Remembering Techniques!

[dave3006]

I received my Shodan in Shotokan. The fact that I could train on my own 7 days a week enabled me to progress. Self training made my class training 1000x better.

I only train two days a week in BJJ. I self train every day on my own. Buy a grappling dummy. Get a book series like Machado encyclopedia and start at move #1. Drill that move for 5 minutes. Move to the next one. Do this every day for 45 minutes. It will make your game better. I guarrantee it. I am a purple belt and it works just like kata and kihon drills you would do on your own. I can't tell you the number of times in class a move "just happened" that I had practiced earlier in the day on the dummy.

[UseoForce]

What dummy do u have?

[AndrewGreen]

I only train two days a week in BJJ. I self train every day on my own. Buy a grappling dummy. Get a book series like Machado encyclopedia and start at move #1. Drill that move for 5 minutes. Move to the next one.

I'm going to partially disagree here...

Select the moves you are going to drill daily a little more carefully then working through a book.

For the next few months worry about 1 move, possibly 2 for some, from each position. Make yourself a little chart if you like, Basically this is what you need:

Mounted - Bridge and Roll

Sidemounted - Elbow escape

guard - Scissor Sweep (Ignore submissions from guard for now, learn to position yourself first and no matter what anyone tells you, if you are on your back you are in a inferior position)

In Guard - Arm under pass

On mount - Arm bar, cross face and grap the tricep to set up

On the back - rear Naked

Side mount - Get to mount

Turtle - Sit out (and avoid getting mounted using elbows)

That's 8 techniques on the ground, add a double leg, hip throw, sprawl, digging for underhooks and that brings it up to 12...

Work those 12 things and when you're sparring go for them. Once you can reliably do all of them on guys with a month or 2 experience then think about adding more.

Key thing is those techniques will cover most of your basic movements, once you got them others will come much easier.

[dave3006]

http://www.trainingdummies.com/delux.shtml

I have the above dummy. I bought the dummy unfilled and filled it myself. The more expensive version they sell is too stiff in the legs.

There are many ways to progress. For a newbie, the plan suggested by Andrew makes sense. I have been rolling for years. My way works for me.

Bottom line - do what works for you. I was lucky enough to train under Rickson in the early 90's. He would always say "take the move your opponent gives you. Not the one you want to take."

The dummy works for me.

[UseoForce]

flow with the go

[BJJ is 1]

flow with the go

The world would be a better place if everyone watched "Choke"

In Guard - Arm under pass

The problem here is getting triangled

[dave3006]

When you think about buying a training dummy, you feel stupid. When, you actually buy it, you know you are stupid. When you first start using it, you feel like the term stupid is just not strong enough for the silly thing you are doing.

When you catch someone in a leg lock you practiced all morning on your stupid dummy and have never before done on a resisting human being, you feel good.

I guess I would rather feel stupid at home than at class.

[TheAnimal]

aside from things like shadowboxing and drills (which really dont work without a partner in bjj) all i can do is visualize, which i do often. i just think, have imaginary fights or rolls, and think of what i should do so that its that much more ingrained into my memory. it helps a little, i think... in fact, every now and then i think of something and say "man, all those imaginary fights and all i had to do was this!"