Alright, be honest with us for a minute… How much time do you spend working on your defense in Jiu-Jitsu?
When it comes to drilling: how often do you drill escapes and submission defense?
And when it comes to (positional) sparring: how often do you work on getting out of bad positions against an actively resisting training partner?
Chances are, you aren’t working on it nearly as often as you work on your offense.
Which is a huge mistake. John Danaher explains why:
Of course we all love the idea of offense and wish that we could always be attacking – but the hard reality is that if you’re engaged with tough opponents you’ll be tested every moment and it’ll be the quality of your defense that determines whether you win or lose.
So make sure you study deeply in defense to maintain a well balanced game.
Sure, offense is extremely important, but having great defense is… Perhaps even more so:
Athletes whose game has an offensive bias do well at lower levels when their offense overwhelms opponents, but struggle as they rise and have to match better opponents where they are attacked as much as they attack.
Stay balanced in your training time between defense and offense.
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