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Leg Lock Defense: Survive And Escape by Giancarlo Bodoni has 38 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 4.95 out of 5. 95% are five-star and 0 are one or two stars. Reviews run from January 21, 2023 to September 17, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
18 of these reviewers gave their belt rank when they submitted the review. BJJ Fanatics asks for rank, age and years training at the point of review, so this breakdown is self-reported by the customer.
| Belt | Reviews | Average rating |
|---|---|---|
| Blue | 6 | 5.0 |
| Purple | 4 | 4.75 |
| Brown | 3 | 5.0 |
| Black | 3 | 5.0 |
| White | 2 | 5.0 |

Leg Lock Defense: Survive And Escape by Giancarlo Bodoni is currently listed on the BJJ Fanatics storefront at $197.00 USD. View Leg Lock Defense: Survive And Escape by Giancarlo Bodoni on BJJ Fanatics
The BEST leglock defense instructional!
Excellent.
Excellent details, both from the offensive and defensive perspective
Very technical defense and escapes
Goes through all major leg position defenses
Very well explained and detailed!
This is all good material. The instruction is kind of wordy so it takes a while to get through it, but the material is solid.
leg lock
Great!
Good instructional
he gets to the point with practical knowledge
Fantastic coaching
This really answered a lot of questions on escaping leg locks for me. Everyone is leg lock happy these days and it has helped me stuff a lot of those entries.
great details
Having done mostly gi and transitioning into no gi, the world of leglocks was confusing and intimidating with unknown danger. Giancarlo’s series provides a fantastic overview of the different entanglements as well as preventative, early stage, and late stage countermeasures.
This instructional is very well organized and really helped my defense when it comes to leg locks.
Very clear, easy to understand instruction from Giancarlo.
Tired of getting leg locked? Look no further. Giancarlo is an excellent instructor!
I’m old and started when leglock did not exist for anyone except dean lister.m or some sambo guys. This video helped me a lot - maybe I’m not engaging in leglocks, but i can avoid them.
awesome concepts and great way of teaching it
Giancarlo presents another excellent instructional befitting of a world class athlete and instructor
Giancarlo Bodoni shows how to position yourself to prevent and negate leg entanglements. To escape the early and mid- and late stage of leg locks. Folled by counter back takes and counter submissions. He teaches concepts and techniques on point and puts them into context very concise. Highly recommend!
This instructional does a great job covering different positions and leg entanglements at a fundamental level. The instruction and pacing are both excellent and I would recommend this to anyone interested in learning about leg locks
good
This has been a very helpful video for me. It has so many details and since I'm not a highly experienced belt that's such a good thing. I digest it a little bit at a time, with whatever leg attack problem I'm having at the moment.
I like this course layout, I look forward to getting your other defense video courses.
I appreciate Giancarlo's course layout, it's like here's eight volumes and it could be 30 minutes or an hour, either way you're getting more than you thought before.
Great
Awesome :ok_hand:
First Leglock Defenese Instructional so far, that also goes about preventing Entrys instead of just late stage defense and escapes
gives a great understanding of leg lock defense
Awesome class and technique!
A complete guide to leg lock defense. You can tell he genuinely did his homework before putting this out
I was impressed on instructor’s leg lock defense got so good in such short time. Now I feel comfortable rolling with leg lockers and am now frustrating them.
Excellent knowledge of Leg lock system. His escapes are in line with other systems, however he brings out basic and advance details that both the beginner and expert can draw from when teaching or drilling escapes.
I usually find instructional content difficult to follow since I am a beginner, but after watching his documentary was convinced that it was an essential subject to be familiar with. I am understanding so much more since watching this. Thanks Giancarlo.
I have worked some of these escapes, many I have not. This is already improving my leglock defense.
Giancarlo does a great job explaining defenses, I have all 3 instructionals he has put out and all have immediately improved my game. This is awesome content and I highly recommend picking it up.
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