How to prepare for the worlds, as an association

[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

[Brandon Mccaghren]

Awesome insight. Thank you, Brent.

[Eddie Bravo]

That's exactly how to win tournaments. Eventually we will be big enough to do something similar but for submission only tournaments. My hope is that the sub only game continues to grow to the point where eventually, sometime in the future it will be all we will focus on. Thank you Brent. D9ADBC62-A4FC-4E95-9622-4FB111E2C203-402-000000152C10ECDB_zps9a3435ba.jpg

[Eddie Bravo]

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[Eddie Bravo]

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[Jon-Michael Holland]

The isof is that like the ibjjf of sub only?

We were throwing around the idea of a "finishers" sub only tournament out here would the isof have anything to do with that? Like what I mean is if we would want a legit sub only tourney out here would we go about it by building it ground up or approaching them

[DanConway]

Sounds very similar to how Brian Stuebner is setting up his Pans Training Camp ;]

[Eddie Bravo]

The IBJJF is basically Gracie Barra. They make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year just on their tournaments. Plus they have hundreds of affiliates and they force their students to buy their gi's. Gracie Barra is MASSIVE. Kudos to Carlos Gracie Jr. for blowin up like Tower 7.

Once 10p gets that big we will have something very similar in the sense that we will do whatever it takes to win the tournaments we focus on.

Gracie Barra focuses most of their time on preparing for big gi tournaments where points and advantages are HUGE. And since heel hooks are not legal they are not allowed in their schools. These are all things that we will never focus on.

[Sam Sales]

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

Pretty much the exact same system Checkmat uses too. Right down to the affiliate tourneys.

[Kyle Spalla]

Pretty much the exact same system Checkmat uses too. Right down to the affiliate tourneys.

Probably what has attributed to the success of guys like Buchecha.