NLP techniques inВ the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training process. Study Guide
Marat Kenzhebulatov
A contemporary coach uses state-of-the-art education technology.Marat Kenzhebulatov, the holder of a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; head of the Bars Checkmat Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, shares his experience in the Study Guide on using the neurolinguistic programming techniques to present educational material. The book will help build the training process in such a way as to help jitsers effectively master fighting techniques.
NLP techniques inВ the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training process
Study Guide
Marat Kenzhebulatov
© Marat Kenzhebulatov, 2021
ISBNВ 978-5-0055-4594-7
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Foreword
These Guidelines will be ofВ interest toВ both professors ofВ Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and students who study the BJJ on theirВ own.
The author of the book, Marat Kenzhebulatov, is the holder of a black belt in BJJ (IBJJF) of the CHECKMAT TEAM Academy under the leadership of Leo Vieira, the bronze medalist of the 2018 IBJJF GI European Championship and the bronze medalist of the National American 2021 IBJJF NO-GI in black belts; has an NLP Master’s Degree received at the A.A. Pligin’s Center for NLP in Education (Moscow). Since 2016, he has been the head of the Bars Checkmat Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, which has gyms in Kazakhstan and the USA.
Introduction
Good results inВ sports are determined not only byВ the genetic disposition ofВ athletes but also byВ aВ highly effective organization ofВ their learning and training process.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu is probably one of the most difficult martial arts in the world, as this sport is constantly evolving and what was a standard technique yesterday is now considered to be “old school”. Naturally, this directly affects the difficulty of learning, since not only does the student need to be taught, but the professor also needs to continuously develop. Moreover, the learning and training process becomes more complicated every year both in practical and theoretical terms. One of the fundamental features of jitsers’ training, in addition to physical complexity, flexibility, athletic training, is also the relationship between physical and psychological aspects.
In BJJ, as in many other sports, the basic development basis is formed by the professor’s preparation for classes, and by the jitser’s aspiration, their attitude towards training and to their achievements, and, of course, by their thinking. But even so, mistakes and misunderstandings of concepts can be seen in most jitters at competitions of any level, including international ones. This indicates that during the training process little attention was paid to the effective perception of the presentation of training material.
Currently, athletes inВ BJJ are required toВ have at least aВ good competition form, and this is already becoming commonplace. Jitsers, who set grand goals for themselves, are more careful inВ training and competition; they try toВ participate inВ both sections at once, both inВ Know-Gi and Gi, and at the same time have eight fights inВ each division. And some jitsers plan toВ go professional and pay great attention toВ training and the corresponding results ofВ their performances. These athletes can easily be found inВ high-level competitions such as the European Championships or the World Championships.
Generally, the results ofВ jitsers directly depend on their physical fitness; often their experience inВ other sports disciplines plays aВ significant role inВ this. Nevertheless, very often, due toВ the incorrect design ofВ the educational and training process, athletes get stuck inВ their development and eventually quit sports altogether.
Now it is very important to examine all the nuances of jitsers’ physical fitness to the smallest detail; however, the subject of researching such methods as effective delivery of educational material to jitsers still needs to be worked out.
In this book, you may first encounter NLP, so let’s briefly talk about NLP! The abbreviation NLP stands for neurolinguistic programming, and it is considered a separate field in practical psychology. The methods used in NLP relate to programming, psychology, and linguistics. NLP is actively involved in human life and is used everywhere. NLPers study successful projects of experts in these areas with the aim of further drawing on this experience. NLP models people who have achieved success and accumulates this experience so that in the future any person could not only repeat but even surpass this success, adding something from themselves.
Returning to our original task, we will try to combine the NLP methods and the educational process in BJJ. An important point here is the identification of jitsers’ perception channels and metaprograms by their professor. At the time when information enters the human brain, the person’s thinking processes are activated to process it and make a decision. Research has shown that by tracking which thinking methods a person prefers, they will be more successful in assimilating new material.
Those metaprograms that jitser prefers, choose the information that will be implemented inВ the first place, and the way it will be assimilated is highlighted.
One of the important conditions for effective training of jitsers is the form of presentation of educational material. It is important to take into account the senses that form the dominant system of information perception. This approach is currently often used unconsciously, thus failing to render 100% efficiency. Taking into account all the capabilities of metaprograms and perception of the senses and their correct combination significantly improve jitsers’ performance. As a result, the relevance of my research is due to the organization of the effective delivery of educational materials in the training process to train jitsers successfully.
The purpose ofВ this publication is toВ determine the organizational and pedagogical environment for training jitsers using neurolinguistic programming (NLP) methods toВ address the problems ofВ effective mastering ofВ fighting techniques byВ jitsers.
The subject ofВ the publication will be the training process ofВ jitsers.
The subject ofВ publication will be methods and forms ofВ presentation ofВ training material.
InВ this publication, IВ want toВ offer aВ recommendation based on the hypothesis that the methodology for training jitsers at the stage ofВ explaining fighting techniques will be productive and pedagogically expedient if it is built on the following:
• taking into account the predominant way of assimilation of information by athletes from the external world;
• taking into account the algorithms of information perception by athletes.
Following the goal, subject, and advanced hypothesis, the following objectives were formulated:
1. ToВ study the peculiarities ofВ the training process inВ BJJ and toВ set the main directions ofВ presenting information and training material toВ athletes.
