DK Style: Takedowns to Leg Lock Danielle Kelly BJJ DVD Review

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Ognen Dzabirski
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DK Style: Takedowns to Leg Lock Danielle Kelly BJJ DVD Review

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.

DK Style: Takedowns to Leg Lock Danielle Kelly BJJ DVD Review

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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10th Planet Top Game DVD Review By Heather Jo Clark

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Ognen Dzabirski
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10th Planet Top Game DVD Review By Heather Jo Clark

Staying on top of your opponent in BJJ and MMA provides many advantages, but it is not an easy task to accomplish. While you’ll undoubtedly get to a top position from time to time, staying in it often ends up being an issue.

The problem is that we have a ton of different top positions to consider, and instead of trying to make a dominant one work, we are happy to change between them until we inevitably fail and end up on the bottom. We’ve all been there.

Heather Jo Clark’s 10th Planet Top Game, focusing on how to make the top half guard your main top position, offers a complete game plan that will help you keep the top once you conquer it, throwing a bunch of curve balls at your opponent along the way.

Key Takeaways

  • 2-part No-Gi BJJ DVD with almost 2 hours of 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu moves.  
  • A bunch of unorthodox ways to hold, pass, and submit from the top half guard.
  • Taught by Ultimate Fighter Season 20 winner Heather Jo Clark. 
  • BJJ World Expert Rating: 8 out of 10.

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The 10th Planet Game

Even when I was a white belt, training in a traditional BJJ Gi-only gym, I was fascinated with Eddie Bravo and his 10th Planet System. It just made sense. Bravo launched his own version of Jiu-Jitsu after getting his black belt from Jean Jacques Machado, trying to create a grappling style tailor-made for MMA.

While the 10th Planet style never really took off as an MMA-specific version of BJJ, it did take off- in a big way. Unorthodox, often flashy, extremely effective, and not bound by any traditional dogmas, Bravo’s 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu was the first major tectonic shift in the BJJ World.

Given his original idea of an MMA-oriented grappling style, Bravo spends a lot of time perfecting and modifying the best positions from wrestling and BJJ, resulting in one of the most intricate and tight styles in existence. Although the Rubber Guard might not be for everyone, stuff like the lockdown and the entire 10th Planet Top Game, from passing to the Truck and Twister are stuff that you definitely want in your arsenal.

‘Hurricane’ Heather Jo Clark

If you ever stumble into 10th Planet Boca Raton then you’re bound to run into Heather Jo Clark, a.k.. the head coach. The UFC strawweight and Ultimate Fighter Season 20 winner is a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu under Eddie Bravo and has been representing 10 Planet Jiu-Jitsu throughout her grappling career.

Just like most folks at 10th Planet, Heather is very competitive but decided to channel her energy into MMA rather than professional grappling. She joined the famous Jackson/ Winkeljohn Academy in Albuquerque training with the likes of Holy Holm, Julie Kedzie, and Michelle Waterson.

As her pro-MMA career took off, Heather moved to LA, deciding to make the Xtreme Couture gym her home base. Heather beat Bec Rawlings in the Ultimate Fighter Season 20 finale with a torn ACL, demonstrating grit and determination.

Before retiring in 2018, she fought several more times against high-profile names in the UFC, Bellator, and Invicta FC. Since hanging up the MMA gloves, Heather turned to teaching Jiu-Jitsu at the 10th Planet Boca Raton gym she built in 2023.

Heather Jo Clark 10th Planet Top Game DVD Review

The 10th Planet Top Game BJJ DVD is an instructional by Heather Jo Clark focusing on playing top half guard. It is a No-Gi instructional with almost 2 hours of material on how to hold, pass, and submit from the top half guard:

Part 1 – Half Guard Top

As Hurricane Heather kicks off her first BJJ instructional, she starts in the top half guard. The first chapter is a general overview of the position, and what you can do from it in BJJ and MMA. I happen to agree with Heather that forcing half guard from the top is one of the smartest and most efficient ways to pin and restrict motion.

As Heather starts rolling out the 10th Planet techniques, she begins using a no-hand pass which is very unique and will definitely surprise opponents. She goes on to explore body lock passing, known as ‘Buttock Compressor’ in the 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu vocabulary. The dog bar setup from this pass is one to watch out for.

Two-thirds in this volume of the Heather Jo Clark instructional she changes tactics again, offering a new avenue of passing, this time by switching hip sand forcing twister side control. Of course, this involves lots of rolling attacks, so sequences like The Ninja Roll to Swedish Twister appear a lot. They make sense and seem to work just fine, though.

Part 2 – Submissions

The 10th Planet system has always been one of the most submission-oriented styles out there, and Heather does it justice by dedicating an entire volume to the different ways you can make someone tap from the 10th Planet Top Game.

‘Hurricane’ opens with an unusual Guillotine choke setup that looks like a north-south choke, given the heavy use of the lat. She moves on to combine several more guillotines, including the mounted high-elbow finish into a very efficient and aggressive way to attack from the top half guard.

Other submissions featured in this volume include arm triangle chokes, mostly in the form of the D’arce and Anaconda, the usual pairing from the top half guard. heather also shares some interesting Japanese Necktie details, before wrapping up with an Americana/armbar combo.

Rule #1: Be The Guy/Girl On Top!

In the unforgettable words of Chris Haueter: always be the guy on top, and when on top, stay on top. Everyone who has been grappling for at least a while understands how crucial a versatile top game is for success and progress in BJJ.

The premise can be seen throughout grappling martial arts. From Judo and Wrestling to Sambo all grappling martial arts favor top positions, whether it is in a sports or self-defense setting. As Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu offers a lot more threats from the bottom, mostly by way of guard variations, learning how to be dominant from the top is much more challenging, but also rewarding.

Being on top puts you in cruise control, even if you have to deal with the opponent’s guard. Simply by making them carry your weight, you’re making them put in twice the amount of effort you do. Not to mention having nowhere to move behind them, courtesy of the mats.

Heather Jo Clark chose to focus on the half guard as the quintessential top position in Jiu-Jitu in her 10th Planet Top Game DVD instructional. Simply sitting on the bottom person’s leg is more than enough to put you in a position where you restrict movement, put pressure on, and can proceed to submit directly or by gaining more dominant positions. Smart play.

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Stay On Top!

Just listen to Chris and whenever you’re on top, stay there! Since this is easier said than done, the 10th Planet Top Game BJJ DVD by Heather Jo Clark is a great resource to help you figure out how to set up and use one of the best top positions in BJJ – the top half guard.

Whether you’re looking to improve your top game for grappling or need the best position to unleash merciless ground and pound in MMA, the safety and versatility of the top half guard mean that there is no need to look past this position. using an unorthodox approach such as the 10th Planet Top Game only increases your effectiveness by introducing the element of surprise.

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Jozef Chen DVD Review: Engaging Without Regrets

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Ognen Dzabirski
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Jozef Chen DVD Review: Engaging Without Regrets

Trust the B-Team to do unexpected stuff in the world of Jiu-Jitsu. Nope, it is not another crazy CJI announcement by Craig Jones, but rather a very productive Jozef Chen DVD instructional covering a subject most people not named Danaher does not even attempt to approach in a DVD – engagement.

How to connect yourself to your opponent in a way that puts you in a dominant position is the key to winning BJJ exchanges. Since every roll and match is just a collection of these exchanges, and distance management is crucial in each of them, you understand how a resource such as the Engaging Without Regrets DVD has been sorely missing.

Chen’s one and only BJJ instructional to date covers this subject in a way that black belts should be envious of. Check out what you can find inside in our review below!

