02 / THE COMPLETE WALKTHROUGH
Log a complete BJJ training session.
Build one complete session, from class details and instruction through three rounds, then find it again in your journal.
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Complete lesson transcript
In this lesson, we'll log a complete BJJ session from beginning to end. We'll add the class details, record the instruction, and save three rounds. Along the way, we'll keep track of what is still in an editor and what has already been saved.
The example is a sixty-minute gi class with three five-minute rounds. Our profile is a hundred-and-eighty-pound blue belt. We'll use different partners so you can see where the context goes and why the same outcome can raise different questions.
Open Quick Log from the student navigation. The page is called Log Training. At the top, you can see Session Details, Instruction, and Sparring. We'll work through each stage slowly, then find the saved session again in the Journal.
Start with the date you actually trained. If you're catching up on a session from yesterday, change the date before you continue. The picker doesn't allow a future training date.
Duration here describes the session. For our class, enter sixty minutes. Later, we'll enter a duration for each sparring round. Those are separate fields answering separate questions: how long the session lasted, and how long a particular round lasted.
Keep a consistent convention when you log class time. If you're recording a sixty-minute class, use that class duration consistently so your history stays comparable. The session duration is part of the training-volume record; the round durations belong to the individual sparring records.
Before moving on, check the date and the number together. A small entry mistake is easier to catch here than after you've built several rounds around the session.
Gym or Location lets you search the Arizona gym list by name or city. You can also enter the location you trained at. Choose the entry that describes this session.
For Sport, select BJJ. Choose Regular Class as the Class Format, and Gi as the Uniform. If this was a no-gi session, choose No Gi instead. The BJJ format choices also include Eco or Positional Class, Seminar, Open Mat, and Private Lesson.
Class format and round type are different choices. An open mat can contain a normal round, for example. We'll choose the type of each round later. Setting BJJ here also gives us the BJJ instruction and round-entry controls.
The separate wrestling and striking lessons show their own forms. Here, keep the example set to BJJ so you can follow the same fields on screen.
How was your cardio is your assessment of the session. The scale runs from Terrible at the low end to Easy Work at the high end. For this example, choose six. Use your own experience of the session and keep your interpretation of the scale consistent.
You'll see Quick Save and Next: Instruction. Quick Save saves a session and opens its saved details. That's useful when the session-level record is all you intend to enter at that point.
We're building the full example, so choose Next: Instruction. This button creates the session before opening the next step. Give the save a moment to finish. Once it has created the session, those initial details are locked in the wizard.
That save boundary matters. Continuing through the wizard adds information to a session that now exists. You can recognize each successful step on screen as we move through the lesson.
Instruction begins with the instructor. You can enter a name, or choose a saved instructor or an available app-user result. Select the person who taught this session if you want that context in the record.
Drilling Partners describes the people you worked with during instruction. You can select up to three. The Guest option lets you record a drilling guest's name when that is the information you have.
A drilling partner and a sparring partner serve different parts of the log. Selecting somebody here doesn't automatically create a round against that person. When we add a round, we'll choose its Training Partner separately.
These fields are optional. Use what you know. For the example, choose one instructor and one drilling partner, then pause to check the selected names before adding the taught technique.
Use Techniques Learned to record the technique that was taught. In this example, search for Shrimp and click the matching existing result. Typing a name into the search field is the beginning of the selection; check that the chosen technique appears as a selected item.
Take a moment to use the existing catalog entry when it describes the move you learned. That keeps later searches and reports connected to a consistent technique record.
In Notes and Tags, leave one useful observation from the instruction. Our example is, keep inside position before starting the escape, followed by the frames tag. The note preserves the coaching detail we want to remember. The selected technique records what was taught.
A note or hashtag doesn't create a scorecard event by itself. We'll record actual attempts separately when we reach the rounds. Keeping those two jobs clear makes the history easier to read later.
The instruction step has another Quick Save option. It saves the instruction and opens the saved session. For this complete example, choose Next: Sparring instead.
