GovernorSilver

From what little I recall of BJJ, we did some of the same drills as in Judo, but not as much class time was allocated to that. Instead, we got most of our conditioning from sparring. Class was typically structured as warmup/exercise, then technique practice, then sparring to end the class. I think we sparred in 5 min. rounds. It can be pretty exhausting, especially if you are the type of student that expends more effort than necessary. From what I hear, this is typical for people new to a ground grappling art - one tends to get a bit anxious/excited when someone is lying on top of you, so you waste a lot of energy trying to escape.