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How to spar

 In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, sparring is usually call Rolling.

How much intensity should you put in rolling?

What would the expected etiquette?

To start with, you have to look on how much rolling do you plan to do?

Our classes are 2 hours long with 1 hour allocated for sparring.

Rounds are usually 5 minutes with 1 minutes in between,

10 rounds of 5 minutes which is pretty solid training.

Even if you take one round off after a roll, you still have done 25 minutes which still is very good.

Most people would train twice a week and can also compliment their training on Saturday which consist of drilling and rollling.

I recommend you adjust your pace and strength level to your training partner's pace and strength.

Not everyone want to roll every round like it was final of the world championship after all.




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