This saves the instruction before moving us to the round list. Wait for the Sparring Rounds heading and the Add Round control. We haven't added any rounds yet, so this is the starting point for that part of the session.
The instruction and sparring records now have distinct jobs. One describes the teaching. The other describes what happened when you trained with partners. A technique taught in class can later be compared with the attempts and successes you actually logged.
Choose Add Round to open the first sparring-round editor. We'll build one round completely before starting another.
The first round is against Taylor. Search Training Partner using at least two characters, then select the correct result. Check the name carefully if you know more than one person with the same first name.
Search results can include app users and your saved manual partners. A linked app user's rank comes from their profile. For a manual partner, keep durable rank and weight information in that partner's saved record.
Taylor's saved record is a brown belt at two hundred and ten pounds. We're a blue belt at a hundred and eighty. That context will matter when we return to the result.
For a correction to an existing manual partner's information, use the Partners editing flow. We've selected Taylor and checked the saved details, so we can continue with the round.
Enter five minutes for the round duration. This belongs to the round against Taylor, separate from the sixty-minute session duration we entered earlier.
Choose Normal as the Roll Type. The other choices have their own lesson, so we'll use Normal for all three rounds in this guided example. That gives us a consistent starting point for learning the form.
Set My Start Position to Standing and Opponent Start Position to Standing. Record how each person began this round. If you started seated while your partner started standing, the two fields would describe that difference.
These positions are useful context when you later compare rounds. Choose the actual start, rather than the position you reached after the first exchange.
Round Cardio is your assessment of this particular round. For Taylor, choose seven. You can give a later round a different rating if that describes your experience. It doesn't have to match the session-wide six we chose earlier.
Round Performance asks for your overall assessment. The choices include Got Smashed, Neutral or Close, and I Dominated. In this example, Taylor controlled most of the round, so we'll choose Got Smashed.
Keep that assessment separate from a single submission result. A tap is one event. The performance choice describes how you experienced the overall round. Record it honestly and let the partner context stay with it.
Now we'll add the specific move that ended the round, using the scorecard's actor and result controls.
Choose Add Move in the Scorecard. For Who, choose Opponent, because Taylor performed the armbar. Select the submission action or use the technique's automatic action when it resolves to the right category. Search for Armbar and choose Closed-guard armbar for this example.
Choose Success for the Result. Taylor finished the armbar and we tapped, so this is a successful opponent move. The result belongs to the actor you've selected.
Click the smaller Add control inside the move entry. You can now see the event in this round's scorecard. It's still part of the round editor at this point. We'll use the outer Add Round button to save the round itself.
One finish needs one accurate event. We don't add a second entry calling our tap a failed armbar of our own. Keeping the actor clear prevents a record that says we attempted a move we never performed.
Use the round note to preserve the question behind the result. For Taylor, we'll write, lost inside position before the armbar; ask about the first defensive response. Add the frames tag so the topic is easy to recognize later.
The Video area is where footage can be attached to this round. Uploading and timestamp review have dedicated lessons with their own complete examples. The manual scorecard we've entered here has no exact video timestamps.
If an injury occurred, the injury control opens fields for its location and severity, with an optional note. Record an injury when it actually happened. In our example, no injury occurred, so we leave that unchecked.
Visible to coaches uses the account's visibility preference as its starting point. Check the setting intentionally for this round. We'll cover the available visibility and account controls in their own lesson.
Before saving, check the partner, five-minute duration, starting positions, and the opponent's successful armbar event. Make sure the note describes the question you want to revisit.
Now choose the outer Add Round button. This saves the round immediately. Wait for the editor to close and for Taylor's round to appear in the Sparring Rounds list.
That visible row is the point to recognize before starting the next round. Finish and View Session at the end of the wizard isn't the first save for these rounds. Each Add Round has its own save.
If a save becomes uncertain and the app offers Retry save, use that existing recovery action. It keeps you with the original save request. Starting another round entry is a different action. We'll work through interrupted saves carefully in the recovery lesson.
