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Double Sleeve Guard by Jonathan Thomas reviews, page 2
Double Sleeve Guard by Jonathan Thomas has 82 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 4.99 out of 5. 99% are five-star and 0 are one or two stars. Reviews run from March 23, 2020 to October 30, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
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Great details
Great details
Great instruction
I highly recommend this instructional along with his youtube channel.
Technical
Thanks again. Very technical, easy to follow, and easy to understand
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stop forcing ppl to give feedback ****** BJJ fantics
One of my favorites
A necessity to all supine guard players in the gi
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗This was quick and concise
Love the style of explaining and straight to the point jiu jitsu
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Great double sleeve instructional
Very detailed and well explained as always by Jon Thomas
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗must buy
super useful added to my game
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Great instructional!
Jonathan is a very clever teacher. All his concepts are clear and we always finishes his lessons with a new and clear perspective on the topics taught. Highly recommended.
Perfect instructional :fire:
Perfect instructional :fire:
Jon Thomas is a great
Jon Thomas is a great instructor and I get a lot out of his Youtube channel. This instructional summarizes his open guard very well. I've been studying it for a while and have been able to implement many of his concepts into my game even though I wouldn't have considered myself a spider guard player in the past.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Good stuff
Good stuff
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Great content
Great instructional, the techniques are able to be applied easily with great troubleshooting for common responses. The triangle submissions are on point and the double sleeve guard play is fun.
good!
really useful!
great!
beautiful technique, incredible key details in the techniques and positions, it is nice to see how it works and start to understand them🙏�🙏�
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Double Sleeve Position eJxplained and executed
J. T. did a great job by producing an instructional which covers the main idea of double sleeve based guard game. His idea of mini games based jiu jitsu und learn to understand when one battle ends and another starts is very parctical to me in general. Further more his 4 steps approach to ground game contending escapes, retention, grip fighting and attacking is valid. In this instructional he is focussing on mainly on grip fighting and attacking. He delivers a broad overwiev of the double sleeve open guard based on shallow lasso and one foot at the hip and then he is going deeper into spider lasso and spide x-guard. He is covering transitions inbetween this two and a buch of sweeps and finishes via triangle choke and the most common submission from x-guard the straigh ankle lock. Trinsitions inbetween between doulbe sleeve variations beside the mentioned ones are also given. His Teching is very strucured and his explanaitions or on point with the right amount details. Highly recommend!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Excellent positional study that explores a variety of tactics from double sleeve.
The great thing about this instructional is that it combines positional details with tactical flexibility. Jon gives you options for dealing with different approaches that the passer can take and the challenges they present. He shows positional modifications that produce more static or dynamic exchanges from double sleeve, as well as complementary submission and sweeping options that allow you to remain on the attack. I highly recommend this instructional to practitioners of every level. Even if you are an avid fan of his youtube channel, this instructional will add a few new, important details and added coherence to your understanding of the double sleeve/spider guard position.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great Instructional
I was able to quickly put to use many of techniques detailed in this instructional after skimming through it just once. Looking forward to re-watching so I can refine the techniques and implement them into my game. Highly recommend for anyone who is not sure where to start/go with their open guard. It sure helped me.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Open guard gateway
This is a great instructional to learn from, especially if you don't currently have a foundation in any open guard. You'll be able to build from this foundation and add in for example, Collar Sleeve/DLR/Spider etc. as you get familiar with double sleeves. HIghly recommended.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Double sleeve guard
Systematic guidance against guard passer
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻double sleeve guard
Awesome, and transferrable to most of my open guard games.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Very good
Very good start for open guard.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great detail !!
Great instruction. Easy to understand concepts that aid toward building a vivid picture to using various options.
very detailed and completely worth
very detailed and completely worth the price!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻great instructionnal
open guard player for years, i loved it. great teaching here, great info and structured instructionnal. this is a perfect instructionnal for someone who wants to learn or upgrade their open guard. great purchase!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻One of the best open guard instructional
Jon Thomas is one of the best gi teacher in the world. I've been following his YouTube for a long-time and I put his videos right alongside John Danaher's. The double sleeve guard has become my main supine guard, thanks in large part to him. I highly recommend buying this product to get accustomed with this great guard.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Great detail for technique and
Great detail for technique and transitions. Techniques as advertised. If you're looking to tune up your open guard and be more offensive this is a great addition to the your arsenal.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Great instructional dvd !
Great instructional dvd !
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Wow absolutely fantastic.
Went from getting wrecked by everyone to keeping up with world-class level people at my belt. The number one thing that changed my game, can not recommend more.
Response from BJJ FanaticsCongrats for your hard work! Keep it up!Jon's Has Really Helped My Game
In my opinion Jon Thomas is one of the best bjj online teachers along with John Danaher and Lachlan Giles as far as actually increasing your performance results with his content. needless to say this is a great instructional and the price for quality is great What makes him unique is he offers a lot of details about how a position works, all the elements at play, and all the different things your opponent could and probably will do and how you can shut those down. Basically he is trying to transfer his full understanding of a position that hes developed through tons of specific sparring and training to the best of his ability. In this instructional he focuses on double sleeve grips and how its extremely effective for building a strong fundamental open guard as it makes it really hard for opponents to start passing while their hands are controlled, you can transition to almost any other guard of your choice easily from the double sleeve, and you can play more advanced forms of double sleeve like spider/lasso as you grow in skill level I really recommend it and hope to see more content from him on here soon, hopefully a passing instructional
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Open Guard Gold
Great instructional. The perfect combination of theory and specific technique. Thomas gives the student structure within which the double sleeve techniques/positions fit. Thankfully, this instructional is not just a bunch of random moves thrown together without context.. Rather, he has given us the first stage of a sophisticated meta series regarding a world class open guard. I hope he continues and puts out a sit up guard instructional and a collar sleeve instructional in the future to complete the overarching open guard system. Highly recommend this instructional. Thanks BJJ Fanatics and Mr. Thomas.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻What All Modern BJJ Instructionals Should Look Like
I watch a lot of jiu-jitsu, both instructionals and competition footage. Through doing this for years now I've realized a few things: 1. Most instructionals, even those focused on specific positions, are just a bunch of quasi-random techniques that the instructor decided to show you that day. They rarely form a full game, dealing with opponent's options, your responses, etc. 2. Most of the techniques you are shown frequently do not correlate to what that instructor does when the competition clock is ticking. 3. The above instructionals also rarely deal in-depth with the minutia of control - the little details that can completely change the way the entire position functions. Guard instructionals rarely deal with real-time adjustments and the retention phase. Jon's instructional addresses the above 3 criticisms thoroughly - he presents a full double sleeve game mostly built upon spider guard, leg-past body double sleeve, and double sleeve DLR. Tiny limb-by-limb grip and control details are explained fully and typical retention ideas are also covered. The techniques and transitions are explained excellently, and the full picture what's going on in this position is pretty clear by the time you finish. Can't recommend this enough, along with following Jon's social media, YouTube, etc accounts as well for extra content - he's incredibly generous with his time and great jiu-jitsu ideas.