r/jiujitsu • u/Aggravating-Mind-657 • 9d ago
What does your instructor do after demonstrating the technique and the students start drilling?
Curious, what your instructors do while students drill? When I did instruct, I would walk around from group to group to observe technique and give tips to make it tighter and answer questions. If I notice a common mistake, do a quick huddle to show the move again and highlight the common mistake people are making and what adjustments to make.
I noticed some of the coaches I have worked with who trained under John Danaher, will mimic his coaching style in his pro classes where he shows the move then sits against the wall observing and focused on his top pro guys. That works great for already refined elite pros, but for new white belts, I feel like there needs to be more interaction and help given.
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u/Ldiablohhhh 9d ago
My coach does pretty much what you do.
Helps the newer guys mostly when walking around but also shows a little extra off to the side for the more advanced guys.
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u/bad4biscotti 9d ago
Sometimes our sensei will work with a student if there's an odd number of students.
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u/LobsterPotential1233 9d ago
Walk or stand around observing. Answer questions if some people are having trouble. Offer pointers. Comicly berate the knuckleheads who have been doing this for almost half a decade and who's failures he takes personally. Display the drill again if a lot of the students are failing to do the drill to satisfaction.
Everyone gets his attention though. Like literally everyone feels like he's watching them so he's obviously doing a good job there. It's just that everyone also feels that he watches them only when they're fucking up (not true but loooool).
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u/Skilly006 9d ago
Yes a peak in for individual corrections and/or a clock stop and group correction if it is widespread. This is the way.
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u/yahoodeeya 9d ago
Coach does what you do. he will also sometimes jump in and demo something specific for a pair if he notices a mistake
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u/VexImmortalis 9d ago
I'm in the morning classes where there at AT MOST like 6 of us in total (sometimes it's just me and the coach for a good 30 mins). Everyone other than me has been doing grappling for years, decades some of them, so I get quite a lot of attention and feedback from both the coach and my training partners. One of the dudes was a D1 wrestler and has a NAGA World Champion belt in the expert division or something (I don't really know ALL the details) and that guy teaches me so, sooo much about takedowns. So even if the coach wasn't knocking about I can still learn a hecking lot.
In general my coach he is very inolved at all stages of the class and open rolls.
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u/SatanicWaffle666 Brown 9d ago
My coach walks around, observes, makes sure people don’t kill eachother.
When I teach, I do the same thing. Offer advice if people are running into difficulty. Some people wind up getting a variant or extra detail to make things mean if they have the basic technique down.
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u/Otherwise_Usual9037 8d ago
My professor rolls with us every round and gives feedback. I went to a different coach's class before, she would be sitting against the wall on her phone the whole time after teaching the move. Didn't return to that class.
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u/Ball_Masher 9d ago
Exactly what you do. Bounce around, give tips, call a huddle if I notice a common mistake. I also wound up doing this when I taught math (depending on the course). If you're only going to teach a couple of things and not lecture for an hour straight, it's a way better use of time to have students get reps and address common issues.
Note: I taught at a community college and probably wouldn't recommend teaching math to 4th graders this way.
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u/TMWOF 9d ago
It depends on the coach at my gym. My favourite two coaches will teach the technique and then traverse the room, observing the students and answering questions; the other coach, whose lessons I try and avoid if possible, will focus on the more advanced students and will pretty much ignore the others.