Self Mastery: Solo BJJ Training Drills by John Danaher
1,973 reviews · 4.97 / 5
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Ageless Jiu Jitsu: Winning When You're Older or Less Athletic - Bottom Game by John Danaher has 299 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 4.97 out of 5. 98% are five-star and 1 is one or two stars. Reviews run from March 13, 2023 to October 7, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
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simply fantastic!
Great video, highly recommend to anyone that's less athletic and wants to learn how to dominate a more althletic and explosive opponent. These instructional have helped me immensely and aided me in winning tournaments.
Perfect for the old, slow, lazy and athletically compromised players like me from the GOAT of martial arts coaching. I know you are busy but please also consider doing do a "submission escapes for older or athletically compromised players" instructional. Thank you!
I'm clearly not a topfit athlete, my game clearly improved when I started to learn from this instructional. John Danaher system is amazing.
My game clearly improved when I started to learn from this instructional. John Danaher system is amazing.
I'm 58 and have only recently started training, with less than a full year of classes. What I like is that this vedeo series starts with some basic insights - what we lose and what we gain as we age - and then develops a strategy around that. Most of my training is in tactics; moves that I can maybe execute and a few sequences chaining them together. This video series take a limited set of moves that require less flexibility than most other moves, and weaves a strategy based on that. At it's core is a belief that half guard is a good home base for older athletes. And the videos then explain how to get there from various positions and then what to do from there: How to survive and then get into half guard. How to go from half guard to attacking. The idea is to funnel everything into half guard where many of the disadvantages of being older are neutralized. It feels good to have a strategy. I'm still very much in the absorbing and learning, but I've been working on survival skils based on this video series and I'm beginning to see some results.
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best place to start
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Priceless tips for older people to keep competitive on the mats
The details are great and the moves are good for a dude like myself that feels like an old man.
Nice Content
easy to follow
Great format, easy to watch and absorb, straight from the master
Very well explained and easy to implement in training.
tyy
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Great stuff! Gives you a great gameplan when you are older and still want to compete.
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Easy to understand and apply
concise and clear instruction
John sounds like he is talking directly to me. I'm 70 and Younger guys run around me so my starts are bad.
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game changer. I'm beating people now who I've struggled with for years. all the defensive escapes he shows too are better than anything I've ever been taught.
Great, carefully selected, techniques for older players. Orbits around half-guard as a base position and covers sweeps, subs and escapes from there, as well as techniques to recover to half-guard. There are also some techniques from standing.
Danaher's section on dealing with how to pass the half guard knee shield alone is worth the price of admission.
If you're an older person trying to deal with more athletic, explosive guys/gals.... This is your instructional. JD teaches you how to follow your own game plan and slow the pace of the match so your opponent doesn't weaponize pace.
Lots of good stuff in this one to pick up and drill
Great methodology, that already improved my bottom game significantly.
my blueprint for frustrating and exhausting the young guns
Danaher is the best, and a little quicker to the point in this one than in others I've viewed
I am 43 year old and I train BJJ since 6 month. This videos came at the right time and was exactly what I needed because I am older, defenitely lack the athletic background and I experienced that I am really quickly very exhausted and therefore I felt that these videos is what I need. Very very helpful on many levels. I can highly recommend them.
the best for an older athlete
People never believe I’m 40 years old in my academy. I thinks it cause of my skill set learned from Danaher courses. I feel like I am at an advantage with all the technique he teaches.
Helped my game tremendously!
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Excellent instructional, already finding success with these techniques against the younger athletic guys at my gym.
great details!
Very detailed and has helped me improve my game tremendously
great for survival
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Fantastic video! This is a great game plan for an older or injury comprimised student.
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John does an amazing job detailing. Another perfect video
John has such a thorough way of teaching and covers all angles.
Amazing details... It helped me a lot.... Oss
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