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The Snap Guard by Neil Melanson reviews
The Snap Guard by Neil Melanson has 54 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 4.96 out of 5. 96% are five-star and 0 are one or two stars. Reviews run from June 29, 2019 to June 3, 2026. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
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Who reviewed The Snap Guard by Neil Melanson
23 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Purple | 10 | 5.0 |
| White | 4 | 5.0 |
| Blue | 3 | 5.0 |
| Brown | 3 | 5.0 |
| Black | 3 | 5.0 |
Where to buy it
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The reviews
OG Weaponry
Love Melansons Way
Snap Guard
Loved listening to Neil teach - it’s clear he has some great stories and his techniques and detail are top notch
Excellent
Neil gives you a fun system for creating attacking options from an unorthodox seated guard position. Lots of highly effective attacks and the option to add your own to fit your style. Highly recommended.
Nasty attacks
Horrible ways to mangle people with some amusing anecdotes for added entertainment!
Bizarro Danaher
Awesome instructional and easily implementive
Bizarro Danaher
Awesome and simply effective techniques from an easily acquired starting position
Awesome!
Awesome instructional!
The Snap Guard
A great video and a good concept. Recommend to anyone serious in jiu jitsu
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Wrestling up
Neil was telling us to wrestle up years before that was trend in BJJ. Being an MMA coach really informs his grappling. Love Noel’s stuff for that reason.
snap guard
always great stuff from Neil
Neil being Neil
always comes thru. so simple , but the sequences make it so effective
AWESOME
NEİL MELANSON İS AWESOME AS ALWAYS :)
As always good
Great
Snap guard
This an awesome approach to the open/butterfly guard that focuses on wrestle ups instead of sweeps. Highly recommend to wrestlers looking for a guard or guard players looking to incorporate more wrestling into their game
Snap guard
Interesting content focusing on the seated position.
Unique stuff
Neil seems to have really different ways of doing things that most people won't be familiar with. Looking forward to using these ideas on my unsuspecting teammates!
Neil Power
Neil's done it again. This concept is something I've been using without knowing it, but Neil explains why it's so effective and gives lots of choices in regards to finishing using the seated snap.
Neil is top tier
Melanson's decades of training really shows in his instructionals. ALL sorts of knowledge is dropped at a fantastic rate throughout each video.
Another Winner From the Best
You'll never go wrong with Neil's unconventional approach to grappling. The man is too humble to consider himself a grappling genius but he is. I always get immediate takeaways from his material. Even if it's a particular technique that may not suit my game or body type, he'll always deliver conceptual gems you can bring to the mat. Snap Guard is another winner--I'd recommend it to anyone, but particularly players of butterfly or butterfly 1/2 looking to expand their horizons.
Mark
A really aggressive seated guard approach. Another hit from Neil!
snap guard neil melanson
tremendous instructional how to play the bottom in aggressive way well worth the dollars
Snap Guard
Great instructional. Neil is an encyclopedia of knowledge and snap guard delivers!! Worth buying.
Snap Guard
Excellent-will open up new worlds for you.
SNAP!
This a great instructional. Danher has previously talked about using the threat of getting up to create action, well this is the exact same thing from Neil. I seen this instructional before I ever heard Danaher talk of this concept. Neil explains this concept brilliantly in this instructional and the techniques will have your training partners scratching thier head. Highly recommend this and anything by Neil.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Great instructional!
Great instructional!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Awesome stuff
Lots of really helpful stuff in here that I’ve been able to use to improve my game already. Great stuf.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗This is cool
This is cool
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Keep active from the bottom.
Great concept and system to utilize wrestling from the bottom position. Make the guy on top work the whole time.👍�
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Once you roll you see this concept everywhere
I see the concept everywhere when rolling now. and the way Neil teaches gives me the tools to mix and match techniques to find solutions to what's infront of you.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻good stuff
awesome instructional of all sorts of catch wrestling type of attacks and submissions from your butt.
