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Four Solo Drills To Improve Your Passing

Let’s be honest, passing an opponents guard can be hard. That’s particularly true against those super bendy people who seem to have arms for legs.

On top of having good technique, you want rock-solid balance, strong posture, and excellent mobility. While these attributes will develop naturally over time, you can accelerate your balance, posture, and mobility development through a little solo drilling.

To help you get started, I just uploaded a video that covers four of my favourite solo passing drills. These drills have been incredibly beneficial in my own training, hopefully, they can do the same for you. Check them out now below:

You can do these drills as a warm-up, cool down, or anytime you have a few minutes spare. However you choose to practice them, they will help you passing.

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Fix Your Jiu Jitsu Claw

Ever wake up after a hard night’s training, and your hands have turned into gnarled claws that barely open?

Me too! The Jiu Jitsu claw is perfectly normal, but is can be a bit of a problem and rather painful.

Over the course of my BJJ career, I’ve tried tonnes of different methods to “release the claw”. Some worked well, and some didn’t.

However, a short while ago, our mobility coach Kai shared a couple of stretches that have been game changers. And I want to share them with you now…

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How Much Will My New BJJ Gi Shrink?

In this short video, Tom discusses Gi shrinkage and how much you can expect a brand new BJJ Gi to shrink by after one wash and years of washing.

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Tight Hips? Try This Hip Mobility Sequence For BJJ

In this short video, BJJ Black Belt, Tom Barlow shares mobility sequence that will help you develop you hip mobility and as a result water-tight defences, an unpassable guard, and devastating passing.

If this sequence is too challenging to begin with or you want to spend work your mobility further, you can start by working through each part of the sequence individually. This could mean going through the individual sequences or spending a couple of minutes holding each positions in the stretch position.

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The Ladder Concept

Have you ever rolled with someone who seems to have a tractor-beam-like attachment to you? No matter what you do, you can’t keep their weight off you, and it feels like you’re slowly drowning in concrete.

Braulio basically does this to me every time we roll, and I can assure you it’s a terrible feeling. By feeling it so many times (and asking him), the concept behind how to become a human tractor beam is pretty simple and can be used by anyone.

I call it the Ladder concept and want to share it with you now.

A lot of people think about passing (or any technique) as a single technique, but it’s not. A better way to think about passing is that you have to win a series of small battles.

Each battle is a rung on the ladder that finally gets you to your goal.

If your opponent prevents you from climbing to the next rung of the ladder, you stay there until you break through their defences. And if they break from one of your attacks, you only want to fall one rung of the ladder rather than to the bottom.

To illustrate the ladder concept, I want to share a short clip from the Cradle Masterclass where I talked about this concept. Check out the video below to watch it now:

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