How best to structure home practice
Hi GG community,
So happy I pulled the trigger on membership. With such a robust encyclopedia of knowledge I was wondering how you structure home practice? I’m blessed enough to have a family member to train with outside of class and was curious how you would set up home study.
How we’ve been doing it was we would both pick one position and each pick one escape and one attack ahead of time and then do rounds of positional sparring for 4 minutes each and then free roll afterwards.
It’s been fun but would love to hear input of some more experienced players (we’re both only blue), and how best to incorporate Grapplers Guide in a structured way.
Thanks for any insight!
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I have had gg for a while now and find it to be helpful.
Made a commitment to spend an hour every week working with the content.
I created my own course lists with the titles "pass", "escape", "sub", "open guard", etc . I add videos to each category that I'm interested in and try to view them repeatedly depending what I am working on in class.
Thinking about getting a grappling dummy, I’m a new white belt with three months Experience I’m training 4-5 hours a week and have my first competition in December. Does anyone else thing this would be Beneficial.
caseyspace1, post: 63210, member: 35985
Thinking about getting a grappling dummy, I’m a new white belt with three months Experience I’m training 4-5 hours a week and have my first competition in December. Does anyone else thing this would be Beneficial.
In my experience and from what I see in others that I know, they tend to be one of those things that people get and end up very quickly gathering dust in the corner. I think they are of very limited use, especially for very new people. I do still fairly regularly use one but they an be cumbersome and will only be useful for certain things based on the design of the dummy. They're not really anatomically correct and can be hard to work decent technique on. Rather I use mine for practicing takedowns and throws on, there's not many volunteers to be slammed and tossed about on the mats so they can be invaluable in this context. I also refined my iminari type rolls on them.
If you use them, they can be helpful in limited contexts; but many just become expensive objects to throw your coat at when you come in from a days work.
For home practise it would be best to get your partner involved. Teaching others or figuring out moves together is a good way to learn and recap what was taught at your gym.
Pred500, post: 63464, member: 33377
In my experience and from what I see in others that I know, they tend to be one of those things that people get and end up very quickly gathering dust in the corner. I think they are of very limited use, especially for very new people. I do still fairly regularly use one but they an be cumbersome and will only be useful for certain things based on the design of the dummy. They're not really anatomically correct and can be hard to work decent technique on. Rather I use mine for practicing takedowns and throws on, there's not many volunteers to be slammed and tossed about on the mats so they can be invaluable in this context. I also refined my iminari type rolls on them.If you use them, they can be helpful in limited contexts; but many just become expensive objects to throw your coat at when you come in from a days work.
Do you have a preference in brand or model? I have thick mats at home that would be great for drilling takedowns, I just don't want to abuse my partner all the time. (That and he's not always in the mood when I am.)
TheAlluringMrQuigley, post: 63474, member: 33696
Do you have a preference in brand or model? I have thick mats at home that would be great for drilling takedowns, I just don't want to abuse my partner all the time. (That and he's not always in the mood when I am.)
For takedowns and such you don't need anything fancy with the crazy kneeling positions or guard retaining legs but slamming it into the floor a lot requires it to be durable. The one I use has heavy stitching and is made of synthetic leather, it came from an old Judo place that was shutting down and getting rid of all its stuff. I've had a look on Amazon and there are various cheapish generic brands that would fit the bill.
DistractedQuokka, post: 63089, member: 35692
Hi GG community,So happy I pulled the trigger on membership. With such a robust encyclopedia of knowledge I was wondering how you structure home practice? I’m blessed enough to have a family member to train with outside of class and was curious how you would set up home study.
How we’ve been doing it was we would both pick one position and each pick one escape and one attack ahead of time and then do rounds of positional sparring for 4 minutes each and then free roll afterwards.
It’s been fun but would love to hear input of some more experienced players (we’re both only blue), and how best to incorporate Grapplers Guide in a structured way.
Thanks for any insight!
Recommend studying, and drilling the escapes from pin, submission, sweep which are most prevalent in your gym. Then refine these escape techniques after trying them live in your gym.
caseyspace1, post: 63210, member: 35985
Thinking about getting a grappling dummy, I’m a new white belt with three months Experience I’m training 4-5 hours a week and have my first competition in December. Does anyone else thing this would be Beneficial.
I got mine on sale for less than ten bucks unstuffed then just filled with old clothes and pool noodles for limbs. It is good to work a few things out on but largely it doesn't get used for much more than practicing throws and takedowns
Regardinng Al,s question about preferred brand/model for home gym mat. I was an advocate for Giantex 4' x 10' x 2" folding, joinable gymnastics matts. Unfortunately, just bought another one last week and returning it because the quality has diminished. Now made with thinner, slippery PU. Question remains what are the better home gym matts?
caseyspace1, post: 63210, member: 35985
Thinking about getting a grappling dummy, I’m a new white belt with three months Experience I’m training 4-5 hours a week and have my first competition in December. Does anyone else thing this would be Beneficial.
I made one during covid quarantine times. There's a video on making one from pillows and an old gi top.
How to Make Your Own Grappling Dummy - Grappling Insider
I found it useful for drilling armbar transitions in mount, but it gets limited use now. Might be a way to try out a dummy before committing to buying one.
I mostly use my grappling dummy for throws, I wrap a gi around him and hit 100 of the same throw when I am training at home.
Grappling Dummies vary greatly as to cost, design and really what you can do with them.
I have been looking for a specific Dummy or training tool called
Combat CXT X Trainer Grappling Dummy
I tried it once and it was amazing but I can't seem to find a retailer who has any in stock.
any one had experience with this?