For the second round, we'll add a partner who doesn't have a linked app profile in this example. Open Add Round and use Add New Partner, or the create option offered after searching for the person's name.
Enter Jordan for the name and choose Blue for rank. Use the stripe count you know, or leave it unknown. If you know the exact weight, expand the optional exact-weight area and enter a hundred and sixty pounds. Check the unit alongside the number.
Then choose Create Partner. This creates the reusable partner record before we save the round. Wait until Jordan is selected in Training Partner.
Use the information you actually know. You can update a manual partner later through the Partners editing flow. If two different people share a first name, include a last initial or another clear name distinction so you can select the right person again.
Set Jordan's round to five minutes, Normal, with both people starting standing. Choose five for Round Cardio and Neutral or Close for the overall performance assessment.
In this example, Jordan attempted an armbar early in the round and we escaped. Later, Jordan made another armbar attempt and finished it. We'll record both attempts.
For the first event, choose Opponent, Armbar, and Fail or Escaped. Add that event to the draft scorecard. For the second event, again choose Opponent and Armbar, but choose Success. Add the second event and read the two rows together.
These are two separate attempts at different moments. One escaped attempt and one finished attempt gives us two observations to review. The performance assessment can still be Neutral or Close if that describes the round overall. The scorecard records the specific attempts; the performance field records our broader assessment.
For Jordan's note, write that we escaped the first armbar and lost inside position on the later attempt. The question is what changed between those two exchanges. Add the frames tag so that question stays connected to the theme from class.
Save the round with Add Round and wait for Jordan to appear beside Taylor in the session's round list.
Both rounds include a successful opponent armbar. The partner context is different, and Jordan's record also includes an escaped attempt. When we review these rounds, we can investigate more than the final tap.
The manual scorecard doesn't tell us the exact time of each event. If we have footage, the review lesson shows how to attach the observations to their actual timestamps and return to the lead-up.
For the third round, choose Casey from the saved partners. Use five minutes and Normal again. In this example, we started Seated and Casey started Standing. Choose four for Round Cardio and Neutral or Close for performance.
This time, we attempted the armbar and Casey escaped. In the scorecard, Who is Me. Choose Armbar, and use Fail or Escaped for the Result. Add the event to the round draft.
Our note preserves the coaching question: we lost the control needed to continue the attack, and we want to ask which detail to fix. Save the round with the outer Add Round button.
You should now see three separately saved rounds. A failed attempt is useful information here. It tells us we tried the move and gives us a specific exchange to revisit. Leaving it out would remove that practice observation from the log.
Check the round list once more: Taylor, Jordan, and Casey, all attached to the same class. Then choose Finish and View Session.
The saved Session Details page brings the instruction and sparring log together. The initial session, instruction and individual rounds were saved at their own steps. This final button completes the wizard flow and opens the saved record.
Read the Class Instruction section and the Sparring Log. If you need to correct instruction, use its Edit control and save the changes in that editor. To add another round later, use Add Roll on this saved session. An existing round has its own edit control and an Update Roll action.
Use the saved-session controls for corrections to saved records. You can verify the resulting record again here instead of relying on an unfinished editor's appearance.
On the saved session, Done returns to Home. Choose Journal from the student navigation to find the training history.
Use Search your training to look for frames, the note topic we kept in the session. The Journal also has filters for details such as date, sport, uniform, partner, instructor and video. Open the session from the results and check that the instruction and three rounds are there.
This is the complete logging loop: record the session, save the teaching, save each round, then return to a history you can search and review. Keep the partner context with the attempts and outcomes. Leave a clear question for the exchange you want to revisit.
The next logging lessons take individual parts of this workflow further. The footage lessons then add upload, playback, timestamp tags and a completed review, so the questions in these notes can lead you back to the actual moments on video.
REVISIT / THE THINKING BEHIND IT
Train with purpose
Keep the context with the result, revisit the lead-up, and choose a useful focus for your next session.
Watch the lessonActual BJJ RollUp interface with example training history.