Blog 22: Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Block Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
-So what i am most proud of in my Senior presentation is that i was able to make an activity from my thirty minute...that only pertained to my first answer, and develop it i not an activity that had connection into every one of my answers. In the end i believe that my main point for reflex and impulse in a fight was proven correct through my activity and it showed the audience my reasoning.


(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Block Presentation (self-assessment)?

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b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

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(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
-For me what worked was making connections. In research, I had to find the core values of Gracie Jiu JHiutsu and use what i found as a model for my GJJ research. I had the trouble of finding sources and so when I lost specific Gracie sources that pertained to my topic, i had to use their core beliefs and find even more research and use only the ones that reflected GJJ.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?
-So for me what probably didn't work would be the action of my activity. I assumed that it would take more time due to the struggle people had in West house in my 30 minute but surprisingly most people got it fairly easy. Other than that, my lecture went well and my slides worked too. Nothing other than that.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.
 -So as I mentioned in my lecture i have two products that i am most proud of and make me take action into the community. In my own Senior Project and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, i am currently filming evaluations to receive my blue belt. From that accolade, i can officially teach in class and am a quarter of the way done to becoming a a black belt. My second product goes back to my roots, Kajukenbo. When i left my studio to learn Kajukenbo i was a junior black belt and my professor called me a junior black belt. I hope to return and teach the students what i learned in jiu-jitsu and become a jiu-jitsu specific instructor and assistant in that school. I have a tournament for Kajukenbo in July in which i will participate in Jiu-Jitsu qualifying. My overall universal product would be respect and brotherhood. Through my project i learned that a fight can be instantaneous. that a fight should not be to show dominance but to survive and it is with that that i valued the fighters right next to me. Sure we can beat each other up and have rivalries on the mat but out there, in the real world is weher it counts. Its in the real world where a fight doesn't have to stop and its why i learned to respect and protect those that need it.

Blog 21: Mentorship

Content:

LIA Response to blog:

    Literal

·     Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog

-I will not be able to complete my fully amount of mentorship until Thursday. The completed log will be posted then.

·     Contact Name and Mentorship Place

-Jorge Balares of La Puente Gracie Combatives

    Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

-So what I value most of mentorship is applying all that I have learned through my research. Philosophy that I learned in my beginning stages of mentorship was able to be applied in my beginning stages and thus it helped me become a better fighter. Throughout this senior project with mentorship I have been able to spar with a more focused mind and apply all that I've learned through books and interpret that in my actions.

   Applied

     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

- Books can only take you so far, and thankfully I have been able to keep practice at a constant. My EQ of how can Gracie Jiu-Jitsu best train a fighter to 'Not Lose' in a sparring session can only be truely solved through personal experience due to the fact that no book can answer that specific question. In my mentorship, I learn techniques and apply what I learn and that in turn lets me become better at sparring, at reflection, and thus lets me answer my own EQ through my own relations and approved answers.

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.

Blog 18: Third Answer

EQ:

-How can Gracie Jiu-Jitsu best train a fighter to, "Not Lose" in a sparring session?

Answer #3:

-Gracie Jiu-Jitsu can best train a fighter to, "Not Lose" in a sparring session by emphasizing breakdowns and debriefs after sparring sessions.

Three details to support the answer:

-Debriefs help the learner know what worked and what they missed so that way they can apply what they missed next time (Purther's Pentagon and section debrief).

-Receiving a second perspective of your spar provides an unbiased perspective of your fighting and opportunities missed/made (A mentor/coach giving advice from the sidelines of the spar).

-Since sparring is meant for continuous training, repetition of corrections and observations will create a better fighter....gradually (Practice makes perfect).

Research Sources:

-All the Gracie Combatives curriculum emphasises this as I also practice looking back at my spars and reflect with my partner. Technically there is also source number

Concluding Sentence:

-In accordance with the other previous answers given, reflection can be important due to the benefits of learning from mistakes and having another unbiased observer picking out your flaws and your better qualities.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview

Content:

Post 20 open-ended questions for approval you want to ask an expert in the field of your senior project.  The focus of your questions should be on your many answers.
-How can Gracie Jiu-Jitsu best train a fighter to "Not Lose" in a sparring session?
-Why is Gracie Combatives so effective?
-What is Gracie Combatives?
-What is the most useful aspect Gracie Combatives brings to a fighter?
-What is the most important goal for a white belt's training?
-How could you introduce Gracie Jiu-Jitsu to a classroom of people without prior knowledge?
-How does sparring help a fighter?
-Which positional controls should a fighter favor to "Not Lose"
-Why shouldn't a fighter aim to win?
-What is a simple positional control people without experience could learn?
-What is a simple submission people could learn without prior knowledge?
-What are the "Basics" in GJJ
-What is a component of a fight a fighter cannot prepare for and why?
-Which is more important basics or knowing more (fancy moves)?
-What are some of the benefits to knowing fancy moves (butterfly guard rubber guard)
-Which are the best basics to use in a fight?
-Which are the most effective fancy moves?
-Why is a core curiculum of Gracie Combatives so important?
-Why does GJJ require you to learn Gracie Combatives first rather than regular programs?
-Why is Gracie Jiu-JItsu the better option for a Jiu-Jitsu education?

Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

EQ: What is the best way Gracie Jiu-Jitsu can train a fighter to "Not Lose" in sparring session?

Answer 2: Gracie Jiu-Jitsu can best train a fighter to "Not Lose" in a sparring session by being able to give the fighter knowledge of Gracie Combatives.

Gracie Combatives is a program filled with the 36 most used techniques in a fight. (particularly from the UFC and just documented fights)

A simplified core curriculum will give a fighter the knowledge to build faster "smaller" techniques more effectively rather than one slow and intricate complex move (Regular closed guard compared to rubber guard or butterfly guard which are more for show and complex for fighting.

Gracie Combatives provides coverage of all basic positions including stand up, mount, guard and side control so that way, the fighter becomes well rounded and able to fight in any positional control.

Overall, Gracie Combatives can become the answer to having a fighter "Not Lose" in any sparring session. The same intent Rener and Ryron had for their grandfather Helio