Basics of BJJ Exercises

by | Dec 10, 2015 | Grappling/BJJ | 0 comments

Basics of BJJ Exercises
I consider BJJ exercises are practicing fundamental moves that I have to do every time I roll.  Going back to the 80/20 principle, these moves are moves that i have to do 80% of the time in sparring sessions.
Funny thing is that there are so many techniques and moves in BJJ, but if you pay attention, only 20% of those are used consistently 80% of the time.
These are few of BJJ Exercices that I do and i think student should do every time before practice:
  1. Bridging or Upa technique. Many submissions that we do in BJJ are done by bridging. For example: straight arm lock, ankle lock, guillotine choke, rear naked choke and knee bar. In addition, many of the escape attempts from inferior positions are also utilizing Upa technique such as: bridge and roll vs mount, creating momentum for elbow knee escape, kesagatame escape, etc. Therefore; practicing this is very important.
  2. Shrimping is the second most important exercise for escaping inferior positions and guard retention. Almost all efforts to escape all inferior positions have the need to shrimp or move your hip away from the opponent. Therefore; this skill is paramount.
  3. Getting to your knees. Often times when you someone pass your guard or that they hold you in side control by hugging your hip, you lost any chance to put them back in your guard. Sometimes the only chance you have is to get to your knees and fight back from there.  In the old days, i was taught to never go to your knees because they might back mount you and attack you with strikes from behind or rear naked choke.  On the other hand, it might be your only chance to survive. Now with the help of wrestling that becomes part of BJJ, getting to your knees to survive might be a good idea.
  4. Technical stand up. Its a great technique to practice for both grappling or self defense. The technique is good for student to be able to stand up quickly from some types of guard. This ability helps us to be able to snap down opponent’s head  and for us to get up so we can attack from the top, or self defense wise to get up so we can attack using strikes and takedown.
  5. Roll over your shoulder. Rolling over forward, back and side to side can help us recover our guard very quickly when someone has passed our guard or when you are on your knee and he wants to take your back.
These five exercises are some of the very imporant routines that anyone needs to practice. There are more, but these are a good start.

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