01-25-2024

Round length: 3 min Rest duration: 1 min Switch each round.

Attribution: This game is based on an Instagram reel posted by coach Greg Souders at Standard Jiu-Jitsu.

Top Player:

  • Position: Behind your partner with chest to back contact.
  • Objective: Maintain chest to back contact for as long as possible.
  • Constraints: Do not connect your hands. You can grab anywhere on your opponnent but never connect your own hands.
  • Win Condition: None

Bottom Player:

  • Position: In front of your partner with your hands (or elbows) and knees on the ground and their chest contacting your back.
  • Objective: Use movement to create space and improve your position.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: Turn and face your partner by any means necessary.

Reset if bottom player wins.

Attribution: This game is based on an Instagram reel posted by coach Greg Souders at Standard Jiu-Jitsu.

Top Player:

  • Position: Behind your partner with chest to back contact and your hands locked around their waist.
  • Objective: Get your hands connected to the hips and shoulders simultaneously. Maintain chest to back connection and back exposure for as long as possible.
  • Constraints: Do not puncture hooks or submit your opponent.
  • Win Condition: None

Bottom Player:

  • Position: In front of your partner with your hands and knees on the ground, their chest contacting your back, and their hands locked around your waist.
  • Objective: Use movement to create space and improve your position.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: Turn and face your partner by any means necessary.

Reset if bottom player wins.

Attribution: This game is based on an Instagram reel posted by coach Greg Souders at Standard Jiu-Jitsu.

Top Player:

  • Position: Behind your partner with chest to back contact, a single leg wrapped around their torso with your foot covering their hip, one arm wrapped over their shoulder, the other arm wrapped under their armpit, and your hands connected.
  • Objective: Maintain chest to back contact while hunting for submissions.
  • Constraints: Do not puncture the second hook. Only close your legs around your partner while attacking an upper body submission.
  • Win Condition: Successfully submitting your opponent.

Bottom Player:

  • Position: In front of your partner with their chest contacting your back, a single leg wrapped around your torso with the foot covering your hip, one arm wrapped over your shoulder, the other arm wrapped under your armpit, and their hands connected.
  • Objective: Use movement to create space and improve your position.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: Turn and face your partner by any means necessary.

Reset if either player wins.

Attribution: This game was originally created by coach Greg Souders at Standard Jiu-Jitsu.

Top Player:

  • Position: On your knees with your partner's legs around your torso and their feet hooked together behind you.
  • Objective: Maintain posture and keep your hands on your opponent. If your post gets trapped fight out back to an upright posture.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: None

Bottom Player:

  • Position:On your back with your legs wrapped around your partner's torso with your feet hooked together behind them.
  • Objective: Make strong meaningful connection anywhere on the body to try to remove the the hands and destabilize your partner forwards or backwards by using pushing and pulling of the legs. Cause your partner to post. Puhish the post by trapping it with underhooks and overhooks.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: None

Attribution: This game was originally created by coach Greg Souders at Standard Jiu-Jitsu.

Top Player:

  • Position: On your knees with your partner's legs around your torso and their feet hooked together behind you.
  • Objective:Maintain upright posture and keep your hands on your partner.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: Fighting back to posture.

Bottom Player:

  • Position: On your back with your legs wrapped around your partner's torso with your feet hooked together behind them. Start with one arm either hooked over their shoulder or one arm hooked under their armpit.
  • Objective: Separate the hands and work your way towards the arm in arm out scenario.
  • Constraints: None
  • Win Condition: Achieving the arm in arm out scenario.

Game 5 was cut short due to time constraints. It should be played again in a more open schedule to allow for exploration in the space. Folks struggled with the concept of isolating an arm.

Consider constraints to afford isolation or new games altogether.