Key Takeaways
- A No-Gi DVD taht will make you incrementally better at finishing people with various leg locks.
- Includes a deep analysis of finishing mechanics for ankle locks, heel hooks, toe holds, and kneebars.
- Provides a system for attacking different finishing moves from the same Ashi Garami position.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 9 out of 10.
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Helena Crevar brings the much anticipated finishes to her leg lock setups in the Leg Locks Finishes Helena Crevar DVD. While this instructional will work best in addition to her previous work, if you’re lacking in the leg locks department, then start with it immediately.
If the goal of leg locks is to get your opponent to tap to any kind of lock, then this is the instructional to show you how to make them. Not only that, it will guide you through several different Ashi positions that offer all or most of the locks, and a way of combining them into a very versatile and multi-threat attack system.
The Trickiest Part of Leg Locks
Getting the tap. There’s nothing more difficult in leg locks than getting the tap. Interestingly, it was the easiest thing about them when people had no idea what they were. These days, you need impeccable timing, extra-tight finishing, and/or an air-tight Ashi to be able to get one on a blue belt, let alone anyone with more experience on the mats.
As you can see, you have several ways of improving your finishing rate, the best one of which is to improve your braking mechanics, timing, and positioning. That’s a big ask, even for a seasoned grappler. So, let’s focus on what actually matters – breaking a leg.
The Leg Locks Finishes Helena Crevar DVD offers an in-depth blueprint for finishing all kinds of leg locks from the same few positions, along with very slick options to combine the finishes in an endless loop. With it, you get to practice finishing all kinds of leg locks instead of just one.
Helena Crevar: The Face of Women’s BJJ
A fresh brown belt, and already the one to beat at the young age of 18, Helena Crevar has made all the right moves to launch a stellar BJJ career very early on. As a blue belt, she moved to Austin to join the New Wave Jiu-Jitsu team and train under John Danaher. That decision turned out to be a masterstroke by the BJJ phenom.
The combination of her talent and hard work, along with Danaher’s impeccable methods and the top-tier training partners available at New Wave on any given day, has propelled Crevar in the BJJ rankings. She has beaten everyone in No-Gi, and quite easily, submitting black belts with twice her experience.
The current Polaris 70kg champion, 2024 ADCC West Coast trials winner, and 2024 ADCC silver medalist still has some way to go, though. Just recently at the 2025 Pans, she recorded one of her rare losses at the hands of Sarah Galvao, perhaps kickstarting the new great BJJ rivalry in women’s grappling.
Crevaer quickly bounced back, beating Elisabeth Clay to capture the 145lbs. belt at WNO27, becoming the youngest WNO champion in the process. We’ve already seen how scary her leg lock game is, so now, we get to enjoy a look behind the curtains in the Leg Locks Helena Crevar DVD.
Leg Locks Finishes Helena Crevar DVD Review
Leg Locks Finishes Helena Crevar DVD is the second in a mini-series, with the first one addressing leg lock setups and positional entries. That means that what you get in this four-part instructional is 2 hours of full focus on finishing different locks from different positions:
Part 1 – Ankle Locks
The leg lock that has become a new staple lately, the powerful (and fully legal) ankle lock, kick-starts the Leg Locks Finishes Helena Crevar DVD. After the initial chapter explaining how we categorize leg locks, Helena launches straight into the classic Straight Ashi Garmi ankle lock finish, sparing no details.
She follows up with what I think is the strongest leg lock finish in BJJ, the belly down ankle lock, exploring several different grips to finish. She also offers cross Ashi ankle locking options, introducing double trouble into the mix and offering super-strong, yet still legal, ankle lock variations.
Part 2 – Outside Heel Hooks
Here, things go deep into Danaher leg locking territory, with all the usual, and a few unusual outside heel hook finishes depicted very thoroughly. Once again, Crevar starts in the Straight Ashi, using it to cover all the key points of the heel hook breaking mechanics.
She then introduces the reverse figure-four heel hook, which is one of the best things in the entire Leg Locks Finishes Helena Crevar DVD. Double trouble options follow, along with the cross ashi, in what seems to be the (almost) same order of moves demonstrated in the ankle locks volume.
Part 3 – Inside Heel Hooks
The inside heel hook work begins in the cross Ashi, which is understandable to anyone who knows the mechanics. In part three of the Helena Crevar Leg Locks DVD, she takes us through several super-tight finishes of inside heel hooks, offering different grips.
This is also where combinations that link different leg locks appear, with Helena mixing up ankle locks and outside heel hooks to set up the ultimate leg locks finisher – inside heel hooks. 50/50 backside finishes wrap this part of the instructional up.
Part 4 – Toe Holds & Knee Bars
Finally, in the last volume of the Leg Locks Finishes Helena Crevar DVD, Crevar decides to broaden the system and introduce several leg locking finishes at once. Her toe hold options are exceptional, especially the double trouble finish.
In terms of kneebars, she favored the ‘behind the lat’ version, offering a couple of different options to get it. Once again, she combines all previous locks with the kneebar to show exactly where and how you can mix them up.
In the final few chapters, more obscure locks feature, one of which we saw Helena pull off recently on UFC Fight Pass 10. Her calf slicer finish, along with some very painful hop lock options, brings a great DVD to an equally impressive end.
Finishing Under Pressure
Tapping people out with a leg lock is no easy feat these days. When I picked up leg locks, before the Danaher instructionals came out, and became moderately good at them, people would tap the moment I trapped the foot, regardless of whether I was thinking of ankle locks or heel hooks. They just didn’t know, and tapped because of panic, not pain.
These days, people know leg locks. They don’t panic, and unless you know what you’re doing, they take their time in Ashi, looking to counter you with a leg lock of their own, or a back take instead of trying to find ways out of the submission.
What this means is that any leg lock you’re looking to finish these days is going to be done under pressure. That also means that you can throw complicated dig and break mechanics out of the window. You need to figure out the easiest way to finish leg locks and be able to get several from the same position.
As you can see, the Leg Locks Finishes Helena Crevar DVD is a resource that helps you fill this exact gap. If finishing leg locks under pressure is your white whale, then this instructional is the extra-large harpoon to slay it once and for all.
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Pick Your Poison!
It’s time for you to pick the leg locks finishes you need to polish and get to work! The Leg Locks Finishes Helena Crevar DVD is not long, and you can figure out what you need to do to improve your favourite lock in a day or two. Alternatively, you can go all in and spend a week figuring out how all leg locks tie together, and emerge on the other side of it with a set of leg locking skills akin to those of the top New Wave Jiu-Jitsu competitors.
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