🥋 Week 13 Breakdown!🥋
Welcome to Gracie Barra Saddle Rock for the Weekly Breakdown For Week 13! We ALMOST done with out next cycle of the Gracie Barra Fundamentals Curriculum!
🗣️Word of The Week: Fun
Word of the week is fun. Fun is essential in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as it keeps practitioners engaged and motivated, making training more enjoyable and sustainable. A fun atmosphere fosters a sense of community and camaraderie, encouraging positive social connections and a supportive environment. It reduces stress, promotes mental well-being, and enhances learning by making complex techniques less intimidating.
Tiny Champions (3-4 years old) & Little Champions 1 (5-6 years old):
Class A: Self Defense
- Standing Rear Choke Escape 2: Focuses on teaching children how to escape a standing rear choke, enhancing their confidence and safety skills.
Ground Technique: Guard Bottom
- Recovering Guard from Turtle Bottom: Kids learn to transition from a turtle position back into guard, which is essential for maintaining control during a match.
Specific Training: Guard Bottom
- Reinforces the techniques learned by applying them in controlled sparring and specific drills.
Class B: Stand Up Technique
- One Hand Shoulder Throw: Introduces a fundamental judo throw, which is crucial for takedown defense and initiating ground work.
Ground Technique: Guard Bottom
- Recovering Guard from Turtle Bottom: Similar to Class A, this continues the focus on guard recovery from the turtle position.
Little Champions 2 (7-9 years old) & Juniors (10-13 years old):
Class A: Self Defense
- Guard with Punches Defense + Clinch + Sit Up Sweep: Combines defending punches while in guard, transitioning to a clinch, and executing a sit-up sweep. This sequence enhances defensive and offensive capabilities.
Ground Technique: Guard Bottom
- Instructor’s Choice: Sweeps & Submissions: The instructor selects specific sweeps and submissions, providing a variety of techniques to improve versatility on the ground.
Specific Training: Guard Bottom
- Drills and sparring sessions focusing on the application of sweeps and submissions.
Class B: Stand Up Technique
- One Hand Shoulder Throw on the Knees: A variation of the shoulder throw, performed from a kneeling position to adapt to different scenarios.
GB1 Adults & Teens Fundamentals (Tue. & Thu. 6:00pm):
Class A: Self-Defense (Strike)
- Blocking Punches from Closed Guard Bottom + Clinch + Triangle Choke: Covers blocking punches while in closed guard, moving into a clinch, and executing a triangle choke. This sequence is vital for effective self-defense from the bottom position. Sport Jiu-Jitsu: Guard Bottom
- Sit Up Sweep from Closed Guard: A basic yet effective sweep to transition from the bottom to a dominant position.Kimura from Closed Guard: A powerful submission technique from the closed guard, enhancing the practitioner’s ability to control and submit an opponent. GB1 Drill
- Sit Up Sweep from Closed Guard + Knee-Elbow Escape: Drills focusing on the sit-up sweep and escaping from the bottom using the knee-elbow technique. Specific Training: Guard
- Dedicated sparring and drill sessions to practice guard techniques and transitions. Class B: Self-Defense (Strike)
- Distance Management from Closed Guard Bottom + Knee Shield + Upkick + Technical Lift: Emphasizes maintaining distance, using knee shields, upkicks, and technical lifts to control and escape from the bottom. Sport Jiu-Jitsu: Guard Bottom
- Spider Guard Control with Opponent Bullfighting or Posturing: Techniques to control an opponent using spider guard, preventing them from passing or posturing up.Spider Guard Sweep with the Opponent on his Knees: Sweep techniques from spider guard, focusing on opponents in a kneeling position. GB1 Drill
- Spider Guard Control with Opponent Bull Fighting + Opponent Posturing + Closed Guard: Drills to practice controlling an opponent in spider guard, transitioning to closed guard.
No-Gi GBK, Adults & Teens:
As always, Our GBK No-Gi classes will get a mixture of the self-defense through a No-Gi, and more realistic, lens. They will still learn the self-defense and the ground techniques will be bottom guard!
Adults & Teens:
Takedown:
Our take down is an arm drag to a sacrifice throw. The arm drag to sacrifice throw is a dynamic combination that transitions from a controlling grip to a powerful throw, often leading to a dominant position on the ground.
Ground Technique:
A series of submissions will be shown. Two armbar variations, and two triangles will be show.
We hope you enjoyed the Weekly Breakdown for Week 13! See you on the mats for Week #13. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook for content!
🔻Gracie Barra Saddle Rock
📍6770 S Liverpool St Unit B, Aurora, CO 80016
📞 720-551-6449
