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How can you teach someone* who is so unathletic that after 6 months still has problems doing forward rolls?
I have explained repeteadly any single technique we are working on, shown it slowly, then faster, then explain it again, then ask if any had questions, correct it over and over while this person is practicing it, and it still doesn't compute. I'm not asking for perfect technique, God forbids, I just want him to follow simple 1-2-3 steps, not do 2-3-1 then 3-2-1 and any other combination except the 1-2-3 that I've thoroughly explained and show.
He has rolled with us adults since the beginning and everyone has been extra careful not to hurt him and let him work whatever technique he wants, and yet after almost a year he has shown no signs of a fighting attitude. He'll go limp in your guard. He'll go limp when in side control. Take his back? Limp. You open your guard wide as hell and tell him to pass your guard? It will take him 5 full seconds just to start trying, and he knows full well that we are letting him pass. He's lazy and we have to constantly watch him.
He takes every chance he gets to complain about bumping (insert body part) against the floor, or someone's body, to rest mid-roll or avoid rolling for the rest of the class.
I'm not asking for A level athlets. God knows I'm the first under-average athletic guy in the gym. I just want him to show me some grit, or enthusiasm, or the usual "Fuck you, I'm not tapping yet" (whenever you place him in a semblance of submission, like a RNC, he will go limp and then tap even before you are putting any pressure; you can just hug him and immobile he goes again).
So far he has gotten by because the adults treat him extremely well, and the other teens (some bony girls with good technique and wanting to learn, but very little strength or even mass) he can just overpower AND THEN GO LIMP for 5 minutes on side control. Or curl up and do nothing. Or keep them in the guard and do nothing. Or stay in their guard and do nothing.
Now I have some other male teens who are actually athletic and competitive, and another girl who is 80 pounds of dynamite, and he's either getting his ass handed to him or being "hurt" (the usual bruises anyone gets in BJJ) because the new kids are rougher than he's used to.
Do I tell his dad to sign him up for something else? Do I take out the safety floaters and let him sink or swim on his own? I'm worried because he is the type to be targeted by bullies, but he hasn't shown any interest in learning or bettering himself, eventhough we give him every opportunity to do so, and I feel like the class is a safe space where he get an itsy bit of confidence despite everything. And yes, we have pampered him too much. But the other students turned out fine with the same methodology.
Share your frustrating teaching experiences, bros.
*I'm talking about a chubby young teen who is in the adults class because he's too big to be in the kiddies'.
I have explained repeteadly any single technique we are working on, shown it slowly, then faster, then explain it again, then ask if any had questions, correct it over and over while this person is practicing it, and it still doesn't compute. I'm not asking for perfect technique, God forbids, I just want him to follow simple 1-2-3 steps, not do 2-3-1 then 3-2-1 and any other combination except the 1-2-3 that I've thoroughly explained and show.
He has rolled with us adults since the beginning and everyone has been extra careful not to hurt him and let him work whatever technique he wants, and yet after almost a year he has shown no signs of a fighting attitude. He'll go limp in your guard. He'll go limp when in side control. Take his back? Limp. You open your guard wide as hell and tell him to pass your guard? It will take him 5 full seconds just to start trying, and he knows full well that we are letting him pass. He's lazy and we have to constantly watch him.
He takes every chance he gets to complain about bumping (insert body part) against the floor, or someone's body, to rest mid-roll or avoid rolling for the rest of the class.
I'm not asking for A level athlets. God knows I'm the first under-average athletic guy in the gym. I just want him to show me some grit, or enthusiasm, or the usual "Fuck you, I'm not tapping yet" (whenever you place him in a semblance of submission, like a RNC, he will go limp and then tap even before you are putting any pressure; you can just hug him and immobile he goes again).
So far he has gotten by because the adults treat him extremely well, and the other teens (some bony girls with good technique and wanting to learn, but very little strength or even mass) he can just overpower AND THEN GO LIMP for 5 minutes on side control. Or curl up and do nothing. Or keep them in the guard and do nothing. Or stay in their guard and do nothing.
Now I have some other male teens who are actually athletic and competitive, and another girl who is 80 pounds of dynamite, and he's either getting his ass handed to him or being "hurt" (the usual bruises anyone gets in BJJ) because the new kids are rougher than he's used to.
Do I tell his dad to sign him up for something else? Do I take out the safety floaters and let him sink or swim on his own? I'm worried because he is the type to be targeted by bullies, but he hasn't shown any interest in learning or bettering himself, eventhough we give him every opportunity to do so, and I feel like the class is a safe space where he get an itsy bit of confidence despite everything. And yes, we have pampered him too much. But the other students turned out fine with the same methodology.
Share your frustrating teaching experiences, bros.
*I'm talking about a chubby young teen who is in the adults class because he's too big to be in the kiddies'.