Check out our kids working on developing their armbar step by step with this progression series. It's full of fun games and drills that help them develop the muscle memory and coordination to perform the move before they go live.
@@AlchemyMMA yes I completely agree. They have 6 and 4 yo, they will if they are interested. For now they enjoy ice hockey. The 6yo did a class of judo and easily escape side mont of kids a little older. She had a big smile during the class but prefer continuing hockey. She told me she will test again judo later.
That's really awesome. I love to see these progressions that break the move down into the component movements necessary to complete the move. I know from experience that preaching principles never gets you anywhere when teaching kids. That being said, do you have a good way to teach them how to ensure they rotate to a full 90 degree angle before the sit down? My kids often bend the knee like at 0:32, which discounts a lot of the correct things they did up to that point. I sometimes teach to lean forward, pinning the opponent's arm across their body before stepping over the head. Do you have a preference?
Wow! Thank you so much! That turn is difficult, depending on the age, getting them to shift their hips. At young ages, I'm much more about the motor skill functionality of it all, rather than the practicality. So, if you're looking to drill that movement, I'd put a dodgeball in front of them and have them start on their knees in front of it with both hands on the ball. Then have them shift to one side of the ball and one knee is behind the ball and the other leg is standing up one foot. Make it a simple go count at first, just shift to one side then GO, shift to the other side, dropping one foot and raising the other. You'll have to walk the mechanics a few times for the younger ones, but anything that you can put fluid into a game format like that will excel better than on a body with to many moving pieces and not enough evidence of a clear goal for them. If that's successful, you start to stack the drill. So step two would be squeezing pressure, so when they land tell them to squeeze the ball between their knee and opposite leg. You then walk over and try to pull the ball, have some fun with it and let the really work on that inward pressure. Step 3, make it a race between students, so put one instructor on the left side and one on the right side and when you call go, have the instructor on that side hold up a number of fingers so the goal is who can shift fast enough to look over and scream the right number first. Step 4, you take it two pool noodles a little more than shoulder width apart, now they have to really step and swing wide to get to the next noodle and so on and so forth. Step 5, sit mount and practice it on a person, have the person randomly lift one arm and they shit behind that arm and then shift back and make it like an old west duel, so you can call ready... DRAW! And once the arm goes up they shift. Now you drill after the shift with that leg up, super slow, walk walk walk that bent leg over the head without failing. You make it a balance game. After all that, you should be on the right track. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with, I love the curiousity and always being open to adapt new games and ideas into your teaching. Especially with the kids, you gotta right?
@@AlchemyMMA Awesome stuff! Yeah, drilling those small points and turning it into a game is great for the younger kids. I taught my son Osoto Gari by turning each syllable into a step i.e. O: off balance, So: step to outside, To: hook the leg, Gari: we would hop 3 times and say "gari" each time. To this day it's one of the techniques he applies the most naturally.
Great stuff. I want to teach my nephew some BJJ moves someday. I can't practice BJJ because of my heart condition, but the little guy needs to know what to do if he ends up on his back in a fight. If nothing else it may inspire him to take a few classes from a professional!
