Key Takeaways
- A four-part bundle containing a set of Giancarlo Bodoni’s No-Gi BJJ DVDs
- Features front headlock, back mount, top half guard, and top pinning positions.
- Over 20 hours of utilizing chest to chest and chest to back connections to your advantage.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8.5 out of 10.
GIANCARLO BODONI DVD BUNDLE ESSENTIAL CONNECTIONS GET HERE!
Staying closed and tight while controlling dominant positions seems to always be a problem for people. Since most grapplers over-rely on the use of their arms and even legs, Giancarlo Bodoni now shows how focusing on where your chest is makes all the key differences.
The Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections contains four of Giancarlo’s encyclopedia-like instructional that focus on the chest to chest and chest to back positions in BJJ. You’ll learn why these connections matter, how to set them up, hold them, and finish, as well as what you’ve been doing wrong until now.
Giancarlo Bodoni – A Legend on the Rise
28-year-old Giancarlo Bodoni has had a stellar career in BJJ so far, and who knows where the future will take him? While any matchup with the GOAT Gordon Ryan is not possible, as they are currently teammates and Ryan is trying to fix his stomach, there are plenty of people we’d like to see pegged against Giancarlo.
The biggest achievement of the young BJJ black belt’s career so far has been the consecutive win of the ADCC belt in the -88kg division, something no other athlete has achieved. Bodoni also has a Pans No-Gi title to his name at black belt, as well as the combo of Pans and Worlds as a brown belt, a feat that got him promoted to black in 2019.
Bodoni has had a marauding learning experience when it comes to BJJ. Originally an Alliance grappler, he started with Rillion Gracie, before moving on to train with Gutemberg Pereira in Brazil, followed by Lucas Lepri and Bernardo Faria, before landing in John Dnaaher’s elite team of killers.
In the midst of all his professional competitive grappling outings and daily training with the New Wave Jiu-Jitsu squad, Bodoni also finds time to release highly useful content, some of which is now available as the Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections release.
What’s In The Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections
Delivering an incredible DVD collection, the Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections offers a four-title pack of highly useful Giancarlo Bodoni DVDs that focus on helping you retain offensive positions.
Covering the front headlock, back, top half guard, and top pinning positions, this Giancarlo Bodoni Essential Connections Bundle offers the ultimate blueprint for figuring out why people escape your top pins and how to change that:
Chest to Back: Front of Elbows DVD – AVAILABLE HERE!
Subject Matter: Kicking things off is the first of two instructional in this bundle focusing on chest to back connections which center around the back mount and front headlock positions.
Key Points Covered: Over the course of this first Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections instructional, the old principle of connection in BJJ is the main topic. Giancarlo starts with a discussion about the front headlock, offering entries and submissions after he explores how keeping a chest to back connection makes the position almost inescapable.
There are plenty of standing exchanges in this part of the instructional covering different takedown, trip, and drag-down options before Bodoni switches attention to getting the back off of the front headlock using the chest to back connection. All associated submissions like guillotines, RNC, and front headlock chokes feature heavily as expected.
Technical DVD specifications: Over the course of 8 volumes, Giancarlo ends up offering well over 7 hours of high-quality No-Gi material, organized in a progressive system.
Chest to Back: Behind Elbows DVD – DOWNLOAD HERE
Subject Matter: The second chest to back title in the Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections focuses more on the back mount, which Bodoni refers to as being behind the elbows. Contains loads of back control details, entries, and follow-ups.
Key Points Covered: Basing most of his work in this instructional on the see-the-back-take-the-back principle Bodoni begins with some basic positional control, before offering ways to eat the turtle and stay behind once you achieve the back by re–back taking constantly.
He also addresses an effective defense that’s often overlooked,d which is people standing up as a means to get rid of the back mount. Giancarlo shows how to get them back down and ready for choking, using mostly wrestling-based moves like Nelsons and rides.
Submissions appear towards the end, with the final two chapters really honing in on how to strangle people with your hands and legs from the back. Stuff like twisters and cross-body rides also find their way into this Giancarlo Bodoni instructional.
Technical DVD specifications: Another long No-Gi BJJ DVD by Giancarlo Bodoni, lasting the better part of 8 hours. Similar to his previous chest to back instructional, Giancarlo divides the content systematically, using 8 different volumes.
Chest to Chest: Half Guard Passing DVD – FULL DOWNLOAD
Subject Matter: Halfway through the bundle, the attention switches to forward-facing connections, with Bodoni offering many different ways of passing the half guard once you find yourself in a chest to chest position.
Key Points Covered: While passing is accentuated in this DVD, Bodoni uses it to present the principle of chest to chest connections and the benefits you get from it as the top grappler.
The insturctional starts with an intro to passing from chest to chest positions and dives directly into the half guard, covering how to control the top half guard position, force entries, and cause reactions that help you pass.
There are lots of details on dealing with the hip and shoulders of the opponent, through the corssface and chin strap positions. Dealing with different half guards also emerges throughout, as Bodoni explains how to beat the one leg they have left once you set up dominant top half guard control through a chest to chest connection.
Technical DVD specifications: This part of the Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections lasts a bit less compared to the previous titles, with content delivered in 6 volumes, and the total running time amounting to just under 5 hours.
Chest to Chest: Submissions & Pin Transitions DVD- GET IT HERE
Subject Matter: As we reach the final part of the Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections, another release on chest to chest explains how to hold people down and finish at will, mostly after you’ve passed their guard.
Key Points Covered: Bringing the Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections to an end is an instructional that contains Bodoni’s top game form side control, North-South, and mount, featuring a number of different submissions and their variations.
Giancarlo does offer positional checkpoints you must accomplish first so that your chest-to-chest pinning is not just secure but also allows you to set up submissions. and/or transitions. The usual suspects of armbars, Kimuras, and guillotines feature heavily, along with slick setups, arm triangle choke variations, and many, nasty triangle choke finishes.
Technical DVD specifications: As with the previous members of the Giancarlo Bodoni Essential Connections bundle, this is a 6-part No-Gi BJJ DVD that holds just under 6 hours of material.
The BJJ Connection Principe
Staying tight to people in BJJ is usually a good idea and you’ve probably heard your coach yell something along those lines while you were holding side control in a tournament. Well, as easy and straightforward as it sounds, keeping your chest in connection with the opponent is not always an easy task.
Getting your chest to the opponent’s chest or back is the ultimate control position in BJJ, as that allows you to use your limbs to enhance pinning and open up finishing options. In most cases, it also translated directly into gathering points.
One of the less apparent advantages of securing such a tight connection is that you get to feel what the opponent is going to do as they are doing it. Being so close means you know what direction they’re moving toward, which allows you to react quickly instead of lagging behind them.
The Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections contains several of Giancaro’s instructionals, all featuring either chest to chest or chest to back principles, tactics, and strategies you can use in No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu.
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Stay Tight!
you already know that you need to stay tight to your opponent, particularly after you manage to pass their guard. If you were lacking directions on what your goals are, the Giancarlo Bodoni DVD Bundle Essential Connections has more than 20 hours of material to help you plug any holes you might have in your top game and help you improve your pinning and submission finishes.
