Basic Jiu-Jitsu

You will never be better than your basics.
-Charles Cthulhu

The basics curriculum is a long term set of training sessions, typically taking two or more years to complete. Grapplers are required to learn a fixed set of strategies in each of the major areas of competition–standing game, guard game, mount game, and so on. The focus of each strategy is on fundamental skill development, with depth of learning given precedence over breadth. The point of having such structured training is to accelerate a beginner’s learning in areas which are, after all, so fundamental that everyone must go through them regardless of individual differences.

Another key aspect of the basic curriculum is helping grapplers learn how to learn, training them to train. People not only learn the basic strategies, but how to build their own strategies, so that even while they’re learning a fixed (basic) curriculum, they are being primed to become active learners, capable of generating their own personal curriculum when they move on to advanced jiu-jitsu training.