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Is BJJ Fanatics legit? What the full review archive shows

Yes, on the evidence available. The archive holds 89,207 written reviews at 4.95 out of 5. 306 of them address trustworthiness directly, and only 2 use the word scam, fraud or rip-off. Both of those are published below in full.

Computed from the BJJ Fanatics review archive at build time. Last review in the archive: 2026-11-09. How this is built.

What the evidence shows

Most reviewers never think to say a store is legitimate, so a small direct count is expected. 272 of these reviews use the language of trust explicitly, at 4.94 average.

The stronger signal is behavioural rather than stated: 21 describe buying more than once, and 36 say the instructional was what the page promised. Read that alongside the archive's rating distribution rather than instead of it.

One caveat belongs on this page rather than buried: the review platform's public API serves published reviews only, so an unusually clean archive is partly a fact about what gets published. The methodology page states the distribution and the limitation in full.

How the matching reviews are rated

The 306 matching reviews sit at 4.94 on average, against 4.95 for the archive as a whole. 0 of them carry one or two stars.

Evidence table

Each row counts, among the 306 matching reviews, how many contain a phrase pattern for that theme. One review can satisfy several patterns and then appears under each of them, which is why the column does not add up. Rows are ordered by count.

What positive reviewers wrote

Reproduced in full, exactly as submitted. These come from the 304 matching reviews rated four or five stars, 99% of the set.

• Game-changing defensive fundamentals

  The Running Man & The Baby Bridge: Essential Postures To Keep You Safe by Priit Mihkelson

  Priit Mihkelson's defensive concepts completely change how you survive bad positions. Instead of scrambling and burning energy trying to escape late, "Running Man" and "Baby Bridge" give you reliable, structured resting postures where opponents struggle to find submissions or advance position. The explanations are systematic, easy to understand, and immediately applicable on the mats.

  James C.November 6, 2026United KingdomVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• 4x4 Mount

  New Wave Jiu Jitsu: Mounted Pin Attacks - The 4x4 Mount System by John Danaher

  i've been rolling for a year now and this has been huge for me in understanding mount, as well as having the benefit of using reliable subs from mount. simplicity gets the job done.

  Michael A.November 4, 2026United StatesVerified buyerWhite belt1-3 yrs training

• J.C.

  Systematically Controlling Younger and Athletic Opponents Top Guard (Passing the Guard) by Gordon Ryan

  The Geriatric School of Jiu-Jitsu was opened by East Coast Straight Blast Gym Coach Stephen Whittier with his 40 Plus BJJ Success Series with successful students! A comprehensive, conceptual, and technical program that he nailed 10 plus years ago and is still relevant. Coach Ryan reinforces those same concepts and adds his knowledge of the modern aspects of jiu-jitsu and talks fundamentals. I like it when separate Jiu-Jitsu labs come to the conclusions. As a grappler pushing a non PED 60 that cross trains mostly No Gi in competitive gyms with people 20 to 40 years younger and usually heavier and stronger averaging 27 rolls a week, material from this school is helpful. More importantly, the “King” makes it legitimate. The most difficult aspect of the geriatric game is getting Professors/Coaches that will teach or are willing to help you learn the game. This may allow you to get beyond half guard bottom and lockdown! Coach Ryan does an excellent job communicating the concepts and teaching the techniques. The sum of the parts are greater than the parts. This is an excellent book for the school of Geriatric Jiu-Jitsu. Great Coaches do not make talented people great, they make average people better than they ought to be!

  Jason W.November 4, 2026United StatesVerified buyerPurple belt4-6 yrs training

• Bad Positions? Even Less of a Problem Now

  Don't Be Finished: Edging Yourself Out of Danger by Craig Jones

  This instructional upgraded my game in exactly the way I wanted: bad positions somehow matter even less now. Instead of thinking “oh no, I’m stuck,” it’s more like “cool, let’s see how annoying I can make this.” Craig’s concepts made my escapes feel much more systematic, and I’m way more confident taking risks because I trust my ability to get out again. 10/10 — my opponents probably hate this instructional more than I do.

  Stefan D.October 14, 2026SwitzerlandVerified buyerBlue belt1-3 yrs training

• Delivers as promised

  Foot Sweep Flo by Justin Flores

  I worked on developing a guard since white belt up to purple belt. Once I achieved purple I decided my guard was already pretty developed and it was time to start all my matches standing and develop a stand up game. Footsweeps immeadiately drew my attention as a good place to begin. I hyper focused on it and didn't work on anything else expect watching this over and over and over and 6 months later things are just starting to truely click, great instructional to learn how to get reliable footsweeps.

  Nicolas K.September 24, 2026MexicoVerified buyerPurple belt4-6 yrs training

• Fast Track BJJ: Jiu Jitsu For Old Guys - Submission Escapes

  Fast Track BJJ: Jiu Jitsu For Old Guys - Submission Escapes by Bernardo Faria

  It's really useful to have so many escapes in one efficient instructional. Very accessible. Normally I'd be wary of one-minute instructionals, but Bernado is a trustworthy source and so this new format is an excellent addition to the regular deep dives.

  Paul U.September 3, 2026JapanVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

What critical reviewers wrote

The same question, taken from the 2 matches at three stars or under. Published unedited and at the same length as the positive ones, because an archive that quotes only praise is not worth reading.

• Excellent video but poor translations

  The Triangle Choke Basics To Advanced by Joao Chiozzi

  Covers many different ways to get a triangle submission. They are simple and uncomplicated, yet effective. The only thing I don't like is the poor translation provided. It is in Portuguese with English Subtitles. It looks like a google translation without considering the BJJ context. To help you along if you buy this video, this is what I have figured out. Left side is the subtitle. Fencing = Underhook Scape = Sweep Loop = lasso scams = submissions banner = belt adduction = squeeze or strangulation or hold adductively = tightly Could have done a better job with the translation.

  GAVIN T.October 24, 2023SGVerified buyer

• Good Content but With Major Issues

  Mastering The Mount by Matt Thornton

  Pros: This video series DOES have content that I, as a black belt, have not seen taught before. It has already made my mount top maintenance (staying on top in mount and not getting escaped upon) about 3-5x better. Very legit content. Cons: It appears that something happened when BJJFanatics uploaded this content from SBG; the video quality is compressed, with what appears to be super slow framerate and audio synching issues. Comparing this to one of SBG's videos on Youtube is night and day: the Youtube videos are actually far better quality than what I paid BJJFanatics for. Another issue is that the chapter descriptions are misleading. One chapter is called "Taking the back" but it is LITERALLY just copied/pasted content from earlier in the video series, with nothing new, and actually ZERO INFORMATION on taking the back! Was this an editing, or uploading error? I don't know, but it sucks to be mislead like that and not learn how to take the back from mount when it says that you will. One more issue is that for the amount of content, a good portion of it is simply Matt's student's drilling the moves, or drilling escape moves that have zero bearing on the theme of the video series. I can think of one instance in the video series where one of Matt's students applies the technique incorrectly, he corrects her and then the move works. That was a good inclusion but 90% of the other drilling video material was useless. Overall I would say that this video series was a good purchase but it could have been formatted way better, content and quality-wise.

  AaronSApril 1, 2021USVerified buyer

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