How To Get Better At Grappling When You Can't Train...
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
- Stephan Kesting & Brandon Mullins on improving in grappling when you can't train. From Strategies and Tactics for No Gi on the Master App for iOS itunes.apple.c... and Android play.google.co...
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I agree 100%. I work security and I'm lucky enough to be at a work site where I have a lot of free time. So I downloaded some grappling videos (including your inverted triangle from side control, Steve! :) and watched them over and over and over and... over again, and it's doing me pretty well.
Taking notes has helped me a lot over the years. In my personal experience, I've found the most helpful thing for me was not so much how many notes I took, but how well organized my notes were. I sometimes write out my notes in hierarchies of bullet points and sub-bullets of positions>moves>plan Bs/fallbacks to that move>etc to help me mentally run through them. Eddie bravo did this in one of his books with diagrams that I thought was cool. Thanks for posting guys. I always enjoy watching.
when i am in bed and i'm trying to fall asleep, i often imagine myself sparring with someone, technique after technique and then i fall asleep xD
works well for ppl who have panic attacks or anxiety focus on one technique great idea
I have been doing this and it has help me out alot.
That's awesome! Keep that up as long as you can! When I first started, I was training 5-6 days a week, and got my blue belt @10 months. Your learning curve will be rediculous and you'll pass people up in no time.
What I recommend is to buy a grappling dummy. I use submission master for that. Another alternative is Bubba Gracie which is lighter.
Good tips - I "shadow grapple" my mount escapes when I don't have training partners. I train krav maga but I recently started cross-training with some BJJ folks to be more well-rounded. I'm terrible on the ground, but it's so much fun!
Of course, My main road blocks of self training were a lack of feedback, and training partners. So, of course it is different and I was missing a bunch of assets that a class provides. However the main point of sharing what I did was that I just wanted to validate mental visualitation and self training, and that it can really help out. Of course it is not a complete substitute for taking classes, but it is nowhere near usless.
Practicing anything is better than just ignoring your art. Glenn Gould used to just look over sheet music rather than practicing. Students of language conjugate verbs. Sometimes a mix of practice and practical application is more effective than sparring, because you are allowing your brain to catch up with your body. Sometimes it's hard to access technique when a sweaty guy has his forearm on your neck. Mental preparation is always important.
That's awesome! I've been training for about 3.5 years now, and there's nothing like it! Fell in love with it right off the bat! I don't get to train much, ( twice a week) but when i do get to it's fucking BLISS
That was excellent advice. Thanks for posting Stephen and Brandon
i'm out of my mma training with a bicep injury all i do before bed is watch these videos there the best also damage control has some good ones
these videos are fantastic. thank you very much
I like training in Aikido, and there are very complicated takedowns sometimes. Really replaying it in your mind helps a ton. And practicing it with an imaginary opponent.
Shadow grappling, I know it sounds silly, but I do that on the side during my free time. Like in slow mo or half speed I go through the motions, trying to imagine the oponent as vivdly as possible. It is not the same, but if u can work your side mount escapes, mount upa rolls and back defense against some "imaginary force" at least u drill in some of the basic responses and moves. Some of my beginner training partners do that as "Homework" so to speak and it works great.
I was self trained before I started MMA. In HS watched UFC and simply observed the way the fighters held themselves and so I went to my heavy bag and would emulate what I had seen on UFC I wrestled with friends. I did this for 6 months and got very good at Boxing, Muay Thai, and wrestling just emulating what I watched. recently I attended my first MMA class with zero classes in any style, only what I mentoned above... the teacher said that I looked like I've been fighting pro for a decade.
Mind Machine so have you won a belt yet?
well replaying idea and motion in your head actually builds muscle memory
I don't know who this kid is by his face but he has some great advice.
Going from DVD or book straight to working on mat is possible...scientists have said that you can commit a technique to muscle memory b/c your brain can be tricked through visualization that it has been through a certain technique.
SUPER FANTASTIC!!!
A trained response and a faster response are the same thing. Your body sends signals to your brain describing what's happening, and your brain sends a response telling your body how to react.
If you use a spreadsheet everyday, and place it on the desktop of your computer, you can access it very quickly. If you need to access a spreadsheet you haven't used in weeks or months, you have to dig for it. Same concept for your brain calling for the most appropriate response to stimuli.
Man...I'm an air traffic controller! Fortunately I never had any of those planes crashed while skipping my mind into BJJ when working...
Just imagine if you had an office job... *That* would be one awkward court case...
very helpful tip, thank you!
im trainning jiu jitsu for 8 months and i fucking LOVE it!!!!
Muscle memory is a memorized response that becomes instinctual.
its not a faster response necessarily but a trained response.
thanks i `ll try this
Who is the guy being interviewed? He has some really cool ideas.
This is help me so much. Thanks :D
muscles don't really have memory, by going over it in your head you are developing a faster neuro-muscular response
And why is it that in the beginnings it hurts more than after building muscle memory? Once I tried to learn using dvorak keyboard, my fingers were so sore. I'm not saying you're wrong I'm just asking.
what about things like riding a bicycle or juggling?.
Wow, and I thought I was the only one.
youd need to practise the tech as soon as possible after watching it or its wasted time,only the physical practsise will make the tech yours.Be careful not to collect techs per se but stay focused aon broad concepts.15 yrs ago when i started bjj there were no coaches available but i wrestled with judokas and samboists and watched videos on problems i met in training,I remembered these better as the need was there.
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i see thanks.
well, it is a term that describes what you are saying, i mean you do park in your driveway.
That's kinda funny talking about visualizing yourself doing a technique. You use the same pathways in your brain visualize as you do actually doing it. Try visualizing writing your signature. It takes about the same time to visualize as it does to do it. Visualization can actually impart a certain amount of muscle memory.
exactly the same answer?
I don't understand..You don't have time to train but you have time to read or watch dvd's? How about use your time for reading to actually training?
Some people travel for work and are unable to train with their coach consistently. That is just ONE scenario where this would be useful. Also good advice if you get injured and can't train while you heal
You right you dont get it, a dvd costs not alot of money and can be used anywhere, but imagine the you are in my position and the nearest Bjj class is 50 miles away, and the lesson itself costs £30 a hour!! That means one hour session will cost me £50($90 roughly) every time!! So my choice will be nothing or use a book/dvd.
he addresses that in the first 30 seconds of the video. people have kids, theyre deployed, they live in bum fuck egypt. everybody has different things going on in life.
Uhhh, or you're simply injured.
Heard about iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinjuriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. . . . . ?Or just having limited options on where you train and have to work when there are classes?
no its is incorrectly called muscle memory spread by ignorance it is actually the neuro-muscular response....
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i should have watched this 3 weeks ago when i broke my foot
he did not just say that AHAHAHHA OSMOSIS XD I DIED
007yuval haha...indeed, can anyone say V-I-S-U-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N
007yuval Why in the world would you laugh at that? He used it properly. Osmosis can mean to like slowly or gradually absorb or learn something.
emily wells I wasnt laughing because it was out of context or used incorrectly, I just found the usage funny.
when you just think about performing a physical action, the parts of your brain responsible for movement are stimulated, in preparation to move, even if in the end you dont actually move. so it could be of some use to do this, though performing the actions must be better for muscle memory and ironing out the technique. he said osmosis because he doesnt know how to explain it or what is actually happening but he understands something is happening from imagining yourself performing techniques
I train 4 days in a week ;)
that's what's called muscle memory... look at ping pong players....
that's just adaptation of your actual muscle
But you are first.
mirror neurons..hm