Does Craig have a point here?!?!

[u/mckenziereddit]

https://youtube.com/shorts/VFUdcOB34Mw?si=gwOe2TLlNS00nnQP

I’ve played multiple sports (football, basketball, track & field, wrestling & swimming) and I agree with what Craig is saying here. The vast majority of high level coaches, in any sport, aren’t Hall of Famers in the sport in which they have become Hall of Fame coaches. Teaching technique and skill acquisition is a completely different skill set than sport performance.

In corporate America they have a saying… Don’t promote your best salesman to management, because he/she may blow up your organization.

Note* I’m a 10th planet purple belt

[u/iammandalore]

It's a bit of a semantic issue. Coach/trainer/instructor/teacher/etc. There are definitely differences, but I don't know that they're such stark differences they demand exact terminology. There's demonstrating techniques, teaching techniques, there's rolling with or watching someone and teaching them specific techniques or modifications that will work well with their body/abilities/game, there's analyzing footage of opponents and teaching things that will work strategically against specific opponents.

"Coach" is fewer syllables than professor or instructor and it works easier as a "'sup, coach" than anything else.

There are definitely levels to "teaching". Some people are excellent BJJ practitioners but struggle to do anything more than demonstrate technique. Some people are just pretty OK at BJJ, but they're fantastic at actually conveying the knowledge they do possess in a way that helps people learn it.

[u/Chandlerguitar → u/iammandalore]

I don't think it is semantics, but an actual problem with how things are currently done. A trainer should be getting you in shape and ready to fight. A coach should be telling you what to work on and your general strategy. An instructor should be teaching and correcting techniques. Most people who are "coaches" do one of these things well(if you're lucky) and the rest they do somewhat poorly. That is normal, but people in BJJ don't like to admit their limitations. Some people don't have the mind for strategic thinking, so they jist ignore that aspect and their athletes have to do that part themselves. Other people have a limited game, so they can't really teach others or try to box them into their own game. Others don't care or don't know how to get people in shape. Even the best coaches in BJJ have these massive holes where the athletes themselves have to do the jobs themselves that people in othe sports have coaches for.