Improving On the Ground

[sk0t]

For all you BJJ Gurus...

What do you think is the best way to improve your game. I want to hear something more than just "Roll More".

[Rio]

Well, aside from rolling, you could do the following:

-work drills (armbar, triangle, and sweeps)

-don't just look for the sweep or submission, look at how it sets you up to transition into another sweep or submission.

-make sure you always have 3 points of control over your opponent. Preferrably 4.

-practice shrimping.....the movement really helps in regaining guard.

-wear those wraparound leg weights while practicing guard techniques.

But the best way to improve your guard game.....is to work your guard every time you roll. There are no shortcuts around hard work and training.

[SubGrappler]

You may not want to hear it, but you've already got the answer to your own question.

Nothing will enable you to improve better than quality training time. Just be sure that your training sessions have a purpose and that you're not just mindlessly rolling around. Always have a particular technique you're trying to work on each time you train, whether it be a submission, sweep, guard pass, whatever.

[h2whoa]

For all you BJJ Gurus...

What do you think is the best way to improve your game. I want to hear something more than just "Roll More".

Practice more, learn a new movement at the beggining of every week, and train that all week or for as long as it takes you to be able to pull it off!!

[TJS]

Practicing technique against a non resisting opponet

repetion drills.such as arm bar..hip bump drills.

Limited scope drills..such as mount escape drills

Free rolling against a wide range of opponets..both above and below your technical level.

[h2whoa]

Practicing technique against a non resisting opponet

What do you learn from this?

[SubGrappler]

You learn how to do the move.

First thing is first- you need to know what it is that you're trying to do. You cant put everything together on someone who keeps fighting you. That is the initial part of learning the technique.

It works like this:

Practice on a nonresisting opponent to figure out what you're trying to do with what parts of your body.

When you get comfortable with that, your training partner starts to add a little resistance and you try this in situational drills (i.e. I start with the position and when I say go, I try to make the move work while you try to defend and ecape it). This is the next step in learning the move

Finally, the last test is actually being able to pull the technique off in a full out sparring session- being able to get to the position on your own and make it work against a fully resisting opponent

That is what TJS was implying. You are correct if you were to ONLY practice a technique against a non resisting opponent you'd end up with lots of techniques that you'd never be any good at.