The
Grappling Goals thread got me thinking. As ShanghaiBJJ pointed out to me, I've got an awful lot of goals. Part of handling that is consolidating them and seeing which ones fall under the same theme so I can address them collectively.
But I think another part of the solution is to pick certain goals and give myself an assignment to work on them for a certain amount of time. This is to keep me on track, focused on a limited number of goals, so I can progress through each of them in an orderly way rather than jumping around and never devoting enough time and energy to any single one.
The purpose of this thread is to give us a spot to write down our specific goals, how long we will focus on them, and how we'll actually work on them. It could also be used to report on how it goes, troubleshoot, and get encouragement to keep at it.
I'll start with my resolutions:
From the next two months, for better or worse, I will work on:
- Traditional and deep half guard with the underhook.
- Standing passes and the Margarida in particular.
How I'll do it:
- Drill these any chance I have, such as at open mat.
- Do progressive resistance isolation drilling/sparring of each.
- Pull half guard all the time. Switch to half guard from my other guards.
- Always stand to pass.
Setting these specific goals doesn't preclude several of my other more general ones, such as getting the underhook more, always trying to come on top, staying aggressive, etc. These broad goals apply to the specific ones.