Learning to teach using ecological methodology

Hello hello,

I am opening an academy in Fiji (Fiji's second gym). I've been quite dissatisfied with the traditional teaching methods used in most academies; i.e. warm up, demonstrate, drill, (positional) spar. And for many years whenever I would give classes I'd try to break out of this mould anyway I could.

I recently discovered this whole ecological jiujitsu movement (fad? phase? revolution? insert whatever term you wish), and it has peaked my interest. So I thought why not experiment on my unsuspecting students. I decided to write a blog about my 'journey' opening an academy and trying to implement ecological methodology (whatever that means), because I'm old school and can't abide all this short video content slop.

https://ecologicalgrappling.com/starting-an-ecological-jiujitsu-academy-what-and-why-is-this-blog/