When you drill techniques in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, how do you (usually) go about it? Do you aim for a specific number of repetitions? If that’s the case, then two things are true…
First, you’re a part of the majority – as a lot of BJJ practitioners drill that way. And secondly, you’re not drilling in an optimal way. Far from it, actually.
John Danaher explains further:
Every time you go into a move it’s a chance to learn a little more about it.
Most people drill for numbers and think that performing a certain number of repetitions will inevitably create expertise.
This is not the case. After a fairly short time you get rapidly diminishing returns on your attempt to improve.
He shares a better way to go about drilling techniques:
Rather, work with an active, experimental mindset that constantly asks what minor changes in angle, positioning, placement and any other relevant factors can have in the quality of your performance of that move.
There is always some new nuance that you hadn’t observed before that emerges and over time a feeling of what mechanical efficiency in that position starts to feel like – then it’s all about replication of that feeling in increasingly strenuous tests leading up to full power sparring and competition.
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