Key Takeaways

  • 2-part No-Gi BJJ instructional with nearly 2 houses of material.  
  • A rare resource for managing distance from top and bottom in BJJ.   
  • Contains games for developing distance management skills in grappling. 
  • BJJ World Expert Rating: 9 out of 10.

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Distance Management in Jiu-Jitsu

The most useless you can feel as a grappler if you find yourself in a situation where you can’t engage with someone. You’d be surprised how often this scenario appears on the mats, particularly during the standing portion of rolls and matches.

Grappling martial arts such as BJJ only works if you can literally grab your opponent. During exchanges between two grapplers,  given how dangerous grips can be, it is not strange to see a wary approach that is all about outmaneuvering the opponent’s grip game.

This is very intricate and complex which is why sometimes there is just no way to get grips on an opponent who does not like to fight against them. Such exchanges often end up frustrating at least one of the grapplers, which is why distance management and ways to engage are so crucial concepts we need to address in the BJJ World.

As I constantly teach my students, when you can’t get grips, get closer! Movement is what is going to open up opportunities and break down the opponent’s defenses. It is noticeable in the style of some of the world’s top grapplers, and how much attention they devote to distance and engagement training.

One such rising star of the professional Jiu-Jitsu circuit is Jozef Chen, a young grappler who has been taking the world by storm. His style is evident in his fights, and his thoughts on the subject are now available in his ‘Engaging Without Regrets’ Jozef Chen DVD.

The Latest Grappling Prodigy – Jozef Chen

Jozef Chen is the one to watch in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu these days. And I mean that literally. Watching Chen compete is always an edge-of-the-seat experience, as the B-team representative blends together the crazy movement of Garry Tonnon with the crazy high submission rate of Craig Jones.

At the moment (2024) still only a brown belt, Chen has submitted a bunch of ultra-high-level professional grapplers, such as Tommy Langhaker, Oliver Taza, and Elijah Dorsey. He conquered the -77kg division in the latest ADCC European trials, also winning the Breakthrough Athlete of the Year award by Flo Grappling.

Chen, style, while still in development, is proving to be the big talk of the BJJ World these days. So far, the German-born grappler has not shared many of the tips and tricks up his sleeves, until he released this first Instructional. The Engaging Without Regrets Jozef Chen DVD is what we are going to review very thoroughly today.

Engaging Without Regrets Jozef Chen DVD Review

This NO-GI instructional is put together in a way that is unusual for BJ DVDs these days. It contains only 2 volumes about an hour each, with lots of short chapters, similar to how wrestling instructionals are formatted:

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Part 1 – Posture and Folding

As the very first ever Jozef Chen DVD instructional kicks off, Chen starts off strong by talking about the underlying concepts that help you figure out engagements in grappling. Posture is his first focus, presented mostly from the perspective of seated guards.

I enjoyed that his entire instructional is organized as some kind of an analysis. The first few chapters covering posture, for example, revolve around analyzing both the risks and advantages of playing guard seated and supine and how they relate to posture.

The larger part of the instructional builds off of this foundation, moving on to explore what makes pins tick, and the best practices for keeping your opponent down. As promised, the instructional focuses on showing you how to engage with an opponent from the top, mainly by recognizing and dominating the grip fight game.

Part 2 – Using Movements & Game Design

The second, and regrettably, last part of the Engaging Without Regrets Jozef Chen DVD is another 1-hour long volume with lots of content. In it, Chen covers how to deal with different guards, such as the shin-on-shin, sit-up guard, and modern inverted and leg lock guards.

Half of the volume dissects the guards and covers specific movements, such as the cross step and back step as means of engaging while simultaneously conquering space. As a backup in case passing engagements fail, Chen offers what I believe to be the best top-game strategy: how to prevent the opponent from standing up.

The DVD concludes with nearly 30 minutes of footage demonstrating games to help integrate the concepts above. I appreciate that Chen uses games with both partners active, rather than boring old drills, as I find them to be the perfect tool for learning. grappling.

Engagement Tactics

At the end of the day, you’re only going to be as good as you connect to your opponent. While grips have a major role to play in this area of grappling, they are most definitely not the only thing to consider as you try to outsmart your opponent.

Managing distance, timing, and direction are key concepts that allow you to fold your opponent, breaking their posture from both top and bottom, as you get yourself to dominant positions and/or submissions. The problem is, not many schools teach this.

It is true that most of the “feel” for distance and engagements is going to happen as you put time on the mats, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t plan your engagement tactics as part of your game plan. How you move is going to dictate what you and your opponent can grip, which later sets the tone, and often the outcome of the entire match.

Conclusion

I am pretty careful with conceptual framework BJJ DVDs as they can leave you more confused than when you started. This Jozef Chen DVD, fortunately, is not such an example. In fact, I appreciate the efficient order and format in which he delivers the info, not wasting any time.

it is safe to say that I can’t wait for more material from the young prodigy, and I expect nothing but fireworks if Engaging Without Regrets DVD is the standard. Finally, an instructional I can use as a coach to help make my students better at getting the first grips!

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Marinhotine: Master the Guillotine Pedro Marinho DVD Review

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Ognen Dzabirski
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Marinhotine: Master the Guillotine Pedro Marinho DVD Review

So, another Guillotine variation has emerged in the BJJ World, adding even more variety to one of the most variable chokes in the sport. The Marinhotine variation, named after the popular Gracie Barra competitor Pedro Marinho, offers an easy twist that makes the choke tighter in an instant.

If you’ve ever seen Pedro Marinho compete, you’ve seen his signature guillotine, his highest percentage submission in professional Jiu-Jitsu.  Now, he shares the tweaks and modifications he does to achieve it in his 5-part Guillotine Pedro Marinho DVD. As usual, we have the inside scoop on what to expect:

Key Takeaways

  • 5-part No-Gi BJJ instructional with nearly 3 houses of material.  
  • A blueprint for using the Guillotine from every position in BJJ.    
  • Features a modified Guillotine version that is very effective. 
  • BJJ World Expert Rating: 7 out of 10.

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Guillotine: The Most Practical BJJ Choke

If you’re not using the Guillotine as part of your BJJ game, then you’re setting yourself up to fail. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the Gi, in a pair of shorts, or fighting on the street corner, the guillotine is a a winning checkpoint to reach.

As a choke, it is arguably the most powerful choke in the entire game. It is efficient to use from the top, from the bottom, during escapes, and even in standing. And, if you learn to move with the guillotine, then you’ll be able to make the choke tighter with every positional change, racking up points along the way.

Many of the most popular competitors use the guillotine, from Renzo Gracie, through Marcelo Garcia, all the way to Gordon Ryan and Craig Jones, relied on the guillotine choke many times as a reliable way to win at the highest levels of BJJ. This fact alone shows how important introducing it into your game can be.

The guillotine choke is also one of the most modified BJJ submissions. All these modifications are possible because of the power and versatility of this strangle. Many people have developed new and unstoppable variations, such as the Marcelotine, the Mackenzitine, and in recent years, the Marinhotine.

Gracie Barra’S Pedro Marinho

Pedro Marinho is a 28-year-old professional grappler who represents the Gracie Barra team. A black belt under Ulpiano Malachias, Pedro has been dominating the professional BJJ World since his purple belt days, when he started defeating seasoned black belts first.

Originally from Rio, Marinho grew up with martial arts. From, Capoeira and Muay Thai, through boxing, Pedro jumped to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu just before he turned 18, and has been dominating ever since. Originally a Brazilian Top Team representative, Marinho got associated with GB through Felipe Pena and his FP Folden Team, which recruited him in 2017.

