Our Krav Maga training center’s groundfighting night has been up and running for over two months. The class was started to augment the existing Krav Maga groundfighting curriculum.
After two months of training, I can definitely see a big difference between how students are rolling (wrestling) now and when they first began. Students that were easy to overpower and submit are a lot wiser now and aren’t making the same beginner mistakes.
So... as is the norm... we reviewed techniques from the previous classes before moving on to the newer material. I was surprised to see how many attacking techniques had been learned by the students for the closed guard position. Attacks learned thus far are the straight armbar, Kimura armbar, triangle choke and guillotine choke.
The American psychologist, Edward Thorndike, specified three conditions that maximize learning. One condition is the “Law of Exercise.” This law stated that “stimulus-response associations are strengthened through repetition.” In the Law of Exercise he wrote, “We learn by doing. We forget by not doing, although to a small extent only.” Further, in his theory of learning, he wrote that “the most basic form of learning is trial and error learning.”
So... as is also the norm... we ended the night with the Litmus Test... free rolling. It’s always great to see everyone trying to execute the armbars, chokes and sweeps they’ve learned―over the past several weeks―on resisting opponents.
