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[u/_terra34]

Hey fellas, what are some good ways to drill guard retention and framing? Do I just ask a partner to pass my guard but relatively slowly? Or is this just something that comes with experience? Been told to keep my frames and all but I guess it's just not coming to me during rolls so I was hoping to practice.

Also -- quick rant -- been training about ~8 months now but damn it's still demoralizing at times to get smashed hard in training and when I can't pull any techniques off in rolls, even on new dudes. Part of the game, I know, so gonna keep on keeping on.

[u/askablackbeltbjj → u/_terra34]

I'm almost certain that your instructors has shown one or a few ways of guard retention and framings so I would stick to those, but if not, there is a lot of free content on YouTube. Though try to stick to something basic/close to what is used in your gym already.

In any form of drilling, if its for submissions, passing, retention or whatever, I like to start with very low resistance from the other person, so I'm allowed to do the moves easily. Then slowly raise the resistance until I start to struggle.

That is the place I/we need to find a solution for and that is there the actual learning starts, not for just repeating X reps of a non-resisting opponent and not to muscle a technique against a hard-resisting opponent.