Since then, Pedro Marinho has gotten lots of exposure, winning major titles along the way, and even running into the King Gordon Ryan in the 2019 ADCC. Some of Pedro’s accolades include the following:

  • IBJJF No Gi Worlds Double Champion
  • IBJJF American Nationals Champion
  • WNO World Champion

Everyone who’s seen Marinho grapple knows the threat that his Guillotine choke brings. He is deadly with the move, in both Gi and No-Gi, amassing 15 of his 39 submission wins to Guillotine chokes. Now, he shares some of his secrets in the Guillotine Pedro Marinho DVD we’re reviewing today.

What’s Inside the Marinhotine Pedro Marinho DVD

The Marinhotine is a Pedro Marinho DVD covering the subject of Guillotine chokes and attacks from the front headlock position. It is a No-Gi instructional, containing five volumes, with a total runtime of almost 3 hours, demonstrated by one of the most impressive competitors these days: 

Part 1 – Standing Guillotine Attacks

As mentioned, the guillotine is much more than just a choke and starts with correct positioning from as early as standing up. Pedro covers a few interesting ways to see t up the Sandown, as the main entry into the guillotine variation he dubbs “the Marinhotine'”.

This part of the DVD also contains chapters on jumping guillotines, something that I find to be cringe-worthy, and a few very effective and easy-to-get foot sweep – Guillotine combinations. He also covers some grip positioning dilemmas, optimizing the control of the front headlock.

Part 2 – Takedowns with the Guillotine

Once in position to execute the Guillotine, Marinho starts talking about takedowns beginning from a defensive perspective. He covers a way of setting up a guillotine choke against the double leg takedown that might even work, as well as a few single leg counters.

As he turns to offense, Pedro explores how to combine takedown threats and Guillotines, using Uchi Mata variations and body locks. I liked that he kept working the sequences even after achieving takedown, with this part of the Guillotine Pedro Marinho DVD concluding with side control counterattacks.

Part 3 – Seated Guillotine

As Marinho changes levels with his Marinhotine system he begins attacks from the bottom, using mostly seated scenarios. He uses the position to lure opponents down, setting up snap downs and wrestling guillotine combinations that don’t seem too refined.

The second portion of this volume covers something a lot more practical, which is counter-passing guillotine tactics, mostly centered around the head and arm-in Guillotine choke variation.

Part 4 – Sweeping with Guillotines

Past the halfway point of this instructional, Marinho remains in the guard, going deeper into guarder situations His first guard of choice is the half guard, emerging as a launching pad for several different guillotine chokes and sweeps.

In fact, for the most part of this instructional, the sweeps are the star. Marinho demonstrates how to use the Marinhotine from half guard to get to mount or transition into passing using the knee slice.

Part 5 – Marinhotine Passing

The final portion of the Marinhotine DVD by Pedro Marinho continues from the previous volume, delivering a host of different passing options. Most options revolve around a bottom person playing the seated guard.

Pedro covers several ways of defusing seated guards using this approach, passing either to the outside or between the legs. Wrapping up in style, Marinho leaves the rolling Guillotine to pass/choke for the last chapter.

The More Guillotine Variations, The Better

As this Guillotine Pedro Marinho DVD shows, Marinho has been so successful with the guillotine because he finds ways to make it his own. His variation is now a part of the Guillotines pool that you can use to tweak and fine-tune your own version.

Keep in mind, though, that some Guillotine variations only work for a certain type of people, requiring specific athletic capabilities. While the Marinhotine is not one of those, and as such, is a welcome addition to Guillotine choke variations. do not expect the setups to work just as well for you.

As a guillotine choke aficionado, I welcome some of Marinho’s concepts (definitely not all of them) as having the potential to improve guillotine efficiency and raise the threat level of this submission even further.

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Excelling at Strangles from the Front

The Marinhotine BJJ DVD instructional by Pedro Marinho definitely has what it takes to improve your Guillotine, particularly if you’re new to it, or have never used it competitively. It paints a great picture of how the Guillotine position transcends positions in BJJ, allowing for universal control.

As such, the Guillotine Pedro Marinho DVD is a great addition to any grappler’s toolbox, particularly those who like to compete in No-Gi.

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Basic Bitch Knee Cuts: A Ffion Davies DVD Review

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Ognen Dzabirski
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Basic Bitch Knee Cuts: A Ffion Davies DVD Review

People’s annoying guards giving you trouble during rolls? It is time to up your passing game and start creating problems for them! Achieving this starts with understanding the most powerful passing direction in the sport, and building a passing game that always leads to it.

Since there’s hardly anyone better then knee cutting than Ffion Davies, her  Basic Bitch Knee Cuts BJJ DVD makes sense as your resource of choice. To be honest, Ffion is one of the rare competitors who are as great at teaching as they are at breaking limbs. So, fan of the knee cut or not, the information in this Ffion Davies Knee Cut DVD is going to make you better at BJJ for sure. You want that, right?

Key Takeaways

  • Gi DVD instructional, containing around two and a half hours of knee cut passes.
  • Organized to start from inside the closed guard, all the way to pass combos.    
  • A Ffion Davies masterclass on pinning opponents even before you pass them. 
  • BJJ World Expert Rating: 9 out of 10.

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The Art of Guard Passing in BJJ

One of the absolute most difficult things to do in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is deal with the guard. There are so many different guards available to bottom players, and so many different types of attachments that trying to make sense of it all is just overwhelming.

The thing that I find perplexes grapplers more than anything else is how to approach the bottom person’s guard. Do you stand, kneel, half kneel, move freely, or pressure closely? All these are valid questions, but the answers to each and all of them are, unfortunately, constantly changing.

Apart from the chaos of standing and takedowns, passing a guard in Jiu-Jitsu is truly an art form, as you have to adapt to the environment and what the bottom person is doing and find creative ways to remove their legs from the equation. to that extent, passing offers several distinct directions in which you can move:

    1. Through the legs
    2. Around the legs
    3. Under the legs, and
    4. Over the legs.

Each of these methods of passing has its strong sides and drawbacks. However, if I had to choose only one direction to use for the rest of my grappling days, I’d go for passing through the legs. Understandably, I was very excited to take an in-depth look at the BFFion Davies’ DVD dubbed “Basic Bitch Knee Cuts”.

It’s Ffion, not Fiona

There is nothing much I can do to portray Ffion Davies to someone who has not seen her grapple, although I doubt many of those are reading this particular review. One of the top European grappling competitors of all time, the best female UK competitor, and Welsh Judo Champion Ffion is a black belt under the now legendary Darragh O’Conaill,  one of the best coaches in the UK.

Ffion only got her black belt a few years ago in 2018, and has since conquered the ADCC, the IBJJF Worlds in Gi and No-Gi, as well as the European and Brazilian Nationals. Quite the pedigree in a very short time at black belt, and I haven’t even mentioned all the superfights she’s won recently.

The one thing missing from Ffion’s rising grappling legacy, at least until recently, were BJJ DVD instructionals covering some of the best aspects of her game (like guard passing). While busy competing constantly, and with CJI in her sights come August 20204, she still managed to issue a few recent Ffion Davies DVD instructional that are as high-quality as her performances on the mats.

Detailed Basic Bitch Knee Cuts Ffion Davies Review

The Basic Bitch Knee Cuts Ffion Davies DVD is a four-part BJJ instructional that lasts over two and a half hours. Davies demonstrates the techniques in the Gi, but almost everything is directly transferrable to No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu as well:

Part 1 – Opening the Closed Guard

Unlike most other BJJ instructionals out there, Ffion does not care for skipping over the hardest parts. In fact, she starts her DVD in one of the toughest sports in BJJ – the closed guard.

