BJJ Drill Library
Build timing, movement, and finishing instincts with targeted BJJ drills. From warm-ups to competition-specific chains, every drill is built for real mat results.
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Warm-Up Drills
Essential warm-up movements to prepare your body for training. These drills develop fundamental BJJ movement patterns including hip escapes, rolls, and animal walks while raising your heart rate and improving mobility.
Solo Drills
Drills you can practice on your own to sharpen your BJJ movement. Shadow grappling, movement flows, inversions, and technical repetitions that build muscle memory without needing a training partner.
Partner Drills
Two-person drills that develop timing, sensitivity, and cooperation. Pummeling, grip fighting, flow rolling, and cooperative repetitions that build the feel for live grappling.
Positional Drills
Focused positional sparring drills that isolate specific situations. Mount escape reps, guard passing chains, back control retention, and other position-specific repetitions to build situational competence.
Submission Chain Drills
Drills that connect multiple submissions into flowing attack sequences. Armbar-triangle-omoplata flows, leg lock chains, and other multi-attack combinations that develop offensive fluency.
Guard Passing Drills
Dedicated drills for developing guard passing skills. Pass chains, reaction-based drills, pressure passing sequences, and speed passing flows that build a complete passing game.
Guard Retention Drills
Drills focused on keeping and recovering your guard. Frame drills, hip escape sequences, reguarding patterns, and inversion recoveries that make your guard nearly impossible to pass.
Takedown Drills
Standing drills for developing wrestling and judo-based takedowns. Shot drills, sprawl practice, grip fighting sequences, and throw entries that build confidence on the feet.
Scramble Drills
Dynamic drills that develop scrambling ability and transitions. Turtle attacks and escapes, leg entanglement entries, front headlock flows, and other chaotic transition sequences.
Conditioning Drills
BJJ-specific cardio and strength circuits designed to build grappling endurance. These drills combine functional movements with mat-based exercises to develop the gas tank needed for competition and hard rolling.
Popular Drills
Hip Escape Timing Drill
warm upThis warm up drill builds timing through repeated hip escape patterns. It is designed to reinforce control from Closed Guard and improve your ability to transition smoothly under pressure.
Granby Roll Pressure Management Drill
warm upThis warm up drill builds pressure management through repeated granby roll patterns. It is designed to reinforce control from Mount and improve your ability to transition smoothly under pressure.
Backward Roll Hip Mobility Drill
warm upThis warm up drill builds hip mobility through repeated backward roll patterns. It is designed to reinforce control from Knee On Belly and improve your ability to transition smoothly under pressure.
Inversion Balance Breaking Drill
warm upThis warm up drill builds balance breaking through repeated inversion patterns. It is designed to reinforce control from X Guard and improve your ability to transition smoothly under pressure.
Arm Drag Head Position Drill
warm upThis warm up drill builds head position through repeated arm drag patterns. It is designed to reinforce control from Worm Guard and improve your ability to transition smoothly under pressure.
Pummel Entry Posture Control Drill
warm upThis warm up drill builds posture control through repeated pummel entry patterns. It is designed to reinforce control from Reverse De La Riva and improve your ability to transition smoothly under pressure.
Over-under Shuffle Edge Awareness Drill
warm upThis warm up drill builds edge awareness through repeated over-under shuffle patterns. It is designed to reinforce control from S Mount and improve your ability to transition smoothly under pressure.
Leg Pummel Connection Drill
warm upThis warm up drill builds connection through repeated leg pummel patterns. It is designed to reinforce control from Ashi Garami and improve your ability to transition smoothly under pressure.
Butterfly Hook Lift Angle Creation Drill
warm upThis warm up drill builds angle creation through repeated butterfly hook lift patterns. It is designed to reinforce control from Dogfight and improve your ability to transition smoothly under pressure.
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