Top Five Ways BJJ Positional Sparring Makes You Better

BJJ Sparring is the most important aspect of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. It has a lot of benefits for a BJJ learner. You can improve your skills and convert your weaknesses to strengths through BJJ sparing. We will explain the top five ways BJJ positional sparring will help you improve at BJJ.

BJJ sparring is a form of contact fighting in which you grapple to submit your opponent. Striking is not used in BJJ sparring. You learn how to submit your opponent. It is also known as BJJ rolling or free rolling.

• In BJJ sparring, you apply different techniques to submit and take down your opponent. You don't focus on a single technique or move in BJJ sparring. You also don't focus on your weaknesses to convert them into strengths.

• Meanwhile, in BJJ positional sparring, you focus on a specific BJJ move or technique and apply that move throughout your BJJ sparring.

• In this, you focus on your weakness until you improve. The main goal is to find flaws and weaknesses and convert them into strengths by applying or using them repeatedly in BJJ sparring.

• For example, you may be weak or don't know how to make a guard escape. More specifically, you are weak in escaping from the full guard position.

• You will try again and again to escape from the full guard position till you become better at it.

• It provides a better way to improve your game and become the best BJJ fighter.

BJJ positional sparring makes you a BJJ fighter by improving you in moves and techniques where you are weak. It makes you a better BJJ fighter by following the top five ways:

• The most important thing for succeeding in anything is confidence. You can't excel in your BJJ career if you don't have confidence in your abilities.

• Through this sparring, you learn what you don't know other than traditional BJJ sparring, where you do anything and go with the flow. 

• You only learn those things for which you are weak, while in BJJ sparring, you don't have to focus on any specific move.

• Therefore, as time passes, you improve at Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and develop confidence in your abilities and skills. You learn a move so often that you become best at using and throwing that move. So, BJJ positional sparring helps you make yourself confident.

• Sparring makes you better at using moves in every way. You don't only learn to attack by using a particular technique or move in BJJ positional sparring. But you also learn to defend against the same move you are trying to make.

• You learn the move in which you are weak from every aspect. You learn to attack and defend against that move and how to escape and regain the dominant position.

• Imagine you cannot attack your opponent with a BJJ guard position. In sparring, you will learn how to attack and defend yourself against the guard. Besides, you will also practice escaping the guard and regaining a dominant position when in the guard position.

• In BJJ sparring, also known as BJJ rolling or free rolling, you have an increased chance of being injured. This is because you are not focusing on anything in BJJ rolling. Instead, you start fighting without any goal.

• You and your opponent can use any specific move and technique. BJJ white belts are not familiar with all moves or techniques. 

• They can't defend themselves against all the moves. So, the chances of injury increase greatly in BJJ sparring or BJJ rolling for BJJ white belts.

• Therefore, it is often suggested that all BJJ white belts start with BJJ positional sparring. In that sparring, they focus on only one move. Their opponent also can't use any other move, increasing BJJ white belts' safety.

• It is always better than BJJ sparring if you want to improve yourself in one move, technique, or position.

• Later, they can go to BJJ sparring as they improve and become familiar with many different BJJ moves and techniques. 

• Sparring builds resilience in you. You learn different techniques and ways to escape from a particular submissive position. Escaping from any submissive position requires a lot of patience and calmness. By staying calm, you must figure out a way to escape from a submissive position.

• You learn to escape from a particular position. By learning to stay in a submissive position and continuously trying to transition your position and escape, you build resilience in yourself.

• Your mental strength plays a major role in escaping from a position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. You need three things to escape:

• Focus, strategy, and calmness.

• You learn all these things in BJJ positional sparring and eventually develop resilience. 

• It allows you to face those moves and techniques you usually don't face in BJJ free rolling. This is because, in BJJ rolling or free rolling, most BJJ fighters use common techniques and moves.

• Therefore, you will become weaker in one move and stronger in other moves. You join sparring in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to keep a balance and not allow your opponents to attack you in any move if you are weaker.

• For example, if a BJJ fighter is weak at those moves, which are uncommon, he will stay weaker. Because in BJJ rolling, you will also not encounter those moves and techniques.

• In this way, you will focus on only those moves and become better at using those unfamiliar moves and techniques.

• BJJ positional sparring makes you better in BJJ in many ways. It is most important for BJJ fighters, particularly for BJJ white belts. It makes you confident in your abilities and develops resilience in yourself. It increases safety, particularly for BJJ white belts, and allows you to face uncommon moves and techniques.

• BJJ white belts should start with this sparring rather than joining free rolling. It makes you better in those moves and techniques you find challenging.

• The most essential benefit to BJJ fighters is focused training. Without a focus, you can't learn anything. You will be going with the flow. You should know your weaknesses and start learning them until you improve.

• You focus on learning one move till you become better at that move. The main purpose is to improve moves and techniques where you are weak in BJJ.

• You become better as you continue learning one specific BJJ move or BJJ technique. You are just going with the flow in BJJ or free rolling. You have no focus on any move or your weaknesses. That’s why it is better than BJJ or free rolling.

It makes you better at BJJ in five different ways:

• It makes you confident.

• It trains you to attack and defend against the same position.

• It increases safety for BJJ white belts.

• It builds resilience.

• It forces you to face uncommon moves and focus on one move at a time.

• The chances of getting injured are much less in BJJ positional sparring than in BJJ rolling because you are learning only one move.

• In BJJ rolling, you can expect to face any move you must defend, increasing the chance of injury. Therefore, the chances of getting injured are minimal.

• Yes, it increases your confidence . You try learning a move in which you are weaker and continue doing this repeatedly until that move becomes your strength.

• As you have taken many days to master one move or technique, you ultimately become confident in your moves and techniques. 

• Yes, it develops resilience in yourself. For example, you are learning guard escape in BJJ sparring. You have to stay calm, focus on the escape, and find a strategy to get yourself in the dominant position from submission.

• You do this repeatedly, which helps build calmness, focus, and a strategic mind. This is how you develop resilience.