How much time until teaching?

[Matt]

How much time would you personally say is required within BJJ to start coaching others.

2 months? 2 years? 20 years?

[NebS]

Til your a brown belt at the least. Black preferably, so you don't teach bad habits.

[younwha]

I know your question is geared towards BJJ so I can't really comment on that.

However the philosophy we use in our style is that a yellow belt should be able to teach a white belt. A green to teach a yellow, a blue to teach a green, etc...

If you are able to advance to a higher rank that should indicate you know all your stuff for the rank below, so there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to teach it.

[NebS]

Originally Posted by younwha

I know your question is geared towards BJJ so I can't really comment on that.

However the philosophy we use in our style is that a yellow belt should be able to teach a white belt. A green to teach a yellow, a blue to teach a green, etc...

If you are able to advance to a higher rank that should indicate you know all your stuff for the rank below, so there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to teach it.

True enough, we believe in that too. I just figured because everything is so finesse and detailed with BJJ it should be a very high rank teaching. But that's just me.

[younwha]

Originally Posted by NebS

True enough, we believe in that too. I just figured because everything is so finesse and detailed with BJJ it should be a very high rank teaching. But that's just me.

Obviously being able to be taught by someone who eat breathes and sleeps martial arts with 9 stripes on his belt is preferred, but someone a rank higher than you should be good enough.

High rank is always ideal though, you're right.

[zaxonortesus]

We do the same. Blues teachIng whites, etc. Our sister school has a brown belt as a main instructor, plus a ton of purples, and blues and a new brown belt, and I have learned a TON rolling with their guys. That being said, I am still a white belt, no doubt about that, but at tournaments, I have been asked to coach fighters, to point things out and walk them through things. The blue belts do a better job, obviously, but as far as 'coaching', an outside view and a knowledge of the person that's rolling's style seems to get the job done.

[prodigypenn]

a higher rank is preferred of course, but it also depends on the level of the person being instructed and the person instructing, as well as the availability of high ranked instructors
as a brand new white belt a blue belt of any level is probably enough, but as u advance further then the instructor should also be higher level, if the white belts learning curve is faster than the blue belts than a higher blue shold take over, and so on and so forth
when i first got into jiu-jitsu before i started taking classes i "instructed" a couple of my friends and we kinda rolled a little, as i started my training i showed them a bit more, and then some other people came along with no knowledge of grappling at all, so i instructed them in basic techniques and philosophy, and as i moved up in rank and experience i kinda gave them a little more technical stuff

[Tagg1080]

It also depends on the person.

Not everyone can teach well.


You should look at the person as a teacher, AND their knowledge.

[NebS]

Originally Posted by Tagg1080

It also depends on the person.

Not everyone can teach well.


You should look at the person as a teacher, AND their knowledge.

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[Jack the Tripper]

Sorry to semi-hijack your thread, but this is an interesting case study that I've been meaning to get up here, and it pertains to this topic...

A local McDojo offers a "grappling" class, among other things. I have attended this grappling glass, and other classes of theirs. Having not been allowed to participate in the grappling because I hadn't paid the full monthly fee, I knew from watching I could probably tap both instructors and all three adult students in a row.

My experience level? I guess you could consider me an intermediate white belt in no gi submission grappling. I've never rolled in the gi. I had the equivalent of about four months semi-intensive training, but I've been rolling and teaching myself from books and videos for almost three years.

So we could consider the instructors around the level of an intermediate or beginner white belt. Granted, they know more than someone who just walked in off the street. But they know less than me.

So, are these guys doing something wrong, when you consider that each student is paying 10-15 dollars an hour?

and,

should I try to get a job there? Consider of course that I could do a better job, and that I can't presently train at my normal gym because I have no money. But wouldn't this just be me creating the same problem? What then is the answer?

Philosophized!