Foundations vs "All Levels" Classes: Moving from Task Simplification to Task Complexification
Nov 28, 2023
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The podcast delves into the intricacies of task simplification and complexification in martial arts skill development. It explores advanced training techniques, the significance of concepts in Jiu Jitsu, and adapting to pressure in teaching. The speakers emphasize genuine training discussions and commitment to improvement for skill development.
Focusing on task complexification enhances skill development by incorporating variability and challenging high-level athletes.
Teaching outcomes and principles over specific techniques cultivates adaptable athletes for live engagement and problem-solving.
Deep dives
Approach to Task Simplification and Task Complexification
The podcast delves into Greg Satter's approach to both task simplification and task complexification, highlighting the importance of understanding how to scale up games beyond the complexity of free sparring. Satter emphasizes the need to focus on practice design, curriculum development, and helping individuals achieve their optimal challenge points. By combining simple actions into outcomes and incorporating variability in movements and responses, the approach shifts towards more complexity and variability to enhance skill development.
Enhanced Task Complexification for Athlete Growth
The episode explores the concept of enhanced task complexification as a strategy to challenge high-level athletes and promote growth. By creating tasks that are more perceptually demanding than free sparring, athletes are exposed to novel and challenging situations. The discussion includes examples such as starting athletes with a points deficit in competitions to enhance arousal levels and simulate competitive pressures, fostering adaptability and responsiveness to varying circumstances.
Reframing Teaching Moves to Outcome-Based Learning
The podcast challenges traditional teaching methods by reframing the concept of 'teaching moves' to focus on outcomes and principles rather than discrete techniques. Emphasizing the importance of understanding broad concepts like pinning and control over memorizing specific sequences, the episode advocates for teaching outcomes that emerge through live engagement and problem-solving. By promoting adaptable and flexible athletes who can navigate novel situations, the approach seeks to develop a deeper understanding of Jiu Jitsu beyond memorization of preset moves.
In this third installment of our interview with Greg Souders, we unpack in gritty detail how Greg approaches both task simplification and task complexification. There's quite a bit of information out there about how to scale down games, but not a lot on how, why, and when to scale them up, even beyond the complexity of free sparring. There's a lot to glean here across practice design to curriculum development to helping individuals achieve their optimum level of challenge point. Quick reminder: if you benefit from the show, consider going to combatlearning.com/support to buy me a coffee. This is a donation that supports the show and I really, really appreciate it. Alternatively, you can support the show by join the waiting list for the next cohort of Combat Learning Workshops at combatlearning.com/waitlist. --- Join the newsletter today: https://combatlearning.com/newsletter/ --- Where to find Greg... Personal Instagram (training inquiries): https://www.instagram.com/gdsouders/ Standard Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standardjiujitsu/ Standard YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@standardjiu-jitsu6031 --- Produced by Micah Peacock Intro Theme by Micah Peacock Outro Music is Synergy by Juche