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Competitive 2 Person Drilling

We’ve talked about solo drills and partner drills. There is a final category of drills I’d like to talk about: compet...

Two-Person Drills

Two-person drills are important training methods to develop skills on the mat. They can be used to warm up at the beg...

Some Examples of Solo Drills

When solo grappling drills are used properly they can improve a grappler’s coordination, endurance, strength and spee...

Three Types of Drills

As some of you might know, I’ve released a video on drills for submission grappling and Brazilian jiu-jitsu (subtle m...

More Sleeping

I recently wrote about how the first part of training is actually sleeping.  Even though I’m writing this in the midd...

“The First Part of Training is the Sleeping”

I had a nagging sinus cold for most of December. Right after Christmas, and just in time to ruin New Years Eve, this ...

One Simple Tip for Surviving the Smother

There’s nothing worse than tapping out to a smother. It is one thing to get caught in a nice technical choke and havi...

Targeted Sparring Concluded: Bad Positions

In this last installment on fine-tuning your sparring time I would like to talk about starting your sparring sessions...

Targeted Sparring: Limited Techniques.

A good way to get more out of your sparring sessions is to limit the techniques you can use. As has been pointed out ...

Targeted Sparring: Position

A ‘position game’ is usually characterized by tight transitions between positions, an emphasis on maintaining a posit...

Targeted Sparring: Mobility

Sometimes it’s good to just go and roll, with no plans, no goals and see what happens. You will make faster progress,...

Mobility and Position

There are two basic games in grappling: the ‘mobility game’ and the ‘position game’. The mobility game is based on sp...
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