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The Pillars Of Defense: Leg Lock Escapes and Counter Locks by Gordon Ryan reviews

The Pillars Of Defense: Leg Lock Escapes and Counter Locks by Gordon Ryan has 117 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 5.0 out of 5. 100% are five-star and 0 are one or two stars. Reviews run from April 25, 2023 to November 4, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.

Who reviewed The Pillars Of Defense: Leg Lock Escapes and Counter Locks by Gordon Ryan

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The reviews

• Game changing Defense

  I love gordon's defense to offense cycles. This is no exception

  Zach M.November 4, 2026United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• Leg Lock Defense

  Like a Thesis

  Ade O.September 2, 2026Verified buyerPurple belt4-6 yrs training

• The Pillars Of Defense: Leg Lock Escapes and Counter Locks

  Great and comprehensive overview

  John H.August 23, 2026Verified buyerWhite belt1-3 yrs training

• Great Instuctional

  Exceptional content and in-depth analysis. Wish I’d watched this sooner.

  Ed D.August 1, 2026Verified buyerWhite belt1-3 yrs training

• Good

  Good instructions

  Hiroya N.July 28, 2026Verified buyerWhite belt1-3 yrs training

• Good instructional

  Good tips

  Garrett S.July 11, 2026Verified buyer

• Encyclopedia of defense

  There’s so much to digest here. You will find yourself constantly coming back to this video, based on the situations you have. I really enjoy that he breaks down what kid of defense it is, so that if you prefer one kind of escape you can easily focus on that. Lastly, I enjoy his honesty on the likelihood of success of each escape.

  Otto B.June 7, 2026United StatesVerified buyerBrown belt7-9 yrs training

• Very helpful

  Works well

  Garrett S.May 22, 2026Verified buyer

• Leg lock defense

  Well explained, helped me a lot.

  Łukasz P.March 20, 2026United StatesVerified buyer

• Leg locks escapes, and counter locks by Gordon Ryan

  I love this instructional. Gordon is always technical and explain himself. Well I highly recommend recommended it.

  William F.March 19, 2026United StatesVerified buyerPurple belt7-9 yrs training

• Great Instructional

  Simple and understandable

  Ivan T.March 6, 2026United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• レッグロック

  レッグロックのエスケープが上手になりました。

  一真 福.March 6, 2026JapanVerified buyerBlue belt1-3 yrs training

• Awesome

  I feel way more comfortable defending leg lockd now.

  Joseph E.March 3, 2026United StatesVerified buyerBrown belt4-6 yrs training

• Great

  Detailed

  DylanFee L.February 21, 2026United StatesVerified buyerBrown belt7-9 yrs training

• Nathan

  Great must have for leg locks to keep the self safe with

  Nathan M.February 14, 2026United StatesVerified buyerBrown belt10-12 yrs training

• Improved leg lock escapes

  This helped a lot. Tons of content.

  Garrett S.February 10, 2026United StatesVerified buyer

• The Pillars Of Defense: Leg Lock Escapes and Counter Locks

  Very nice breakdown. You can use it as an library and dive straight into the topics you are interested in. Also, it is kept very striaght on point. Thank you very much!

  Alex V.January 12, 2026SwitzerlandVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• Essential!

  Great instructional, essential if you want to safely disassemble leglocks and fire right back.

  AnonymousJanuary 4, 2026United StatesVerified buyerPurple belt7-9 yrs training

• The Pillars Of Defense: Leg Lock Escapes and Counter Locks

  Very nice breakdown of the techniques and very well structured content. Thank you very much!

  Alex V.January 2, 2026SwitzerlandVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• Pillars of Defense Leg Lock Escapes And Counter Locks

  Very good content.

  Alex V.December 27, 2025SwitzerlandVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• Outstanding as always

  Essential if you’re a leg locker

  William M.December 24, 2025United StatesVerified buyerPurple belt7-9 yrs training

• Leg Lock Defense

  Very good video for increasing its repertoire

  Alex V.December 19, 2025SwitzerlandVerified buyer4-6 yrs training

• Great Instructional

  Gordon's instructionals are all excellent and this one is no different.

  Cameron F.December 15, 2025United KingdomVerified buyer1-3 yrs training

• Best leg lock instructional

  Game changer concepts,very good

  igor b.December 8, 2025SpainVerified buyerBrown belt7-9 yrs training

• Absolutely amazing

  Been loving the technical aspect of this instructional.

  Ryan W.December 5, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• Very Good

  As always, Gordon is just so good and detailed. I feel this is more widely applicable than his leg lock counters to back take instructional. Also, there is details even for competitors who are willing to take breaks (not me!) that I found fascinating.

  John P.December 5, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• Essential.

