I saw your tourney matches. You're just a beast!!
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Always marathon rolls at NTC. I dont really keep track of it all though
Some unreal amounts of time being spent rolling here fair play! Usually hit up 25 minutes straight three times a week of pure BJJ.
It's a nice concept that technique would increase, but we're talking about a level of exhaustion that is almost transcendent, and hallucinatory. We are reduced to noodle muscled wrecks that are basically wrestling on a slip and slide of sweat. Just an example, last week we rolled for an hour and twenty minutes straight with just enough down time to switch partners.
To a degree technique shines early on, but this is an effort to go beyond technique into the realm of true limit testing, watching as grapplers leave the mats until the last two are left still rolling, not willing to call it a night as long as we can continue to push.
When I started training with Eddie at the Bomb Squad nearly nine years ago, we didn't have a timer. Eddie would periodically tell us to find new partners. It seems like Eddie had us do a roughly ten-minute round, followed by a twenty-minute round. Or maybe it just seemed that way since I was usually getting smashed the entire evening.
Nowadays at HQ, we have the timer set at 8 minutes, with a minute off between each round. I encourage people who aren't rolling to work technique though that rarely happens.
I know personally, when I have not an ounce of energy left to give in a competitive situation, that's when I rely on drills and technique the absolute most. It's really the only option at the time given my physical state. Lately, the "Mobile Hotbox" has been running with no timers. We also have very limited mat space so generally have a session with 3 hardcore people and just rotate. One person get's to roll the other 2 (back to back of course, not at the same time obviously) until tap or unescapable dominate position is established and then rest while the cycle continues. I've had more intense training sessions in the past but it's working well with the mat situations at peoples houses and what not. Hell, getting ready for mma fights a couple years ago I would do 5 or 6 3minute rounds of mma sparring with monsters and then transition into jiu jitsu class with a fresh group of people for the most part looking for their best opportunity to tap me. Those jiu jitsu classes would really show you exactly where your technique was because that would be all you had to offer opponents.