Comments on: Bridging the Gap http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:47:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: OldDog53 http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-329 OldDog53 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:59:09 +0000 http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/#comment-329 Thnx! Thnx!

]]> By: mmaembrace.com http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-328 mmaembrace.com Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:29:57 +0000 http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/#comment-328 OldDog53, Good idea - you only really need to train there one week to get the flavour of the camp - just train perhaps every night from Monday-Thursday and by the end of the week, you'll have three series of techniques embedded in your brain and muscle memory, and you'll be much more accustomed to rolling against rubberguard players, too. Eddie is a great teacher and a good guy too, I'm sure you'll have the chance to roll with him as well. OldDog53,

Good idea – you only really need to train there one week to get the flavour of the camp – just train perhaps every night from Monday-Thursday and by the end of the week, you’ll have three series of techniques embedded in your brain and muscle memory, and you’ll be much more accustomed to rolling against rubberguard players, too. Eddie is a great teacher and a good guy too, I’m sure you’ll have the chance to roll with him as well.

]]> By: OldDog53 http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-327 OldDog53 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:24:28 +0000 http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/#comment-327 mmaembrace, I'll come down to visit when I have accumulated enough vacation time. mmaembrace, I’ll come down to visit when I have accumulated enough vacation time.

]]> By: mmaembrace.com http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-326 mmaembrace.com Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:39:25 +0000 http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/#comment-326 The 10th Planet method of teaching really does seem to incorporate things you're talking about here. Techniques are introduced at the start of each class, and these will be the same techniques taught for 2 weeks in a row. As the week starts to unfold, drilling these techniques with increased resistance (ex. 30%, 50% 75%, 100%) becomes part of the drills until it gets to the point where intensive 60 second sessions of 100% resistance are added (where one person starts in an advantageous position where the technique is most effective from and the other person is resisting completely) with partner switching about 5-6 times. Of course, live sparring is a major part of everyday's class where you can integrate the techniques into your game. The 10th Planet method of teaching really does seem to incorporate things you’re talking about here. Techniques are introduced at the start of each class, and these will be the same techniques taught for 2 weeks in a row. As the week starts to unfold, drilling these techniques with increased resistance (ex. 30%, 50% 75%, 100%) becomes part of the drills until it gets to the point where intensive 60 second sessions of 100% resistance are added (where one person starts in an advantageous position where the technique is most effective from and the other person is resisting completely) with partner switching about 5-6 times. Of course, live sparring is a major part of everyday’s class where you can integrate the techniques into your game.

]]> By: zankou http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-325 zankou Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:02:40 +0000 http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/#comment-325 Great post. If there is one thing I wish we did more of in BJJ training, it is low to moderate resistance isolation training. We did halfguard isolation training yesterday, and it was amazingly effective. Instead what I find myself doing is using lower belts as a vehicle for doing the isolation training I want. That's okay, but it's not as efficient. Great post. If there is one thing I wish we did more of in BJJ training, it is low to moderate resistance isolation training. We did halfguard isolation training yesterday, and it was amazingly effective.

Instead what I find myself doing is using lower belts as a vehicle for doing the isolation training I want. That’s okay, but it’s not as efficient.

]]> By: OldDog53 http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-324 OldDog53 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:23:49 +0000 http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/#comment-324 Good training partners are hard to find. In fact, I only have one who would qualify as "good" using the criteria you set forth in this article - and he is a 3rd degree black belt, competes in masters, and tends to teach while rolling. He is a good training partner because he knows how to dial the resistance/counters up and down to make me work but not shut me down. (My other instructors either don't like to roll with their students or become Big Dogs when you roll with them.) Classmates? Forget it. Everything with them falls under the "common BJJ" graph you have above. Either no resistance or too much. Either too easy to do or total shutdown. Good training partners are hard to find. In fact, I only have one who would qualify as “good” using the criteria you set forth in this article – and he is a 3rd degree black belt, competes in masters, and tends to teach while rolling. He is a good training partner because he knows how to dial the resistance/counters up and down to make me work but not shut me down. (My other instructors either don’t like to roll with their students or become Big Dogs when you roll with them.)

Classmates? Forget it. Everything with them falls under the “common BJJ” graph you have above. Either no resistance or too much. Either too easy to do or total shutdown.

]]> By: Graugart http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Graugart Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:09:25 +0000 http://www.aesopian.com/163/bridging-the-gap/#comment-323 Great post on Thorntonism! Isolation training is the most important part of my own training and teaching :) See you in a few weeks. Great post on Thorntonism! Isolation training is the most important part of my own training and teaching :)

See you in a few weeks.

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