thanks Greg for sharing this video. Was the first exercise about the inside leg space and destabilization the warm up?
Do you actually do warm ups at all or the warm up doing useful stuff like the first exercise?
Love it. Share more of those videos please.
New subscriber here. I really enjoyed this, as it represents a facet that I've not had access to at the gym. I find myself having to make up small sequences like this with my partners to drill foundational concepts, but I certainly not doing as good a job at figuring out high-value fundamentals to drill.
excellent excellent excellent
This is brilliant and I love it!
I think this is a future of teaching BJJ.
Hey, does this coach have an official training program we can purchase online ?
This training style would be perfect for my kids.
Well done.
Looks really fun, but what is the advantage of mini games over position rolling from that position
Awesome video!
I wish there is more of foundational behavior class
This is fantastic.
Awesome video. Have been doing bjj for 5 years in the traditional way, attending to classes and trying to remember the techniques. Eventually I would get some of the principles analysing, flow rolling with people or watching certain "professors" videos, but this is another level. The explanation/example of the video (with the 3 concepts of dominanting inside position, getting connection with hands and legs and breaking your opponent posture) is a great example that how I would like to learn. Then you could apply those same principles without needing all the details.
How long do you let the players play each game?
It’s specific to the level of the class and what kind of game is being played. In general, a continuous game where they don’t flip flop positions when they win or lose will be 3 minutes for each person in a foundations class. Games where they flip flop with win conditions go for 6 minutes, and advanced players in our other classes play games for up to 10 minutes since they have developed the stamina.
This is an awesome approach - please do more. Behavioural Science bjj 🤗 thank you yt-algorithm. Subbed 👍
As you continue to revolutionize the world of jiu-jitsu through your application of the ecological dynamics concepts, it would be awesome if you or someone else could create an online resource where like minded academies/schools could be discovered by students exploring these concepts. I am an absolute beginner in jiu-jitsu, but have been using these same concepts in coaching volleyball and strength & conditioning for almost 20 years. I would love an opportunity to explore jiu-jitsu if i could find a school that used these concepts near me.
Fascinating!
This is brilliant, as a 1 year white belt, I've been looking for this type of basics. I feel like I've been dropped into highway traffic with a lot of classes
yes, Jiu Jitsu needs more teaching like this. This is what guys like Priit Mihkelson have been promoting but for some reason the general Jiu Jitsu population just dont get it.
how do you get a beginner to refine a technique such as " figure 4" to properly finish a kimura or americana ? at some point you have to dive into specific details for proper application.
Does anyone know how they go about cycling in standing engagements? I know Greg said they alternate pinning and guarded situations. I also know that he has said they don't do as much as standing with beginners. But I wonder how much standing the I intermediate and advanced do?
It saddens me that I've been training jiu jitsu wrong for about 7 years (with breaks in between). At least now I know that there are some places where they train like I'd like to
My guy far far and in between. Most coaches are dinosaurs and so stubborn to change
The feeling that you’re feeling is why I started to change the way I thought about Jiujitsu and the way I structured practice. Learning is a journey, in and of itself. Regardless of how long the road is, and where it takes you, every lesson has value.
@@gregsouders9648 you're absolutely right 🤝
I'm 16 years in and started this about 3 weeks ago 😂
It looks like you're referencing learning literature. Is there any place we can find the studies you're using? It's super investing.
Start with Dr. Rob Gray and travel down the rabbit hole.
@gregsouders9648 oh cool! He's at ASU. That's where I did my undergrad. I was in an adjacent department. I'm based out of Phoenix. I'll definitely check him out. Thanks.
I see the genius in his style of instruction. I practice BJJ but if i had this type of instruction in the beginning, i would have improved by leaps and bounds.
I wonder if Danahar teaches this way....which is why his students are exceptional 🤔 It's very likely.
It's amazing that you found an alternate method of teaching BJJ. How do you think this method would work if you were to incorporate maybe 1 or 2 days of the week where you showed the students random techniques with no context? Then you could let them figure out where those techniques fit into the games/sparring they are doing in class.
Also, it is interesting that the woman "invented" the tripod sweep during her roll. Using your method, do you think a student would ever "invent" complicated techniques like rubber guard, or a D'arce choke?
“Using your method do you think someone would “invent” complicated techniques like rubber guard or the D’Arce choke?”
Didn’t this happen before? Who taught rubber guard yo the first person to do rubber guard? And how would they have drilled it if it didn’t exist yet?
Do you have any videos of games/introductions to stand up grappling?
Going to be putting something together on that very soon
thank you @@standardjiu-jitsu6031