Why should you drill?
It helps the practitioner learn the technique and it’s details without a opposing partner. Also helps with the understanding of the principles behind a technique. The main point behind drilling is learning a move , it’s details and making it an automatism. The problem with drilling is that the partner offers no reaction, thus the one doing the drills won’t know what actual problems he might face while doing his technique.
Gianni Grippo (Multiple times world champion) in this interview, believes that drilling doesn’t beat down your body as mush as rolling and that it’s even even more productive:
The biggest mistakes people make in training that many believe are the “keys to success” is training hard all the time. I see many young athletes, just training, training, training and it’s great at first but the body begins to break down after a while. Once they lose a match they say “I have to train harder” but in fact, they should be focusing on training smarter. Like mentioned earlier, it’s not all a physical game but it is also mental. Drilling techniques do not beat down your body as much as training yet it is just as productive (if not more than training hard.) I do not discourage training hard as it is essential for improvement, but it cannot be viewed as the only form of improvement.
check out this great collection of drills from Watchbjj.com that you can ad to your training.
What techniques should you be drilling in your BJJ practice. Stephan Kesting answers this question in his video:
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