I prefer a short, focused overview of the technique in question

Ooo, the second part of that sounds especially appealing, as the chest beating frat boy covidiot humble lion bullshit is why I can't stomach watching a lot of the DDS people. However, I'm not convinced it is entirely Danaher's fault that a number of his top guys seem to be such arseholes. After all, Danaher ALSO produced at least two black belts who are awesome human beings and excellent instructors, Aaron Milam and Jeff Knight. As three of you have recommended Glick now, I'll check him out. I'm assuming Glick is therefore more like Aaron and Jeff, as opposed to like Gordon Ryan? And thanks for the video! Another classic example of BJJ terminology being totally non-standardised. I've used that escape for years (except unsurprisingly I don't do for a leg lock set up, I go to butterfly guard), but I've always called it 'bump to butterfly', or simply 'mount escape to butterfly'. Does everybody call it the kipping escape and I'm way behind the curve? ;) http://www.slideyfoot.com[...]0Butterfly

Funny I study my game.. Because I am an ego maniac and really love me and am my own best friend.. Honestly I get more out of studying my own game looking for tendencies, flaws and seeing how my body is actually dealing with injury and age.. In my mind I am one thing and in video another. When I get done screaming obscenties about how bad i suck at the screen I regroup and analyze I find the helps ME as I know a shit load of techniques already and have a game that because of years in and injuries is not going to really evolve or change radically. My goal is to get tighter, refine and simplify. So tiny corrections seem to help me far more than new things. I watch instructional of teachers I like in the hopes of getting better at verbalizing and breaking down techniques better.. Funny thing is I dislike Danhers videos because I get bored. I know he is a great teacher but he talks a lot and that is a habit I don't want to pick as I try to make things more simplistic

I'm in awe of instructors that have complete games and can teach pretty much anything.

I'm also a massive narcissist and love looking at videos of myself. :P In all seriousness, I agree: recording yourself sparring is really useful for working out gaps in your game and how to improve. The same is true in terms of watching videos of yourself teaching. You can see if you're talking too much, too fast, are you being articulate, did you miss any details etc. I will watch the video of myself teaching a technique before I teach it again, really useful, I find.

Kipping mount escape? Interesting, are there any vids? is that literally what it sounds like, trying to fling yourself straight up?

I’ve watched plenty of my own instructional videos, and made improvements in that format but never thought to record a group class or private with the intention to study and improve that type of teaching. Great idea!

I've never been good at watching instructionals in the sense of full-on DVD releases. I prefer a short, focused overview of the technique in question, and then going and trying it out myself. Youtube is usually my first and last port of call. Especially since I've been looking almost exclusively at standup stuff for the past two years or so. Between Judo, Sambo, and wrestling, there's just so much solid stuff online entirely for free. - Travis Stevens - Shintaro Higashi - Cary Kolat - Vlad Koulikov - Ivan Vasylchuk (Sila Partera) - Steve Scott (Welcome Mat) Plus countless random French/Italian/Korean etc. guys showing pretty much any throw variation you can think to search for. Sometimes I'll get a decent tip from a ten-year old video with 24 views.

I can highly recommend, it makes a big difference. Along with getting to analyse your teaching, it's also an easy way of building up regular social media content. I do a quick edit on the teaching vids to get them down to a minute, then put them up on Instagram every day with the school schedule for that day, cross-posting from Instagram to Twitter and Facebook. E.g.: https://www.instagram.com[...]rtemisbjj/

Ooo, the second part of that sounds especially appealing, as the chest beating frat boy covidiot humble lion bullshit is why I can't stomach watching a lot of the DDS people. However, I'm not convinced it is entirely Danaher's fault that a number of his top guys seem to be such arseholes. After all, Danaher ALSO produced at least two black belts who are awesome human beings and excellent instructors, Aaron Milam and Jeff Knight. As three of you have recommended Glick now, I'll check him out. I'm assuming Glick is therefore more like Aaron and Jeff, as opposed to like Gordon Ryan? And thanks for the video! Another classic example of BJJ terminology being totally non-standardised. I've used that escape for years (except unsurprisingly I don't do for a leg lock set up, I go to butterfly guard), but I've always called it 'bump to butterfly', or simply 'mount escape to butterfly'. Does everybody call it the kipping escape and I'm way behind the curve? ;) http://www.slideyfoot.com[...]0Butterfly