Mats – Training – Listening
Coaching: American Jiu Jitsu Federation Coaching is an art like no other. This particular skill is how each school can thrive and more importantly, allow members to support the greater good of all during training.
Focus – Listen
Having Fun: Why is fun the first detail, the training alone should be fun, watching a new student develop should be fun, and above all the students should enjoy your knowledge.
Learning JIu Jitsu is an uphill lifestyle if you are not surrounded by like-minded people, athletes, and team.
Positions Over Submission
Observation: When you observe the students you are helping and not screaming what you would do instructions it allows you as a coach to see the skills unfold, win or learn. Lets be clear no one loses in Jiu Jitsu.
Take Down or NO Take-Down
Take Down: We should `100% be focused on the art of submission. It is utter disrespect to attempt to sublet your education with partial or worse negligent education. The skills required in Judo or Wrestling are exactly the reasons those arts have little or no submission skill set. I would be the first to say under the flag of the American Jiu Jitsu Federation the likely probability of being submitted by a judo or wrestler is extremely unlikely without them learning and dedicating themselves to the focused mentorship of a Professor who can guide and instruct.
Do you have to be a Black Belt
NO: The Coach Title is a earned space, and a honor to be apart of the success of the new members, seasoned athletes and above the rest giving yourself the opportunity to constantly improve your own training. It is a fact when you teach, you are the one improving personal skills.
The gift of coaching is a honor that not many will never know, as most people lose sight that helping along the way is the secret to being great on and off the mats.
Do you have to compete?
Competition:This is the level of belief that is often over looked and under represented. This is by no means the only way to achieve the black belt, but understand this is your own path of success, your own path to feel achievement. When you decide compete you must be ready to win and learn. People think it’s about win or loss. It really is about building your war chest.
Gi Or No Gi – That is the Question
Gi or No Gi: When you value what you learn, when you value how hard you train you will know each are one in the same and only the people who want less see a difference. The ideal American Jiu Jitsu Athlete should be versed in both Gi and No Gi and continue to thrive and make this art the lifestyle it was intended to become.