Drilling and developing a game plan is important to help improve your Jiu-jitsu.
But life is busy and many of us have families, relationships, study or work full time jobs. We want to improve and evolve our games but don’t have the luxury of training full time and being professional athletes. As a result we need to carefully analyse our training time and give thought to what we need to work on, consider how much time we have and then plan how to go about implementing a plan for improving.
First- we must determine what do we need to work on?
Escapes, a submission or getting to a dominant position such as taking the back?
Think this over and also consider asking training partners or a coach for feedback. Perhaps use your phone and providing your coach and training partners don’t mind-record your rolling. After training and thinking about these details and reflecting on your game start by deciding on TWO techniques from the top (pass/submission/transition) and TWO from the bottom (sweep/submission/escape) that will fit into your existing game/ the positions you find yourself in commonly.
Don’t go overboard and design a huge elaborate game plan- start with the 2 top and bottom techniques that you can start to implement.
Get started- knowing how to drill and for how long and how much is pointless unless you know WHAT you are going to be working on!
Decide on WHAT and I will put up some suggestions and a basic drilling plan outline tomorrow to help with HOW.
Micah Atkinson - Jiu-jitsu 