  If you want to learn how to not get your legs broken, you must pick this up and study it in depth and apply it. Outstanding instructional. I looked around for reviews on it compared to other instructionals and I'd say it covers a vast majority of what you will run into. There are some niche attacks that arent covered, but this will give you the tools and concepts to deal with these. Pick this up ASAP and get good.

  AnonymousNovember 18, 2025Verified buyerPurple belt7-9 yrs training

• Essential, no other way to put it.

  If you want to learn how to not get your legs broken, you must pick this up and study it in depth and apply it. Outstanding instructional. I looked around for reviews on it compared to other instructionals and I'd say it covers a vast majority of what you will run into. There are some niche attacks that arent covered, but this will give you the tools and concepts to deal with these. Pick this up ASAP and get good.

  AnonymousNovember 18, 2025United StatesVerified buyerPurple belt7-9 yrs training

• EXCELLENT

  Very detailed defensive breakdowns of all of the traditional leg lock positions

  Michael W.October 12, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBlack belt7-9 yrs training

• Excellent

  Great for leg lock defense

  John H.September 18, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• Great Instructional!

  This is a very thorough instructional. The length might seem intimidating, but a lot of the material is repeated so that you can use this as a reference rather than a front-to-back learning experience. For example, if you want to start with escapes from cross ashi, you can go straight to chapter 6 - you don't need to start with chapter 1 and go through because he repeats any necessary info along the way. This makes it seem a little repetitive if you watch front-to-back, but overall I'm glad he structured it this way in case I ever need to come back and review a section later.

  Joseph E.September 10, 2025United StatesVerified buyerPurple belt4-6 yrs training

• Pillars Of Defense Leg Lock Escapes And Counter Locks

  Great Instruction. Easy to Follow and Implement. Lots of great information which helped level up my leg lock defense.

  Nathaniel S.August 6, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBrown belt10-12 yrs training

• You need this

  The game has advanced and everyone in my gym is leg locking so you need to understand leg lock defence. This is one of the best instructionals from the the GOAT

  Ben T.July 6, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• leg lock escape and counter

  So far im half way through and ive began incorporating this is my game. Making a huge differance

  Shayne C.July 4, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt7-9 yrs training

• muy completo

  Excelente instruccional, contiene basicos y avanzados utiles para todos los niveles

  AnonymousJuly 2, 2025MexicoVerified buyerBrown belt10-12 yrs training

• leg lock defemce

  very good

  David C.June 2, 2025United KingdomVerified buyerPurple belt7-9 yrs training

• Comprehensive

  First, Learned to do leg locks, now learned to defend and fight them

  Mark E.May 28, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt1-3 yrs training

• Great

  Great details

  Luke S.May 28, 2025United StatesVerified buyer

• The best!

  Always reliable and most comprehensive

  Mark E.May 15, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• Excellent instructional

  Covers leg lock defence and counters from different positions. Includes rolling footage, highly recommend

  Will M.May 1, 2025United KingdomVerified buyerBlue belt1-3 yrs training

• Amazing - should be core study for no-gi practitioners

  Must buy

  Ben T.April 13, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• Good

  I loved it. Would highly recommend buying this dvd to level up your leg defense

  Kye S.March 22, 2025United StatesVerified buyer10-12 yrs training

• Gordon

  Again great insight from Gordon highly recommend. Rolling footage at the end always a huge bonus.

  nathan m.March 15, 2025United KingdomVerified buyerBrown belt7-9 yrs training

• Good instructional

  Very Good instructional. Covers leg lock defense. Includes rolling footage. Highly recommend

  Will M.March 8, 2025United KingdomVerified buyerBlue belt1-3 yrs training

• Excellent

  Gamechanger

  AnonymousFebruary 28, 2025United StatesVerified buyerBlue belt4-6 yrs training

• Gordon Ryan is crazy IRL

  But his BJJ videos are good.

  Gene H.February 7, 2025United StatesVerified buyerWhite belt1-3 yrs training

• Leg Lock Escapes and Counter Locks

  Leg Lock Escapes and Counter Locks

  채 한.January 31, 2025South KoreaVerified buyerBlue belt1-3 yrs training

• Another great video

  Another great video from the champ!

  Maurizio C.January 30, 2025ItalyVerified buyer1-3 yrs training

• Leg%2Blocks%2Bescapes%2Band%2Bcounter%2Blocks

  Great%20teaching

  Abimael C.January 23, 2025MexicoVerified buyer

• The King For A Reason...

  Gordon is on another level with his instructionals. Each minute detail is covered leaving no stone unturned. As someone who watches a fair amount of instructionals, Gordon's are always the best

  Robert M.January 22, 2025United StatesVerified buyerPurple belt4-6 yrs training

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