Before the Basic Bitch Knee Cuts DVD goes into actual knee cuts, Davies addresses different ways to deal with the closed guard by focusing on opening it up. She covers how opponents tend to react, and how you can use those reactions to immediately set up a knee cut pass position.

The best part of the first volume? Ffion’s chapter on how to avoid getting trapped in the closed guard in the first place.

Part 2 – Flying Knee Cuts

Yes, you read it right. While not immediately, this part of the Ffion Davies DVD does contain flying versions of the knee cut pass. Before getting airborne, though, Ffion talks about setting up the knee cut as you raise from a kneeling/half-kneeling position.

The flying portions of the DVD appear as part of combos, with either a back take or armbar, and involve spinning motions. Davies does a great job of making them seem simple enough, though, and they’re not risky at all, given that they are flying moves.

She warps this part of the DVD up with a section covering how to render the underhook half guard useless using knee cuts.

Part 3 – Switch Knee Cuts

Past the halfway of this Ffion Davies Knee Cut instructional,  FfiFfi from the Bronx goes into the art of switching your knee cuts side-to-side, which was a fairly recent revelation of mine. The cross knee cut has never been my forte, but it is a very powerful pass, especially when you combine it with the straight knee cut.

I really enjoyed the part about beating the lasso guard using a knee cut to fortify your base and put tons of tension on the bottom person’s grips. Ffion shares a lot of smash pass variations and follow-ups all resulting from a strong starting knee cut position.

Part 4 – Combo Passes

As the Basic Bitch Knee Cuts comes to a close, Davies goes over some more advanced passing sequences, putting together not just different knee cuts, but blending different passing directions into one as well.

Even more lasso passing options appear here, as well as interesting integrations of Lovato’s headquarters passing system. Finally, Ffion shows how she frustrates leg lockers by showing a very effective way of destroying the Single-leg X guard by using a knee cut.

Passing Through the Legs

The one skill you absolutely have to master as a grappler, Gi or No-Gi is the passing direction that goes through the opponent’s legs. Slicing the legs open is a great way of immediately cutting the guard dangers in half, which allows for more time and options to get past the knees and into effective pins.

Personally, I prefer this manner of passing because it creates a problem that the bottom person has to address if they want to be dangerous with sweeps and submissions – the existence of a bottom leg.

Pinning one leg to the mats, in any manner that appeals to you is a great way of reducing the entire guard arsenal the boot player has to a handful of guards. Now, you won’t be overwhelmed by the potential threats and passing options, as you know that the opponents can’t sweep or submit you without being able to get their leg off the mats.

The knee cut pass achieves exactly this, and in the most effective, and often painful, way possible. As you can see throughout this Ffion Davies DVD the knee cut is not just a speedy way past an opponent’s guard, but rather a pressure position that can break even the most stubborn grapplers.

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Cut Your Way Through Any Guard!

The Basic Bitch Knee Cuts Ffion Davies DVD is a goldmine of information on introducing and using the knee cut as your main option for breaking down the guard game of opponents much bigger and more skilled than yourself.

Davies made this instructional the perfect resource for beginners who struggle to make sense of the closed guard, to advanced competitors who are looking for ways to chain different passes together.

Since you need one of each passing direction in your game to be creating you can deal with BJJ guards, why not make this Ffion Davies Knee Cut instructional the centerpiece of your ‘through the legs’ game?

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Next Level No-Gi Strategies By Sam McNally DVD Review

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Ognen Dzabirski
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Next Level No-Gi Strategies By Sam McNally DVD Review

Have you ever competed in a No-Gi BJJ tournament? If you have, you know how demanding and confusing it can be, particularly when you feel like you know Jiu-Jitsu, but the sweat and pace of matches make it impossible for you to showcase it.

Building a reliant and evolving BJJ competition game is a foundational step in every competitor’s career, but for No-Gi, stepping on the mats without one is simply a waste of time. The Next Level No-Gi Strategies By Sam McNally is a DVD instructional tackling the subject of building a game you can use and grow as you navigate the No-Gi competition circuit. Here is what you can expect to find in it:

Key Takeaways

  • A No-Gi BJJ instructional, covering standing, guarded, and pinning competition strategies
  • Step-by-step guide on building a fool-proof No-Gi game by a top competitor.   
  • Very useful information for both athletes and coaches.
  • BJJ World Expert Rating: 9 out of 10.

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How To Build a Comprehensive No-Gi Game

one of the questions I get asked very often, particularly by competitors, is how to put together a game that fits their strong sides. While it is a great question on their side and requires a lot of dedication from mine, the first thing I ask in return is whether they plan on competing with Gi or No-Gi.

While the key foundations of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu exchanges remain the same regardless of training or competition attire, there are significant differences in how you should approach the Gi and No-Gi games. Out of those two, your No-Gi strategy requires more effort and careful thought.

The reason for this is simple – No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu is far more dynamic in nature. Nothing really happens slowly, and as time goes by, sweat starts to become a significant hurdle to making everything you intend to do work.

There are a host of different aspects in addition to dynamics and slipperiness, such as grips, optimal guards to play, strong vs. weak attachments, escape tactics, etc to consider. Building a No-Gi game is no easy feat, but luckily, you can do it even by yourself now, as resources such as this BJJ DVD, dubbed “No-Gi Strategies By Sam McNally” offer a great framework.

Sam McNally, A Next Generation BJJ Competitor

Sam McNally is an Irish BJJ black belt and competitive grappler representing the East Coast Jiu-Jitsu Academy from Ireland. He has been training under Darragh O’Conaill his entire grappling career, going through all the belts under the most proficient European middleweight out there.

As a competitor, McNally is on the rise, representing the new wave of Jiu-jitsu competitors who all seem to have very well-rounded and lightning-fast games.  The lightweight has already won the ADC European trials, medal in the IBJJF Europeans and won the London, and Dublin Open in 2019 and 2022 respectively. You might also remember him as the man who beat Garry Tonnon at ADCC 2022.

Despite being a very skilled competition in both Gi and No-gi Sam leans more towards grappling without the kimono, as he has proven throughout his high-level competitive career stemming from his purple belt days onward.

He always has very well-worked out and efficient strategies for his matches, which many attributed to the immense knowledge and experience of his coach, Darragh O’Conaill. Without a doubt, Darragh has the main say, but as is evident from the Next Level No-Gi Strategies instructional, Sam has a really good take on how to put together a competitive strategy too!

Next Level No-Gi Strategies By Sam McNally DVD Review

No-Gi Strategies By Sam McNally is a BJJ DVD instructional that is divided into three parts. Each part covers one of the main aspects of Jiu-Jitsu: standing, guarded, and pinning, focusing on how to make it optional for a No-Gi setting:

Part 1 – Standing Strategies

When it comes to standing exchanges, only wrestling gets more chaotic than No-Gi grappling. Just ask ADCC photographers. Sam begins his instructional with an overview of the most common issues grapplers run into during standing No-Gi exchanges and how to fix them.

He begins with defense, which is a smart way to ensure you develop confidence while standing. After all, if they can’t take you down, there’s not much opponents can do. McNally relies on grips and motion to ensure you’re safe enough to launch your own attacks.

Offensively speaking he leans towards the front headlock and bodylocking, which is a smart approach that will benefit grapplers of all levels. He prefers drag downs to takedowns, landing oy either in top control, or a passing situation you can control and use to advance.

