First lesson plan

Lesson 1 

Lesson plan is always an outline - just a rough idea on what might happen

Goal: make every one feel wellcomed and give an mental image on  what the course is all about. I assume that most do not have any idea on what submission wrestling is. Students might be from wrestling background or wannabe MMA-fighters?

Goal as an instructor is NOT to show techniques! Goal is to teach, but so that they will discover them by them selfs. This will demand extremely good instructions and goal setting on games and "drills".
("drills" will all or atleast most alive - very little introduction phase, because instructor is not showing "correct" technique...)

I tend to speak too much! Max time for speaking is 5 minutes. Optimal time is 1 minute! Short instructions and lot of trial and error...

Every one teaches others! By being a good opponent! (Not by explaining anything.)
No "what ifs" - stick to the subject!

3 times postive feedback and maybe 1 correction? 


Same plan will repeat on Sunday and Wednesday. Plan is same, but lesson will be different in many ways.

Plan

Organization: getting names and ground rules, introduction etc (10 min)
Warmup (15 minutes):

• technical standup and breakfall backwards
• "sprawl" and tag knee game (slow)
• "grilled chicken" grunch for abs
• partner workouts for cartwheel over own shoulder when partner is lying on his back
• balancing partner on your feet  - "aeroplane" might turn in to leg workout?
• climbing on partners back - dropping him down gently?

Mat (20 min)

• introducing mount - can you stay mounted (partner drill)
• What do we want to do on top?
• What is the other person doing and what is our solution to it.
• (Not about technique - its about learning problem solving!)
•   Doing it eyes closed and feeling connection?
• What about alignment? Are you feeling strong?

Standup ( 20 min)

• Range fight - 
• how to move your partner? 
• Balance and where to break balance and posture
• "dance lessons"
• Pummeling to fight for double unders?
• head in pocket

 Conditioning/Rolling and other fun (10 min)

Option a:

• (LAB) Low resistance fight for t-position (what is plan b - if opponent resists?)
•  Think - what is your partner giving you?

Option b:

• (Conditioning) 5 x 1 minute body workout 
• technical standup - breakfall, 
• Shooting wall and standing up
• slapping hands pushups with partner
• "grilled chicken" abs
• Sprawl and jump

 Option c:

• cooldown stretching

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Did the class first time today. Got to mat section and mount. Had only two students and they wanted to try to roll so I did positional drilling to keep the mount vs escaping. Avarage time to escape was 10 - 15 seconds... and they wanted to start using submissions...

I don't think I got throu to them. I'm not sure if they had fun?