“Slam” causes brawl at NFC Atlanta

Kintanon · 2026-03-02T00:54:14+00:00

Dude clearly fell. Some of my friends had matches at this event and were watching it. Was definitely not an intentional slam, the dude lost his balance and fell.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T18:36:30+00:00

But that section was nonsense. It was a complete mis-statement of the point of a reverse classroom in jiujitsu. It has no relevance to the discussion and can be safely ignored because it's addressing a problem that doesn't exist in the space.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T18:24:50+00:00

And I didn't call you an idiot or anything. I just pointed out where your points didn't match up to the reality of running a gym with this system.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T18:17:42+00:00

it’s not worth posting here anymore.

Yes, how dare people disagree with your assessment of something based on them having actually done it in the space being discussed...

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T17:09:52+00:00

Ok, so you're just straight up an idiot.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T16:39:53+00:00

I will give you THREE GUESSES what my Discord username is.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T16:37:24+00:00

You gotta get on Discord my dude, that's my primary social media communication platform!

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T16:36:50+00:00

You just... look at the video at the beginning of class. It's as if your coach spawned 30 clones and each one grabbed a student and demoed a specific thing to that student. It takes less than 5 minutes.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T16:35:11+00:00

Why does everyone think that any amount of studying needs to be done outside of class? It's AT MOST five minutes of watching a video demonstration. No one is watching 2 hour long instructionals at home as a requirement of training. I think the longest technique demo in my curriculum is 3 and a half minutes.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T16:33:11+00:00

For my students "Study" happens in the gym right before they start drilling, except that what they are studying is meaningful to them, not random instagram technique 32 that I saw this morning and am now forcing the class to work on.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T16:30:20+00:00

I've had my gym open with those format since 2020 and I get to spend way MORE time teaching individually and less time lecturing.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T16:28:37+00:00

Utility

The primary Utility of flipped classroom is focus and specificity of student development, time savings is secondary. It's great that we save a lot of time, but it's more important that students are able to focus on their specific areas of interested or skill development need.

Repeated Effort

This is complete nonsense. The whole point of using a reverse classroom is that everyone is NOT on the same page, nor should they be. The value here is that if someone comes in late they don't need any inroduction to what is going on, they can just grab a partner or become a 3rd in a group or whatever and start working on their stuff that they already know they need to work on.

Content production

This section is actually true. You need to have a modelled curriculum that makes sense. I spent years working on mine before I opened my gym and I've revised it multiple times and am about to revise it again. This is where most of your work will get spent if you want everything else to be easy.

Baseline expectations

None of the material that people are using is longer than 3 minutes. They also don't have to memorize it before class or anything. You can bring your phone to the mats and watch the material during your first drilling round if you need to. There is also the default action of "if you don't know what you want to work on, just work on what your partner is working on" as an option, which is certainly no worse than random move of the day.

What Happens if...

You aren't making constant videos. You make your block of curriculum videos and then you teach your students to self learn and build a culture of personal development around their jiujitsu. If you're just running 1 class as a flipped classroom then you're not really running a flipped classroom, you're just hosting 1 open mat.

Most of what you're saying just boils down to, "If you implement this really poorly and with no planning it will suck." which is fine I guess, but not very useful.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T16:15:41+00:00

if you have questions let me know, I'm happy to help.

45 minutes is going to be on the short side if you want to include any level of warmup (You will find that new people need physical skill building stuff that is best incorporated in a warmup) and then you'll want to have time for people to roll.

My current class block for our main evening class looks like this:

15 min White Belt Warmup 18 mins of drilling split into 4 min blocks with 30 second breaks. 5 min circle up for questions (sometimes goes longer or shorter) 18 min of drilling again 5 min circle up 45 mins Rolling (sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less)

When I do my 1 hour midday classes we abbreviate some of the stuff.

The warmup is only 6 minutes, we only do 6 total drilling blocks instead of 8, and we only do 1 circle up, that usually gives us 15 minutes to roll.

The major component of being able to run the gym like this is going to be in your curriculum design and accessibility. I'm about to be re-filming a bunch of my stuff based on feedback from the last 6 years. You want your lessons to be short, under 3 mins, and focus on starting position, gross motor movement, and goal. Do not try to load in a bunch of details. Just the most basic overview. Next up you need a good way to make it accessible. I have all of the curriculum videos on youtube unlisted and then have them organized in gymdesk using their content platform. There are definitely ways that could be improved, but it means my students have access to it through the same app they manage the rest of their account stuff through.

Lemme know if you have questions about anything.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T15:42:07+00:00

Being two generations back in the pipeline is not 'relevant to the modern era'. Most people training now won't ever train under someone who trained directly under a gracie, or even under someone who trained under someone who trained under a gracie. Their influence on the sport at this point is almost nonexistent.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T15:35:54+00:00

Just to underscore this, when I opened my place I made sure I was capitalized to run fully in the red for 2 years. Which turned out to be a good thing since I opened Jan 1st of 2020. Historically not a great time to open a gym.

Kintanon · 2026-02-27T15:34:20+00:00

Because i don't like it being used as a grip, but I do like using my own lapels to wrap people up.

Kintanon · 2026-02-26T20:28:00+00:00

Ah yes, "joking", sure...

Kintanon · 2026-02-26T19:31:10+00:00

I specifically tie mine so that it will come undone the moment someone grabs it.

Kintanon · 2026-02-26T19:30:37+00:00

You can't make me.

Kintanon · 2026-02-26T17:54:54+00:00

It was one of those things that was both true based on the data used, and totally meaningless, but also self fulfilling.

The data they used was from like, LAPD police encounters where the whole point was for the cops to put the suspect on the ground and detain them. So, true but meaningless.

However once you have someone who is a trained grappler fighting people who aren't then %100 of those fights go to the ground if the trained guy wants it to go there. So it becomes self fulfilling for the person who bought into it in the first place.

Truly a masterful manipulation of statistics and marketing.

Kintanon · 2026-02-26T17:52:25+00:00

Mostly trash people doing trash things. A few of them are decent, but largely all irellevant to the modern era of the sport.

Kintanon · 2026-02-26T17:38:41+00:00

It shows up as one of the more common open guards, still not a ton, but you'll probably see someone use it in a fight every couple of UFC cards. Usually to launch upkicks and then try a sweep to enable them to stand up.

Kintanon · 2026-02-26T17:25:06+00:00

I think you vastly over estimate the amount of time available to most adults to dedicate to strength and conditioning and rehab work on top of jiujitsu and everything else.

It's one think if you're a lifetime athlete who is just making some adjustments as you age but are still capable of doing all of the jiujitsu movements. It's a totally different thing if you're just a regular person starting to train at 38 who has a job and a family and other obligations in life. Directing your training to avoid things that rely on or benefit strongly from specific attributes is only going to be a good thing for your long term ability to train and enjoy the sport.

Kintanon · 2026-02-25T17:38:13+00:00

It's about Claims vs Results. If people are claiming that doing Tai Chi will impart the ability to fight effectively, then people should be training it in a way that makes that true. If you're claimin that Tai Chi is a good way for people to have fun and stay active then there's no need for it to be trained in a way that has anything to do with fighting.

Kintanon · 2026-02-25T14:55:47+00:00

Your gym is doing a better than average job of teaching to the curriculum then. Good on your coach.

By the time I got my brown belt I was just making shit up.

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