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This page lists reviews 59,251–59,300 of 89,207, newest first, covering 2023-07-08 to 2023-07-09. The complete archive averages 4.95 out of 5, and the 71 lowest-rated entries sit in these same lists rather than on a page of their own.
Reviews 59,251–59,300
Great video
Weight Training For Grappling by Michael Israetel
Lots of information about how to use weightlifting to improve your BJJ game very interesting I recommend!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻More Wrestle-Jitsu Gold, This Time from Turtle
Turtle Concepts & Escapes by Dinu Bucalet
TL/DR: Dinu Bucalet's "Turtle Concepts & Escapes" is an incredibly useful, defense-focused instructional for beginners, particularly for anyone who has already been influenced by Priit Mihkelson's non-traditional, wrestling-influenced approach to the turtle position. What makes this instructional unique is the emphasis it places on the turtle player being active and aggressively chasing a dominant position rather than quietly waiting to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes. Dinu Bucalet continues the (really cool) trend of grapplers blending jiu jitsu with wrestling that we've seen from Priit Mihkelson, Neil Melanson, Jake Shields and others. This instructional covers the non-traditional turtle position which is described in-depth in Priit's "Protecting & Generating Dynamic Offense From The Turtle." But whereas Priit's instructional focuses on getting the position just right and maintaining it under pressure -- Priit likens it to a boxing stance -- Dinu focuses on how to actively fight your way out of that stance. While Priit's instructional encourages the learner to develop the ability to "be annoying" (i.e. difficult to break down or submit), Dinu encourages the learner to take the next step and bring the fight to the opponent. The two instructionals pair very well together and I would recommend them both to any beginner trying to develop their turtle game. Both are primarily defensive instructionals and therefore will not lead you to a complete turtle game, but a strong offense is built on the foundation of confident defense and so they are nonetheless invaluable to the beginner. Where Dinu's instructional really shines is in (a) his demonstration of how to use frames from turtle (a concept very rarely covered), and (b) his use of "the line concept" to effectively enter into the turtle and then attack the opponent's position from there. Both the framing and the attacking requires you to open up your position/defenses somewhat, but such risks are necessary if one wants to be more than purely defensive (which is untenable in the long run). Dinu's concepts turn the turtle from a passive, stalling position into an active one, which is absolutely necessary for the student who has gotten a handle on how to survive in the shell (no pun intended) and is ready to start making moves of their own. This also makes Dinu's style markedly different from the traditional jiu jitsu approach, which often focuses on waiting, baiting and trapping. While there is merit to that approach there are also downsides to being overly passive and relying solely on counter-attacks. Taking the initiative is always valuable, even for bottom players. (This is especially true for anyone who has an interest in mixed martial arts or anything which combines grappling with striking.) Therefore even a more advanced turtle practitioner can benefit from what Dinu has to offer, as he provides grapplers with tools for taking the initiative and "getting in the fight." This doesn't necessarily undermine or supplant traditional jiu jitsu skills. Rather it fills in the holes which are left open by the "wait and bait" game. It is worth noting, however, that as the instructional goes on it becomes less and less about turtle specifically and becomes a more general go-from-defense-to-offense instructional. This isn't necessarily a bad thing as Dinu demonstrates how the same concepts he uses in the turtle are applicable to a wide variety of circumstances, as well as how the turtle connects to the other aspects of one's game. However it does mean that for some Dinu's "Turtle Concepts & Escapes" may feel a little light on turtle specific content. Another quibble is that while Dinu covers turtle defense from the side, dogfight, and front-headlock positions in great detail, he doesn't address the most common approach a traditional jiu jitsu player will use to attack the turtle: i.e. in a crouch from behind, slightly off to one side, with one leg down and one up, the down leg going shin-to-shin and the up leg covering the opponent's hips. That being said it is a very minor quibble, for if you are taking Dinu's approach to the turtle seriously you shouldn't allow an opponent to hang out behind you anyway. You should be mobile, active, and looking for an opportunity to grab an arm or a leg and attack, or to put in frames and recover guard. In sum, Dinu's "Turtle Concepts" is a crucial step forward in my development and I recommend it highly, particularly for anyone who has already been influenced by Priit Mihkelson's non-traditional approach to the turtle position (as I have). The "line concept," and framing and guard recovery techniques are particularly useful to a turtle beginner like myself, and I look forward to drilling them extensively.