Part 2 – Guard Tactics

As the Next Level No-Gi Strategies DVD goes to the ground, Sam begins by addressing the No-Gi guard, a source of lots of frustration among grapplers. He begins with some foundational concepts of guard retention, outlining the directions and goals of guard attacks.

Only then does McNally demonstrate specific guards to launch those attacks, sticking mainly to the De La Riva vs. a standing opponent. Most of t submission attacks against standing passers involve inside positioning that leads to Ashi Garami leg locks.  He also covers lots of leg entanglement sweeps that are very useful.

When dealing with kneeling opponents, Sam prefers to play a knee shield guard, allowing him head control that helps attain armbars and triangles that further open up sweep opportunities if they don’t pan out.

Part 3 – Top Position Dominance

Pinning and being a nuisance from top positions is the final aspect of building a No-Gi game that Sam McNally addresses in his DVD. He begins where most pass end – in side control, and works his way through the pins lading to the mount and back.

From the mount, he demonstrates a very sneaky chain involving triangles, Monoplatas, and armbars that create a trilemma. When in control of the back mount, Sam shows his favorite straight jacket attacks from the chair sitting position, opting for shoulder locks over chokes.

Concluding the No-Gi Strategies By Sam McNally area few chapters covering wrist locks that help tie all the top position attacks together by focusing the opponent’s attention on defending this pesky submission.

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Developing Your Own No-Gi Game

When you’re thinking about putting together a complete game plan for No-Gi competition, remember that the more external information you can get, the better your game will be. this means talking to your coaches, maybe even doing a private on the subject, as well as looking at video footage of yourself rolling/competing without the Gi.

After figuring out your strong side,s you need to do the hardest part and admit your weaknesses.s this is why you need to involve other people, especially those who won’t shy away from telling you what you suck at.

Once you know your strong sides and weaknesses, you can use the Next Level No-Gi Strategies DVD by Sam McNally as a blueprint for building a complete No-Gi game around the things that work the best in a tournament setting.

Strategies to Dominate in No-Gi

The No-Gi Strategies By Sam McNally can be an instructional that you get at white belt and keep using until the day you decide to hang the rashguard. It is based on the best-performing tactics and moves that work in modern Jiu-Jitsu these days, and Sam has tested himself on the biggest stage. Whether you are a competitor or a coach looking to build competitors, this DVD is one you need in your collection.

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Jason Rau DVD Review: Dynamic Ankle Locks

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Ognen Dzabirski
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Jason Rau DVD Review: Dynamic Ankle Locks

Before there was the heel hook, we had ankle locks. Nobody really loved them, but not many people tried to get them banned either. They lingered in the grey zone, only used by folks brave enough to introduce some variety to a sport dominated by upper-body submissions.

As Danaher’s Death Squad emerged out of the blue basement and started taking names and collecting legs, the awareness of leg locks in the BJJ community quickly changed, but the status of ankle locks did not really change.

One of the early members of the notorious Danaher Death Squad is now shedding new light on a submission many people take for granted. The Dynamic Ankle Locks Jason Rau DVD is exactly the resource to reignite your interest in one of the most powerful submissions in grappling.

Key Takeaways

  • No-Gi BJJ DVD, with just under 2 hours of modern ankle lock concepts.
  • Chapters covering how the techniques work against a resisting opponent.    
  • Taught by one of the original Danaher Death Squad members. 
  • BJJ World Expert Rating: 8 out of 10.

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Ankle Locks – The Gateway Leg Lock

With heel hooks now being a part of grappling life instead of the boogeyman leg lock that everyone had to be scared to death of, they seem to have completely taken over as the one and only lower-body submission people opt for. While powerful without a doubt, the hell hokk is not the only option you have of tapping someone out using their ankle and foot.

Foot locks, or ankle locks, call them as you wish, were the primary weapon of choice for those brave enough to attempt them in competitions before Danaher changed the leg-locking landscape of the BJJ World. The ankle lock remains one of the strongest and most versatile leg locks you can use to this day, while still staying legal at all levels of Gi and No-Gi competition.

I get the infatuation with the most efficient tactic available, and the heel hook definitely fits the description, but let’s not forget that ankle locks will actually make your heel hooks a lot better. There is an intricate interplay between ankle locks and heel hooks from Ashi Garami that you see in every top-level leg locker’s arsenal.

One such resource, outlining the complete approach a world-class leg locker has to ankle locks is the Jason Rau DVD Dynamic Ankle Locks. It provides an insight into how a modern-day leglocker uses every possible submission at his disposal to build a scary sub-only game.

The No-Gi Destroyer: Jason Rau

Jason Rau is a grappler that everyone who is into leg locks has encountered. He is a Matt Serra black belt, which places him among the best leg lockers in the world since he had the chance to spend a lot of time training with Danaher in the Blue Basement of Renzo Gracie’s NYC Academy.

After Rau got his black belt from Serra in 2016, after just 6 years of training, he spent a lot of time competing in submission-only events, racking up an impressive record of 50 submission finishes out of 56 matches he won. 36 of those matches he won by leg locks.

Most of his competitive efforts were a result of training and competing as part of the Danaher Death Squad back in the day when they were tearing it up on the sub-only scene using leg locks. Jason has several important titles from that period, most notably in Sapaitero, Kasai Pro and RISE.

Jason has kept developing his submission-hunting game even after the Squad fell apart, and he opted to keep training in NYC, sticking to Matt Serra’s gym and the RGA. His Dynamic Ankle Locks DVD is the latest in a series of BJJ instructionals he has released trying to demonstrate and teach his approach to No-Gi sub-only BJJ.

Detailed “Dynamic Ankle Locks” Jason Rau DVD Review

The Dynamic Ankle Locks DVD is a three-part series that contains just under 2 hours of video material on the ankle lock and how to integrate it into the modern Jiu-Jitsu game. Since Rau has been a competitor for most of his grappling career, everything in this DVD is highly effective and tournament-tested, leaving you with a great resource to up your leg lock attacks:

Part 1 – General Concepts

The first portion of this Jason Rau DVD addresses the general concepts of leg locking and where ankle locks fit into the system. He begins by covering the key grips that allow you to connect to the opponent’s leg, before going into leg positioning and how to enhance the power of your grips by blocking their hips.

Rau also covers the ankle lock itself, and the mechanics involved in finishing it. He also shares an interesting way to dig for the ankle using the Outside Ashi position, which opens up a ton of different leg-locking options in addition to it.

Part 2 – Ankle Lock Finishes

The second volume of the Dynamic Ankle Locks DVD by Jason Rau is all about finishing ankle locks. It is the longest volume in the series and features an hour of braking mechanics from different guards and using different grip configurations.

I really enjoyed Jason’s way of dealing with opponents who stand up in his Ashi, getting them immediately down to the Y-guard, and following up with an ankle lock regardless of how they finish – hand on the mats, belly down, or with their butt on the mats.

Rau then goes on to explore the Aoki lock as a wonderful alternative to the traditional ankle lock grip. I prefer this one anyway, so I enjoyed expanding my understanding of how it works, who to switch back and forth from the traditional ankle lock, and use it from a bunch of top and bottom positions.

The final chapter of this volume deserves a special mention, because not many grapplers dedicate time to demonstrate how their techniques and setups fare against resisting opponents.

Part 3 – Ankle Lock Combos

In the final portion of this leg-lock-hunting Jason Rau DVD, we get a masterclass of how we can connect an ankle lock grip to the rest of Jiu-Jitsu, from heel hooks to back takes. Jason explores different scenarios where ankle locks fail and how you can make the most out of the knee position, whether rotated towards the inside or outside to remain a menace.