Niel provides the most practical JiuJitsu
I absolutely love how practical a lot of Niel's moves are. A lot of the time although I enjoy intricate moves that and advanced systems like the millions of guards, the Snap Guard remains potent because it offers you a lot of opportunity to strike and combo with others techniques, it is a great starting point for individuals who already have solid defense and want to make their offense stem from counters which is much more realistic in an mma setting where both individuals know what they are doing.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Filthy good instructional
I have everything neil puts out. Nasty stuff. Love it
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Amazing
Great details an great explanations. its a must for catch fans and bjj fanatics!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Excellent
As a scrambler mostly looking for top positions, when I am playing guard this game definitely made me feel comfortable creating a scramble from the snap guard.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻100 percent legit
Coach Neil's unique and refreshing vision of grappling is a true hybrid that is based on principles and allows for growth and expansion.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Neil gives you techniques, but
Neil gives you techniques, but more importantly concepts. His blend of BJJ and Catch is the future.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Unorthodox, unexpected, excellent
This content and its delivery by Neil are both outstanding. I also have "The Catch Wrestling Formula" by Neil, and it also excellent. He has provided answers to many of the questions I had when I was in some of the positions covered in his content. He also provided answers to some of the questions I was too ignorant to even have! He opened my eyes to many possibilities I was unaware of. His techniques are unexpected, unorthodox, and do not require the agility or flexibility of a 7-year-old female gymnast. His delivery is unhurried and comprehensive, and he covers the small details. There is also a tie-in to the Williams Guard (among many other things), which Neil calls the Shoulder Pin, and I appreciate the novel ways Neil shows how to enter into it. Overall, an excellent presentation.
Response from BJJ FanaticsThanks so much for your review! 🤗bruhh
A steal for the price. Lit video. Gets the gears turning and makes you more active in your guard sequences. Was my first exposure to his teaching style and I am officially hooked.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Awesome as usual. All his
Awesome as usual. All his stuff is great
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Neil Melanson is an exceptional
Neil Melanson is an exceptional coach. He explains the details in great detail and shows why and how the techniques should work. This will not be my last instructional from him ;-)
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Exquisitely Filthy
Excellent blend of Exquisitely Filthy Grappling moves with a touch of humor to keep it just lite enough. Explanations are right down and dirty. Neil has one of the most diverse guard games out there. I recommend this one to all Grapplers.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Excellent !
Excellent !
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Great grappler and teacher, Mr. Melanson ❤️️
Innovative and vicious as always, I cannot wait to get back to training full- time to drill, and maybe introduce my teammates to, these techniques. Neil is becoming a mainstay in my grappling education and library. 🙏�❤️️🙌�:muscle:
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Review
I got this a few months back and started to play around with some of the techniques and so far it worked great for me to slowly incoorperate some of Neils ideas into my game. After almost 6 months since i first got it I can say that the amount of Detail is very great and after trying some moves while rolling I can go back and check out what could have been the Problem. Great Explaination and Detail
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻A brilliant an innovative addition to Jiu-Jitsu
This is a great concept that blends wrestling with Jiu Jitsu. Snap Guard and the Shin Whizzer are a great way to take the fight to your opponent.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻I learned a LOT :)
I really like the Content of the series and how well it is explained. The Contents are very well explained and shown from different angles so everyone can understand what s going on. I am far from finishing the whole DVD but i m really Looking Forward to work on my snap guard in the next years.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Grappling
Great instructional
Response from BJJ Fanatics👍🏻🤗Very good stuff. This video
Very good stuff. This video is a unique concept about a guard that you dont see every day. If you want something different than what's out there, this is for you. It's good, useable moves.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻The Snap Guard by Neil Melanson
I love Neil's attention to detail on all his training's. This one is very simple and you can get to using these moves almost instantaneously. Adding so much more to my game with this snap guard system, looking forward to mastering it now.
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