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Basics To Advanced: The Low Knee Shield by Aaron Benzrihem reviews
Basics To Advanced: The Low Knee Shield by Aaron Benzrihem has 45 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 5.0 out of 5. 100% are five-star and 0 are one or two stars. Reviews run from April 4, 2021 to November 6, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
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Who reviewed Basics To Advanced: The Low Knee Shield by Aaron Benzrihem
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| Belt | Reviews | Average rating |
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| White | 4 | 5.0 |
| Purple | 3 | 5.0 |
| Blue | 2 | 5.0 |
| Brown | 2 | 5.0 |
| Black | 2 | 5.0 |
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The reviews
Amazing
Inreally like this vídeo. There is a good positions with x guard , deep half guard And butterfly guard, its a complete game
Basic to advanced knee shield
Great insight and an excellent resource.
Good
Very good overview of the low knie shield
Top
Amazing
Good explanation, clear and very effective
Basics To Advanced: The Low Knee Shield
Great Z-guard techniques
Love it
Aaron has the best teaching style and I learned so much in a short amount of time
Basics To Advanced: The Low Knee Shield
super detailed, highly recommend!
awesome!!!
I love Aaron's teaching style. Lots of details but not too many to be overwhelming.
The low knee shield
Good insight into this position with lots of good techniques and a good way of retaining guard against big players
Very useful
I needed a couse with detailed instructions on this position and this video met my expectations
low knee shield
very good course. cover many important details and strategies. highly recommend
Complete and Exhaustive
Aaron's instructionals are awesome, and this one is no exception. You won't find a more complete treatment of the low knee shield anywhere.
Informative
Covers a lot of scenarios
informative
informative
Basics To Advanced: The LOW knee Shield by Aaron Benzrihem
Very informative video
Not going to regret this purchase
Great system, completely changed how I view halfguard. Spawned a new love and understanding for the shin on shin position.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Huge amount of content for the money!
I have a few of Aaron's instructionals and they have all been great. A ton of content at reasonable price. They've been especially great when I want to start learning a new technique and am starting from scratch. I can spend $300 on a super high level player's instructional that briefly touches on the fundamentals but then mostly covers situations I'll never run into as a hobbyist or I can spend a fraction of the money on this instructional that covers every day situations. On top of that, Aaron is a fantastic teacher and explains everything in detail. Buy it!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗One of my favorite instructors!
I have his SLX/X-Guard instructional too and enjoy his YouTube channel. He really breaks down techniques well and is easy to learn from. I use his material as a reference guide and refer to them often. He is a great instructor and I will likely pick up more of his work!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Cohesive instructional you can really learn from
Great techniques here on low knee shield, which doesn't seem to get covered much via instructionals. Aaron Benzrihem focuses on your improvement and isn't just spitting out an encyclopedia of moves. There's an emphasis on how to implement them into your game, common problems, etc. Great value.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Half Guard Mastery
This and the half butterfly are two of the best instructionals on the site. Highly recommended.
Really enjoying
Really enjoying this low knee shield dvd set. Aaron is a great instructor and gives a fantastic introduction, attacks and followed up by some common counters. Really preferring this over the high knee shield as I feel a lot less likely to be smashed with a leg weave
Must have for knee shield enthusiasts
Awesome details on the hip clamp low knee shield guard, very comprehensive.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Improve your Z guard from the basics to advanced
Great instruction easy to implement in your trainig from day one, has a good road map step by step with all the comon reactions you will encounter during sparring, also has very good guard retention insights for this guard. Would love to see a shin to shin instructional or single leg lapel guard to complement this one.
Simple and actionable yet incredibly thorough.
TL/DR: Low Knee Shield instructional aims to be comprehensive in covering as many of the techniques, concepts, common problem and solutions necessary to make the position work -- even against high level players -- while at the same time being simple and adaptable enough for absolute beginners to pick up and start learning. A very good product. Aaron Benzrihem's low knee shield instructional relies on a small, carefully curated set of concepts and techniques -- the basic ideas and moves could have easily been demonstrated in 15-20 minutes. (In fact he does exactly that in the outro section.) The nearly 4-hour length comes from his decision to demonstrate them in such a wide variety of circumstances -- from kneeling opponents to standing opponents and everything between. He takes you step by step through everything from entering the low-knee shield position, to how to set-up and attack from that position, to what your game plan could or should be when the position starts to deteriorate. It's a complete picture of the low knee shield from beginning to end -- complete with on- and off-ramps -- and a coherent road map for navigating a wide array of possible detours. And rather than being a system that exists in a vacuum, his road map is modular: meaning the basic set of ideas and solutions he presents can be adjusted to fit into anybody's game. A lot of other instructionals are either (A) a list of more or less unrelated options from a given position, (B) a closed system of techniques which relate to each other but not to any greater guiding principle or game plan, or (C) a much more narrow exploration of a single technique or concept. While there is nothing wrong with these approaches (they each have their place), Aaron Benzrihem offers something unique and fills in some very important gaps with his idea of the "the path" (a common theme in his instructionals). "The path" idea basically summarizes Benzrihem's approach to teaching: he tries to offer a reasonably short series of fairly broad yet clearly defined goals which can be fulfilled in a number of ways. If we understand what we are trying to achieve at each leg of the journey, then we will be able to get where we're trying to go even when unexpected obstacles appear along the way (as they inevitably do). And if, for whatever reason, the path we wanted to go down becomes blocked off, it is important to be prepared and to already know of alternative paths which can take us to the same destination. The instructional as a whole is designed around this idea. The road map Benzrihem provides aims for the sweet spot between comprehensiveness on the one hand versus simplicity and adaptability on the other. This approach is particularly helpful for jiu jitsu students who tend to (A) fixate on the "what" and "how" of a technique to the point that they completely lost sight of the even more crucial details of "why" and "when," (B) panic at the slightest deviation from the too-rigid route they had in mind, or (C) feel simultaneously lost in the dark and overwhelmed by information. (All very common problems for beginners.) Benzrihem's approach is a unique solution to these problems in that he attempts to provide the student with a map, compass and Swiss army knife all in one package. This makes it useful to novice and advanced students alike. In summation, this is a very useful exploration of the low knee shield position. It is comprehensive in scope, and yet the techniques and concepts it relies on are simple enough to be actionable. I am very much looking forward to using this to build out my knee-shield half-guard skills, which are very valuable for white belts like myself. In my humble experience knee-shield half-guard is a position white belts tend to find themselves in on a regular basis, and as such it seems critically important to turn it from a desperate defensive position into a strong "attack" position. I think the information provided here will prove very useful to me on that path.
