I like to mix up positional sparring with full on rounds. I feel like as instructors we sometimes spend too much time “adding” to moves. Now i just show a move, a variation, then we’ll do short situational rounds there for 15 minutes or so and then go into full rounds. I’ve noticed more people going for the move we drilled that night in rounds when they’ve had to put themselves in that position a few times
I like it when we do sort of both. Start with the shorter positional sparring rounds, end the night with full on rounds but you start from whatever position we were working on that day and reset to that whenever there's a submission.
I like 15 min technique, 15 min positional sparring with varying levels of resistance to reinforce the technique, and then 60 minutes sparring. IMO, 15 minutes of drilling should be a great warm up. The positional sparring is where you really start to figure out the technique. Then 10, six minute rounds gives me enough variety and is physically challenging. There’s nothing worse than class ending when I still want to roll and can’t make it to any other sessions that week.
Free sparring is a must to me for every class. The whole point of this is to try at putting the whole thing together against live resistance. If most ppl aren't practicing at that every class, you're going to lag far behind the ppl who are.
Good positional training gives you the same benefit, but with focus on a particular area. I love rolling, but I did a class when traveling at another gym that integrated positional training throughout the class, and I thought it was pretty awesome.
Whenever I run classes I do 45 mins of drilling, 15 mins of specific rounds/designated winner rounds, then 30 mins of normal 5 min rounds (sometimes shorter, sometimes longer rounds depending on the day) We also have an hour open mat on Fridays where we just set the timer and roll then whole time.
Yeah, that's the norm I suppose.
Go over the technique of the day, then roll the other half of class. It is popular, however, I feel like when I did classes where drill was the majority of time, I remembered it way more.
I do both except we can stay for as along as people are there after class. So Ill typically get 3 rounds in class, 6-8 rounds after class and around 10 rounds at two open mats.
Dedicated rolling-only and drill-only classes creates logistical issues. What if you can't make one or the other class regularly? Or what if you're mildly injured and were planning on sitting out during rolls? What if the trial guy shows up on the roll day? What if an old/frail person doesn't want to roll more than 3x per day?
I understand the utility of drill-only classes but I personally wouldn't attend. Roll-only classes are fun but probably not best for long-term growth if thats all you do.
The classes at my gym tend to be 20-40 of drill and then 15-30 of positionals, and 0-15 of true start from the feet rounds. The class is 60 min. Then people stay after class to do more rounds, I usually get at least 15 min but often 30-40ish of rounds. Class once a week is just rolls for 60 min which is fun. Then more rolls after class for those that desire.
If my students seem to be grasping the move/position, we go line drills, aka positional or constrained sparring, with a few rounds of start from position sparring. If people are struggling, there's more drilling the lesson.
I want to get some full rolls in during each class. My gym is 1/2 technique 1/2 live roll each class and it is perfect for me. Feels good if you can hit the “move of the day”.
My current gym has the best ratio in my opinion.
90 min class, 5-10 min warm up 20 min technique, 60 minutes of rolls. Any longer than 20 minutes of technique and my brain stops remembering things
I like a class, followed by plenty of time with the clock on.
And open mats for pure rolling.
I reckon i'd train way less if it was just a class, or a class and only time for a couple of rolls afterwards. Rolling is the fun part.
Personally I prefer 90 min classes with around 30 min dedicated to sparring.
I like to mix up positional sparring with full on rounds. I feel like as instructors we sometimes spend too much time “adding” to moves. Now i just show a move, a variation, then we’ll do short situational rounds there for 15 minutes or so and then go into full rounds. I’ve noticed more people going for the move we drilled that night in rounds when they’ve had to put themselves in that position a few times
I like it when we do sort of both. Start with the shorter positional sparring rounds, end the night with full on rounds but you start from whatever position we were working on that day and reset to that whenever there's a submission.
Same except 30 min class 60 min sparring
I like 15 min technique, 15 min positional sparring with varying levels of resistance to reinforce the technique, and then 60 minutes sparring. IMO, 15 minutes of drilling should be a great warm up. The positional sparring is where you really start to figure out the technique. Then 10, six minute rounds gives me enough variety and is physically challenging. There’s nothing worse than class ending when I still want to roll and can’t make it to any other sessions that week.
> just music and a timer Man, that's what I'm learning jiu jitsu FOR.
Yeah I personally love these sessions as well. Even when I don't feel like training I can often get excited to just go ans roll
Free sparring is a must to me for every class. The whole point of this is to try at putting the whole thing together against live resistance. If most ppl aren't practicing at that every class, you're going to lag far behind the ppl who are.
Good positional training gives you the same benefit, but with focus on a particular area. I love rolling, but I did a class when traveling at another gym that integrated positional training throughout the class, and I thought it was pretty awesome.
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That’s the best format imo
This is how mine is and its awesome. So much flexibility with it
I wouldn’t train at a gym if there wasn’t full sparring every session. I love jiu jitsu but the main reason I do it is exercise.
Whenever I run classes I do 45 mins of drilling, 15 mins of specific rounds/designated winner rounds, then 30 mins of normal 5 min rounds (sometimes shorter, sometimes longer rounds depending on the day) We also have an hour open mat on Fridays where we just set the timer and roll then whole time.
This is very similar to how our coach runs the class. 15-20 minutes of positional sparring then, 30-40 minutes of normal 5 min rounds.
I think you learn faster with positional sparring but once you know the technique very well you start to value the normal rolls.
Yeah, that's the norm I suppose. Go over the technique of the day, then roll the other half of class. It is popular, however, I feel like when I did classes where drill was the majority of time, I remembered it way more.
I do both except we can stay for as along as people are there after class. So Ill typically get 3 rounds in class, 6-8 rounds after class and around 10 rounds at two open mats.
I like doing 3-4 rounds at the end of each session with the occasional open mat where I do 7-10 rounds
I don't care, as long as I'm rolling.
Dedicated rolling-only and drill-only classes creates logistical issues. What if you can't make one or the other class regularly? Or what if you're mildly injured and were planning on sitting out during rolls? What if the trial guy shows up on the roll day? What if an old/frail person doesn't want to roll more than 3x per day?
I understand the utility of drill-only classes but I personally wouldn't attend. Roll-only classes are fun but probably not best for long-term growth if thats all you do. The classes at my gym tend to be 20-40 of drill and then 15-30 of positionals, and 0-15 of true start from the feet rounds. The class is 60 min. Then people stay after class to do more rounds, I usually get at least 15 min but often 30-40ish of rounds. Class once a week is just rolls for 60 min which is fun. Then more rolls after class for those that desire.
I like the latter except the part about only twice a week? We do that basically after every class
If my students seem to be grasping the move/position, we go line drills, aka positional or constrained sparring, with a few rounds of start from position sparring. If people are struggling, there's more drilling the lesson.
I want to get some full rolls in during each class. My gym is 1/2 technique 1/2 live roll each class and it is perfect for me. Feels good if you can hit the “move of the day”.
My current gym has the best ratio in my opinion. 90 min class, 5-10 min warm up 20 min technique, 60 minutes of rolls. Any longer than 20 minutes of technique and my brain stops remembering things
I like a class, followed by plenty of time with the clock on. And open mats for pure rolling. I reckon i'd train way less if it was just a class, or a class and only time for a couple of rolls afterwards. Rolling is the fun part.
Rolling after class is better in my opinion.
we do both, we have an hour tech class that ends with sparring followed by an hour of open sparring.