Bernardo Faria BJJ Fanatics

John Danaher's long-form lesson on the rear naked choke: the mechanics of the squeeze, the role of the second arm and why people fail to finish.

Gordon Ryan on breaking and escaping the body triangle from the back rather than waiting to get choked.

Danaher's closed-guard fundamentals with Bernardo Faria: posture, grips and why the guard fails before any sweep is attempted.

Danaher's perfect armbar: the top lock, head position and the small pivot that finishes when the classic two-on-one stalls.

Roger Gracie with Bernardo Faria on why his closed guard works: the collar, the hips and refusing to play a loose open guard.

Danaher's crucifix system for when you cannot finish from regular back control: rolling into the crucifix and the chokes that appear.

John Danaher's high-elbow guillotine: the elbow position that actually chokes instead of cranking the neck. Also a defence lesson: if their elbow is low, posture out.

Marcelo Garcia on the guillotine he made famous: the arm-in and high-elbow finishes from the front headlock.

Danaher's three most important white-belt skills, the 1.9 million-view lesson on what to drill before chasing submissions.

Gordon Ryan's body-lock pass, taught in full: getting the lock, walking around the knees and finishing in side control.

Danaher's five rules for passing any guard: control the ends of the legs, get the soles pointing away, and never fight the centre line.

Danaher's half-guard game: underhook, knee shield and the sweeps that follow once you are not flat.

The no-gi half-guard version of Danaher's system, built around the underhook and coming up to the dogfight.

Danaher passing half guard: crossface, flattening and freeing the trapped knee without giving up the underhook.

Gordon Ryan's no-gi leglock overview, including the saddle finishes he uses at the highest level.

Gordon Ryan's leglock escapes and counters: clearing the knee line from ashi and the saddle.

Braulio Estima, who named the lock, shows how to catch the inside footlock while passing or from single-leg X.

Masakazu Imanari himself on the roll that enters the saddle or 50/50 from standing.

Roger Gracie teaches his cross collar choke from mount in full: getting the wrist to the neck before gripping, shifting weight to the grip side, and going around the defence for the second hand.

Danaher's mount-escape lesson: the elbow-knee escape and upa sequenced so you are not bridging into a higher mount.

Danaher on guard retention: frames, hip movement and making the passer start over instead of chasing a single recovery.

John Danaher walks through the fundamental side control escape: elbow position, building the frame, the bridge to create space and the hip escape to get the knee back in. The definitive beginner lesson on the position.

John Danaher walks through what he considers the ideal attacking sequence from side control, with the control details that have to be in place before the submission.

John Danaher on the detail he considers most important for finishing the straight ankle lock, with the mechanics explained at length.

John Danaher's anaconda from the front headlock and turtle, with the rolling finish that makes it tight.

Gordon Ryan on escaping the front headlock and turtle together: posture, circling and getting back to a guard or a stand-up.

Felipe Pena on the concepts that actually keep you attached: chest-to-back connection, hip tracking and not over-committing to a choke.

Giancarlo Bodoni's body-triangle escape from the back: creating space at the hips and sliding out without exposing the neck.

Bernardo Faria baits the wrist grip from butterfly guard so he can peel it, open the hook and arm drag straight to the back.

Adam Wardzinski on how not to get smashed in butterfly: staying seated and keeping the hooks alive.

Jon Satava on butterfly guard retention, from Marcelo Garcia's school.

Gordon Ryan on the basic principles of butterfly and open guard, including not getting flattened.

Giancarlo Bodoni's simple closed guard armbar: leg straight up then heavy heel high on the armpit, lock the shoulder, thumb to the sky and finish with the hips. Includes a grip break.

Mikey Musumeci's collar-sleeve fundamentals: grips, foot placement, and the triangle/omoplata reactions that make it a first open guard.

Fabio Gurgel's crucifix from turtle, taught with Bernardo Faria: the seatbelt, the arm trap and the roll-over.

Neil Melanson's catch-wrestling crucifix from the snap guard, a different entry than the standard BJJ turtle roll.

Mikey Musumeci on why your hips must stay behind their lead foot, where the DLR foot sits on the hip bone, and how shutting off their posting arm makes the side sweep almost automatic.

Gordon Ryan explains how the berimbolo changes without the gi: tight-waist grips instead of the collar, the knee-behind-knee position and what to do when the opponent throws their back flat.

Garry Tonon's high-elbow guillotine detail, the one he used throughout his no-gi career.

Henry Akins on making the hip escape (shrimp) unstoppable, the movement underneath almost every solo programme.

Drilling versus positional training versus sparring: which to use when, from Bernardo Faria.

Faria's over-under adapted for no-gi, where there are no lapels to hold.

Rafael Lovato Jr on the headquarters position: grips, the trapped leg and the first pass from there.

Buchecha's folding-pass system: many entries that all end with the opponent's knees folded to their chest so the frames collapse.

Brian Glick on K-guard to leg attacks: saddle, 50/50 and the finishes that follow the inversion.

Giles on a different 50/50 heel-hook entry via outside sankaku, and the hip position that wins the entanglement.

Giancarlo Bodoni on the easiest way to escape 50/50 in no-gi: clearing the knee line and standing up.

Jason Rau on perfecting the outside heel hook finish, including how you arrive in outside ashi.

Helena Crevar's leg-lock entries, the paths an ADCC finalist actually uses to reach ashi and the saddle.

Gordon Ryan explains how he controls mount in no-gi, with the emphasis on hip position and reacting to the opponent's turn rather than sitting still.

John Danaher's long-form lesson with Bernardo Faria on how to attack from mount, focusing on how the position is set up before any submission is attempted.

Lachlan Giles and Ariel Tabak list the five most common guard retention mistakes, including playing too close and having no backup guard when the first layer is beaten.

