When we spar, of course I may throw a punch at you. I then freeze my punch in the air for 1/2 second, so you can side kick my chest. I'll still call that "partner drill" by my definition.If you can't figure out how you might help your partner in that context then they won't help you either. Both people lose out on development opportunities
Your definition of "skill development" is my definition of "partner drill". It's OK. We just have different definitions.
In order to do this, we need to have mutual agreement first. In the OP's situation, I don't believe that mutual agreement has been established yet.
I don't know how to map this into the BJJ ground game training. Do you want your opponent to tab out from your choke even if he may still have the ability to counter you (so he can help you to build up your ground game confidence)?
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