NoGi Essentials Course: 50 Foundational Grappling Games

CHANGE YOUR GRAPPLING

I started using games in 2015, and it completely changed my grappling. Why? Because it's the most effective way to work any given grappling situation. If you’re serious about becoming a better grappler, you have to play games!

WHY IS IT BETTER?

It will teach you to use your systems in more realistic scenarios. The first step to mastery is to gain knowledge: you study instructionals, you talk to your coach. You learn techniques and systems. The next step is crucial; you need to go from knowledge to skills. And the best way to do that is to play games! To make that transition, you need to spend a considerable amount of time in the situation you want to improve upon (cf. the 10,000-hour principle). You’ll find the adjustments that your coach cannot teach you (because they aren’t you): how to distribute your weight, small angular changes, connections...our games are designed to help you work on that.

YOU DON'T NEED TO LISTEN TO TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT - JUST WATCH WHAT THE BEST PLAYERS DO

But don't listen to what I have to say; watch what the best grapplers in the world do. I've traveled the world and trained with the world's elite, and I can tell you they all play games in various forms (and often call them “drills” or “situational sparring”). If the best do it, why shouldn't you?

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT

50 games across 6 categories Standing / Passing / Guard / Defense / Upper Body Subs / Leglocks. You’ll work all aspects of grappling with games designed to make you work some of the most important systems in grappling. Each game has a precise and extensive writeup (we call them “descriptions”). In that description, you’ll find the setup of the game, the goal you need to achieve, the constraints you must follow, pertinent advice to help you, alongside coaching cues (if you're a coach), as well as a video and anything else we’ve added to make the game as clear and straightforward as possible. The video is there to give you an idea behind the game and what execution can look like. You don’t need to play it exactly like us - we encourage you to make the game your own and be creative.

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