Master of Memory: Accelerated learning, education, memorization - MMem 0361: Memorizing jiu-jitsu moves

Episode Date: July 27, 2015

Jay asks about memorizing jiu-jitsu moves. How do you apply mnemonics to memorizing motions? What do you want to learn? Leave your question at http://MasterOfMemory.com/. Music credit: Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet, 2nd movement, performed by the US Army Band.

Master of Memory 361 Welcome to Master of Memory. I'm Timothy and I'm here to answer your accelerated learning questions every day and to inspire and empower you to learn anything you want to learn faster than ever. Jay submitted a written question at masterofmemory.com slash question. Jay says, I just started taking jujitsu and there are a series of moves to memorize in order to master the technique. I was wondering if you had a talked about memorizing motions before. Essentially, you want to put something into your body.

You want to put some sort of memorable position into your body in a way that's external to just the move itself. You want to make it really memorable. So what I would suggest is having your body doing these moves in different places in a memory palace. It could be your house. It could be any other tangible place that you've actually been. And you can remember doing different things in different rooms in that palace. So I want you to list out your most important moves by category. So maybe you have

one room for, for example, the submission holds, and you have another room for another kind of hold or another kind of move. I don't know enough about it, but I have some examples for a few of these. So you'll organize your different categories of moves into different rooms and make sure, first of all, that you can think of the right rooms for each move when it's named. So, for example, you can remember that all submission holds are in the kitchen. Just go ahead and have all those categories and all those rooms listed out. Next, you want to create motion mnemonics, like I'll describe, for each one in its location. So if you use the kitchen in a friend's house for all of your submission holds, you'll have maybe one side of the kitchen for all joint locks and the other side for all chokes. So let's come up with some examples for these.

On the joint locks side, you might have an arm bar. You're doing an arm bar, but you're doing it with a table leg. And you're doing it with perfect form and everything, but you're doing it with a table leg in that kitchen. What's going to happen is when you think of the arm bar, you'll remember that it's in the kitchen, so it's a submission hold. And so it fits into the category with all of these other holds and so on. You'll also remember that it's on the joint lock side. And then maybe on the choke side, you do a rear naked choke with a paper towel holder that has no paper towels on it. If your friend's house and their kitchen happens to have a paper towel holder.

So you'll think of the word naked from the fact that it doesn't have paper towels on it. And you'll do the rear naked choke with that paper towel holder in the correct position and everything like that, so you'll always remember that. Then maybe you can do a triangle choke with your legs around the toaster, and to remember that that's a triangle choke, you can imagine triangular toast popping out of the toaster, and so you'll just easily remember that your legs are around the toaster that way, but you'll also remember that it happens to be the triangle choke from the fact that the toast is popping out as triangles, and again, you'll remember that it falls into the submission holds category from where it is in the palace. Those are my suggestions

from some brief research, and I'd be happy to collaborate with you further on this, Jay, if you want to send me a message, respond to the email that we sent you about getting your question featured here on the show, and I'd also love to see an iTunes review from you if you can do that. For everyone listening, what do you want to learn? The world's knowledge can be yours. Leave your learning request at masterofmemory.com slash question, and I'll talk to you again soon.