The Art of Teaching BJJ – Finding balance between Order and Chaos by Wim Deputter

The day I started truly learning Jiu Jitsu, was the day I gave my first private…

“If you want to master something, teach it.

The more you teach, the better you learn.

Teaching is a poweful tool to learning – Richard Feynman”

Once gym’s reopen, I’m going to implement this concept more in my own classes.

I was always allergic to overstructured classes.
Too much order destroys creativity. (wim deputter)
You need creativity for progress and to make an activity fun to begin with.

Too much chaos however will also halt progress as it lacks direction.

If you keep walking circles in the forest, you will never reach an edge.
You need to reach an edge to be able to appreciate the forest as a whole.

Understanding the bigger picture gives you more appreciation for the smaller parts of the system.

Beginners need more order, advanced practicioners in any field need more chaos. Classes should always reflect that.

It’s my (untested) believe that this will also follow the pareto principle; more or less, beginners need 80% of your class structured and guided, 20% free exploring and experts vice versa with gradations in between.

Order needs chaos and chaos needs order. (wim deputter)

But, if I had to choose between one of the other, I would always choose chaos.

Out of chaos you still have good things randomly happen and some degree of order emerges naturally.

Structured chaos as an ideal. (wim deputter)

Just a few months ago I did a podcast with Sonny Brown of The Sonny Brown Breakdown
where we talked about the topic of “Order and Chaos“, among other things. Feel free to check this podcast over here: The Mirroring Principle and Controlled Chaos for Learning