APH-2025-084

Overview:

• Quarterly Goal: Emphasize better rather than more or harder.
• Monthly Focus: Bad Position / Addressing Deficits
• Weekly Objective: Back Attacks / Defense

Intention:

Today’s goal was to fine tune the volume and template for open mat days as well as get some competition style rounds in.

Warm Up:

2 x 5 minutes: flow / creativity rounds

Work:

• 3 x 5 minute competition rounds
• 3 x 5 minute back escapes (I was attacked the whole time)
• 2 x 5 minute drill clean up / troubleshoot

Reflection:

What worked well:

• My arm-drag-to-single-leg take down is probably my highest percentage.
• Combing wrestling and leglocks is a solid plan.
• I did a good job sticking to the plan and trying to get to my desired side-control-with-double-underhook position.

What didn’t:

• This didn’t particularly go bad, but there’s definitely a tradeoff of urgency trying to wear your opponent down. You can’t succumb to your won impatience on the one hand, yet you never know if a ref is going to prefer seeing mat / ring control vs. attempted offense. So, there’s a fine line where you need to cash out and start initiating.

Plan for next time:

• Avoid tunnel vision. Opportunities to attack will, probably, present themselves. We need to be on the look out and ready to capitalize on them.

• I got kind of a late start and people left early, but I think a reasonable open mat breakdown is:

  • 2 x 5 minute rounds: flow / creativity

  • 5 x 5 minute rounds: competition style (one-on-one-off)

    • Discuss tactics between rounds.

  • 3 x 5 minute rounds: bad position / escape.