APH-2025-086

Overview:

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

Intention:

Today’s focus was to “just drill”, no positional rolling, just discussing strategy and getting some reps in to polish the week’s focus – mainly guillotines and armbars.

Warm Up:

1 x 5 CARs each:

• Shoulder
• Hip
• Spine
• Elbow
• Knee
• Ankle
• Wrist
• Neck

Work:

60 minutes drilling:

• Guillotines (from standing and front headlock)

  • plus anaconda transition

• Armbars from side control

  • plus transition to saddle

Reflection:

What worked well:

• I kept my heart rate low and in range (~120).
• The flow and work with teammates was even and productive.
• We got a little distracted discussing tactics and theory, but it supported the practice and wasn’t off topic.

What didn’t:

• A lot material got covered, so I might need to dial the focus in throughout the week.

Plan for next time:

• During open mat and class sparring rounds I’m going to try and look for the specific submissions I’m supposed to be focusing on this week.
• If I had to pick, that would be guillotines. Technically armbars are higher percentage in ADCC, but I suspect a lot of transitions occur off of guillotine attempts. Guillotines also fit more congruently with my overall gameplan and strategy.