Self Promoted BJJ Black Belt Ben Askren believes ‘BJJ Schools Are Doing it Wrong’. Recently he went on a leg of asian tour with coach-wonder John Danaher and there they had to address this quote of Askren’s:

“We know, without a shadow of a doubt (that) just saying ‘go for five minutes’ is not the most effective way to train someone,” Askren said.

“If I’m coaching at my academy, and we were drilling the front headlock, we don’t just say ‘OK, now go five-minute goes’ because how many tries are they gonna get at going at the front headlock position?” Askren said. “Maybe one, maybe two, but essentially most people, if you say ‘go for five minutes’, they’re not disciplined enough to make themselves do new skills. They revert to whatever they do best. And then they just do it over and over and over again.”

“If I want a kid to be good at a front headlock – which if you’re gonna wrestle at a high level, you need a good front headlock – I’m gonna put him in there 50 times in that practice,” he added. “He’s gonna get it over and over and over, and maybe the next day, it’s single-legs, and maybe the next day it’s double-legs. And maybe some days, you say ‘hey, go for ten minutes, go wrestle.’”

“But saying ‘go for five minutes’ every single day is very much not the most effective way to do it, and it’s so insanely frustrating for me to have that happen at almost every jiu-jitsu school in the planet.”

And well when confronted with his claims John Danaher – didn’t exactly disagree:

“Wrestlers have years of prior training, deep ambitions in the sport. A club on the other hand … (grimaces). ”

Danaher added “I’m not allowed to teach the night classes – that’s where the nice people come in. ”

“Renzo hands me teach a band of sociopaths ” Danaher concluded for flograppling.

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