Jay Jack

Like shaping, like that's what it is.

It's a constraints letter for like, you're letting the dog discover a thing rather than like showing them a thing.

And then it hit me the way that a lot of people teach martial arts is like luring, like you're luring the dog into it.

You're giving them the answer.

Yes, yes, yes.

la is just shaping and i was like oh shit like i had never considered i had never looked at the framework like that and then like honestly there's this thing in my gym now when i'm talking about drilling because people have a really hard time uh people have a really hard time uh drilling effectively because they slip into now the language i use is the language of of the game now i'm like is it a competitive game or a non-competitive game yeah

Like, is it competitive or non-competitive?

And I had never thought of it like that because the point of certain forms of drilling is to be non-competitive.

We need it to be hard and useful, but it's not competitive.

If I'm giving resistance, I'm giving the resistance that lets you do it well, not trying to make you not do it.

But when we're drilling in certain ways, I'm not letting you arm bar me.

I'm trying to stop you.

That's competitive.

Right, right, right.

but having that language of like having that language of hey guys you're slipping into competition this is supportive this is not competitive because the words i use are supportive and competitive not like instead of competitive non-competitive i try to say supportive because it puts people in a better mind frame of like not supporting this thing i'm not competing with this thing yeah but now i use that language in the gym i'm like listen you guys are slipping out of supportive and into competitive and they're like oh yeah yeah sorry sorry you know what i mean that's so cool but i'm

And nothing good comes out of it ever.

They get stuck.

That same thing happens in martial arts.

People will, you know, people will be practicing this punch in a certain way or whatever.

And they're like, they're not really trying to hit anybody.