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Mastering The Mount by Matt Thornton reviews
Mastering The Mount by Matt Thornton has 32 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 4.84 out of 5. 88% are five-star and 0 are one or two stars. Reviews run from May 21, 2019 to October 23, 2025. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
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5 star28 (88%)
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Who reviewed Mastering The Mount by Matt Thornton
8 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 | 4 | 5.0 |
| White | 2 | 5.0 |
| Purple | 2 | 5.0 |
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The reviews
Mastering the Mount
Must have training to complete your Mount game!
Answers Every Possible Question
This is a thorough and enjoyable course. If you want to learn Mount, I can't imagine a more complete course on the topic.
Best Mount Instructional Ever
I spend a ton of time working through instructionals and this has got to be the Best one I've seen on the topic of mount.
Mastering the mount
Great instruction
Revolutionize Your Mount Game
Thornton focuses on fundamental concepts that lead to mount mastery--posture, position, pressure, and more--stripped-down, no-nonsense, core essentials. He's one of the best instructors out there. Highly recommended!
Great course
The course covers the lower mount in lots of details, mainly to keep you on top and be heavy! I have not seen those techniques on other courses!
Great
It's as good as it gets - up there with Akins and Whittier's instructions.
Fundamentals Matter!
Matt is an amazing instructor! The techniques and concepts taught throughout this instructional were easily applicable in training after only watching the first few lessons. I recommend this for those that aren’t too knowledgeable on what to do once they achieve the mount.
Mount!!
Love this! Glad that it's part of my library!
mount
staying on top for the arm triangle
The Best Teacher!
Matt Thornton is literally one of the best teachers out there. My mount game has risen so so much. I'm a nightmare now when I get mount position!
The Best Stuff. Simple, Efficient Jiu Jitsu
Thornton goes straight to the heart of fundamental jiu jitsu. He shows how simple body connection and weight distribution can maintain your mount and turn it into a checkmate position. He also shows very simple, low risk attacks from the mount. This is nothing fancy, just good, efficient and effective jiu jitsu. White belt jiu jitsu, which is the best kind.
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging:True Excellence
Incredible technical details. Has made a huge difference in my success in this position.
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging:Great Instructional
Matt does an excellent job of breaking down simple concepts. This has definitely helped my top game.
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::call_me_hand::skin-tone-2:great
great
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::+1::skin-tone-2:Great Course
This took my mount to a whole new level. Really great insights.
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::+1::skin-tone-2:Great instructional
Great mount instructional. The lesson style of teaching about mount make it easy to implement and learn the tips.
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::+1::skin-tone-2:Must have for a fundamental and deep understanding of the low mount position
M. T and his coaches did a great job by outlining the key points of the low mount position in terms of maintaining and regaining the position and progress to sumbissions. The submissions are the americana lock, the armbar when your opponent pushes against your chest which is of course very rare in a jiu jitsu context and the head and arm choke. The details on the america and the head and arm choke are on the point and very useful. The lession about the back take is very self defense based. So to summarize: This instructional is great about maintaining and regaining the mount!! In context of the given submissions and the back take lesson it should be more precise and detailed. Recommendation if the focus is on maintaining and regaining the mount
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::+1::skin-tone-2:Great Mount Instructional!
Lots of good fundamental techniques and concepts for maintaining the mount and setting up submissions.
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::call_me_hand::skin-tone-2:Excellent foundamental dvd
It really helped me with the foundation of mounted position!
Very Solid Concepts
Matt Thornton continues his mastery of the fundamentals with this course. This course covers the concepts while in "low" mount (as Matt describes low, middle, and high). Mount is my A game pinning position and am Very happy with the info I added to my arsenal with this instructional.
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::call_me_hand::skin-tone-2:Great video
Great video
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::call_me_hand::skin-tone-2:Fastest Way to Lethal
Matt Thornton is a master at distilling the essentials necessary to get to the next level, wherever a student happens to be on the journey. This video series covers not what is most basic, but what is most important for the mount.
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::call_me_hand::skin-tone-2:C.J.
Professor Thornton sprinkles more BJJ Knowledge in his side comments than most instruction videos do in their entire content. Provides a Prang Color Wheel for Mount BJJ. Teaches you the primary colors that create all the colors. No rainbow and unicorn perfect situational techniques! Solid Fundamentals that will improve your Mount.
Response from BJJ Fanatics:hugging::call_me_hand::skin-tone-2:Structured material for mount
I had actually never heard of Matt before giving this video a shot. I'm really glad I did. He lays out a very structured approach to learn every aspect of the mount position.
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