The Grilled Chicken Guard Retention System by Priit Mihkelson
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The Sitting Turtle by Priit Mihkelson reviews
The Sitting Turtle by Priit Mihkelson has 45 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 4.89 out of 5. 91% are five-star and 0 are one or two stars. Reviews run from October 13, 2019 to August 10, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
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Who reviewed The Sitting Turtle by Priit Mihkelson
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| Belt | Reviews | Average rating |
|---|---|---|
| Blue | 3 | 5.0 |
| Brown | 3 | 5.0 |
| Black | 2 | 5.0 |
| White | 1 | 5.0 |
| Purple | 1 | 5.0 |
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The reviews
Great
Dead butterfly is awesome
Good
Essential
Better defense leads to more offense. Prit is great at explaining defensive BJJ concepts.
Tortue assise
Complément de la défense quadrupédique.
Awesome
Great defensive jiujitsu instruction. This position helps you chain together other positions as you look to escape.
great details
great details
Game Changer
Clear and Simple to Follow Instruction. Easy to Apply and Very Effective. This has helped my back defence game and really opened up an entire new position to my game.
Great technique
I learned so much from this video! It was incredibly informative and engaging. The content was presented in a clear and easy-to-understand manner, and I feel like I have a much better understanding of the topic now. I highly recommend watching this video if you want to expand your knowledge and learn something new.
fantastic
very helpful and knowledgeable
The Sitting Panda
You get many defensive positions to play with
Defensive BJJ is criminally underrated
You will not find flashing moves, what you will find are the tools to be able to survive, and to counteract. This is pure gold.
Defensive BJJ is underrated
Great, instructional simple and basic techniques that most people overlook
Great
Priits system is great. This instructional is another important building stone.
Highly Recommended
This is another highly useful tool to add to your defensively arsenal. If the put all their weight on your hips, just sit up to the sitting turtle and you're almost out.
Alright
Not his best work but worth watching.
Top defense
Priit Mihkelson has one of the best defenses of all the game. Highly recommended
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗great
great
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗New understanding.
Gives me a new understanding how to mess with people who are trying to take my back.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗amazing defence
Pritt is an amazing teacher. I do love the videos. I am one of the few people in my gym that practices turtle. It has saved many times especially since I am getting older.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Priit is awsome. Bedt way
Priit is awsome. Bedt way for me not to be submittet is follow his instructions
Improved my game. Started with
Improved my game. Started with Eduardo Telles stuff discovered Priits build up conzept. Love it.
Priit Killing the game
I love Priit’s system and am hoping to master defensive fundamentals over the next year
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻A turtle tutorial must
Soooooo nice tips to make more rounded the guard edges. This tutorial give some good and eficient concepts for the turtle position.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Believe
If you believe or don’t believing in that #Prittsheet you still need to watch these videos. Maybe for higher belts it something you’ve worked out, but Pritt has made it communicable and systematic in a way that makes this a worthy add to any BJJ library.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻P.M. is always very conceptual
P.M. is always very conceptual in his instructionals. He is appling a turtle system based giving the turtle by not giving the turtle. He teaches the concept of beeing prepared and anticipating and transforming between sitting turtle, guard and turtle back and forward and using the created transitions efficiently.
Helped my defense!
Very useful info and to the point!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻The sitting turtle by Priit Mihkelson.
Priits Defensive system is an amazing foundation for your game.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻A must for anyone starting
A must for anyone starting bjj
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻good for defence studies
I'm getting old I have to open up my mind to this stuff,and I'm really enjoying it so far.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Worth every penny!
All his videos leveled up my turtle game! Well worth the purchase. If you play the turtle game or not, all his videos will help every aspect of your game.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Sitting Turtle
I love how Priit teaches and explains his concepts, definitely worth getting if you want to improve your defence.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Skeptical to convert
I like all of Priit’s videos. When all of them are combined, they give you an excellent defensive system. But I was hesitant to buy this video because the sitting panda seems like silly position. I now understand that most of Priit’s positions should be used in combination to transition from one to the next. Sure, you can hold one position and practice defending from it, but the sitting panda makes more sense when combined with the turtle and running man.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Interesting concepts. Makes you look
Interesting concepts. Makes you look at turtle position in a whole different light.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Priit always has Something to
Priit always has Something to teach you that blows your mind!!!