Lachlan Giles gives Bernardo Faria five no-gi passing tips, starting with controlling the shins rather than the knees so the guard player cannot pummel their feet back in.

Gordon Ryan explains his no-gi passing system to Bernardo Faria: stuff the leg, step to the hip, camp past the jeopardy point and let the guard player exhaust themselves.

Danaher on open guard as a system: distance, frames and the reactions that turn a standing passer into a sweep or back take.

Lachlan Giles on the K-guard position itself: feet outside against a kneeling opponent, knee to the stomach, feeding the leg across to '70/30' and getting up to the back or a single leg.

Roger Gracie shows how he holds side control and how the pressure sets up his attacks, with Bernardo Faria. Weight placement on the arms and torso and the opening of the elbows.

Marcelo Garcia teaches his side control attacks with Bernardo Faria, showing how he uses the position to set up his submissions rather than just hold.

Bernardo Faria pulls guard straight into his lapel-based Faria sweep, so the pull and the first attack are one movement. Gi only.

Danaher on getting effective on the feet quickly: stance, grips and the takedowns that actually appear in BJJ.

Kaynan Duarte's simple, high-percentage back take from turtle, taught with Bernardo Faria.

Late-stage RNC defence for when the choke is already locked: last-ditch hand fighting before you have to tap.

Matheus Diniz on three ways to defend the back in no-gi, mixing survival posture with the first movements of the escape.

Roger Gracie explains to Bernardo Faria why the hand belongs on the middle of the chest inside closed guard - too high exposes the arm, too low weakens posture.

Davies' twisted armbar from closed guard, a finish when they hide the arm from the classic juji.

Neil Melanson's counter-attacks from the bottom of a front headlock, useful when you cannot simply pop the head out.

Faria on avoiding the kimura while you over-under pass: the most common submission you give up from this pass.

Nick Rodriguez's cartwheel pass from a BJJ Fanatics clip, useful if you already pass standing and want a way over inverted frames.

Davies passing a bigger opponent with a knee cut when they elevate you, keeping the hips heavy.

Tom DeBlass on the frame he uses in bottom half guard to stop the pass before it starts. Simple and suits beginners.

Henry Akins on beating the whizzer from half guard so you are not swept or taken to the back.

Henry Akins' scarf-hold submissions, the far-arm traps that appear once they cannot bridge.

Andrew Wiltse's lapel Ezekiel, feeding their lapel as the sleeve so the choke works when your own sleeve is not available.

Andrew Wiltse on smashing the lasso: turn a deep lasso shallow with the knee and elbow, get a two-on-one on the sleeve so they cannot invert, then mash the leg down and circle.

Jason Rau's heel hooks from standing 50/50, a higher-level look at the same entanglement.

Crevar on finishing leg locks once the entanglement is on, not just collecting positions.

Xande Ribeiro shows a frame-based mount escape that works against heavier opponents, with Bernardo Faria asking the questions. Gi, but the mechanics carry over to no-gi.

John Danaher's first rule of passing: never fight the legs from the centre line, control the ends of the lever and get the soles of the feet pointing away from you.

Lachlan Giles' hand-fighting detail for passing seated guard: bring the hand in with the elbow attached to your body and you win inside position every time.

Brian Glick's favourite leg drag entries and finishes for no-gi passing.

Xande Ribeiro teaches a general system for escaping any variation of side control, built around protecting the near elbow and using the far leg to turn the top player's weight.

Henry Akins on making side control as heavy as possible through connection and weight distribution rather than muscular effort. Long-form lesson with Bernardo Faria.

Kaynan Duarte covers the concepts that make single-leg X work: keeping the opponent's weight off you, the foot on the hip and the angle of your body.

The Ruotolo brothers' leg pin, a no-gi way to staple a leg to the mat before you knee cut or toreando.

Josh Barnett on escaping a seatbelt while turtled, from a catch-wrestling angle that still applies in BJJ.

Jordan Preisenger's tight triangle from the back, a shorter clip if Kesting's full tutorial is more than you need.

Jared Welman fixes the closed guard armbar: control posture first, isolate the arm with a two-on-one, back-stop the elbow with your arm and pin the far shoulder with your foot.

Short Dante Leon clip: wrist control and shoulder pressure on the back of the neck to come round from the dogfight to the back.

Lucas Valle's waiter sweep from deep half: the foot on the hip and the tray grip on the ankle, then extending to dump the opponent sideways.

Jordan Preisenger's John Wayne sweep from half guard, a compact version of the far-leg hook and roll.

How to make scarf hold genuinely uncomfortable: hip position, the head and killing the near-side frame.

Three lasso sweeps from Marcos Tinoco to build a guard that works standing and kneeling.

Henry Akins argues the legs are 90 percent of open guard and that defence starts before the passer touches your legs. Conceptual, with a contrarian view on seated guard.

Matheus Gabriel catches a triangle from open guard when the passer forces his hand to the mat, then adjusts against a posturing opponent.

Andrew Wiltse on his buzzsaw passing style and, more usefully, how he drills passes in stages from slow mechanics to resisted reps.

Isaque Bahiense shows how he gets out of single-leg X, with an emphasis on posture and killing the hip foot.

Tony Tolbert sets up the ankle pick from a collar tie by circling until the far foot steps, then breaking the shoulder down and taking the arm over the leg.

John Danaher, with Giancarlo Bodoni, on the biggest risk of shooting takedowns in BJJ: getting caught under the opponent's weight. Keep posture on singles and doubles and the risk disappears.

Thomas Rozdzynski's sideways reversal from sit-up guard: when they posture back, grab the belt, pivot behind and pinch the knees to sit them down. Less inverting than a classic roll-under.