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STEP 3 - Establish Age Groups. The lesson plans for the next eight weeks are equally applicable to the same age groups. We recommend classes divided into the following age ranges:

Kids - 7 to 11 years old 

Teens - 12 to 15 years old

Adults - 16 years old and up

STEP 4 - Class Structure: The following times allocation are a suggestion for a lesson that last from 50 to 60 minutes. Practice time management by using a clock or timer as you train and teach:

5 -10 min --- Active Warm Up: Running, calisthenics, solo & duo drills, etc...

7-10 min --- Drill 1: Select a single move to teach and ask for one, five, or even ten repetitions per individual. Set a five minutes on the timer for this drill. Ideally, practice a move that was covered in a prior session on this section. 

Remind the students some will do more reps, some less and good work-ethic is imperative.

7-10 min --- Drill 2: Select a single move to teach and ask for one, five, or even ten repetitions per individual switching back and forth. Set five minutes on the timer for this drill. Ideally, practice a move that was covered in a prior session on this section. 

10 min --- Positional Sparring: Allow students to get mixed up to experience difference partners and opportunities of success. Ask them to spar starting from the position(s) studied previously in the same class. 

For example: If you taught a sweep or a guard pass, Start the students from the closed guard position and ask them to advance territory or pursue a submission. If you taught a submission from the mount, for example, start the students from the front mounted position and ask the top player to pursue the submission and the bottom player to defend and escape from the mount. 

Once the starting position is no longer configured, restart from the same position again. 

Enforce short rounds of 1 minute switching positions among the students (top to bottom and bottom to top) and mixing partners. 

1 - 2 min --- Water Break

20-20 min --- Final Destination Sparring: For a group of beginners, it is recommend that sparring start from the knees to avoid injury as it takes a long time to master break falls and perfect execution of takedowns. 

As Luta Livre has thousands of techniques just like an enormous puzzle, beginner students can easily get lost and deviate from the lessons they took thus not making sense of the learning process. 

It is important to build a spinal cord or give the students a compass to orient them during sparring. 

The objective of the grappling arts is to obtain control of the opponent and that can be definitively achieved from the mount positions (front and back). Curiously, those are the positions athletes get the highest score in grappling tournaments (4 points) and are allowed to "stall"- thus the mounts are known as the Final Destination. Enforce rounds of 2-3 minutes. If someone secures front mount or backpack for 3 defunds, ask the students to restart from the knees.

Ending --- Lineup the students as you currently do at your school for some words of encouragement, a quick review of the names of the moves studied and to bow.