When our gym first started exploring the 10,000 rep idea Brandon stuck a few of us on it. He assigned each of us certain areas in our game that had holes, gave us 3ish techniques from there and gave us a deadline. I got 3,000 reps on passing the lockdown and passing open guard in about 4 months. I had 1,000 reps on the no hands, twister, and step back pass from top half and also 1,000 of each of the M series. In total 6,000 passing reps. Once that was done I was able to pass with ease in live sparring with anyone my experience or lower. 10,000 is out goal, but 10,000 dead reps (especially on only 1 technique) seems like complete overkill and 1 technique in isolation doesn't really make sense so you lose the context of it. We have found that doing around 2,000 to 3,000 dead reps is enough to start hitting it live and from there eventually you will hit 10,000 if you do it regularly while rolling. We also try to rep an idea or a principle not necessarily 1 technique. For example, passing in general is an idea so learning 1 pass an doing it 10,000 times doesn't necessarily teach you the principles behind passing even if it does give you 1 unstoppable pass.
My favorite way to drill right now is sequencing. I take techniques I know I can already do and I make them seamless in transition. Ive been on an x guard kick so ive been drilling entering x guard to the sweep to the pass to the top position to the back to the finish all as on rep.
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