Key Takeaways
- A 2-volume No-Gi instructional offering an hour of martial on wedging back takes.
- Features pinning using the wedge position, as well as direct and counter-based back attacks.
- Contains leg lock entries as an alternative attacking option from the wedge.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8 out of 10.
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You’ll go for the back if you see it, and you know it. Even if you’re a leg locker, it is wise to have a back attack or two up your sleeve. That said, you don’t have to go all out and master Danaher’s days-long DVDs – you’ll probably lose patience with them quickly.
A proven way that allows you to expose the back, while also keeping you in a pinning position and opening leg lock attacks might sound too good to be true. WEll, the Back Hacks Yigit Haney BJJ DVD delivers on this, making smart use of a tried and tested wrestling method that is tailor-made for BJJ -wedging.
Exposing the Back
Back attacks are only as good as back exposure is. You need to find the back first, establish solid diagonal control, keep said control, and win the grip fight before you can think about finishing. That is a lot of work, or as I like to say, you have the entire sport of Jiu-Jitsu between taking the back and finishing from there.
One thing I’ve had the fortune of picking up early as a blue belt was the concept of attacking submissions in transitions. The back is the perfect example, as you can go for choke setups as you enter the position from the turtle or the mount. As I got handy with these setups I started messing around with the truck and rolling entries, once again looking to choke before even arriving at the back.
This brought back my attention to entries. At the end of the day, with back exposure, you have two routes. One is the methodical, control-based approach that takes you through all the steps I mentioned above (a.k.a. the entire sport of Jiu-Jitsu).
Another approach is to use entries to mask your submission setups, ending with simultaneous control and strangle a.k.a. doing a sort of a dilemma attack while in motion. This requires a bit more finesse and time to figure out, though. Or, it requires an instructional offering a wedging system, like the Back Hacks Yigit Haney BJJ DVD.
Turkish Black Belt Yigit Haney
There are not many high-level grapplers coming out of Turkey. In fact, I know of none, with the exception of Yigit Haney. Getting recognized worldwide in a sport that doesn’t really have any exposure or a network in a specific region is a feat on its own.
Understandably, the 25-year-old had to create opportunities for himself, which he did by regularly training not just with Europe’s best, but also the Renzo Gracie academy HQ in New York. Haney started in Carlson Gracie’s Istanbul academy, going up to purple belt under Chalgar Yazman, before opting to learn from Arturo Wesson, a Renzo black belt who eventually gave Yigit his black belt.
Haney is still very young for this sport and has everything up for grabs. So far, he has had impressive performances at ADCC trials in 2023 and 2024 at black belt, and a world champion and European champion titles at brown. The Back Hacks Yigit Haney BJJ DVD is the first instructional I’ve seen by the Turkish grappler.
Detailed Back Hacks Yigit Haney BJJ DVD Review
The Back Hacks Yigit Haney BJJ DVD is a No-Gi instructional that consists of two parts, each filled with plenty of information on how to expose the back, take the back, and re-take the back. The counter back takes are a particularly valuable section.
Part 1 – Wedges and Countering
Yigit Haney presents an interesting concept that is the centerpiece of his back attacks game, which is wedging. The concept is known and widely used in BJJ, but most people see it as a piece of the puzzle, rather than a driving force behind back takes. That is exactly what makes this Back Hacks Yigit Haney BJJ DVD genius.
Yigit offers a new checkpoint in the back attacks BJJ game – wedging one of the opponent’s legs with your legs, or more precisely, your knees. Pretty close to the leg rides that inspired the 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu Truck position, the wedge is an entry and exit point for the back, one which you can use from various positions.
Haney offers options against sitting and leaning opponents and also covers keeping and regaining the wedge position. He then concludes the first volume of the instructional with information on countering common reactions such as the reverse half guard, Bolos, and tight waist underhook control.
Part 2 – Berimbolos and Leg Locks
The second portion of the Back Hacks Yigit Haney DVD screams modern Jiu-Jitsu. Yigit offers plenty of advanced movement concepts with lots of inversions and spins to open different routes to the back. He shares even more counter-attacking options, which are perfect for No-Gi.
As the DVD draws to a conclusion, Yigit connects the wedge position to leg locks, as an alternate entry when back attacks are not possible. The focus is on 50/50, Outside Ashi, and an overview of the Single Leg X straight Ashi position. The instructional wraps up with more details on wedging control.
The Concept of Wedging
The moment I got wedging in as part of back attacks was during a seminar I attended at a BJJ camp. What clicked for me then was that you didn’t have to set up a truck hook from the top side control to expose the back. It is smooth and looks great, but when you are an aging grappler with a bad neck it is not always the smartest choice.
An alternative is to simply grab on the top leg of an opponent you have in side control with any type of hook you want – even a kind of reverse half-guard will do. Then, you still roll to your back, but you don’t have to go all the way – you simply lie down on your shoulder blades and pinch your knees.
This pinch right there is the all-important wedge that is a real game-changer in regard to back attacks. It helps block the other person with their lower or upper back on the mats, but without the dangers of flipping the Truck, courtesy of wedging instead of hooking.
Once I managed to locate the same wedge in the Ashi Garami game, I suddenly became a lot more interested in this aspect of grappling. If you have no idea where to start, go for the Back Hacks Yigit Haney BJJ DVD. If you want to go deeper, start looking into different leg rides from wrestling.
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Hack the Back!
Using the wedge position to improve your back attacks is truly a hack, and those don’t come often in BJJ, especially for staple positions such as back mount. The Back Hacks Yigit Haney BJJ DVD offers an innovative and fairly open-ended way of getting to the back using an unusual, but reliable checkpoint that works just as well in Gi and No-Gi.
Plus, with a bit of ingenuity, you’ll start seeing submission openings as you move and wedge, saving yourself time on grip fighting and elaborate control systems.