2. Describe the presentation ofВ training material as aВ method and way ofВ teaching inВ the training process.
3. Determine the conditions for organizing and conducting the presentation ofВ material inВ training, taking into account the peculiarities ofВ information perception byВ athletes.
Research methods: theoretical and practical analysis ofВ literary sources and personal experience, analysis ofВ the program, and methodological documentation.
These recommendations were built on training experience. A certain period was taken and examined. During this period, the tools that I will offer below were used. The methodological basis and the tasks set determined the course of the study, which was carried out in three stages during 2016—2018.
The first stage (December 2016 – February 2017). At this stage, a theoretical analysis of specialized literature was conducted, and the training process in the preparation of athletes was studied. The collection of theoretical and practical material on the research problem has been completed. The subject, object, goal, hypothesis, and objectives of the research were determined.
The second stage (March 2017 – November 2017). The study of theoretical and methodological literature continued. The peculiarities of information perception by athletes were studied taking into account metaprograms.
Third stage (December 2017 – January 2018). During this period, conclusions were made, analysis and processing of the results obtained, their generalization, systematization, and formulation of final results, registration of the final qualifying work were carried out.
As aВ result ofВ this study, aВ group ofВ seven students, who started from scratch inВ early 2016, competed at the IBJJF European Championships inВ Portugal inВ January 2018 and brought back one gold (among blue belts) and one bronze medal (among white belts).
Chapter 1.
NLP and training
1.1. BJJ and Rapport
The development ofВ modern BJJ is moving forward rapidly. The emergence ofВ new techniques, access toВ the Internet, universal digitalization, the expansion ofВ experience, which must be transferred as quickly and efficiently as possible inВ training processes, pose new challenges toВ BJJ. Everyone around is concerned about effective learning, namely the assimilation ofВ new information. Specialists inВ this area are engaged, whose task is toВ find the most effective assimilation. And each BJJ academy is considering new ways toВ address this; however, there is still no universal solution. Depending on the viewpoint ofВ the academy, the emphasis inВ the training process is on different approaches.
I want to draw the attention of professors and heads of academies to the use of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) technologies in teaching BJJ. The use of NLP ideas makes it possible to implement both a general and an individual approach to students, which has recently become very popular and practiced. The task is complicated by the fact that it is necessary to identify the leading channel of perception, which, accordingly, will open up opportunities for determining the most effective ways of receiving information for each person. Then it will allow you to create and implement a universal approach to students, taking into account their different representative systems and metaprograms. As a rule, learning has always been associated with mental ability, while limiting only to the distinctness of thinking. We will take into account various processes of the psyche, specifically memory, the speed of decision-making, motivation, etc. To assess the trainees, we will use indicators such as the progress speed, initiative, efficiency, the adaptation speed in new conditions. We are going to focus on the individual characteristics of students – imagination, attention, memory, and thinking.
There is a very important element here, which is, one might say, key in the relationship between students and the Professor. It’s all about rapport.
Rapport is the state ofВ two or more people who enter into mental confidence inВ one other. Leading another person is aВ type ofВ influence inВ which the behavior ofВ one person causes aВ certain behavior inВ another. For example, someone on the team begins toВ actively and confidently behave and sets the tone, and this passes on toВ the rest ofВ the team. This situation is very effective inВ team sports competitions.
Where there is rapport, people act as a single mechanism, and everything is interconnected. It’s like a clock. Imagine a stream of cars on a freeway – everyone drives fast, orderly, and trusts each other. Or as a dancing couple, where a full rapport is established between partners, a man leads and a woman completely trusts him! The professor explains the technique, and all students trust him and repeat one to one, honing their skills. People who are in rapport are said to be on the same wavelength.
The creation ofВ rapport is the creation ofВ such aВ resonance between people, which will be primarily conscious and subject toВ control when achieving specific goals.
This so-to-say joint voyage will result inВ trust. Trust is present where people are alike inВ their ideas, interests, and, ofВ course, inВ their conduct. Oddly enough, the more people are alike, the more trust there is! After all, aВ person most ofВ all trusts himself first.
There are various tools to achieve rapport between a professor and their students, but we will learn to adjust to representative systems and metaprograms or teach in a way that takes into account each student’s representative systems and metaprograms. Establishing rapport is the most important component in the BJJ training process!
1.2. Sense organs as ways toВ perceive information
Have you ever wondered how a person receives, stores, and encodes information entering their brain? It is the representative systems that help him in this. In the scientific world, experts in this field use different definitions of this term – channel of perception, sensory modality.
There are three representative systems inВ the NLP and three groups ofВ people that are formed according toВ the degree ofВ predominance inВ perception:
• visual learners, with a predominant visual system;
• auditory learners, with a predominant auditory system;
• kinesthetic learners, with a predominant kinesthetic system.
Any person receiving information from the outside world uses their senses, which are the so-called stimuli. With their help, the final understanding of what is happening around is formed. Specifically, we are talking about sight, hearing, taste, smell, and tactile sense. All information that a person accepts is systematized. The human brain assigns them its specific code, gives meaning, and displays it already in the form of feelings, emotions, speech, movements, etc. This is how our individual “experience” is formed – a representation of the perceived surrounding world. Inside we have the equivalents of each of these five senses, which add up to a “mirror: system. With the help of these equivalents, we remember, think, and visualize.
As aВ result, two main goals need toВ be achieved:
1) draw the student’s attention to the information that is being presented;
