What are you working on right now? and....

Hey guys.

Just wondering what are you working on right now (positions/subs etc)?
Also how do you train? For example, how long do you stick with paths for before you decide to work on other paths etc? Do you even drill whilst rolling? For example put yourself purposely in a position (like guard) to work from there.


For me, right now I am working alot more on my top game, control, also lots of deep hook transitions, spiderweb etc etc.
I concentrated on the basic path for a few months, starting every roll on my back, always hunting for gogo's, omaplata's etc.

Just wanted to get an idea of how some of you like to train. Your preferred methods. Thanks. :-)

Hey Sam

I did the exact same when I first started I'd purposely pull guard and play from there, I did this for 6months or so and then I moved on to side control and so on. I now start every roll in a negative situation and work my escapes/sweeps to try and hit mount to improve my top game.

I have been playing alot with spider web recently too as I had a few holes I wanted to tighten up.

I do as much scenerio rolling as possible aswell, which really brings my game on to help me and my training partner improve our defence and attack in postions you might not normally hit whilst rolling.

Thanks bro. :-)

Right now I've been working on a choke from the back, it's in Ryan Hall's dvd as an Ezekiel choke, its pimp because it comes from the back and you don't have to get under the chin.

I let people get me in side control and mount to practice escaping sometimes but never with new students beause it goes to there head.

I usually work on the same move set for a month or so and then move on and come back later. There are just so many things to get good at :-/

subs from sprawl pos, turtle pos, now that I'm at a striking gym trying to make a couple dudes sprawl and brawl sub masters, stuffin the takedown and destroying from there, deep swim from turtle truck from turtle setting the gator roll from turtle. getting up and out of guard, basic mma stuff ya know?

My offensive game is usually based on whatever injuries I have... My guard is my gold game but knee and ankle injuries have kept me from being able to play it much... I've a very long and thin body, so my top game is pretty weak, my side control and mount are nowhere near the dominant positions they should be, so most of the time, im trying to work to get, hold, and play paths off side control and mount , just to better them...

I also like most people feel too controlled when in side control or mount, so I commonly give up side control to battle out of it, because I feel catching subs is always there, but being able to escape isn't so its what I should be focusing on most...

right now im focusing on sweeps more than anything, submissive sweeps and throws. You can really surprise someone with some of the different sweeps in judo if you incoperate it into your jiu jitsu game.

When rolling I try to pull half guard as much as possible at the moment, and work the systems sweeps from there, and work the basic path when in full guard. If i manage to sweep I look to try twister side control although I'm really struggling with it. But yeah, mainly focusing on my guard game and side control game rather than submissions at the moment.

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Originally Posted by paulmma101

When rolling I try to pull half guard as much as possible at the moment, and work the systems sweeps from there, and work the basic path when in full guard. If i manage to sweep I look to try twister side control although I'm really struggling with it. But yeah, mainly focusing on my guard game and side control game rather than submissions at the moment.

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yeah I have been drilling quite abit of lockdown, electric chair sweep, plan b etc too as it goes. Fucking love plan b. :-)

Thanks for the replies guys. :-)

Ive been trying to tighten up my sharp shooter, walls of jericho, mandible claw, and elbow drop from the top rope into side control

I generally work on three things specifically, when i used to focus on one specifically i found i would get stalled quite a bit cos i was too stubborn to do anything else. atm im working on deep half, really getting under the guys and sweeping them. and im just finishing focussing on rubber guard. really getting into omaplatas from half, rubber and full guard. but yeah anything from half guard or rubber guard is my goal atm

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Originally Posted by Ryan Brick

Right now I've been working on a choke from the back, it's in Ryan Hall's dvd as an Ezekiel choke, its pimp because it comes from the back and you don't have to get under the chin.

I let people get me in side control and mount to practice escaping sometimes but never with new students beause it goes to there head.

I usually work on the same move set for a month or so and then move on and come back later. There are just so many things to get good at :-/

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That's interesting about not with new students, had never thought about that side of it before but can see what you mean. Fine line between discouraging them or giving them something that goes to their head. Depends on the individual I suppose.

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Originally Posted by Tim Bruhn

That's interesting about not with new students, had never thought about that side of it before but can see what you mean. Fine line between discouraging them or giving them something that goes to their head. Depends on the individual I suppose.

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I more or less mean brand new students by the time a month or so happens they realize how good you are but the first couple times I roll with a brand new person I crush them so that they cannot move and feel helpless, i had a three hundred lb student he started two weeks he has been to class everyday because someone half his size makes him feel helpless.

Currently workin on De La Riva guard. I'm goin to be drilling this one for a while and then moving on to spiral. I like to start rolling with my partner in side mount so I have to work in an escape, and then the rest of the time I'll be trying to get to de la Riva. I just spent the last 2 months doing this with the truck and that part of my game has really come a long way :)

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Originally Posted by chronic_jiujitsu

Ive been trying to tighten up my sharp shooter, walls of jericho, mandible claw, and elbow drop from the top rope into side control

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Good call. This must be prepping for your upcoming Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. :)

Right now I am still concentrating on a lot of deep hook stuff, spiderweb. Lots and lots of twister side control too. Twister side - Ninja roll - RNC I am having a lot of success with, and I LOVE that path. :-)

So ive pretty much got my three goals, long term mid term and short term.

long term of course is to get a fully legit game jsut everywhere, which i think is everyones goal, mid term is getting my top game control sorted and my new short term is getting sweeps down. im just getting to the point where i feel my bottom game is somethin i can almost always rely on

im really happy, since ive gotten back to nz ive been working on a lot of butterfly guard and sweeps from there, and im getting more and more picky about what i do from the bottom. doing lots of rubber guard. but im finally feeling the sweeps and mount game coming in, so im starting lots more sweeps from half and from butterfly and once thats down, then ill start using all the top game techniques ive learnt and put them into my game a lot more.

when im getting to mount atm im really focussing on getting them to underhook me and ill go straight into mono control. fits really nicely with the RG work ive just done

(i always seem to write too much) :D