APH-2025-156

Overview:

• 6-Week Focus: Ben Galper Basic Grip Program
  • As written: 4 sessions x 4 weeks, extend to 6 weeks to allow for grappling.
  • Limit sessions to 60-minutes (including warm up and support) to allow recovery.
• Weekly Objective: Adjust difficulty and develop follow-up training plan.

Assessment:

• Sleep Quantity (hours): 8.5
• Sleep Quality (1-5): 3
• Mood (1-5): 3
• Soreness (1-5): 1

Training:

• Teaching Class
  • Headquarters passing (review): 20 minutes
  • Heaquarters transition to Single Leg X: 20 minutes
  • Passing Single Leg X: 20 minutes
  • Positional Sparring:
    • First to Score (no subs): from HQ
    • First to Score (no subs): from SLX
    • Score or Submit: from HQ
    • Score or Submit: from SLX

Review:

• Difficulty (1-10): 5
• Performance (1-10): 6
• Mat Hours: 0.75
• What worked well:
  • I like spending the “warm up” with some games based on the last week’s technique. Most people don’t make it to every class, and for the ones that do it’s still hard to digest and implement everything from a single class in one week.
• What didn’t work well:
  • We didn’t get to the back take I’d planned from defending single leg x.
• Plan for next time:
  • Focusing on off-balances from every position was a good principled reminder for bottom players.
  • Continue with review and then add back take next week.

Technical Resource: