How to Deal With a Base Level of Resistance

The time is what constrains the behavior, the urgency. So as beginners, we have to learn how to deal with a base level of resistance first. For me, Jiu Jitsu is zero sum. All off fights are zero sum. We don't want to add anything to the problem. How much can we take away where our student can still perceive what's happening and still do something about it? It was actually an example he gave and I had this thing I wanted to say. Now it's slipping my mind when he was talking about their defense first. They're not actually things that can be parsed out and separated unless the situation is one sided like you're being pinned or in