Day 2
Each game consists of a three minute round, a one minute break, and then another three minute round with the position of the players switched.
Standing
Attribution: This game was originally created by coach Pat Campagnola: Ecopalooza Video.
Top Player:
- Position: Next to the bottom player, their arm pressed to your chest with two arms. (Russian Tie)
- Objective: Connect your hands around their leg (single leg), body (body lock) or head and arm (front headlock).
- Constraints: No takedowns.
- Win Condition: Hands connected around either leg, body or head and arm.
Bottom Player:
- Position: Standing to the top player, your arm held by top player.
- Objective: Free yourself, disengage, turn to face.
- Constraints: No attacks, purely defensive.
- Win Condition: Arm freed, facing toward top player.
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 with their hips, or take their back.
- 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 their butt, or with knees and ellbows and you take their back and establish chest to back connection.
Bottom Player:
- Position: In front of your partner, they have their arms around your torso, their hands connected in front of you, you have your feet and hands on the ground (Quadpod).
- Objective: Stand up, disconnect, turn to face.
- Constraints: No takedowns.
- Win Condition: Disconnected from your partner and facing them.
Guard
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
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: Flatten your partner to the mat.
- Constraints: None
- Win Condition: Create chest to chest or chest to back contact.
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, bring them to the mat, and create chest to chest or chest to back contact.
- Constraints: None
- Win Condition: Transition to a position where your legs are connected to one or both of your partner's legs.
Reset if either player wins
Pinning/Passing
Top Player:
- Position: Connected with one hand on the chin and one hand on the elbow.
- Objective: Continuously try to keep your partner's hands on the mat and continuously cover their head.
- Constraints: No submissions allowed.
- Win Condition: Achieving chest to back contact.
Bottom Player:
- Position: On your hands and knees with your partner covering your head with one hand on your chin and one hand on your elbow.
- Objective: Try to relieve yourself from the situation by freeing your head.
- Constraints: None.
- Win Condition: Stand up or bring your feet between you and your partner.
Reset if either player wins.
Top Player:
- Position: On top of your partner with chest to chest contact lying perpendicular to their torso. Your arm furthest from their head should be holding the wrist of their far arm. Your other arm can be anywhere that you choose.
- Objective: Focus on maintaining control of your partner's far arm using your figure four grip.
- Constraints: None
- Win Condition: Acehieving a two on one grip with one hand holding their wrist and the other reinforcing it in a figure four.
Bottom Player:
- Position: On your back with your partner on top of you lying perpendicular to your torso with chest to chest contact. They should be holding one of your wrists with one hand.
- Objective: Create space and movement in order to allow improvement of your position.
- Constraints: None.
- Win Condition: Bring your feet between you and your partner or reverse the position.
Reset if either player wins.
6 Minute Round
Live round with a partner. Start standing if you are able to do so safely. Otherwise pick the starting position from one of the previous games and start there. Roll to submission, reset, and continue. Repeat as many times as possible before the round ends.