Originally Posted by
brent_littell
Being at barra hq has shown me a lot about how to set up your team to win championships. I thought I would share this obvious information with the group
1. They have year round competition classes by invite only. They happen three times a week. When I go, they work on techniques specific to winning tourneys, like dealing with stalling, pulling guard, etc.
2. Three weeks before the big tourneys, they get a worldwide training camp. It's five days a week, 2.5 hours a day. It's run by a major professor. This year they had two camps with ze radiola (braulio, Otavio Sousa, vitor estimas coach) and one with draculino. During the camp they do conditioning, strategy, and lots of drilling and sparring.
3. They have inter affiliate tournaments for guys to get practice competing. These happen about a month before the major competition.
Thus, when big comps come around, they are peaking. If 10th planet doesn't start using a similar system, then I don't know if they will be able to compete
Great post Brent.
My observations or just my thoughts. I would love see more discussion on this topic. I don't mean this to be negative in anyway!
What about 10th Planet competing at the Black belt level??? I know the organization is still young!!!! But MOST of our black belts are around 30, 30+ years old before they receive their Black belt. ALL of those other organizations Brent is talking about have HUGE pools of talented kids and teens!
Just about all the Top competitors in the World are Black belts by the time they're 24 (give or take).
I just feel if 10th Planet wants to be a top team in the Black belt divisions. There needs to be more focus on kids-teens enrollment and retention. Those other organizations aren't going anywhere because they all ready have their next generation of Champions.
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