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New Wave Jiu Jitsu: A New Philosophy Of Positional Escapes by John Danaher reviews, page 8
New Wave Jiu Jitsu: A New Philosophy Of Positional Escapes by John Danaher has 452 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 April 20, 2021 to November 2, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
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Really Helped
Really works well against smash passers.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Long winded but good.
Long winded but good.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻This might be the best instructional out there
I can't praise this enough. The instructional is just shy of 10 hours long and John goes to a great detail when explaining techniques or even concepts. And it's those details that make the moves work. He also does a quick recap to emphasize the most important points at the end of every part of the video. No wonder they call him the greatest coach. Btw I've seen a video from a training camp for ADCC and there was a glimpse of John teaching one of the escapes from this instructional (the ankle trap escape).
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻A truly comprehensive and impressive
A truly comprehensive and impressive instructional. I was able to use what Danaher taught in my roles almost immediately and it made a huge difference. I think escaping bad positions is fundamental to anyone's game and would recommend this to anyone who loves no-gi.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great escapes!!
This instructional teaches a new way of thinking, getting out of bad positions an counter attacking. These moves have really helped me escape an attack on bigger training partners. A must have for any BJJ practitioner.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Simple and accurate
Many times I saw escapes as diffucult, the instructional gives you a lot of concepts to aproach your escape game not by techniques but as concepts to improve as you fight more
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Professor Danaher always puts out
Professor Danaher always puts out great instructional content, diving into deeper concepts and positions. He does a great job explaining all the little technicalities of positions.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Escape to attacking has changed my game radically
This is my 4th Danaher course and it’s opening up my mind on the concept of attacking right after the escape. Just after one view I was able to tap a 4 strip blue belt that I never tapped before.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻New Wave Escapes Review
Great instructional! This series is definitely a game changer. The concepts found within this video will help anyone turn from a defensive player into an offensive one in no time. Danaher is an amazing coach and learning from him is easy through these instructionals.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great
Really helpful and clear
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Good escapes
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Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Good defense to offense combo
As a beginner, I have struggled with getting stuck in defensive cycles and this has helped me turn the corner.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗World best instructor
His teaching is very philosophical
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Your training partners will have fun trying to stop you now!
Get the instructional and soak up all of the knowledge John has to offer. This one's a game changer!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Increase your conference on the mat with confidence in your escapes.
The most high percentage ways to escape the counter from Mount, side, n/s, back, knee on belly. He throws in some of the updated leg lock details compared to his first enter the system instructional. My favorite parts were kipping mount escape to heel hook, getting out of the back triangle, proper side escapes, and psychologically of pin escapes on you and opponents.
John Danaher is a very good teacher
John Danaher is very good at explaining the main principle behind the pins, which is super useful especially to a beginner such as myself.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Pin escapes
I watched this entire instructional 3 times over. There is so much to take away from this, escapes and attacks from virtually every position you can be stuck in. This philosophy of attacking directly after your escape is such a simple concept and is shown brilliantly throughout this entire instructional. Well worth the money.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Defense is truly the cornerstone of attacking!
Don't waste years of your life stuck under side control. Learn the mechanics of pinning from the mastermind and gain the confidence that will leads to non-stop attacks.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Gamechanger
Effective escapes, communicated in a good way. Highly recommended.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻A must own
Witout a doubt a prerequisite for anyone who wants to do NOGI. Something you can refer to over and over again, over months and years. Whether to use as a tool for drilling, calrity in central problems, or even if you want to refine your attacks offensively; you need this instructional. Can not reccomend this instructional. One of my peronal favouites and one of Johns better ones, which is saying something.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Really helped me get people off of my back
As a white belt, I often find myself pinned but johns philosophy of quick counter attacks has really helped me. The video is also really good for helping to understand how to get out of pesky body triangles.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Well worth the money
This is a comprehensive video of Danaher's philosophy of escaping as well as detailed explanations on how to escape from various pins. I saw a BJJ Fanatics video from their YouTube channel of Gordon saying the reason people don't attack all the time is because they don't know how to escape bad positions. For me personally, that made a lot of sense. I never attack, I'm just always trying to defend. Since watching this video I've gotten a lot better at escaping and even when I can't I at least know where I'm failing and what I need to work on.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Maximized ROI
This is an excellent instructional. Having come from a more traditional background where I focused on escaping to a neutral position, I am now embracing the concept of maximizing instead of satisficing. Thank you for the perspective change!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻No ********
Very detailed, as I expected, and extremely useful
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Tremendous
John's teaching style prefers concepts over specifics which makes it easier to learn. Positional escapes are usually not everyone's favorite topic, but absolutely crucial to development along with guard retention. This instructional has made me more confident in going for submissions because I know if I miss I have a good chance of escaping a bad position.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻What you can expect from the Professor.
