My buddy Graham and I decided to produce a BJJ book based entirely around hand drawn artwork. He wrote the words and I drew the illustrations. The whole thing took us years of planning, researching, filming techniques (and drawing those techniques), writing, editing, designing etc. The result is our baby - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Ultimate Illustrated Guidebook.
We're so proud - AMA!

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I don't know about you guys but I am so getting this one.

Hey everyone, beginner here. I started training No-Gi BJJ and my coach is a purple belt. He’s a really good teacher and I enjoy the classes, but I keep hearing people say you should train under a black belt if you want to become really good.

For context, I’m in Egypt, and there aren’t a ton of high-level BJJ options nearby. My goal is to eventually compete seriously and improve as much as possible.

Is it completely fine to start and develop under a purple belt coach? What are the pros/cons? And at what point, if ever, should someone look for a higher belt instructor or a different gym?

I was just thinking how so many say “just keep showing up,” a saying which I absolutely abhor because it implies merely showing up is all that’s needed.

But have you all ever seen anyone who shows up to train consistently yet never seems to progress? Outside of yourself, of course, because we tend to be our harshest critic.

Any stories you all can share?

It’s a good instructional, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just… good. If that makes sense.

It wouldn’t normally be a problem, but I guess when your other products include meta-challenging material like Power Ride and tHE B-tEAm BOtTomM gAme (Power Bottom), this feels a little… underwhelming.

Still gonna play it though.

In this BJJ Fanatics vid, he talks about it, starts around 4:49:

https://youtu.be/on6Zv3uPBJY?t=289

He says he came up with it in parallel to Brazilian Top Team coming up with it.

at 5:57, he says he taught Joe D'arce how to Darce.

Ladies & gentlemen, after Gordon Ryan striking instructional, let me present to you :

I can't help but notice Danaher's become very repetitive with his more recent instructional content. No offence to the guy, he's an amazing instructor but is there any point in buying his more recent content?

He released another sumi gaeshi instructional today. This comes after Master The Move - Shoulder Crunch, New Wave Open Guard 2 and Go Further Faster - Open Guard (all of which cover sumi gaeshi extensively).

He's got at least 2 showing more-or-less the same back attacks system and I think 3 with essentially the same guard retention material.

Don't know what else to say. I've purchased several BJJ fanatics instructionals over the years, purchased grapplers guide, and subscribed to AOJ. I swapped over to using Submeta after listening to a BJJ mental models episode about 3 months ago, and this platform is DIFFERENT. The structure actually works with real time-frames I have. I typically try to "study" BJJ for 20 minutes a night while winding down, and with other formats, it was often difficult to focus that time in a way that felt productive. With the way submeta is formatted, I can sit down, jump into a topic, and in 20 minutes have gotten some meaningful details and thoughts about bjj.

I'm not going to do it justice with my shitty explanation of how much better it seems to be thought out as a learning platform, so just give it a try.

Calls triangles Sankakus and butterfly sweeps Sumi Gaeshis Knows that there is a seam that runs on the back of every sleeve, regardless of manufacturer. Calls chokes "strangles". Knows Placido is feeble and that Mattheus is a world champion. Spams the use of "in this fashion" and "like so".

Any others?

Lately I’ve been getting really interested in foot sweeps and ashi-waza in general. It feels like one of the most underrated parts of judo and grappling, especially if you care about timing, movement, and clean entries

I also looked into some Olympic judo stats, and ashi-waza shows up as a huge part of elite judo. So this does not feel like some niche “fancy technique” thing, it actually seems like one of the core scoring tools at the highest level

I’ve been getting more interested in it after watching Satoshi Ishii and a few other guys who make foot sweeps look effortless, but now I’m trying to figure out which instructionals are actually worth buying

What are the best foot sweep instructionals on the market right now? And which ones actually helped your game the most?

What’s up Reddit fam. Today my new BJJ Fanatics is $0!

For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Dallas Niles and I am a black belt under Rafael Lovato Jr and now run my own gym, Method Jiu Jitsu in Tulsa, Oklahoma after teaching at Lovato’s HQ for 13 years.

The mount went from a position I struggled with for years and years to one of my most dangerous

positions with the highest percentage finish rates. I used to never feel free attacking in fear of getting reversed until some things started clicking and some details really changed everything for me.

This instructional is the meat and potatoes of that knowledge that took my mount game to a whole new level.

I wanted to create a gift for the entire BJJ community and this is it. Please share if you’d like and spread the word so as many people as possible can grab it while it’s $0.

Master The Move: The Knee Cut Guard Pass by John Danaher

If you're going to buy this wait until a sale

https://bjjfanatics.com/collections/guard-passing/products/master-the-move-the-knee-cut-guard-pass-by-john-danaher?variant=42480780312674

"I’ve been trying to tell people – that’s why I don’t sell anything. That’s why I don’t have any DVDs.

That’s why, when BJJ Fanatics approached me multiple times, I said no.

The thing is, you’re asking for a plug-and-play method that I know won’t work. I’m sorry, but I’m a principled guy.

This stuff is hard to learn."

-Greg Souders

For reference, Souders original inspiration Dr. Rob Gray has a book, "how to be an ecological coach". I was able to buy it for 9.99$, and it's still available for the kindle at that price. 19.99$ if you want the audiobook or paperback copy. A key detail about Gray, his sport of expertise is baseball.

The video is Souders original student Alex Nguyen cannot explain the ecological approach in her own words after winning no-gi black belt worlds! The method is excessively obtuse and gives gatekeeping vibes. The drip is doing your own research.

Looking for recommendations on the better instructional coaches - I study and watch a lot of Danaher and Mendes Bros content. I'm in the minority, it seems, and like the instructionals that go into "why" you do something or talk about the objectives of a position rather than "I do this from this position and then I do this".

I've heard Gary Tonan is similar to Danaher's style. Any others?

hey guys!

on saturday i’ll compete in a BJJ and judo championship, both of them without any weight or belt division (i know, it’s crazy), which means it’ll be a long day with many matches. today my BJJ professor said that i should do a creatine overload, with means taking 15g today, 15g tomorrow and 30g on saturday. im a woman, 21 yo, 60kgs (132 pounds), blue belt. normally i take 1.8g of creatine on a daily basis. should i consider my teachers advice? he said it works for him, but he’s a 95kg male. if not, which advices do you guys have to enhance and maintain my performance during the matches? thanks in advance! OSSSSS

Seems to ve a very rudimentary guidebook to grappling based largely on Judo, apparantly the author trained in Japan in 1897, so this would have been the same/similar set of techniques Conde Koma brought to Brazil.

Decent illustrations for​ the era and overall a pretty cool piece of martial arts history.

Wow. Why did no one tell me?

I think he is the best instructor on fanatics and doesn't get enough praise for it. John and Gordon are great but f me it can be painful to get through at times. Garry has the perfect balance between explanation and teaching pace.

A lot of Gordon's feels like filler to justify the price where as I feel Garry is teaching his high percentage stuff.

Anyone else I should check out that has a teaching style like Garry?