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The Everyday Jiu Jitsu Podcast Ep 9: Optimizing with Instructionals

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How to Find Boring Instructional Videos

If you can't sit in front of an instructional because you find it boring, that's okay. Try to find other resources of Jiu Jitsu that you can watch. Sometimes it's Instagram reels, sometimes YouTube videos, sometimes it's just observing the athletes and seeing what they see. If I overdo it, if my mental bandwidth kind of runs, uh, then we're not going to retain anything anymore. That's like a negative return on investment right? So turn off the instructional or mimic yourself as effectively as possible. You could also look at the cooking process by watching someone else do something while doing their own thing. And for those who want to become good competitors, coaches and

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Like I can't believe that there are coaches out there who just like allow their students to have such big gate gaping holes in their game and they're like, Yeah, well, you know, whatever, it's like, what am I a coach? Yes, you're the fucking coach. You should, you should be the one who brings that system in and knowledge, uh, and imparts that knowledge on your students. So if you're seeing your students lacking in any particular systems, that's a good indication. Hey, we need to study this stuff. Right. Okay. So what if you find instructional is boring and this is something that I hear all the time. I'm like, Hey, did you study? They're like, no, man, like I don't care. It's boring to me. I don't want to sit in front of a screen and watch fair enough. Okay. That is fair. Again, I disagree with it. Uh, I would recommend that you try and at least get 10 minutes a day if possible. Okay. If you find the instructor boring, find a different instructor to watch. Um, but what else could you watch? You could watch competition footage. You could watch short clips, like reels on Instagram and on YouTube. Uh, Jason Rao under Matt Sarah, BJJ. He's recently put out some content on Instagram. He puts out these like, they're like 10 second clips, you know, five second clips, 15 second clips, just like little concepts, little techniques. Amazing page. I love the stuff he's putting out. I really like Jason Rao's Instagram page. He puts out daily clips. Another guy I really like, Jonathan Thomas. Of course, I mentioned it before he has these concepts. He's more of a G-guy, Jason Rao's primarily a no G-guy. Um, the, there's, there, uh, another guy I really like, G-guy Sebastian Serpa. I actually saw him on Jonathan Thomas's page and I followed him and he's got awesome stuff too. So like, if you can't sit in front of an instructional because you find it boring, that's okay. Try to find other resources of Jiu Jitsu that you can watch. Sometimes it's Instagram reels, sometimes YouTube videos, sometimes it's just watching competition matches and observing the athletes and seeing what they see. Uh, if you can try and try and watch Jiu Jitsu through other means, if you can't sit in front of an instructional. Okay. And last thing I'm going to say is, in, is to study the rules, you know, the rules sets, ADCC, IBJF, IBJF tutorials on YouTube. I've talked about this YouTube channel. I think it's very, very effective for those who want to become good competitors, coaches and referees. Okay. What's the best way to study? This is one of the most common questions I get asked about, um, instructional is how do you study Matt? Like, do you just watch it and you absorb the knowledge and, uh, the short answer? Yeah. Uh, I, I have like a pretty good memory. And because I'm pretty knowledgeable in Jiu Jitsu, not to toot my own horn. Okay. I'm, I'm no half amandas. I'm no John Danner, but I'm somewhat knowledgeable. I've watched a lot of content. I've studied a lot of, I dedicate my life to Jiu Jitsu. So for me, it's easier to study than someone who's a blue belt because I already have a base level of knowledge. I can just take in little details as they come. And then I know when I turn my brain off, when I've watched enough, I'm like, okay, I've watched enough. I turn it off now. I go do something else. Let my brain sort of heal because that's what we're doing. We're exercising our brain. So I have to now let my brain rest and try and file away the information that I've retained. If I overdo it, if I watch too much content, then my mental bandwidth kind of runs, runs, uh, it gets overstretched. And I can't retain anything anymore. And I start to lose information. So I don't want that. That's, that's like a negative return, right? So, um, no one to turn off the instructional. Um, um, I also recommend that you kind of like ask yourself what kind of a learner are you in culinary arts. I was always the kind of learner that needed to do something. I could observe someone and do something. And I would see the result that they got when they made whatever a dish or a sauce or a dessert or whatever. And then my job in my mind was to mimic that as effectively as possible. So I would look at the process of the instructor cooking the item or whatever.

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