Private BJJ Lessons in Modesto | Simplex Motus™
One-on-One • Semi-Private • Beginner • Competition Preparation
Focused Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instruction built around your current game, specific problems, experience level, and goals.
Simplex Motus private training is designed for students who want more individual attention, targeted problem-solving, technical refinement, or focused competition preparation.
Who Private Training Can Help
Beginners
Build the fundamentals in a quieter setting and remove the confusion that makes a first few months feel like guessing.
Hobbyists
Work through the specific problem you keep losing to, and strengthen the areas regular class never slows down long enough to fix.
Competitors
Prepare for scoring situations, positional priorities, tactical problems, and the parts of a match that decide it.
Experienced Grapplers
Refine game development, transitions, mechanics, and the difficult positions that have quietly stopped improving.
Private instruction is an option, not a requirement. Plenty of people improve steadily with regular class alone.
What We Can Work On
A session usually goes deeper on one or two of these than it does wide across many. The most useful starting point is the situation you can already describe from memory because it keeps happening.
- Fundamentals
- Positional escapes
- Guard
- Passing
- Control
- Submissions
- Defensive decision-making
- Standing-to-ground transitions
- Competition strategy
- Specific recurring problems
- Movement efficiency
- Game development
- Technical refinement
- Live positional problem-solving
How Private Training Works
1
Identify the Problem
Start with what you actually want to improve, in your words, using the situations where it keeps going wrong.
2
Understand the Position
Clarify the mechanics, the structure, the available options, and the decision points that change the outcome.
3
Test the Solution
Use drills, positional work, and the right amount of resistance to find out whether the answer holds up.
4
Build Transfer
Connect the session back into regular rolling so the work shows up when nobody is guiding it.
Training Built Around the Student
Private instruction should not simply be the regular class taught to one person. If the only difference is the number of people in the room, most of the value has been left on the table.
The value is the ability to slow down, examine a problem closely, adjust the lesson to the student's body and experience, and spend more time on the decisions that matter most to their game. A frame that works for a taller student may need to be rebuilt for a shorter one. A guard that suits a flexible athlete may be the wrong project entirely for someone else.
That adjustment is the point. The lesson is shaped to the person in front of it rather than the person the curriculum assumed.
One problem, understood properly, changes more than ten techniques half-remembered.
Session Formats
One-on-One Training
Focused individual instruction, entirely built around one student's game, questions, and goals.
Semi-Private Training
Two or a small number of students working on shared goals, with enough resistance available to test the work immediately.
Competition-Focused Private Training
Competition work is less about new techniques and more about decisions: what you are trying to make happen, what you will concede, and what you do when the plan stops working.
- Scoring and how points shape decisions
- Opening strategy
- Match pacing
- Positional priorities
- Difficult positions
- Preparing for a specific problem or style
- Tactical decisions under pressure
- Competition-specific live rounds
Group competition training runs alongside this. See competition training on the classes page.
Private Lessons for Beginners
New students do not need private lessons to start. Some simply prefer a quieter first step, and there is nothing wrong with that.
- Learn the basic positions without the room moving on without you
- Understand the terminology used in class
- Become more comfortable before joining a group session
- Ask the questions that are easier to ask one-on-one
- Build foundational movement and posture
If you would rather begin in a group, start with the regular classes.
Location
Private training takes place in Modesto, California. The exact training location is provided to confirmed students.
Instruction is taught by Max Luong, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor and the author of the Simplex Motus books. The teaching approach is written out across the principles and the books.
Private Training Questions
Do I need BJJ experience?
No. Private sessions work for complete beginners as well as experienced grapplers.
Can beginners book private lessons?
Yes, though it is not required. Beginners improve fine in regular class. A private session is simply a slower, quieter way to start if that suits you better.
Can private training help with competition preparation?
Yes. Sessions can focus on scoring, pacing, positional priorities, difficult positions, and tactical decisions for an upcoming competition.
Can I focus on one specific position?
Yes. Narrow is usually better. One position examined properly tends to produce more change than a broad review.
Where does private training take place?
Modesto, California. The exact training location is provided to confirmed students.
How long is a session?
Session length and scheduling are arranged directly, based on what the work requires and what fits both schedules.
How much does private training cost?
Contact Simplex Motus for current availability and pricing.
Can two people train together?
Yes. Semi-private sessions are available for two or a small number of students working on shared goals.
Private Training
Request Private Training
Include your experience level, your main goal, whether you have a competition coming up, and the days or times that generally work for you. Every message is read personally.