Foundations at Standard Jiu-Jitsu 

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

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.

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!

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 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

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

12:20 is “spaced repetition” and “free recall” in practice. This is awesome stuff.

I have been doing Jiu-Jitsu for several decades. This is exceptional content.

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!

This was super helpful. Mind blown at the possibilities and the future of the art!

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.

Excellent. Now how does a white belt go about influencing the head coach to consider adopting this style of pedagogy?

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

Look forward to watching this!

This is the most awesome way of learning a fantastic set of skills. Great job!

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.

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?

I love this kind of training! Coach we want instructional!!!

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 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?

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 🙏🙏🙏

Start a fair priced subscription site

How long do you let the players play each game?

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 absolutely love this!!!!!!!! omg 😲 this teaches so many great aspects and concepts in a wonderful package

Interesting brotha very interesting

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.

Maybe we will see an advanced class structure in the future?

I’ve never seen anyone else do this. This is what I have been having our white belts do over the past few months. 🔥

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!

Love this, would like to see what games you do for stand up.

Got shivers watching this... Truly some incredible thinking here. You're amazing.

Awesome info! This is the next level of learning.

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

This is an awesome approach - please do more. Behavioural Science bjj 🤗 thank you yt-algorithm. Subbed 👍

It looks like you're referencing learning literature. Is there any place we can find the studies you're using? It's super investing.

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.

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

Hey, does this coach have an official training program we can purchase online ? This training style would be perfect for my kids.

Excellent! Really nice approach! I have one question: How long is one game round?

It is gold 🎉 thank you for sharing . Rare videos help us to conceptualise movements and techniques.

Learned a lot from this video. Very clear instructions. Thank you 🙏🏼

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!

how could this great channel get only 500 followers! No way!!!!

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..

Any ECOLOGICAL Coaches in Atlanta, Georgia?

Any ECOLOGICAL Coaches in Atlanta, Georgia?

Any ECOLOGICAL Coaches in Atlanta, Georgia?

Any ECOLOGICAL Coaches in Atlanta, Georgia?

Any ECOLOGICAL Coaches in Atlanta, Georgia?

this is awesome, can't get enough

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.

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.

This is BRILLIANT! I'm sending this to my coach immediately - literally amazing ideas.

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing this! 🙌

Looks really fun, but what is the advantage of mini games over position rolling from that position

excellent excellent excellent

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.

Would be awesome if you could show this with your advanced competitive students!

Thank you Greg 💪🙌 superb and inspiring class structure and great information.

12:25 "oh shit, forgot I've been doing this a week, maybe I shouldn't go for single leg x"

I’m a fan of bjj, just about to start and this is the best thing I’ve ever seen.

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?

Wow, that's sick! Thank you for letting us into your class. I really like this approach!

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!!!

Love this. Trying to learn more about ecological learning for Jiu Jitsu.

I wish there is more of foundational behavior class

9:47 that feeling when you finally understand the concepts, been there lil man

This makes so much sense. 🤙

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you sir!

I teach nogi, love innovating on training methods, and these are damn good.

Thanks Greg that is great to see.

This is dope af, as a white belt who has been mostly top game I wish I could of been at this class

I would love to see more videos from you guys. I like your approach.

do you run the same structure for advanced class?

this is a game changer for me, thanks a lot for this content, please more videos like this

How many games have you come up with?

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!

Are these concept applicable to gi?

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. 👍

"he's been here 3 days fellas" .......

This is absolutely FANTASTIC!!!! Man I wish I could learn with you!! How did you come with all these games and ideas!!!????

We’re have you been all my life…❤

This channel deserves way more videos

🔥🔥🔥🔥

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).

Just about to send you an email

The question becomes, " can this be applied to striking, MMA, judo, etc?" I would love to see this one type of training become the dominant model across the board. But can it really be a blanket solution?

This was legit

More like this plz.

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.

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

Bro can you make more videos?

Is this not how the moves were discovered and then standardized? We play, experiment, problem solve and then a certain pattern arises that seems to get a result easier and faster? Then we all agree to do that thing and teach it to other people? I like this but it just seems like it leads to things already discovered, because grappling has been around since there have been people. Not reinventing the wheel, but acting like it doesn't exist and "rediscovering" it for ourselves. Genuine question. I really like the idea I'm just trying get a feel for it.

I’m teaching a kids after school program for elementary age. This is perfect for them and so much easier to teach than complex step by step technique that they stop paying attention by step two. Subscribing for more Games we can play.

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?

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This is great class

This is an open mat game changer.

exceptional content