APH-2025-170

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: Fitness sessions should include (A) leg focused warm up, (B) Budokon animal movements in warm ups, and (C) supplemental neck strength and hamstring stretching.

Assessment:

• Sleep Quantity (hours): 8
• Sleep Quality (1-5): 3
• Mood (1-5): 3
• Soreness (1-5): 1

Teaching Class:

• Warm Up: Review getting to SLX from HQ
  • 2 x 2 minute top / bottom each (20% resistance)
  • 2 x 2 minute top / bottom each (40% resistance)
• Drill: Review passing from SLX
• Drill: New material to sweep from SLX
• Drill: Introduce ankle locks from SLX
• Sparring: 5 minutes, rotating clock, first to score (from SLX)
• Sparring: 5 minutes, rotating clock, first to score or submit (from SLX)

Review:

• Difficulty (1-10): 4
• Performance (1-10): 6
• Mat Hours: 0.5
• What worked well?
  • Spending most of class reviewing the last class seems to be working well for most people.
• What didn’t work?
  • As usual, the last little bit of drilling was more for a teaser for the next class, which is the kind of rhythm I’ve been in.
• Plan for next time?
  • Continue with ankle lock breaking mechanics.

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