I like his initial crab walk approach to the start standing. Claws out and everything.
sometimes i get so flummoxed when people start yelling advice unless it's a very very concrete thing; just triggers my adhd in weird ways. i did one tournament as a white belt where i had a guy in my closed guard and was working a promising triangle setup. my opponent's coach yells "watch the triangle!" and for whatever reason i just immediately stopped going for it. "okay, whatever you say."
My coaches are awesome but I've had a few occasions where their angles just don't give them the proper view to see what I am going for, and so they yell out advice that might not be the best.
Its stressful sometimes when people are yelling at you from the sidelines.
This happens all the time even just in training. Coach at the side of the mats can't see that what he's calling out is completely nullified by a grip that is obscured from his view. I've even experienced it not uncommonly that coach will stop us rolling to show what he means cause he thinks we just don't get it or whatever, which is frustrating.
I think that good coaching should be less about backseat driving as it should be about a predetermined game plan.
And coaches need to also trust their guys that they know what the risks associated with their favourite paths are. Like, any coloured belt who likes to over under pass is cognizant of triangles. Calling it out is just highlighting the risk/opportunity for the opponent to attack.
Call out the time, points, tell them to progress etc. You can tell your guy that he's got the takedown points and can start to think about passing, or you can tell him to knee slice, or dig underhooks or whatever other specific technical instruction. One tells the opponent what he already knows, ie his guard is going to be attacked, the other tells him exactly how.
Technical instruction is for training, the training should suffice for competition, if it doesn't, the competition isn't the time for the remedial training.
/derail
Great job
@KikoJones! You made that look like an easy roll. I feel like you could have easily put a lot more hurt down on that dude at will.