Day 1

Top Player:

• Position: Standing behind your partner, with your arms around their torso, your hands not yet connected.
• Objective: Connect your hands.
• Constraints: No takedowns.
• Win Condition: Your hands connected around your partners torso.

Bottom Player:

• Position: In front of your partner, they have their arms around your torso. You are covering their knuckles with your hands and holding their hands, to prevent them from connecting their hands.
• Objective: Disconnect, turn to face.
• Constraints: No takedowns.
• Win Condition: Disconnected from your partner and facing them.

Attribution: This game was originally created by coach Pat Campagnola: Ecopalooza Video.

Top Player:

• Position: Standing behind your partner, with your arms around their torso, your hands connected in front of them.
• Objective: Keep connected and make your partner touch the ground.
• Constraints: Your partner and you have to have at least one foot on the ground at all times (no lifting/jumping).
• Win Condition: Your partner touches the ground with either their hands, knees or butt.

Bottom Player:

• Position: Standing in front of your partner, they have their arms around your torso, their hands connected in front of you.
• Objective: Disconnect, turn to face.
• Constraints: No takedowns.
• Win Condition: Disconnected from your partner and facing them.

Attribution: This game was created after a private lesson with Justin Mark at Impact Jiu-Jitsu.

Attacking Player:

• Position: Standing in front of your partner with one of their ankles or shins connected to one of your legs and one hand connected to your legs.
• Objective: Break your partner's connections to your body.
• Constraints:
• Win Condition: None

Defending Player:

• Position: Seated in front of your partner with one of your shins or ankles connected to one of their legs and one hand connected to their legs.
• Objective: Create meaningful connections to your partner's legs using your legs, hands, and arms. If you are able to gain control retain it for as long as possible.
• Constraints: Do not sweep your opponent.
• Win Condition: None

Attribution: This game was created after a private lesson with Justin Mark at Impact Jiu-Jitsu.

Attacking Player:

• Position: Standing in front of your partner with one of their ankles or shins connected to one of your legs and one hand connected to your legs.
• Objective: Focus on breaking your partner's connections to your body, and progress past their knees to their thighs. Remain there as long as possible.
• Constraints: Do not proceed past the thighs.
• Win Condition: None

Defending Player:

• Position: Seated in front of your partner with one of your shins or ankles connected to one of their legs and one hand connected to their legs.
• Objective: Create meaningful connections to your partner's legs using your legs, hands, and arms. Use those connections to destabilize your partner to their hands or hips. If they go to their hands hold them there for as long as possible.
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: None

Reset if defending player wins

Top Player:

• Position: In front of your partner with your chest connected to their shoulder blades.
• Objective: Focus on keeping your partner's head and shoulders covered for as long as possible.
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: None

Bottom Player:

• Position: Underneath your partner with your hands (or elbows) and knees on the ground.
• Objective: Focus on breaking your partner's chest to back connection by connecting to their legs and using that connection to improve your position.
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: Exit your position into an entanglement where you are connected to one or both of your partner's legs.

Reset if bottom player wins.

Top Player:

• Position: In front of your partner with your chest connected to their shoulder blades.
• Objective: Focus on breaking your partner down and getting their hips to the mat, their shoulders to the mat, or chest to back contact with their hips covered (hooks in).
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: Partner's hips or shoulders are touching the mat.

Bottom Player:

• Position: Underneath your partner with your hands (or elbows) and knees on the ground.
• Objective: Focus on standing or getting your legs between you and your partner.
• Constraints: None
• Win Condition: Either stand up or transition to a position where your legs are between you and your partner.

Reset if either player wins.