Need some help from instructors

[Madison Wilkes]

Okay so here's the deal. I got Eddie's book Mastering the Rubber Guard, and I'm chomping at the bit to start working on this stuff. Do you guys know any solo drills I can do to work on half guard. In particular the lockdown, the jaws of life, the whip up, and the old school. I'm the kind of guy that has to do it to learn it, but I don't have a partner all the time, and when I study I wanna drill what I'm learning then and there otherwise I'll forget it. Thanks in advanced

[Josh Passini]

Grab one of your homies and have them be a grappling dummy. Or just get in and see Brandon as much as you can. A private with specific questions or paths you want to work would probably be good as well.

[bobby rivers]

Just stretch your ass off and visualize.

[Matt "Gumby" Glach]

If you have a few hundred bucks to blow you could always buy a good quality grappling dummy. There are tons of threads on here evaluating the various types, I asked about it a while ago and got good responses.

[Madison Wilkes]

Grab one of your homies and have them be a grappling dummy. Or just get in and see Brandon as much as you can. A private with specific questions or paths you want to work would probably be good as well.

Haha that's what I'm doing right now. Brandon's a really good teacher and he's pretty flexible about working with me. I usually just have to text him and he'll figure out a time within at most a day that we can sit down and start working. I'm also just reading and visualizing what it's saying to do, which helps a lot actually.

[sean applegate]

stretch like crazy and find someone to dummy it up for you.

[Taylor Culbertson]

Pull guard on a homeless man.

[Brian Beaumont AKA Thor]

Developing the right attitude will help a lot when you start swimming with the sharks. Don't take no for an answer.

[Tyler Woolsey]

Buy a small (10lb) medicine ball and use it to work your squeeze. It does wonders for your lockdown, whip-up, and RNC squeeze.

[John Wilcken]

I have a 100 pound sandbag that I made (surplus store rucksack, hefty bags, playground sand < $20). I squeeze it between my knees and whip it up. I focus on using my core and my legs and only use my arms to "steer" the bag up and to the side. I also focus on an explosive lift and try to get my sacrum all the way off the ground. Helped my lockdown game (especially the whip up) tremendously. I rep it now mainly for core strength.