Best low knee shield
This is the best instructional you can get on this position
Low kneeshield half guard game meets deep half guard with butterfly half options!
A. B. created a great series about the low knee shield. The structure of his instructinals are all following the same clear path. Firist he is introducing the position itself as a starting point of get your half guard game going. Second he is showing how to get there out of all common positons in jiu jitsu. Third he is explaining the attacking position out of the low knee shield. Fourth he is going over the attacks which means sweeps and takedowns frm the knees. His conceptual approach is so useful! He points out the general an specific keypoints so well. Attacking one side of your opponents body.Be the first. Slow down the pace. Control the distance. Guide your opponent into a position where his reactons are predictabe and be prepared to deal with them. An I opener for me too was that your opponent`s knees pushing through your legs does not change your routes dramatically. So go for your game! Highly recommend!!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Underestimated instructor
Aaron's teaching style fits so well with my learning that this instructional opened my eyes to really utilizing the low knee shield during almost every sparring session. A must have for your collection.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Great instructional
Excellent details on the low knee shield position. Aaron Benzrihem is one of the most underrated instructors out there. Low knee shield is a new favorite of mine to play in half.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Glad I got this
Very good
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Worth the money!
Clear detailed instruction and lots of options. Playing bottom half is much more enjoyable after this instructional.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Bardzo dobre
Bardzo dobry Świetna instrukcja pracy w półgardzie Godne polecenia
Great instructional
Great
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Comprehensive system
I studied a lot of half guard instructional. This is one of the most surprising, offering a complete system that is, basically, an add on to every half guard game
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Higly recommended.
I used to have problems with guys standing up in my half guard. This low knee shield series really helped with that. You can easily start implementing the material from this instructional into your own game.
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GREAT!
Instructional very effective. Easy to follow. Clear, practical, detailed.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻How Instructionals Should All Be Made
I honestly cannot express how important this dvd was for my game. How this is laid out is perfect. Explaining the importance of frames, the why, how to tactically look at things instead of a step by step tutorial. All of this allowed me to get myself unstuck in my guard game. Once I understood distance, control, and setting, I was able to more freely move through techniques. Aaron always gives a no nonsense approach and has a great way of breaking all of this down to smaller components and ended it all with higher level strategic ideas which I thought helped me a lot, because I tend to want to approach these DVD's as step by step tutorials.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Half Guard Holy Grail
If there's a half guard instructional out there, chances are I have seen it. That being said, this one definitely stands above the rest. I really like the way A-Aron approaches what he calls the "Attack" position, and he does a great job articulating how he transitions from the low knee shield to adjacent positions. Highly recommended!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Excellent instruction by Aaron! Very
Excellent instruction by Aaron! Very thorough,detailed, and easy to understand. Great info.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Awesome Content
I found this instructional to be amazingly helpful. The amount of detail and content is impressive for the money. Aaron is an amazing instructor and athlete!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Great video. Thorough instruction.
I watch Aaron's tube videos so I know he's a very detailed instructor. I'm starting Jui Jutsu a little late in life so I've been looking at half guard to slow all those youngins down and allow me to control the pacing of the roll. However, I was struggling to keep my high knee shield in place. I saw this video and decided to give it a try. I instantly had success with the low knee shield. It's much easier to maintain and lock in place. Also, you can slide it out easier when you want to attack. Aaron goes into great detail about the system he uses with the low knee shield so it's great for beginners like me. Thanks Aaron! Keep up the great work.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Fantastic video and a great system for controlling difficult opponents
I’ve bought quit a few half guard / knee shield style dvds. None of them have even come close to this. This really does feel like a system that can be applied and learnt gradually. Aaron is a great instructor, not too fast and not too slow, who has a great style of teaching. He is younger, but really is talented at explaining things. Do yourself a favour and give this a go, especially if you have some monsters on the mats that need to be slowed down.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Half guard is my favorite
Half guard is my favorite position. I watch a lot of different types of training materials on this topic. LOW KNEE SHIELD is not a new concept for me, but in this instructional it is very well structured. For me it is also important that the techniques are applicable to the GI and No GI.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Ultimate control and transitions.
Man, the transitions from this position are limitless. This low knee shield is obtainable from practically every bottom position! I love the creativity and detail Aaron has put into this series. Not worried about bigger guys smash passing or spazzy training partners jumping around to a position I can control them. I love these defensive positions that can be quickly reversed into offensive positions. I knew this would be a masterclass after his half butterfly instructional helped me sweep the best guys at the gym at will with minimal effort! Thanks Aaron and congrats on your Blackbelt!!!
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