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Teaching Principles Series: “Animals for Kids” (5:20)
Kids relate to animals, even from a young age kids will…

3 problems you will run into when teaching and how to solve them (Felix Adler 22m)
No lesson will be perfect. Especially as a beginner, but…

Methods and Drills Part 1: Progression (Felix Adler 19m)
If there was no progress, everybody would remain a white…

Methods and Drill Part 3: Learning to Learn by Progressive Drilling (Felix Adler 20m)
The more advanced your students are the more they should…

Methods and Drills Part 2: From Games to Sparring (Felix Adler 15m)
Games, drills and any kind of sparring are just methods that…

Start of a Lesson – Warm-Up and Lead-In (Felix Adler 14m)
Every part of a lesson should help your students to work…

Learning Objectives Part 2: Teaching less to learn more – Didactic Reduction (Felix Adler 20m)
The more you know about grappling, the more difficult it…

Adapting BJJ to MMA (Francesco Fonte 14m)
Small but important changes that you can do to adapt your…

Conversations worth having: The Guard (Matt Wuchner 5m)
The second installment of the Conversations Worth Having…

Conversations Worth Having: Reacting vs Responding (Matt Wuchner 5m)
The First Installment of the Conversations Worth Having series…

Learning Objectives Part 1 (Felix Adler 22m)
What do we teach in a grappling class? This video shows my…

Principles of Planning Lessons and Lesson Plans (Felix Adler 11m)
Fail to plan and you plan to fail. In this video you get…

Characteristics of a Good Lesson (Felix Adler 13m)
Learning is universal and so is teaching. In this video you…


Avoiding the Rabbit Hole (Robert McMasters 8m)
We’ve all done it before - started answering an endless…

The Importance Of Root Technique (Luke Spencer 4m)
A brief into to the idea of finding the “root technique”,…

My general method for teaching sweeps (Wim Deputter 15m)
During a roll you have to sweep a person who actively resists.…

My general method for teaching submissions (Wim Deputter 21m)
One of the most important things to learn and teach more…

A Simple Way to Structure Active Drilling (Kenneth Brown 6m)
This is one of the methodologies I used in my competition…


A basic example of microdrills, drills, concepts (Francesco Fonte 7m)
In this video I will use a simple and common technique (passing…

We Train UFC, Bro: Teaching Techniques with a Touch of Storytelling (Ruadhan MacFadden 10m)
BJJ techniques are not suddenly born in isolation. They've…

The Power Circle aka. Knights of the Round Table (Ruadhan MacFadden 8m)
A way to finish training sessions in an atmosphere of open…

Strategies – Concepts – Heuristics (Francesco Fonte 7m)
A brief explanation of what these tools are and why knowing…



Progression for Half Guard and Didactic Tips (Wim Deputter 21m)
In this video I will give a progression of how I let kids…