Blog 20: Exit Interview

Content:

(1) What is your essential question and answers?  What is your best answer and why?

-My EQ is, "How can Gracie Jiu-Jitsu best train a fighter to 'Not Lose' in a sparring session? My three succeeding answers are Gracie Jiu JItsu can best train a fighter to 'Not Lose' in a sparring session by giving the fighter knowledge to control the fight from the ground or the proper transitions to stand up. My next answer would be By teaching the fighter a core curriculum of Gracie Combatives. My final answer is by emphasising debriefs and reflections after sparring sessions. Out of all these answers I would say that my second answer is the best.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

-I actually came up with this answer through all things Gracie that I have experienced through my senior project. My mentorship IS this program. My mentor and fellow practitioners have all expressed their concern with keeping a simplified arsenal of moves you will use in fights or spars and so when I learned, I kept in my mind can I use it? is it practical? Many research articles kept an emphasis of basics and the improved training with such. I then realized that from my past years in Kajukenbo as well that basics were key in order to progress to more "fancy" moves. However many moves i learned, when i was in dire need i used my basics which were the moves i was most comfortable with and in the end are what are most effective.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

-Gracie Jiu-Jitsu specific research was very hard to find. As i continued my research i broadened my research to Jiu-JItsu only sources and that aided me very much so. Because Gracie Jiu-Jitsu is only a certain sect of an art that family created, i figured the research would be similar, and it in fact was. 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
-Two most significant sources would be for one the Master Text of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu written by Helio Gracie himself. In it it included philosophy and techniques that he held dear and thought were crucial to learn as basics. My second source for my own improvement would be mentorship and the interviews of such knowledgeable fighters. A martial arts book has to be very formalized and standardized in order for it to become academically understood however, when learning you cannot connect the same way you do with a book than hands on face to face with another more experience being.

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Statement saying: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
-"I Bryan Posada, affirm that I have completed my Independent Component which represents 30 hours of work."
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component
-"My whole Independent Component was to train; become a better fighter to understand my EQ better and thus gain more understanding for my answers and my project overall. For training, I learn through both my CTC (Certified Training Center) and through my collection of Gracie Combatives lessons. The main difference between my 1st Independent Component and this one is that now I have been studying through Gracie University, an Online database that includes Blue belt instruction. Slowly, my mentor/instructor Jorge has been granting me access to higher level techniques that is only granted to higher level students. In all Mentorship combined with Gracie Combatives and Gracie University have been my training reptuars.
(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log.
-DONE SON
(d) Explanation of what you completed
-Basically, its how I said it in 'b' All I did was train. Much of what I learned in Gracie University were actually takedowns and stand up techniques. The beginner white belt curriculum usually doesn't teach these because the Gracie's want the learner to gain pure knowledge of basics before developing crooked reflexes. For Gracie Combatives DVDs, all i did was put on the DVD and listen to Ryron and Rener teach a regular Combatives course step by step. I used these for clarification and simply knowing what was right and wrong.

INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

(I WILL POST RIGHT NOW)

APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
-Well a lot of what I struggled with was this time sticking to basics. iwrote in my isearch paper that this was key inorder to learn more advanced techniques however i was being hypocritical and whenever i had the chance i learned more advanced stuff i wasnt know yet and probably wasnt supposed to know and taught myself. I made myself make bad habits and in doing so I made simple mistakes whenever i sparred. Everytime i was in guard i tried to go into butterfly guard and i was susceptible to being mounted. Then when i was typing this respose to my i search i realized my mistakes and grew from it.