What is a good training drill for mma to develop ability to stand up from grappling?

Question

What is a good training drill for mma to develop ability to stand up from grappling?

Answer 1

Try using traditional standup techniques from folkstyle wrestling where you focus on hand control and keep your hips away from your opponent.  A good drill for this, especially practicing how to stand up from a guard position would be to mimic your guard with your head near a wall, pushing up into the wall with the upper part of your back touching the wall and sliding up that wall.  Make sure you are focusing on keeping your hips away from your opponent when standing up against the cage or wall.  Otherwise, you'll be put right back down.  Concentrate on hand control and establishing an underhook on either side.  Likewise, from butterfly guard, if you have a partner, you can establish two underhooks and use your feet to push away from the top mans hips and stand up using your underhooks (sherk uses that technique, though he isnt on bottom too often).  Try those two.  The wall drill without a partner and the double underhooks from a butterfly guard position with a partner.

Answer 2

Grappling is done in the stand up and ground work is done on the ground even the clinch is done in the stand up yo.

You more than likely mean what T.V. people call "scrambling" and I call "rolling out" from a "takedown" so I'll answer the question from that aspect of a cage boubt.

Once you've been hip tossed, taken down with a reap, etc. it is as simple as rolling and tumbling which I never see people do other than Nick Diaz and Karo Parisian for some odd reason.  

So incorporating rolls and tumbles into your sprawls while on the heavy bag should be a very important detail in any striking on the heavy bag any time you're standing there roughing it out.  You can also incoporate rolls and tumbles into your sprawls while shadow boxing as well.

If you want to turn this variant into a drill make sure it's all on a 5 minute round timer set for 10 rounds with a one mintue break between rounds ( 50 minutes total on bag actually working ) and sprawl then roll forwards and backwards then stand back up quickly in the standing gaurd and continue to strike the bag.  Repeat this four or five times per round at minimum  You can also add side to side rolling to this here and there at the end of your sprawls as well and make it part of your shadow boxing routine on a daily basis.

Hope that helped..... Good Luck.

Answer 3

Can you elaborate on your question?  Stand-up from where?  The guard? Stopping a takedown? ...?

If from the guard, the easiest way is work your feel to your opponents hips, and then do like an explosive leg press.  This will drive your opponent back, then get up by stepping back and using hand to keep opponent back.  This is the basic way to get up in BJJ.

Obviously the best way to get up is not get takedown (I hate g*y sayings like that, but it's true).  If you really don't want to go to the ground, work on your takedown defenses and sprawl.

One of the best drills is with a partner, have one guy have boxing gloves and the other nothing.  The guy with boxing gloves uses strikes, movement, and defense to keep the other guy from taking him down.  The guy without gloves does what he can to take the other down.

Matt

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