ATTN 10thPJJ School Owners! Class Structure?

[JayPagesJJ]

How do you guys structure your classes? Conditioning, Warm-Up, Skill Development, Rolling, etc. Thanks.

[Brandon Mccaghren]

Jay, here's the way I try to work it:

7pm is instruction and rep time. I try to teach it with demonstration, guided practice, and then reps. At 8 we go to a brief Q&A concerning the tech we covered. At 8:15, we roll till at least 9:30. I expect them to step outside of their comfort zone and work on things that need work, not just look for a "win" during free roll. The students we have that are doing well in competition consistently pinpoint their biggest weaknesses and/or strengths and rep these.

[JayPagesJJ]

Brandon,

How many days a week do you have class?

[Brandon Mccaghren]

we have 3 evening classes, and then an open mat on saturday. how do you run your setup?

[JayPagesJJ]

Warm-Up for about 5 Minutes, 15 minutes of Drilling Basics, 30 Minutes of tech., 15 min. of situational rolling, 15 minutes of open rolling then 10 min. of Conditioning at the end. That's 5 days a week. On Tuesday and Thursday's after the regular class, we have an extended class for competition training that goes an extra hour. I'm looking for ideas. Maybe having the classes go 2 hours instead of the typical 1.5 hours.

[Kevin Green]

Warm up and Stretch - Teach and trouble shoot as they drill then Live rolling end with more stretching
ADVANCED JJ is 2 hrs 2 x per week and an hr and a half on SATs...Fundamental JJ is an hr and a half 2 x per week. Also teach an Advanced MMA (hr and a half 1xper week) and fundemntal MMA (hr and a half 1 x per week) we also 3 open mat sessions each week a womens only jj class 1xper week and kids classes 4 x per week. The MMA class structure is different then the JJ classes

[JayPagesJJ]

Kevin, Thanks for your input.

[Kevin Green]

Kevin, Thanks for your input.

No problem...forgot to mention. We do (on average) 40-60 min of live rolling each class (to submission in the Advanced class and for the fundamentals class we do positional (for the first half) and to submission (the second half) of the rolling time. Some days (if they are getting the technique well it may be longer, but if I need to chew into the rolling time to continue to work through issues with whatever we are doing that day ill shorten the spar time. The closer we get to an MMA fight or a competition the school turns more into a camp (depending on how many weeks out we are) rather then our regular format

[Mike Dewitt Jr]

I am not an owner or anything, but our class schedule is 7:00pm, the first 5-10 min is stretching/warmups then about 30 min of techniques and then open mat/rolling until people leave(usually 8:30) 5 days a week Mon-Fri.

[Will Thaxton]

Jay, here's the way I try to work it:

7pm is instruction and rep time. I try to teach it with demonstration, guided practice, and then reps. At 8 we go to a brief Q&A concerning the tech we covered. At 8:15, we roll till at least 9:30. I expect them to step outside of their comfort zone and work on things that need work, not just look for a "win" during free roll. The students we have that are doing well in competition consistently pinpoint their biggest weaknesses and/or strengths and rep these.

I really like the long session. My old school class was a hour then they kicked you out to teach something else. They had long warm ups, drilled and then you might roll 5 min. It is a effort (for working people with a family) to make it to class to just have to leave soon as you break a sweat.