Awesome instructional from Danaher with new take on escapes and counters.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Great instructional
The best instructional any beginner or veteran can get. Helps you understand the concept of jiu jitsu in a simple but effective way. Highly recommended to any beginner.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Worth It
Definitely worth every penny. I learned so much and wish I was taught this way when I first started BJJ. You get tons of content, escapes from like 6 different positions usually with counters. He covers clamp position, shows you how to control your opponent there, and details on how to submit your opponent from the clamp using several different submissions. Of course he shows you how to escape into the clamp and how to escape into tons of submissions. I even learned a few more positions for leg locks. Tons of value. It is the best instructional I have ever watched
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻great instruction
great instruction
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Greatest Instructional!
Had problems getting out of mount till this instructional! Professor Danaher breaks it down to the core details to help you not only get out of mount but to turn it into offense
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Best Positional Escape Series:fire:
The Escape Series from Danaher is Gamechanging
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Required learning for all
Frankly this should be required learning for all students of BJJ
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏼Great start to new wave series
This video is really helpful and helped me think about actively counter attacking as soon as I’m out of a pin. I really like John’s style of teaching and it has been incredible to add these into my game and see my submission attempts increase as I am always looking for a way to chase a sub even in an inferior position.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Guard retention plus
Being able to comfortably assess escape from less than optimal scenarios and still being able to provide an offensive pressure is exactly the mind state I was looking for.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻A whole new way to be a threat from inferior positions.
This is a great instructional that shows how to never let your opponent feel comfortable even when they are in a dominant position. You will always be a threat if you follow the principles taught in this series.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻I'm fascinated by this instructional
I'm fascinated by this instructional it an incredible view into the mind of one of the best jiu-jitsu coaches
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Escape master
Was a game changer for me when I was hurt and not as explosive. Helped me to stay calm and work out of bad spots consistently!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻New Wave Jiu Jitsu: A New Philosophy Of Positional Escapes by John Danaher
Excellent!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Best pin escapes
As always a complete gem; Principles and techniques that will help you A LOT.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Save yourself time
This instructional filled in a ton of critical details most instructors miss when covering pin escapes.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗great stuff
classic danaher, lengthy and plenty of depth , great details on the mount escapes i have used regularly to recover and go straight to offense
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Awesome!
Nothing but the best as always! You cant ask for a better instructional!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻New Wave Jiu Jitsu: A New Philosophy Of Positional Escapes by John Danaher
New Wave Jiu Jitsu: A New Philosophy Of Positional Escapes by John Danaher. Use escapes to create immediate submission attempts - WHY NOT???!!!!!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great video!!
This has been a great overview of the 5 positional holds that really gave me some great perspective not only on escaping but moving into a dominant position from a weaker position. I highly recommend this video, it has really changed the game for me.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻My New Wave game
Fantastic! My escapes has significantly improved, then immediately going on the attack with kipping, blocking techniques against opponents wedges, shields, huge improvement on my elbow escapes, back escapes, hand fighting. I now have spinning escapes, high leg escapes. You learn not only to be extremely difficult to pin, but to escape and immediately go to arm bars, triangles, heel hooks. As one can go from giving up back to Head Fighting to a Leg attack. Today I rolled from Kuzushi to guillotine. Then from Side elbow escape to triangle.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻What an eye opener
Danaher gives you a plan. Not only that but some of the details are game changing. Highly recommend!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻👍�
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Another vital work
The body triangle escapes are worth the price of admission. John Danaher’s explanation of pinning theory are helpful for me.as well
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Best open guard course ever
There's something extraordinary about John Danaher and he's way of teaching BJJ. When I watch other bjj practitioners' courses I often get a bit bored after 10 minutes of watching. That's not the case with John's material. Even though one volume takes an hour and a half, I loose track of time. He's the best teacher of bjj of all time.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great extension to the GFF escapes
Really detailed and enjoyable. Ties in well with the GFF escapes which I spent several months working through. This course will likely take me more time to develop the skills it demonstrates than the GFF course. That being said, having watched through it I have no doubt that it will be worth the time. Both escapes courses by Danaher have led to significant improvements in my game.
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