BJJ and Learning Styles

I'm reading Ken Robinson's Finding Your Element, and he talks briefly about Learning Styles and it made me think about BJJ and learning, and he's right. You need to know your learning style and gravitate towards it.

I remember I was paired with Brown Chris, who was a Purple Belt at the time. He's super-nice, helpful, small-statured, weighs about 130, and he's always injured so he can't really roll that hard. Anyway, Black Chris was showing a technique and I was surprised that Chris, a Purple, didn't pick up all the steps to the move. At the time, I thought, like an idiot, that he was not that smart. I was wrong. He has a different way of learning. He was more hands-on, rather than visual or aural.

VARK -- visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic ... I'm all of these, except aural. Because I have bad hearing. I'm a strong read/write learner, and equally visual and kinesthetic, but I'm going to take the online test and see for sure.

The VARK Questionnaire Results Your scores were: Visual: 10 Aural: 3 Read/Write: 15 Kinesthetic: 11 As I suspected.