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How to start developing your wrestling game without wasting your time and effort
Most BJJ grapplers don't have a ton of mat time to dedicate to wrestling. An hour once a week if you are lucky!
So when people do get around to it, the usual approach is: watch a technique, drill it a few times, try to force it into live rounds.
Then it falls apart the moment you roll with anyone decent.
Not because the technique is bad, it's because nobody checked whether it actually fits their game.
Your wrestling should complement your BJJ, not compete with it.
If you're a bottom player who lives for leg locks, spending your limited time on blast doubles and headlock snapdowns is a waste.
What you actually need are entries that get you straight into the position you're already dangerous from.
So before you drill another takedown, do this:
grab a pen, and answer these four questions. To get even better results, share them with me via DM or here as a post, and I will let you know what's the best place for you to start.
Your questions:
1. Go-first or go-second?
Are you the one always on the front foot, pressuring and attacking?
Or do you sit back, spot the mistake, and punish it?
Both are legit, but most of us lean one way, and it should shape how you train.
2. Top player or bottom player?
Completely different starting priorities. Bottom players, for example, need to get better at defending takedowns to counter it, and have a strategy ready when being taken down.
For instance, being taken down isn't so bad if we land in your favourite guard.
3. Scrambler or slow-paced?
Again, neither is better than the other, but you want to build your game around or, not despite of it.
Explosive scramblers get more out of snapdowns and fakes. If your game is patient and pressure-heavy, put your time into underhooks and Russian ties instead.
4. Where do you want to land?
Loose passing, total side control, or straight into leg attacks? And if you play bottom, are you pulling guard, countering the shot, or happy to get taken down as long as it's on your terms and you land in closed guard?
Give it five or ten minutes. Work through your answers, then DM me:
I'll tell you exactly what to prioritise to fast-track your wrestling.
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