Sebastian Brosche · 7 min · 1,184 words
Previously titled: Vid 9
Okay, video number nine. It's the bam bam. So this is the time where we really get the heat up. So there's not much time to do a lot of cueing and talking.
This is just getting bodies moving, breathing, sweating. So we are in down dog from the last video. So we're just keeping this really simple. The first round, of course, you take your time to just place the body.
So inhale, right leg up and back. Exhale, set the right foot to the outside of the right hand. Now kick the left leg through and reverse it back to three-legged dog. Now switch the legs in the air, switch leg handstand.
Make sure you land back in three-legged dog because people, they tend to want to land the foot into a split. So make a point of that the first round you cue. Make sure you're actually in a three-legged down dog and not a standing split because then if people are in a standing split, they will have to adjust and no to the next round. Now we repeat this.
Bring the left foot to the outside of the left hand. Kick the right leg through and reverse it. Push the floor away. Stress the left leg up and back.
Switch the legs in the air. Push into your arms. And now just keep going. Right leg, kick the left leg through.
Go as fast or as slow as you're comfortable with. But don't miss the transitions because with people start to get sloppy in the handstands and just do kind of... So you show here, yeah, just the donkey kicks to the butt. Just make a point out of actually doing each pose even though they're moving quickly.
So here depends on your time, but we do tend to do three times on each side. So there's a total of six. If you have on your time that you're actually running a bit fast, you can of course add rounds. But at least three times on each side because it's kind of a downer if you say, okay, now we're really going to bam bam.
We're going to create some heat and then you have time for one on each side and it's not going to really do much for people. So at least three times on each side. I like to take the opportunity when people are doing a bam bam to challenge them. If I have the sensation that people are going to shrug off the class afterwards and say like, this wasn't that much, then I try to add in challenges that can be what do you call it, optional challenges and say like, try to do this whole breath, this whole flow breathing only through your nose.
Makes it 10 times harder for someone that is huffing and puffing. So just doing this flow, constant flow, never stopping, moving gracefully and breathing only through your nose. Some of the people have a huge challenge. Yeah.
And again, it's how much also you effort you put into it. So if you do just do a super sloppy one where you're barely pushing your hands and you're barely doing. Yeah. So then you can actually go up to the person.
So if they have the, yeah. So now straighten this leg, make sure it's straight. Now keep both legs straight as you switch the legs. Yes.
And now keep going. Now round this round the back, bring the legs through. Yes. Again, round the back, push the floor away.
Beautiful. Straight legs and just be on them so they really have to work. Because it's easy to say the class was easy if you didn't put any effort into anything or what you were doing, because it is body weight exercise. So it depends on how much you actually give in each.
Yeah. And most people that look arrogant aren't actually arrogant. They're just unaware. So by you being a little Nazi and, you know, pointing at their mistakes from a friendly place helps them with self-awareness.
And they won't do the same mistake again when they get called out in a friendly way. And that really helps there. That's one of the things that facilitates people, that people's development and keeps people coming back. You care about them and it's a little bit of tough love here and there.
You're not a bully just because you bully them a little bit as long as you do it in a balanced way. Yeah. So to just summarize this, it's really simple, but it should be hard. It should be really, your heart should really be beating after this.
But just keep the queuing easy because you really stop the flow. If you start to give a lot of say yoga alignment cues in this, it's impossible to flow. So this is more like you do this every class, they will get into it and then you can walk up to, if someone is doing something completely off, you can walk up to that person and you just say, okay, now let's just keep flowing. And then you walk up to this person and be like, okay, let's do something here.
I'll help you with this. Instead of stopping the whole room, just allow them to flow, make some mistakes, try again, and then you help them one on one. And this is a perfect example of the huge discrepancy between normal yoga and yoga for BJJ because a common OCD yoga teacher could never teach a sequence like this because they would need 65 anatomy cues per second to do it safely and correctly. But this is Jiu Jitsu.
We just want to flow. Yeah. And when you do all of that correction on people, you take them into their head and out of the body. And this is right before sparring.
We want to bring them into the body. So too much talking will just get them out of the, away from what we actually want them to. Yes. And the climax and the crescendo of the class comes in the back then after this.
So this is a buildup. Get people moving it out of the header into the body. And then when they're still in the back then, and then wow, that's a magic feeling. That's what we're trying to create.
We're trying to build the whole class up to, you know, this moment, three breaths sitting on your knees, opening your eyes. And suddenly you feel like your skin tingling and like, oh, I'm ready. You have done your yarm exception well, if you can do that. But that's always the goal of a warm up class is for people to feel like, yes, let's do this.
Yep. And that's also why we don't do a lot of like pigeon or anything like that in the warm up class, because then people will be like, oh, sparring now? It wouldn't feel right. So we want to have them here and like, ready.
Yes.
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