Follow-up attacks include the bear trap, back entries, kneebar setups, and transitions to knee-reaping positions that take you toward the dark art of hooking heels.

The One Leg Lock to Rule Them All

The Dynamic Ankle Locks instructional is the perfect demonstration of how the humble ankle lock has a lot more to offer to grapplers than first meets the eye. Ankle locks are like the closed guard of leg locks – they are extremely efficient, but people find them boring and like to do fancy, complex moves like Imanari Roll Heel Hooks instead.

We should approach ankle locks in the same manner as we approach closed guards – we can’t neglect to work on the basics. While straight ankle locks might not be the highest percentage finish, they open up other submissions such as heel hooks, as well as provide routes to dominate positions like the back, truck, or mount.

let’s not forget that ankle lock finishing has evolved with different grips transforming them into very potent weapons that remain legal. Just take the Aoki Lock, reverse ankle lock, or the Mikey Lock as examples.

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Being Relentless with Leg Attacks

With every Jason Rau DVD, you learn the dynamic side of No-Gi grappling. His Dynamic Ankle Locks is just another addition to this dynamic grappling series, exploring how you can use the ankle lock as your centerpiece leg lock and have incredible success in BJJ competitions. Since there are no legal concerns attached to this submission, there’s no reason to think twice about getting this DVD now!

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Evan Wick Leg Ride Logistics Grappling DVD Review

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Ognen Dzabirski
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Evan Wick Leg Ride Logistics Grappling DVD Review
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Do you know what a grappling leg ride is? Unless you’ve wrestled, and not just a few times, then you are probably not aware of the power of these simple, yet super-powerful staples of wrestling control.

Today on the menu, we decided to go through the Evan Wick Leg Ride Logistics Grappling DVD, reviewing how one of the best wrestling coaches and Olympic-medal set competitors in the US at the moment uses leg rides for ultimate control. Throughout this article, you’ll come to understand that you already know and use leg rides in BJJ, you just haven’t given them the dedicated attention they deserve.

Key Takeaways

  • Two-part wrestling instructional with over an hour of leg riding techniques. 
  • Demonstrated by four-time Division I All-American wrestler.   
  • Powerful mat return and scramble damnation tactics, easy to master quickly.
  • BJJ World Expert Rating: 9 out of 10.

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Riding the Legs in Grappling

Have you ever done a Twister while rolling in BJJ? How about the truck position, or Ninja rolls to get the back? all of these are examples of leg rides that work like a charm in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Despite it all, this wrestling staple is not usually taught in BJJ schools on its own, nor does it get the attention it deserves.

I have said it before and will say it again, wrestling is a complete grappling martial art that has a lot more benefits for BJJ players than just a few takedown combos. The mat returns and mat control offered by wrestling are unparalleled, given the crazy positions wrestlers get in to stave off getting pinned.

This is exactly why dynamic ground control moves such as leg rides are so useful in BJJ. Their versatility ensures that you fulfill a major principle of top control – preventing one of the opponent’s legs from leaving the mats, effectively taking away any chance they have, or standing up or getting on top of you.

Once entangled, leg rides work much like Ashi Garami, but instead of leading to leg locks, they lead to position pins, such as side control, mount, or back mount. This Evan Wick Leg Ride Logistics Grappling DVD we’re reviewing today is a very useful resource for those willing to introduce some wrestling spice to their Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu game.

Cal Poly Wrestling Coach Evan Wick

Wrestling is one of the staples of American high school and collegiate sports, with lots of kids taking part at one point or another in their trip through the educational system. Some of those kids go on to become multiple times division I All-American wrestlers and become wrestling coaches themselves, like Evan Wick.

Evan started wrestling in Wisconsin but transferred to Cal Poly in his final year. A very aggressive and fast-paced wrestler, Wick has a knack for draining opponents through smart attachments that force them to give in. Breaking wrestlers is no easy task, so Wick is exactly who you want to be learning wrestling from.

With a record of 23-1 in his one wrestling season with Cal Poly, and an overall record of 133-22 it is clear why Evan Wick was kept on as a coach. After joining, he has influenced the wrestling program so much, that the head Cal Poly coach has claimed he “changed the trajectory” of the team’s performance.

If you’re not a part of the Cal Poly wrestling team, though, the only way to pick his brain (sort of) is to pick up the Evan Wick Leg Ride DVD. Do not forget to keep an eye out for him, as he is not yet done with competition, with World and Olympic medals still long his radar as a competitor representing the Titan Mercury Wrestling Club.

Evan Wick Leg Ride Logistics Grappling DVD Review

The Evan Wick Leg Ride Logistics Grappling DVD is a short and precise one. The material is spread over two volumes, covering mechanics and leg ride entries, and everything that you can gain from there on. Given the subject, the instructional is short, but it delivers al the key information you need, especially if you’ve never encountered leg rides before.

Part 1 – Leg Riding Basics

Leg riding is essentially a way of hooking the legs of an opponent, mostly while they are in the referee’s position in wrestling, and using it to prevent them from standing up as you look to pin them on the mats. You can see how this can translate to BJJ.

The first volume of the Evan Wick Leg Ride Logistics Grappling DVD covers the mechanical aspects of leg rides and a few different ways you can attach both above and below the opponent’s knee. He particularly stays with the figure four-leg ride configuration, which offers the most options in terms of versatility.

The first volume ends with an introduction to how the cradle position connects to leg rides, which is the main subject of the second part of this grappling DVD.

Part 2 – Riding to the Cradle

The second (and final) part of this Evan Wick Leg Ride Logistics Grappling DVD builds on the leg riding basics from the first volume, expanding to include not just more control, but also even direct submission options.

While Wick shows leg bars and wrist attacks from the leg ride, he also goes over the most common scrambling scenarios, ensuring that even during forced rolls you stay in cruise control. It is literally like you’re riding the leg, following the opponent wherever they go.

The ultimate position to wrap up using a leg ride is the cradle, and Evan covers both near and far-side options,  ending with the torturous cherry on top that is the crossface crunch.

Using Leg Rides in BJJ

Now that you’re aware of what legal rides are, let’s try and see how and where you can use them to improve your BJJ game. First, let’s make it clear that the choice of training attire makes no difference at all since this move works just as well in Gi and No-Gi.

The main use for leg rides that I have found, and fall back to often in Jiu-Jitsu, is to effectively break down the turtle position, With more and more people figuring out the defensive power of the turtle, getting to the head and/or armpits is proving very difficult, if not impossible. Accessing the legs, though, offers a whole different approach that not many people without wrestling experience are aware of.

For example, you can attach yourself not just at hip level, like we do with hooks, but also at knee level (knee rides) or even ankle level (ankle rides). Knee-level insertions vs. the turtle are not unheard of, with most truck and Twister entries or half guard back exposures exploiting this route.

Ankle rides, though, can ensure you break down someone trying to stay in turtle/all fours, effectively preventing opponents from standing up or scrambling (known in wrestling as mat returns) and taking away a key post that allows them to fend off breakdowns and conceding top position.

If you turn towards wrestlers, you’ll find a lot of different resources on the subject of leg rides, some even including very old-school catch wrestling submissions. However, if you want a very practical guide covering the modern-day applications of leg rides in grappling, the Evan Wick Leg Ride Logistics Grappling DVD is more than enough. 

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Time For A Ride!

