Half Domination by Tom DeBlass
212 reviews · 4.96 / 5
Tom DeBlass · Combo
The Lockdown Blueprint by Tom DeBlass has 103 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 4.92 out of 5. 92% are five-star and 0 are one or two stars. Reviews run from September 19, 2020 to August 1, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
37 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 | 14 | 5.0 |
| Brown | 8 | 5.0 |
| Purple | 7 | 5.0 |
| White | 6 | 5.0 |
| Black | 2 | 5.0 |

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Great instructional
The techniques shown here I have applied them in comp. And live rolls boy they work.
Great instructional, easy to understand
Very good instructional to get into the lockdown world. I recommend this videos
Very useful, especially for getting out of tough situations.
Very useful, especially for getting out of tough situations.
I love this position for slowing down annoying, younger grapplers who try to run around the guard. Love it!
Great stuff!
great inspiration. Helped me a lot to slow down younger guys
I was familiar with lockdown techniques, but this tutorial has made me think about reverse lockdown and leg entries from the electric chair. It's raised my skill level.
Great details
This is another outstanding product from Tom. His material is easily understood and implemented into your game. He teaches a lot of details without being too wordy. Highly recommend
awsome
Awesome instructional
Expanded my understanding of the lockdown system.
The techniques in this video helped me with guard passing! Awesome!
Good
Great info on getting to the lockdown, submissions from the lockdown & escaping the lockdown.
DeBlass shows the lockdown in its entirety. Works for big guys! Old guys! Everyone.
Awesome Knowledge!
I like the details he works through. I have been slowly implementing this and it has been very helpful.
Great techniques an concepts, applicable at all levels, tailor made for older grapplers to slow down younger and more athletic guys.
nice, detailed approach to the lockdown to fit in your game immediately
Love all his series. He get to the point and breaks it down so it’s easy to understand
Awesome detailed approach to the lockdown. It has been super helpful for me, especially with my aging body. It has made slowing the game down so I can work a system much easier. Tom killed it with this instructional.
I have to talk again about the didactic of Tom DeBlass, teaching the principles and carring about it, thanks for that. I am a Coyote Half Guard and Deep Half Guard Fighter and I used to have problems with Knee Slide pass, and increase that tool to my game, was perfect. Simply Amazing and Direct. Sorry for my english.
I love Tom's videos. He has a simple and effective way to communicate content which translates into the ability to immediately apply the concepts in training. I am focusing on learning all aspects of the half guard and this video is an amazing compliment to my learning. High Recommend.
My coach showed me lockdown in a roll and it changed my bottom game. After watching this video, I hit the electric chair on the 1st try. I'm 54 and my partner was a strong 20 year old. All of a sudden I want to be bottom half!
Improved my halfgaurd game tremendously!
Excellent video with concepts I hadn't thought of.
I love the lockdown technique so this was a great find for me!
Very good teacher really step by step teaching. Happy with my purchase.
Great Tom DeBlass instructional, as always! Very clear, yet concise strategies and positions that can be immediately implemented.
the lockdown was never taught at my school and thanks to this instructional I have a better understanding.
Tom DeBlass teaching lockdown is brilliant
so cool!
The Lockdown great instructional video!
My half guard game focuses a ton on the concepts of this series. Great foundation with lots of options
very informative and useful for developing my game
Great system with immediate impacts on your game
I own Eddie Bravos book. But this instructional helps me more. Highly recommend.
Tons of great options to learn.
Really good detail and variety of technique! After studying this it gave me so much more to play with and now people at my gym don't even want to engage in lockdown with me anymore :joy:🙏�
Good details
Tom is a great instructor. He's able to clearly explain many defensive and offensive options from this half guard position that I feel is not used enough.
The information in this instructional is great and Tom does an awesome job explaining the lock down. The only issue I had was with some of the demos Tom's legs are face away from the camera and it's difficult to see what he's doing while he's explaining the foot work. It took me a little longer to understand what was going on than if he would have had his feet pointed to the camera. Other than that issue, it was a ton of great information.
a lot of details and very broken down
This is probably the BJJ fanatics course I have gotten the most out of. I considered myself pretty well versed in the lockdown and use it frequently as a 43 year old guy against younger more athletic guys to slow down the pace. I had a good electric chair and dogfight with a couple other subs and options I would use. But this course really opened my eyes to a lot of things I was not doing that elevated my game a lot. It gave me some new understandings of the positional control as well as some nice new options that I've had a lot of success with.
I was never a big fan of the lockdown until now. this is a great instructional with tons of detail and easy to follow I highly recommend this to anyone looking to improve their half guard game
This instructional covers the topic of THE LOCKDOWN from top to bottom. Great buy!
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