I’ve seen lots of schools with dummies, but 99.9% of the time people just use them as benches to sit on. This doesn’t just apply to people ordering a dummy for personal use: it applies to jiu-jitsu and MMA schools too. And eventually end up in the landfill (I know, I’ve sent several there myself). Then it gets relegated to the back of a closet. They’ve usually got a list of drills they want to do every day on it.īut somehow, a week or two after arriving, their new toy is already lying off to the side of the living room with children’s toys piled on top of it. When people fork out the cash to buy a dummy they’re initially very excited. If can’t make it to class as often as you would like, then maybe spending a bit of extra time repping techniques on a humanoid dummy could make up the difference, right?
Find another way to train.Īt first the idea of getting a dummy and doing some extra drilling with it seems like such a good idea. In my experience grappling dummies are almost always a waste of time, money, effort and space.
THE GRAPPLING DUMMIES ARTICLE CONTINUES HERE… Google Podcasts (the new google podcast app).Apple Pod casts (the purple app on your iPhone).Here are the links to find my podcast on various players – today’s episode is number 189 and is called “Grappling Dummies and Other Tips to Train When You Can’t Make It to Class.” I also featured this rant about grappling dummies and limited training time on my Strenuous Life Podcast… Here’s a video and podcast with my views on the subject, or if you prefer to read on you can scroll down the page a bit further… WATCH AND/OR LISTEN TO MY RANT ON THIS TOPIC I often get emails from people wanting to know whether drilling with a grappling dummy will help their jiu-jitsu.ĭummies are expensive items, and people want to make sure the investment will be worth it.
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