Butterfly mastery
The Complete Butterfly Guard by Marcelo Garcia
Some think that Marcelo was blessed with blindingly fast reflexes and the hand-fighting of a god, but the reality is he drilled these techniques endlessly until he could execute them without hesitation. For beginners I'd put this after Satava's Butterfly Guard video, which is clearer and shows more fundamentals, but for mastery... watch the master.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🔥This is a great overview
The 50-50 of The Arms The Rocha Kimura System by Vagner Rocha BJJ
This is a great overview of Vagner Rocha's kimura system. Clear, easy to follow instruction packed with useful details. Highly recommended.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Amazing video
The Daisy Fresh Knee Slice by Andrew Wiltse
Lot of very good content. Very well explained and demonstrated. Amazing free video !!!!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Intro to Youth Wrestling
Introduction To Youth Wrestling by Zack Esposito
Excellent Video
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great
Clinch Wrestling Basics by Pat Smith
Great for beginners. Will definitely continue to practice these moves regularly definitely recommend
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Extremely useful
Wrist Lock The World: No Gi by Pete Letsos
I personally enjoy using wristlocks as a distraction to lead into another attack and Pete shows a million ways to try to hit them. Been a huge help for me both offensively and even defensively.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Excellent
The Pendejo Guard by Craig Jones
Big fan of craig jones very impressed by this video he demonstrates the positions excellently
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Brilliant, dry, technical
Kimura: Enter The System by John Danaher
Amazing, technical solutions for improving your kimuras, whether for control, sweeping or submitting. My dorsal kimura improved markedly, and I started sweeping using the bottom half kimura instead of hanging out there fighting for dominance. Eye-opening! A bit slow-moving, so digest it in small chunks.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Amazing
Mastering Wrestling Defenses & Counter Attacks by Bo Nickal
Amazing insights into defensive wrestling. Drilling these positions has already started having a positive impact on my takedown defense highly recommended
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great video
The Pendejo Guard by Craig Jones
High level demonstration and coaching of the positions by Craig Jones. Would definitely recommend watching!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great instructions
World Class Back Takes From Bottom by Felipe Pena Preguica
Great instructions
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Awesome instructionnal
World Class Back Takes From Bottom by Felipe Pena Preguica
Awesome combinations to take the back and to keep it. I was already good at taking the back but these videos really helps to improve my game and it explains why and how to do the techniques. Strongly recommended
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻This is gold! Especially for
Fundamentals of Jiu-Jitsu: Introduction To Meregali’s Gi System by Nicholas Meregali
This is gold! Especially for someone who’s just started exploring gi concepts !
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great video
High Percentage Gi Passes by Gordon Ryan
Great free video. I have just started training in the gi so it offers lots of great information. I recommend
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Unique addition... Well worth it.
Jiu Jitsu For a Lifetime by Nicolas Gregoriades
Very different to all the other videos I have watched to date, in a good way. Packed with timeless knowledge that is easy to understand. Highly recommended.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Excellent
The Daisy Fresh Knee Slice by Andrew Wiltse
Very impressed by the quality of drill demonstration in this video. Great choice for beginners as it is free
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Excellent
10 Top Dumbbell Movements by Jason Khalipa
Great instructional about how to compete resistance training for BJJ. Lots to learn
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Game changer!
Nightmare Back Defense: Submit Them by Thomas McAuliffe
This instructional turns a losing position into a dangerous place for your opponents to be. This system will change the way jiu jitsu practitioners view back control. Excellent video!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻You can't go wrong with
Modern Reverse De La Riva by Jason Rau
You can't go wrong with anything from Rau.This is an excellent instructional and Rau is becoming more widely known as a great instructor.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻The best NoGi K guard so far
Understanding The K-Guard by Jason Rau
Jason has a great way to explain principles and techniques. He goes over entries, control, finishes, troubleshooting... K guard one stop shop!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Excellent
High Percentage Gi Passes by Gordon Ryan
Great instructional by Gordon Ryan. Very useful for people who are training gi grappling at any level
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Amazing Yoga video
10 for 10 Yoga by Sebastian Brosche
Great for both flexibility and mobility. Will continue to use this for a very long time! Amazing free video
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Awesome video
Self Mastery: Solo BJJ Training Drills by John Danaher
Great video for when you have no training partners available. Will incorporate some of these drills into future warm ups. Can’t believe it’s free!!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Machida Front Kicks
Machida Front Kicks by Lyoto and Chinzo Machida
Good Training!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Fantastic
Weight Training For Grappling by Michael Israetel
Amazing video. A lot of expert knowledge on how you can utilise resistance training to take your BJJ game to the next level. Highly recommended
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great Video
10 for 10 Yoga by Sebastian Brosche
Great for improving both flexibility and mobility. Will certainly continue using these for a long time! Amazing free video
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Judo
Japanese Judo Secrets by Satoshi Ishii
Amazing
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Learn from a great coach
Championship MMA Cage Striking and Wrestling by Greg Jackson
If Greg Jackson teach, you listen. Period
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Awesome video
Mastering Wrestling Defenses & Counter Attacks by Bo Nickal
Definitely improved my wrestling defence 100% recommend great video
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Excellent Knee Slice Instructional
The Daisy Fresh Knee Slice by Andrew Wiltse
This is the best knee slice information on the internet. His teaching is excellent, and he shows how to finish knee slices in basically every scenario.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Rubberguard fundamentals and details
Rubber Guard: The Meathook by Brandon McCaghren
Good instructional to know all the details about rubberguard.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great for beginners
Clinch Wrestling Basics by Pat Smith
Great video for beginners. Learned a lot of clinching fundamentals. Amazing free video !