Wrestling has proved over and over again to be the Achilles heel of BJJ. Every time some major innovation happens in BJJ, it can be traced to a wrestling staple Jiu-Jitsu grapplers tend to ignore and dismiss. With the fame around the sending prowess of wrestling not dying down, and wrestling defense on the rise, the next big thing might just be mat returns and mat control.

A look at an instructional such as the Evan Wick Leg Ride Logistics Grappling DVD means you act proactively, expanding your grappling horizons and widening your options of dominating opponents. After all, as long as it is legal, does it really have to be “Gracie-approved” for you to use it in BJJ?

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Review: Systematically Attacking The Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD

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Ognen Dzabirski
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Review: Systematically Attacking The Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD

I love guillotines! I am sure many people agree with me, and just as many are going to shrug them off as just another choke. Well, if you dare to look into the Systematically Attacking The Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD, you will probably emerge on the other side agreeing with my opening statement.

The guillotine has been around for millennia and is one of the most effective and versatile grappling moves you can use. Unfortunately, it has been downplayed and underestimated in BJJ, mostly falling victim to the Gi vs No-Gi debate in the sport. So, can this Gordon Ryan DVD finally change how we look at guillotines in Jiu-Jitsu? Let’s find out!

Key Takeaways

  • No-Gi BJJ DVD, with 4+ hours of ultra-high quality material on guillotines.
  • More than an hour and a half of live rolling and rolling breakdowns.   
  • A complete system to teach guillotines to white and black belts alike.
  • BJJ World Expert Rating: 8 out of 10.
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The Guillotine – A Heavily Underestimated Choke in BJJ

If there is one position that deserves a lot more recognition in the entire sport of grappling, it has to be the guillotine. I will not write ‘choke’ next to it because the guillotine is just so much more than just a way to strangle somebody. It is one of the best attachments that, once achieved, provides you with control over every aspect of a grappling or MMA match.

Not many positions offer such a threat from standing, guard, and top positions, not to mention the potential for further transitions and connecting chains. It is staggering that people only think of the guillotine as a choke, and even then place it exclusively in the realm of No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu.  That’s just criminal.

Take a look at any successful top-level grappler and you’ll see heavy use of guillotines all across their game. From Marcelo Garcia, through Rickson and Kron Graci, all the way to Craig Jones and ‘King’ Ryan, every top competitor has a guillotine system up their sleeve. Now, with the latest Systematically Attacking The Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD, you get such a resource at your disposal as well.

The Teaching Legacy of Gordin Ryan

As a competitor, there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that Gordon Ryan is one of the best grapplers ever. I’ll leave the GOAT debate open, as I lean towards Marcelo Garcia over Ryan, but that is a subject for a different day.

Apart from his well-documented competitive escapades, there is another side to Gordon Ryan that is just as important – his role as a coach. While he is not a full-time instructor, which is very understandable given his competitive focus, he does issue a lot of video instructional, so much, in fact, that he’s just about covered every important subject in the sport.

In terms of that material, some Gordon Ryan DVDs are better than others. If we skip over that train wreck of an instructional that was his very first DVD about weight lifting for grappling, Gordon has had some hits and misses, but nothing too horrible.

The issue I have with some of his instructionals is that it is very difficult to follow his train of thought, as he goes on huge tangents as he is teaching. He seems to be clearing this up, though, in his latest instructionals, as the Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD demonstrates.

Systematically Attacking The Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD Review

Gordon quoted hundreds of direct messages asking him to produce an instructional covering the Guillotine. Despite some coverage in his front headlock instructional, everyone (me included) wanted more, given that he used the position to win the ADCC.

The Systematically Attacking The Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD is another 8-part grappling instructional, as all previous DVDs by the ‘King’. It runs just over 4 hours, covering the guillotine more than any other DVD in the BJJ world, concluding with Ryan’s signature narrated rolls.

Part 1 – Positioning & Connections

As the instructional begins, Gordon shares his thoughts on the variable uses of the guillotine as a position, making the very important distinction that it is much more than just a choke. After a short intro, he covers crucial connection principles, such as distance management and hand positioning.

Lots of attention in this volume goes into gripping, as it defines the mobility you have with the Guillotine, as well as the restrictions in movement you impose on the opponent. Ryan also shares several different types of guillotines at the beginning, often referring to this section as the instructional unfolds.

Part 2 – Closed Guard Guillotines

A quintessential attack from the closed guard and one I still use very often and with great effectiveness to this day is attacking with a guillotine from the closed guard. Gordon offers a myriad of finishes, featuring different elbow and wrist positions, as well as different grips.

He also demonstrates several examples of dilemma attacks you can launch using the guillotine, such as tying it with the threat of the hip bump sweep, Sumi Gaeshi, and triangle chokes.

Part 3 – Open Guard Guillotine

As the Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD progresses, so does the game he demonstrates. Starting from the most secure position to hunt for the guillotine, Ryan opens up the guard, which also offers a lot more attacking avenues using guillotines.

Part 3 is all about keeping a hold of the head as you make your way through sweeps, submissions, and backtakes using the guillotine. Ryan covers an important alignment rule first, before heading to explore how the guillotine connects different open guards and how opponents usually react.

He then builds on those common reactions, teaching exactly how he uses the guillotine for effortless Sumi Gaeshi sweeps, to counter body lock passing and even get out of side control.

Part 4 – Guillotines vs. Passing

Immediately following the bottom guillotine game is Ryan’s tactical blueprint for using guillotines to deal with a bottom player’s guard. There is a natural progression here, as he started in the closed guard opening the game and tying sweeps with submission finishes to allow the guillotine to get him to the top and in a passing scenario.

The position works like a charm for passing as well, particularly against seated guards and the half guard. Chapters in this volume of the Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD cover footballing the head (I love the term!), rolling past the opponent’s legs, and setting up knee slides.

In most of the cases, Gordon picked a landing position for his passes that still allows him to use the guillotine for control and finishing, such as side control and the mount. This is where different types of guillotines appear again, as each works slightly better in a specific position compared to the others.

Part 5 – Top Position Guillotine Chokes

A personal favorite aspect of mine when it comes to using guillotines is to torture people from top positions. I expected Ryan to share lots of options for improving control and submission rate, and he did not disappoint.

Albeit shorter than the other volumes in this series, this part covers everything guillotine-related from the mount, side control, and the back mount. Since things are pretty clear mechanically, Ryan showed diversity by going over some common scenarios and troubleshooting common problems.

Part 6 – Headlock Guillotines

If there is one position that screams guillotine, it has to be the front headlock. This part of the Systematically Attacking The Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD is a throwback to Ryan’s previous front headlock DVD, covering subjects such as setups vs. defensive grips, hand positioning, body alignment, and how to set up other arm triangle chokes, such as the Darce choke and the Anaconda.

Part 7 & 8 – Rolling and Commentary

As expected, the Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD ends with rolling sessions including several different training partners, followed by an analysis of each and every roll, explaining exactly how he used the guillotine system in a real sparring setting.

This is arguably the best part of the instructional, as Gordon is exceptionally good at analyzing rolls, and does not spare any details. A great way to end a very solid instructional.

Don’t Neglect The Guillotine

The guillotine has a place in every grappler’s toolbox, Gi or No-Gi. Don’t shy away from it simply because you perceive it with a choke. It is a very powerful position that you can use to navigate around the entire game without ever sacrificing control and always maintaining a threat of a finish.

Just think of the Kimura trap system. You essentially get the same with the guillotine, a trap system that, once activated, is only going to draw your opponent deeper into trouble. And don’t worry about nonsense like the Gi is going to get in the way. If anything, having extra handles to grip is only going to make you a lot more efficient at what you’re doing.

