🥋Week 6 Curriculum Breakdown!🥋
Week 6 of the Gracie Barra Fundamentals Curriculum is here and is packed with your next set of fundamental techniques to add to your jiu-jitsu game! Kids, get ready to master your grapplers stance and how to escape the back control, and guard pulling! Adults, be prepared to escape headlocks, and you will also be learning back control escapes and turtle position!
🗣️Word of the Week: Purpose
Purpose is fundamental in jiu-jitsu, serving as a guiding force that shapes one’s journey on the mats and beyond. Whether its training with purpose for potential self-defense situations, you have to be sure you’re being intentional with your practice. It applies to setting goals, developing yourself, and making friendships that last. Let’s all train with purpose this week!
Tiny Champions (3-4 years old) & Little Champions 1 (5-6 years old):
Now, lets dive into what the Tiny Champions and Little Champions 1 will be working on this week!
Class A:
- Self-Defense: Distance management is included often into our self-defense section. This week we have more practice, but it includes blocking and defending punches followed up by a body lock takedown, straight to mount position!
- Sport Jiu-Jitsu: Introducing both classes to back control and turtle position. We will be practicing the control aspects first, the including an escape from a back take.
Class B:
- Takedown Technique: Part of the focus this week will be explaining the Grapplers Stance in jiu-jitsu. We often tell our students how important having a good stance with good balance is. We will help them master the grapplers stance!
- Sport Jiu-Jitsu: Continuing the focus of how to escape the the back control position, by doing a shoulder slide and achieving the top position.
Little Champions 2 (7-9 years old) & Juniors (10-13 years old):
Class A:
- Self-Defense: Standing headlock escape with punches. This sequence will include teaching students how to protect against the punches and how to counter attack with a rear takedown and choke.
- Sport Jiu-Jitsu: Our LC2 and Juniors will also be working on escapes from back control and turtle position. They will be learning the same escape as the TC and LC1 by utilizing a shoulder slide and gaining the top position.
Class B:
- Takedown Technique: LC2 and Juniors will be getting their first practice this cycle of the curriculum of pulling to the guard. An effective method for sport jiu-jitsu, especially if you enjoy focusing on bottom guard position.
- Sport Jiu-Jitsu: Additional practice at escaping from the back control and turtle position.
GB1 Adults & Teens Fundamentals (Tue. & Thu. 6:00pm):
Class A:
- Self-Defense: To begin our adults fundamentals program, the self-defense technique will be escaping from a grounded headlock position. Speficically, how to push the head and create distance and finish with a straight armbar.
- Sport Jiu-Jitsu: Two escapes from turtle position will be taught. One is escaping by recovering the guard from rear turtle. The second, will be recovering the guard from front turtle position.
Class B:
- Self-Defense: Class B will include a different escape variation from a grounded headlock. It will include catching the back of our opponent and applying a shoulder lock.
- Sport Jiu-Jitsu: Class B’s focus is escapes from the back control. Both variations will be focused around bridging and achieving the top position.
No-Gi GBK, Adults & Teens:
Tiny Champions & Little Champions 1: Will continue practice on the distance management, protecting the head, and body lock control. How to maintain a good grappler’s stance with proper nogi grips will be shown. Ground techniques do not change for the GBK Program. Back control escapes are no different from gi to nogi.
Little Champions 2 & Juniors: LC2 and Juniors will practice the variation of headlock escape with punches for self-defense. This is even more important because they may not have a gi to grip on to in a self-defense situation. They will practice pulling to guard for nogi and how to escape the back control.
Adults: The adults nogi standup techniques will be utilizing the nogi grips to control and catch the back standing. On the ground, they will be learning how to submit from top turtle position.
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