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great video
10 Top Dumbbell Movements by Jason Khalipa
Great examples of some exercises that you can do with limited equipment. Very impressed
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Very great!
The Marcelo Guard: Mastering The Butterfly Guard by Marcelo Garcia
The chapter using 2 on 1 was very informative.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Great
10 for 10 Yoga by Sebastian Brosche
Good video for anybody who is trying to increase their flexibility
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Easy to learn, clear instructions
No Gi Pressure Passing by Bernardo Faria
Pressure passing is a choice - you'll give up on ever being an ear model when you decide to slowly grind out passes against opponents whose resistance slowly diminishes. I love it, and Bernardo's videos clearly show you how to do it, but it's not for everyone. Watch some of his matches if you want to see the kind of drive and single-minded purpose you need to pass using this method. As a little guy I love passing bigger opponents using the over/under pass, but it requires some real persistence to inch-by-inch gain ground and retain it. It changed my game, and the physical pressure I'm able to create now when passing translates into mental pressure as well, and it just breaks peoples' will. I'm old, slow, short, inflexible and stubborn, and this was perfect for me.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Defense
Mastering Wrestling Defenses & Counter Attacks by Bo Nickal
Fundamental defense by one of the GOAT's
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Guard retention
Fundamentals of Jiu-Jitsu: Introduction To Meregali’s Gi System by Nicholas Meregali
Good Gi class with this insight for guard retention breakdown!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻The Single Best Demonstration of the Classic Scissor Sweep I've Seen
The Forgotten Sweep by Jeff Curran
I've loved the scissor sweep ever since I first saw it demonstrated a year and a half ago, but like most I have struggled to use it against players with any experience. Research, drilling, observation, and trial and error have led to some improvement, but hitting it consistently has still been an uphill battle. Enter Curran's "Forgotten Sweep." His details are simple and sensible additions to the classic version of the scissor sweep that was shown to most of us in our first or second month of training. They address most of the common problems I experienced while also fitting with the observations I've made about what makes the scissor work better for me -- "me" being a person who does not have particularly long legs for additional leverage, nor a powerful upper body which can simply "upright row" an opponent off balance while staying low and laying on one's side -- as I have seen other people do successfully. (Curran prefers to pop up on an elbow prior to sweeping, which has its pros and cons but works well for his body type.) Curran's use of his supporting leg is particularly insightful: first as a grip for keeping his weight on and tightening his connection with the opponent in preparation for the sweep, then as a hook to keep the opponent from scrambling back to guard after it (a very common problem). Even more interesting is the way Curran's upper body and lower body spiral almost independently of each other, which fits very well with the movement/mobility concepts explored in "The Budokon Mobility System" by Shayne and Ribeiro (also available on this site). The result is a sweep which (when Curran does it) has the elegance of a Judo throw. In addition to the sweep itself Curran fully explores the scissor as a position in its own right -- which can be used as a platform to launch other attacks in case the sweep itself is unavailable -- thus turning a single sweep into a fully stocked arsenal. In sum, this is the instructional I have been looking for for well over a year. Wish I had found it earlier, but glad I have it now.
Hidden gem
Effortless Guard Passing by Octavio Couto
This instructional is great! I usually gravitate towards Instructionals that emphasize postures that limit your opponents options off attack. Octavio explains his concepts very well. Can't go wrong with this guard passing instructional. Octavio is an old school jiujitsu practitioner with many years of teaching and experience on the mat.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Pressure passing king
No Gi Pressure Passing by Bernardo Faria
Good stuff
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Really thorough explanations and clear
Under Pressure: Retention, Recovery and Attacking From Guard by Brian Glick
Really thorough explanations and clear demonstration on each concept. The last section with an easy to find quick summary of each section is super helpful for a brief review before getting on the mat to work on things.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Solid
Fundamentals of Jiu-Jitsu: Introduction To Meregali’s Gi System by Nicholas Meregali
Solid video from one of the top competitors today. Improved his teaching skills from the first instructional and has some fine concepts and details
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Very useful material
High Percentage Gi Passes by Gordon Ryan
I learned alot of new things!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Awsome!
False Reap Accusations by Craig Jones
Craig walks me through about the system! Awsome!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Solid instruction
Judo Throw Encyclopedia by Matt D'Aquino
Very good introduction of all the throws of the gokyo :)
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Awesome video
The Filthy Kimura by Neil Melanson
Another great series by Neil Melanson. It has tons of important details. Everyone at the gym knows how to do a kimura, but only a few guys are really effective with it. This is a great resource to learn how to make yours work.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Powerful Grappling Concepts
Effective Hand Fighting Explained by Georgi Ivanov
I predominantly train BJJ but Coach Georgi's clearly laid-out techniques are transferable across any grappling art. His systematized approach to teaching is awesome!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