3 Quick-Learn Drills Designed to Get YOU Better, Faster

You could also step this continuous exercise up by doing calisthenics while your partner is doing the drills and

switch back and forth doing drills that way. The following exercise is a pretty simple continuous drill that is used to work on escapes,

but you can also any number of drills so you can improve on any skill set you may want to improve. For more drills check out our

Dual Continuous Underhook Escape Chain

1. You begin this drill on top of your partner in a side control.

2. While on top your partner will try to get in with an under-hook trying to come up for a single.

3. While your partner is in that position you’ll want to pull guard immediately your partner should

already be in on the far side, as he’s passing you’ll want to take your free elbow and move it in

between you while trying to cut an angle sliding out from under your partner.

4. Once you slide out from underneath your partner you’ll want to come back up and initiate your

own single and quickly back step around you opponent back into the starting position.

5. And from here your partner will cut back under you and the cycle continues.

You can do this type of drill for as long as you want but once the time runs out you’ll be spending the

interim doing one particular type of exercise (pushups, pull-ups, jumping jacks, etc.) before going right

back into the drill.

In this drill we are going to be working on both the flower sweep and the mount escape. These

exercises are perfect for continuous drills work really well in a loop which makes them great for

incorporating them into your drill, there are also great to work on because these are two very common

techniques people use in Bjj.

1. You’ll begin this drill with your partner on top while you’re in a close guard.

2. While in a close guard you’ll want to swing out to the side and wrap your legs around

your partner’s arms at the shoulders (this is called and arm bar).

3. While you are preforming the arm bar your partner will be going into a stack from here

you’ll want to go under the leg and shoulder making sure that your partner s arm is

pinned to your side.

4. With that arm immobilized you are now in a position to wrap your other leg over and

around your partners other shoulder.

5. Now in this position bring your leg down to your partner’s side and then bring it up into

a teardrop motion and that will drive you to be on top of your partner.

6. Once you’re on top you partner will have their arms in protecting themselves at which

point they will move into a what’s called a half shrimp that will transition into a close

guard at which point your partner will swing into their arm bar, and they will repeat the

same motion start will eventually lead back into you in the starting position. At which

point you’ll continue the drill for the remainder of the timer and repeat.