27/05/2026
When you go to grappling training, all your energy should go into practicing your skills.
Doing some random warm up doesn't add anything because:
1. If there is a stimulus, it stops working after just a few sessions without progressive overload.
2. Everyone requires a different stimulus, making everyone do the same thing makes it very hard to get an appropriate stimulus for even a minority of students.
3. It creates fatigue that make it harder to give it their all for the skill building.
Besides that the body doesn't know the difference between running around or doing jiu-jitsu, they're gonna warm up either way.
Basically you're wasting everyone's time.
At Stark we just start with a game that has low potential for injury, something more static or grip fighting for example.
If people are on the mat for 1 hour, they're actually training for one hour.
Thanks for the inspiration
