I'm going to hard disagree with this. First off, when I drill a technique enough times that I don't mess it up in drills, that doesn't mean I'll remember all the steps once it goes live. But more importantly, when I'm live rolling, I'm often not in the right position to even work on the technique. And yes, I should learn how to get into that position. But as a white belt, most of the folks I roll with are better at keeping me out of it than I am at getting into it. If anything, I wish we dead drilled more at my school. Then I feel like I might actually get the hang of a technique enough to hit it in rolling.
You're focusing on the problem incorrectly. If the issue is that you can't achieve the position required to implement the technique you are trying to work on in live rolling, the solution is not more dead drilling. The solution is to start the live roll in the position in which you can execute the technique. Positional drilling is actually valuable
I completely disagree with this. No one can "implement a move without thinking about it" in 8-9 reps. Thats ridiculous. Minimum a few hundred reps and for most I'd say that level of mastery over a technique starts to happen in the thousands of reps. Live drilling and grappling are very important but to say you no longer need reps is like saying once you learn a jab in boxing you just need to spar from then on and never need pad-work, heavy bag work or shadow boxing. What you are saying is super popular these days because everyone loves rolling and not drilling. Not because its the best way to do things. At my place I still have my students reps techniques (even advanced belts) after that we do live drills, then rolling. All are important.
