Craig Jones: Advice to jiu jitsu beginners

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Craig Jones, Nicky Rod and Nicky Ryan, together with Ethan Crelinsten are founders of the B-Team, a legendary jiu jitsu team based in Austin, TX.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod and Nicky Ryan, together with Ethan Crelinsten are founders of the B-Team, a legendary jiu jitsu team based in Austin, TX.

[suplexed]

More than anything, this video demonstrates the value of follow up questions. If Lex had just stopped at 'just show up' we would have missed out on the much better and more specific advice that we got

[AllGrappler]

“best way to learn is by problem solving” - so true for bjj but also true in all aspects of life

[jasonpeterson]

Just the fact that he has a instructional called “get off my legs gringo”…. 😂😂 is just troll on a next level.

[thlee]

“mexican ground karate” always makes me laugh

[beaubellamy]

I really like that style of learning and haven’t heard it before. You understand the importance of what you’re doing before you do it.

[usbsol]

What Craig is talking about is ecological dynamics, constraining to afford so the student can self-organize his movements.
Look up "standard jiu jitsu" and Rob Gray.
Cheers 🤙

[lpster]

Concepts First, Techniques/moves will follow. thats whats helped me learn the most...understanding the WHY things work helps you achieve the move

[optimusmaximus]

Great discussion. Allowing students to experiment through games is a great way to learn as it teaches them that concepts are more important than techniques. Through a process of trial and error and proper guidance a student will invariably find the right way of doing something. This is far better than just showing a student a particular way of doing something by rote. It will help them to see the connection to the concept and therefore be better able to adapt a technique in any given situation.

[TheFuriator]

Great teacher!! Missing this approach a lot sadly

[flowlikewater]

This isnt really advice for beginners as beginners are only able to do what is being tought by their instructors. Its more adice for instructors on how to teach beginners and get them to critically analyse problems. I like it as i found that it took me a long time to work out the problems before I even got to apply the techniques.

[ferrm]

Getting used to problem solving by working on sample problems. That’s a great way to put it, and it’s legit advice due to how technical this sport is

[coryvore]

Literally me when he said “a lot of people don’t know it’s a real product” lol soon as I heard this I went and bought two instructionals

[aplus]

Having them experience the problem before learning to solve it is suspiciously great teaching. (My guess is it came from danaher.)

[rns]

Those are the best titles for instructional ever, epic! 😂

[abrilaranda]

They need to work on the graphic design aspect of selling those instructionals😭😭😭

[joshpoi]

Too bad Craig wouldn’t teach white belts, he understands the real way to learn. Unfortunately most white belt curriculum sucks and you have to largely figure things out on your own

[Lordyung]

This is why Mikey is so good, in training he puts himself in the problems and then solves them.

[curtmastor]

I’m impressed. I’m sensing Craig jones took some physical education courses at some point.

[GrounddevLF]

i stand straight up with a Greco style even from a wrestling background when playing BJJ a lot of guys myself included want the bottom position so we dont fight for it. in wrestling to defend a takedown you have your hands first then your head then your hips. so they lean and squat to use these barriers in BJJ a lot of us aren't worried about DEEP shots or low shots due to the skill or in most cases we dont care that we are being taken down. i find his games explanations remarkable it eliminates everyone's questions and what-ifs about something you want to teach because you allow them to show themselves what works and what doesn't before you even start! truly brilliant!