Do you know what the most difficult aspect of any takedown in martial arts is? Keeping the person you just took down on the ground. If you’ve ever managed a takedown in a competitive setting you know what I am talking about.
Since nobody is going to allow you to keep them down, pass their guard, and submit them, you’ll need to work for it. And to do that, someone needs to give you directions. While everyone’s game is different and individual, there are some fundamental ways of approaching building a game that is tied together as a whole that is unchangeable.
Apart from your coach, there is the Danielle Kelly BJJ DVD dubbed DK Style: The Art Of Setting Up Takedowns To Effective Submissions And Leg Locks. She is a world-class competitor and world champion. It is easy to choose to heed her advice.
Key Takeaways
- 3-part No-Gi BJJ DVD by ONE FC reigning Atomwiehgt Grappling Champion Danielle Kelly
- An hour-and-a-half-long blueprint to building an interconnected top game.
- Aimed mostly at competitors looking to dominate from the top.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 9 out of 10.
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The Art of Mastering Offensive Transitions
It is very easy to get lost in the intricate realm of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu techniques and positions and claim they don’t work. Of course, things are not going to work when you’re trying to factor in tens of ultra-fine details while disregarding the big picture of what you’re trying to achieve.
Who cares if you tapped your opponent in the finals using a choke you just came up with? It doesn’t have to contain all 37 details your coach showed you, as long as it works. Well, speaking of things that work, making sure an opponent you take down does not stand up is key to doing everything you intend to after the standing battle.
This is one aspect of grappling I see students struggle with a lot. After a takedown, everyone expects a rest, an opponent that will accept to stay on the mats, and a passing opportunity whenever they feel like it. It rarely works that way.
If you want to be successful with your top game, you’ll need to be able to integrate every major aspect of the game into it and stay aware of the whole picture. That is exactly what the ‘DK Style’ Danielle Kelly BJJ DVD addresses – how to connect takedowns, passing, and submissions.
Danielle Kelly: The Female Grappler to Beat 2024
Danielle Kelly is one of the most inspiring and positive faces in the world of Jiu-Jitsu. Currently holding the ONE FC Atomweight Grappling World Champion title, Dani represents all the grapplers of the new era.
Still only 28, Danielle is a black belt under Karl ‘Silverfox’ Pravec, one of Renzo Gracie’s best students and a world-renowned coach. Proudly representing team Silverfox, Kelly has placed herself as the one to beat, with flawless performances inside the ONE cage so far, which put a spotlight on her constantly evolving grappling style.
On the mats, Danielle’s style is marked by relentlessness – she never stops. Kelly, who has competed in just about every grappling martial art since the age of 10, is not afraid to wrestle, fight with her back on the ground, or hunt for leg locks.
She worked her trade to perfection in professional Jiu-Jitsu tournaments such as EBI, WNO, and ADCC Trials. She then found her home in the ONE cage, representing the highest level of BJJ along with Mikey Musumeci among elite-level grapplers, wrestlers, and Sambo fighters.
Kelly’s first title defense is set for August 2, 2024, when she’ll face her toughest opponent to date – the experienced and dangerous Mayssa Bastos. With the match about a month away, Dani still found time to treat us with her first instructional, and with it, a peek into her teaching style.
Danielle Kelly BJJ DVD Review: Setting Up Takedowns To Submissions And Leg Locks
Yes, Dani loves leg locks, but this instructional is much more than just a leg lock Danielle Kelly DVD. It is a blueprint of her grappling game, focused on her top game in No-Gi, and she makes that clear from the beginning.
Dani shares her competitive go-to moves in three volumes of the DK Style Takedowns, Leglocks & Submissions instructional, with the material amounting to just under an hour and a half.
Part 1 – Throws And Takedown Sequences
As she begins her instructional, Kelly opens up with a short overview of her mindset during competitive grappling matches, which I find much more useful than trying to impart a one-size-fits-all strategy. She keeps it short, moving immediately into a very powerful takedown throw combo based on the Uchi Mata.
As a former Judoka, I am acutely aware of how difficult the Uchi Mata is to perform against opposition in a BJJ setting. Dani resolves this glaring issue by chaining it with a Guillotine threat, that serves both as a takedown and a submission threat. She expands on it using wall grappling tactics, which are perfect for those grappling in cages.
The conclusion of the first volume of this premiere Danielle Kelly BJJ DVD is all about using the knee shield pass. Dani flows into it from both a successful Uchi Mata and the guillotine-enforced one, providing a very intuitive and logical sequence.
Part 2 – Leg Locks and Chokes
You only have to wait until the second volume of the “DK Style’ DVD instructional for some of those signature leg attacks Kelly is known for. The first point on the agenda is the knee bar, and how it works from the top, as a dilemma attacks bound with passing threats.
Staying true to the subject of the DVD, Kelly shows follow-up heel hooks to failed kneebar attempts, as well as a way to go in and out of the 4/11 position, using it for both leg locks and passing.
The cherry on the top of this Leg Lock Danielle Kelly is the D’arce choke set up by passing the knee shield half-guard. Another dilemma, another successful pass or tap. Or both. I actually tried this immediately after watching the instructional and it worked immediately. I do love D’arces, though, so that might have helped.
Part 3 – Leg Lock Submission Chains
The final portion of the ‘DK Style’ Danielle Kelly BJJ DVD keeps connecting leg lock attacks, starting (or better said, continuing) from the 4/11 position. Dani blends in a Kimura threat using the 4/11 before exploring ways to set up knee bar-heel hook combinations from the X guard.
As a final topic in its instructional, Kelly turns to a position that seems to be emerging as a popular leg-locking alternative – the bear trap. Of course, she wraps up with a heel hook, rather than trying to muscle in a calf-slicer finish. An elegant way to wrap this instructional up.
The Big Picture Competition Game
Danielle Kelly’s ‘DK Style’ DVD covers a very important subject in BJJ, that is rarely discussed outside of game design in competition classes. While I am aware that not everyone has a competitive appetite (including me, lately) the ability to seamlessly transition between different key pins and weave in submission threats remains a big, if not the biggest, condition for success.
So why ignore it? Build a game that works, regardless of whether or not you’re going to compete or just roll. A friend of mine once said that if you roll in the gym without setting a task to achieve, you’re just wasting your time. I completely agree.
Whenever you’re rolling, try to keep the big picture in mind. You’re going to take someone down, but then what? You’ll pass a guard but then what’s next? BJJ works as a turbulent flow more than a set of sequences divided by clear borders.
The Takedown and Leg Lock Danielle Kelly BJJ DVD is a great resource to start thinking like a competitor by looking at how a World Champion’s brain works in terms of planning her game. Even if you hate leg locks and takedowns, and would rather pull guard and do triangles, you’ll learn a lot from this DVD.
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Get Locked In!
While the ‘DK Style’ Danielle Kelly BJJ DVD is a great fit for anyone, white to black belt, Gi and No-Gi, it is a must for competitors who are serious about trying to go pro. Not many grappling athletes have released instructional covering their game design and the transition that makes their game work.
Then again, Dani is not just any grappling athlete. Pick up the DK Style: The Art Of Setting Up Takedowns To Effective Submissions And Leg Locksby Danielle Kelly and become a better grappler in just weeks! Oh, and don’t forget to cheer Danielle in her upcoming ONE FC World Title defense!
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