Response from BJJ Fanatics👍🏻🤗I am the Ultimate Turtle warrior.:turtle::shield: great defense win matches an **** people off😀
In my academy I am know as the turtle guy I learn this style from telles and for two years I have been doing good. As time goes on there were alot of holes in my turtle game an alot of guys saw it an was able to catch me now that I for priit dvds alot of those holes are filled up. Everything you talked about in the sitting panda, hawking, and running man scenario would happen did happen to me I was lil doubtful at first not addressing the choke but grabbing the leg an hawking with my head down an my boxer shoulder it worked like a charm.lol The purple i was rolling with nearly lost his mind he couldn't rnc me or collar choke me trust me he tried like 10 times an nothing I was smiling in my head because of the share defeated look an frustration came over him. I am looking forward to buying all your work I love your style and yes I am the annoying guy in my gym my partners know they are in for a hand fighting cardio escape party with me.lol thank you priit your style turtle mixed with telles turtle made me a super turtle player.lol turtle guard for life.:call_me_hand:oss.
Response from BJJ FanaticsOSSSS1. Study Priit. 2. Become annoying 3. ?????? 4. Profit!
Priit's insights have changed my jiujitsu. I'm happily being described as "annoying" to roll with. Understanding Panda matters.
Response from BJJ Fanatics👏🏼Interesting concepts
I found really interesting and useful the implementation of defensive wrestling concepts applied to bjj that Priit teaches in this dvd. I can´t wait to use this techniques in training
the sitting turtle
pritt has great knowledge of the defensive turtle game
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Great for older practitioners
I'm an older (59) practitioner, 3-stripe purple. I have really found the sitting turtle (Mihkelson's companion positions) to be a real game changer for me. Because most of my training partners are bigger, faster and younger than me, my strategy used to be to try to sweep, get on top, and then hold them there or look for a submission. But this took a lot of energy and once I was passed or swept myself, I had to use lots more energy to escape or simply survive. With these very counter-intuitive positions, however, I can really save a lot of energy, confuse my partners, tire them out, and then counter attack. Even with higher level training partners, the system works because they are not used to partners so willingly giving the back. And, because I have big hands, that old man strength, and am an experienced wrist-locker (Aikido practitioner), I can frustrate my partners and even submit them with surprise attacks. You definitely want to have all of the DVDs so that you have the complete system. s
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Hard to play but highly beneficial
This DVD is one of the hardest to implement concepts from Priit. I still struggle with it a bit, as it's completely the opposite what I was taught until I watched this DVD, but it's getting better and I'm developing skills that I wasn't aware about. I would recommend it for people that want to improve their turtle (having watched Turtle from Priit before) and for people that want to have better guard retention from butterfly guard. For me the game changing experience of this instructional is to finally be more comfortable with butterfly guard, as Panda is sort of dead butterfly guard. With that in place, you can play with people and seek for openings while they're confused, an invaluable experience :)
Response from BJJ Fanatics👍🏻🙂Fantastic effective and best kept secret
Really simple to implement in your game and very fun to start rolling with it or even just doing flow drills, but you can quickly see the power of it versus everyone. Thank you Priit for all the amazing content out there.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Nice instructional that fills a
Nice instructional that fills a void.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Get called "Annoying" and love it.
Priit is a great instructor. I love the way he describes the "trenches" in Jiu Jitsu, like your stance in boxing. You have to go to your trenches to stay safe and then go from there. His Turtle, Grilled Chicken guard and Sitting Turtle have all the same concepts and are surprisingly easy to understand. He's right. You'll be called "annoying" and you'll love it.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻The Sitting Turtle
This is an amazing video series. Easy to follow, great details and builds a whole new game to turtle.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻A+
Clearly explained, useful concepts.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻
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