The reason the guillotine works is simple, and you already know it: it breaks posture and keeps it broken. Wrestlers have been using variations of the position for thousands of years to out-grapple opponents, so why would you skip over using such a great weapon in modern BJJ?

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Off With Their Head!

I will dare to claim that the Systematically Attacking The Guillotine Gordon Ryan DVD is the best instructional by the ‘King’ to this moment. I am not the biggest fan of his instructional, but I am coming around, and his covering one of my favorite subjects certainly helped.

The fact of the matter is that nobody has ever covered the guillotine so diversely as Ryan did in this BJJ DVD instructional. Just go on and grab it, there is no way you’re not going to benefit from this instructional, regardless of how good you think you are at Jiu-Jitsu.

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Japanese Judo Grip Fighting Secrets Satoshi Ishii DVD Review

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Ognen Dzabirski
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Japanese Judo Grip Fighting Secrets Satoshi Ishii DVD Review
Japanese Judo Grip Fighting Secrets DVD by Satoshi Ishii

If you’ve ever grappled with a Judoka, you know how annoying their iron grips can be – you can’t make them let go of you! Even in No-Gi, the gripping effectiveness of high-level Judo grapplers is often the difference in matches, even if their actual BJJ skills are not up to par.

The reason behind it is obvious – the Japanese Judo Grip Fighting Secrets that Judokas have drilled over and over again for hours at a time, as they navigate a grappling art where the grip is king! While you can find ways to break these grips apart, why not do the smarter thing and join Satoshi Ishii and learn how to develop the iron grips from hell that will skyrocket your BJJ?

Key Takeaways

  • A Gi BJJ instructional containing nearly 2 hours of Judo grip fighting secrets. 
  • Taught by Olympic and World Judo champion, MMA fighter, and pro grappler.   
  • Explores differnet grips and stances, grip breaks, and counter gripping tactics.
  • BJJ World Expert Rating: 7 out of 10.

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Japanese Judo Grip Fighting Secrets Satoshi Ishii DVD Review
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It All Starts With Grip Fighting

Okay, it all starts with distance, really, in any type of martial art or combat sport. Hwoever, the one parameter that defines a distance from which exchanges are possible is the establishment of grips. Even striking arts such as boxing and Muay Thai have the clinch, which helps control the match by controlling distance, all made possible by gripping and attaching.

In BJJ, as well as Judo, wrestling, and all other grappling-based martial arts, grips are absolutely essential to have a meaningful experience. Imagine grappling with an opponent and neither you nor they get any grips going – it is no touch martial arts at their best.

Grips are what allow us to destabilize opponents, isolate parts of their bodies, and lead them to positions where we can assert dominance. Even when finishing, grips are essential – there is rarely a submission in BJJ not requiring that you hold on to some part of your opponent with your arms.

Out of all the grappling martial arts, Judo is the one where you can master the true art of grip fighting. Since no lower body takedowns are allowed in sports Judo, it all comes down to manipulating the upper body of a standing opponent to throw them to the mats. It is no easy feet, which is why Judokas spend some much time working on their grips.

Luckily, you don’t need to become an Olympic Judo champion to develop such powerful grips for BJJ. You just need the experience and tactics of such a champion, which is exactly what you get from Satoshi Ishii and his new Japanese Judo Grip Fighting Secrets DVD.

Olympic Judo Icon Satoshi Ishii

Satoshi Ishii is a household name in Judo and MMA and is one of the most notable Japanese fighters ever. He is still active as a competitor, now focusing on kickboxing and the occasional submission grappling opportunities that professional Jiu-Jitsu opened up.

Ishii was born in Japan in 1986 and has been grappling for most of his life. Not many people in the world can say they have medaled in everything that matters in Judo:

  • 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist.
  • 2006 Asina Games Silver Medalist.
  • 2004 World Judo Champion.
  • 2 x All Japan Judo Champion.

Satoshi also spends considerable time in MMA, fighting for several different organizations such as DREAM, Rizin, Bellator, and K-1, emerging with a professional record of 26-14-1. The naturalized Croatian citizen also has some notable performances in Submission Underground in 2020, where he lost to Craig Jones and Mason Fowler.

Japanese Judo Grip Fighting Secrets DVD: The Review

Satoshi Ishii’s Judo Grip Fighting Secrets is a three-part DVD that covers the basics of grip fighting for grappling martial arts that use the Gi. It covers standing exchanges and goes very deep into depicting the importance of grip placement and maneuvering during grappling:

Japanese Judo Grip Fighting Secrets Satoshi Ishii DVD Review
Japanese Judo Grip Fighting Secrets DVD by Satoshi Ishii

Part 1 – Basic Arm Control Gripst

Satoshi begins his instructional by offering an overview of a bunch of different Gi grips along the length of the arm, and how they work in relation to common stances. The focus of the instructional is on standing exchanges, but many of the principles can be extrapolated for use in all kinds of BJJ situations.

Instead of showing mindlessly complicated grips, Ishii focuses on how you position and move your body as you go from the sleeve, through the elbow, all the way to armpit grips. He also covers the opponent’s stance and positioning, explaining why specific grips work so well against specific stances.

Part 2 – Breaking Grips

As we go into the second part of the Judo Grip Fighting Secrets DVD by Satoshi Ishii, the focus shifts from gripping to preventing grips. Ishii shares the Japanese system that divides the opponent’s arms into pulling and pushing, addressing each accordingly.

Some of the grip breaks in this part are not new, but it is the first time someone has explained them in relation to body positioning and distance. Other grip breaks, such as dealing with overhead grips or maintaining your armpit grip despite the opponent’s breaking efforts stand out in this volume.

Part 3 – Japanese Grip Combos and Counters

The final portion of the DVD looks into more advanced grip exchanges, with intricate Judo tactics on how to grab the sleeve for that super-important first grip. In this portion, there are lots of back-and-forth tactics covered by Ishii, ending with adding color control to the sleeve/armpit grips you already know how to obtain from the previous volumes.

What I really liked about this instructional is that Satoshi covers only grip fighting and does not sidetrack into throws and trips. He sticks to the subject, taking grip fighting very deep, which, despite being boring at times, is extremely important, particularly for those grappling exclusively in the Gi.

How Grip Fighting Makes Your Jiu-Jitsu Better

Ask yourself why you place a grip in a specific position as you grapple. If the answer is ‘because the instructor told me’ then you’re likely wasting your time with the grip. The thing that is of the utmost importance during grip placement in BJJ is purpose.

The grip serves the purpose of attaching you to the opponent, but for it to be effective, that attachment has to lead to something. We all know that ‘death grips” do nothing but tire out our fingers and end up with a ton of money spent on finger tape over the years. So, instead of blindly grabbing things, understand what you’re trying to achieve with those grips.

Satoshi Ishii offers a blueprint for Gi grips during standing exchanges that covers exactly that – why grips work the way they do. The moment you realize that you’ll lock the Japanese Judo grip fighting secrets that will transform your BJJ game into a very effective and annoying one.

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Japanese Judo Grip Fighting Secrets

So far, Satoshi Ishii has excelled at anything he has done, from Judo to MMA and submission grappling. He does the same as an instructor, delivering one of the best grip-fighting resources I have seen to date, and I’ve seen plenty.

If you want just one instructional to take care of all your grip fighting needs for BJJ, I’m sorry to say no such DVD exists. However, if you want to understand purposeful grip fighting, especially in the context of standing exchanges with the Gi, then the Judo Grip Fighting Secrets DVD is exactly what you need!

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