Sparring Exercise 3: Last Man Standing
by Kephri Ra on Aug.09, 2009, under Conditioning, Throwing
This is a great one for fitness as it is quite an intense exericise, paritularly if you are good at it. Basically you start with a one on one with each person aiming to get a takedown or throw on the other guy. it’s up to you whether you allow strikes, but to win you have to put the other guy on the mat. Then it’s just winner stays on with new fighters coming in as quickly as possible after each round so you don’t have time to recover. A variation on this is to play loser stays on instead, so that if you have people in the class who are weak on throws and takedowns they will get plenty of chance to practice them!
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September 1st, 2009 on 3:14 am
This is definitely a great drill. My BJJ trainer has us do this all the time, where we have one guy just throw punches and practices sprawling and shaking the other guy off while the other guys just defends and goes for take downs and throws. Great not only for developing skill in both take downs and take down defense in a real sparring environment but it’s a hell of a workout too!
Derek Manuel
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