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Your injury. A clear recovery plan. Built for jiu-jitsu athletes.
YOUR COMEBACK HAS A ROADMAP.
Your injury. A clear recovery plan. Built for jiu-jitsu athletes.
You rested. You sat out rounds. You searched for solutions.
But you're still guessing whether you're ready or risking reinjury.
What if you actually knew?
How It Works
Select your injury, answer a few simple questions. Two minutes. Just tell us where it hurts and how long ago it happened.
Phase by phase. Week by week. Written in BJJ language, built around your injury, your grade, your game.
A quick weekly check-in. Tell us how you're feeling — your plan adjusts.
Why RollReady
Your grade. Your timeline. Your starting point. A path that fits where you actually are.
Each week tells you what to drill, what to skip, and why. You always know exactly where you stand.
RollReady is built to keep you moving. Recover and progress. At the same time.
Weekly check-ins track how you're healing. Ahead of schedule or behind — your plan adjusts.
INSIDE YOUR ROADMAP
Your MCL needs another week of controlled loading before it's ready for rotational stress. That means guard pulling and scrambles stay off the table for now — but top position work, passing concepts, and single-leg stability drills are all on. Focus on building the base you'll need when guard comes back.
Why Not Just...
You've already tried most of this.
Searching online gives you information. AI gives you answers. Your PT gives you expertise. They're all useful — but they're all incomplete.
None of them train jiu-jitsu.
Not a replacement for any of them. The missing piece that ties them all together.
BJJ Injury Recovery Guide
The knee is the most commonly injured joint in BJJ — guard play, leg locks, and passing all place significant rotational stress on the MCL, ACL, and meniscus.
5 phases — Protect through Full Return. Each phase mapped to specific BJJ positions and training modifications.
Modified training is often possible within 1–2 weeks — top position drilling and passing concepts don't load the MCL. Guard work and leg entanglements return progressively through phases 3–4.
Shoulder injuries in BJJ typically come from kimuras, Americanas, armbars, and collar-tie scrambles — the joint is repeatedly loaded at end range, exactly where it's most vulnerable.
4 phases — Protect through Full Return. Collar grip conditioning and arm-based techniques reintroduce progressively.
Lower-body work, leg lock theory, and guard retention are often accessible within the first 1–2 weeks. Arm-based techniques reintroduce progressively through phases 2–3.
Elbow hyperextensions from armbars are among the most common acute BJJ injuries. Outer and inner elbow tendon pain also builds up gradually from collar grips, sleeve control, and gripping-heavy guard work.
4 phases — Protect through Full Return. Grip conditioning and collar grip training reintroduce progressively through phases 2–3.
Modified training is often possible throughout recovery — reduce gripping volume, avoid spider and lasso guard, and progressively reload the tendon through the phases.
Finger injuries are the most common overuse injury in jiu-jitsu. Finger pulley tears — the ring-shaped ligaments that keep the tendons in place — get hurt from heavy collar gripping. Most grapplers train through them too long, turning a minor tweak into a full rupture.
4 phases — Protect through Full Return. Guard styles and grip controls mapped to each phase so you always know what's accessible.
Often yes with modification — no-gi or gi training without collar grips is frequently possible early. Your roadmap maps which guard styles and controls are accessible at each phase.
Neck and back injuries develop from repeated neck cranks, guillotine attempts, turtle position, and the spinal loading of guard play and takedowns — and are consistently undertreated by grapplers.
4 phases — Protect through Full Return. Inversion and guillotine defense return last — upper body drilling and core work accessible much earlier.
Often yes with significant position modification. Inversion, guillotine defense, and heavy guard pulling return last — but many practitioners return to full training with the right structured approach.
Ankle injuries in BJJ come from takedown defense, ankle lock entries and exits, and the rotational stress of guard passing — outer ankle sprains are especially common in athletes moving quickly between guard and top.
4 phases — Protect through Full Return. Guard-only training from your back is often accessible early — takedowns and wrestling return based on your grade and phase.
Guard-only training from your back is often possible within days of a Grade 1 sprain — it loads the ankle minimally. Takedowns and wrestling return later based on your grade and phase.
From the Mats
"Hurt my shoulder on a Saturday night. By Sunday morning I had a roadmap. I didn't know if I'd torn something or just tweaked it — but I knew what phase I was in, what I could still train, and roughly when I'd be back drilling. That clarity alone was worth it."
"I'd been rolling on a bad knee for six weeks telling myself it was fine. It wasn't fine. RollReady was the first thing that gave me an honest answer about where I actually was — and what I was risking by pushing through. Followed the roadmap. Came back stronger than before the injury."
"Twelve weeks after my ACL I was back on the mats doing positional work. I knew I was ready because my roadmap told me — every milestone checked, every phase completed. No guessing. No hoping. Just a clear finish line I actually crossed."
Representative of the RollReady experience. Real user quotes added as they come in.
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