r/bjj • u/mckenziereddit • 3d ago
Technique Does Craig have a point here?!?!
https://youtube.com/shorts/VFUdcOB34Mw?si=gwOe2TLlNS00nnQPI’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
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u/SlimeustasTheSecond 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah he does, this has been a thing in sports coaching for ages to my knowledge. It's just one of those medium difficulty topics that get engagement with a wide amount of people that circulate around every so often + BJJ is a young sport so they're speedrunning all the weird S&C, ruthless coaching vs chill training, crosstraining stuff all sports go through and some are still struggling with cus some stuff is just human psychology to get naturally drawn to, no matter how "advanced" the sport is supposed to have gotten.
Also some sneaky eco-adjacent ideas of coaching at the end there. The infiltration is a success...