I know that I get BJJ books like the rubber guard one. And read it and immediately started using the stuff in practice. I had to go back and reference some stuff, but I could immediately use it. One of my friend borrowed the book and read it. Then he gave it back to me saying that it was too confusing.
I always figured it had something to do with reading comprehension and the way you process information. I defer to others on that point but I know this is not the first time it happened to me in similar circumstances.
Yeah definitely. I always wondered about that too. Even though the instructor on a video is explaining things, for some reason I learn a lot better out of a book.
I never learned much from “text books”, but I learn from watching films/videos or listening to stuff. I like regular books though. @the other other serge, actually I have two friends who dance pole, one does it as a hobby and the other one works in an artistic circus (she mainly focuses on rope).
I wonder if he watched that stuff and could hit it or he had to struggle and find stuff out on his own like “we do” during rolling.
Videos are cool too, but I always find myself focusing on the wrong stuff. Like I will get annoyed by someone coughing a lot. Or weird shadows in the back ground. Or eventually I zone out.
I think I learn better from the books to because of the different methods of precessing information. You can look at the pictures, then read the text, then look at the pictures again, and then do it.
I think it was named for Evan Tanner because he is the one that everyone always brings up to show that it is possible to learn from books and videos and still retain the information enough to use the skills on an elite level.
I don’t think it should be the Evan Tanner Exception because there is no reason to believe that he is one of the only ones that can do this. He is not the exception to the rule, he is the representation of the rule.
Plus it would be cool to do in honor of him since he died.
Videos and books trigger different parts of the brain, and it gets down to individual preferences, rather than one is better than the other.
Myself, a video is useful if it has few distractions-as Diesel mentions- and the camera angles make a huge difference in absorbing information. Also, it always helps if there are Zebra mats or somethng like that on the floor. This way I can watch where the demonstrator’s feet are. Like, why doesn’t someone use a grid on the floor?
With books you can contemplate a static image and it is less distracting as there isn’t movement and sound etc. You really have to “fill-in” the steps between what they’ve shown and that brings up a particular sort of mental visualization.
An interesting study I saw was Scientists set peeps into a brain MRI scanner and for an untrained person they played music: the scan showed activity in mostly the right side (“artistic/spatial side”) of the brain and slot of scatters signals elsewhere. Then they’d put a musician in and the scan results were almost the same as if the musician was playing the piece. Very specific and as they put more musicians into the test, they found that there was a similarity from one subject to the next; whereas with the non-trained people it would vary greatly from person to person.
This would underscore how Tanner was teaching himself something incredibly specific and in depth.
Huh, that’s pretty interesting. And makes a lot of since.
I noticed the same thing and always thought that about grids on the floors. Similarly, if a book is done half ass and everything is black and white, with the same color Gis; forget about it. Too hard to learn from that.
“Don’t go in the fucking desert alone for the first time if you don’t have a clue as to how to survive in the desert or know what the hell you’re doing.”