BJJ Fanatics

John Danaher on the entries into the rear-triangle back position, so you are not hunting the lock from a sloppy seatbelt.

John Danaher on why the classic two-on-one armbar fails against good people and how the top lock fixes it: elbow inside your hip, head over the elbow, then a small pivot. A definitive lesson.

John Danaher on the back crucifix: falling back versus falling forward and how that choice keeps the arm trapped.

Bernardo Faria's over-under pass, the pressure pass he built a world-champion game around.

Roger Gracie's basic lapel choke: feeding the opponent's own collar and finishing with posture rather than arm strength.

Craig Jones on hiding the heel, the late-stage defence that stops a heel hook finishing.

John Danaher's north-south strangle, finishing with two hands. Also a defence lesson: fight the second hand before it locks.

Marcelo Garcia shows two ways into single-leg X and the basic backward sweep that follows. Short, clear and the foundation for everything else in the position.

John Danaher clip on flowing from X-guard into a leg entanglement and the heel hook when the sweep is defended.

Danaher on the two legs in a hook sweep: one lifts, one blocks the post, so the butterfly sweep is not just a shrug of the hips.

Marcelo Garcia uses the double-under pass as a route to the crucifix when the opponent turns away from the stack.

Gordon Ryan on isolating the near arm with the top leg so the crucifix does not come apart.

John Danaher's hand-block go-behind from the front headlock, the standard answer when the choke is defended.

Danaher with Bernardo Faria and Gordon Ryan on how to understand jiu-jitsu as a system, not a pile of moves.

Ryan on the body lock off their underhook, a common entry from half guard and butterfly.

Giles on the five stages of the body-lock pass, so you know where you are when it stalls.

Bernardo Faria pulls deep half from standing and flows straight into his lapel-assisted Faria sweep, ending in the double-under passing position.

Danaher on setting the crossface as the first job of half-guard passing, before any knee extraction.

Lachlan Giles on entering K-guard from guard retention, so a failed pass becomes a K-guard instead of a scramble.

Bernardo Faria's baseball bat choke from knee on belly, a high-percentage gi finish off the far collar.

Lachlan Giles' saddle entries from guard, the usual next step once ashi is defended.

Kade and Tye Ruotolo on outside heel-hook defence concepts.

Danaher's reverse De La Riva mechanics, including how the inside hook appears when a standard DLR hook is being cleared.

Lucas Lepri's variations for shutting down single-leg X and passing, from his guard passing instructional.

Danaher's clock strangle on a turtled opponent, finished without hooks by walking around the head.

John Danaher on a low-effort, mechanically sound way to slide under a standing opponent into X-guard, pitched at older or less athletic grapplers but useful to anyone.

Bernardo Faria demonstrates the basic X-guard sweep with an emphasis on stretching the opponent out before extending the legs.

Andrew Wiltse on transitioning to mount when the hooks are lost, so you do not end up in a scramble.

Ethan Crelinsten on peeling the rear naked choke before it is fully set, from the B-Team approach to hand fighting.

Henry Akins' butterfly pass from the top: killing a hook and smashing through.

Danaher's half-butterfly arm drag into an overhead sweep when they post to stop the hook lift.

Ffion Davies' flower sweep from closed guard, the pendulum that chains straight into the armbar.

Helena Crevar's collar-and-sleeve armbar: isolating the sleeve-side arm and climbing to the lock without losing the collar.

Crevar's collar-sleeve triangle, using the collar to break posture so the sleeve-side arm stays trapped.

Brian Glick's seatbelt-roll entries into the crucifix from top turtle.

Jon Satava on positional sparring at Marcelo Garcia's academy, the gold-standard format.

Brian Glick on getting inside position as the first job of a pass, before you pick a specific pass.

Kaynan Duarte's folding pass, a compact no-gi version of pinning both legs and driving through the middle.

Tom DeBlass shows the lockdown-to-calf-slicer path, using the figure-four on the legs to fold the calf over his shin.

Amy Campo on kesa gatame to mount, the standard next pin when they turn into you.

Ffion Davies knee-cutting against the lasso, clearing the wrapped leg instead of stepping into the hook.

How to properly finish an inside heel hook without turning it into a reckless crank.

Andre Galvao's americana from mount with the weight distribution that stops the bottom player bridging during the lock.

Nicholas Meregali's S-mount armbar, with the gi grips and the hip-led fall that keep the arm trapped.

Andre Galvao uses the armbar threat from S-mount to trap the opponent in a mounted triangle.

Crevar's kipping mount escape that lands in irimi ashi, a New Wave route off the bottom.

Craig Jones on using the north-south choke as a pinning tool, not only a finish.

Marcelo Garcia uses both hands on the elbow to lift the opponent's weight just enough to swing to the high-elbow guillotine when they refuse to give the head.

Saulo Ribeiro on surviving side control before you try to escape: the survival posture, where the elbows go and how to stay calm under pressure.

Bernardo Faria on creating pressure in side control: killing the near-side frame with the hip and knee so the bottom player has nothing to push against.

Jeff Glover shows the paper cutter choke from side control: the far collar grip under the head and the near-side lapel or hand that closes it.

Rafael Lovato Jr's spider-guard fundamentals: sleeve grips, feet on biceps and the push-pull that bends them over.

Dante Leon on taking the back from turtle without first inserting hooks, for when the opponent is too tight to pick one.

Erik Paulson's fist-choke version of the Ezekiel that works with or without the gi, shown from several top positions. The same fist-elbow-sprawl mechanics apply when you are inside a guard.

Jeff Glover on passing with double unders, including the grip and head position that keep the opponent folded.

Glick's outside knee cut that still wins inside position, useful when a standard headquarters knee cut is being framed off.

Brian Glick's full breakdown of the knee-elbow escape: the diagonal bridge that lets you get the elbow inside, then walking the hips away to connect knee and elbow and recover half guard.

Half guard to a roll into the legs, Crevar's path from a failed sweep into an entanglement.

Worm guard to back take as a training clip: when they try to step out of the lapel wrap.

Crevar's backside 50/50 heel hook, the exposure of the heel once you win the hip fight.

Chad Lyman pairs the sickle sweep with the tripod: when the opponent pushes your foot off the hip, replace it and drop the other leg behind their heel.

Vinicius 'Tractor' Ferreira's long step against RDLR: collar and knee grips, weight off the hooked leg, long step and bring the knee back in before they recover.

Lachlan Giles shows how to defend the americana from bottom side control by keeping the elbow tight and turning the hand before the figure-four locks.

Charles Harriott's basic single-leg X sweep with details on the hip extension and the follow-up to top position.

Marcos Tinoco shows a few single-leg X sweeps including coming up to standing when the opponent resists the backward sweep.

Rory MacDonald on surviving double underhooks: down-block, hips back, whip the head across and pummel back to your own underhook. BJJ Fanatics clip.

Short version of Brian Glick's knee-elbow side control escape, ending with the knee inserted and the leg back in play.

Marcos Tinoco on the bottom player being whizzered, which is also a map of the top player's defensive problems.

Sebastian Curelaru moves from a seated 'baby guard' connection into K-guard, the entry that feeds most modern leg attacks.

From half guard into the RDLR hook, off-balance with the cross collar, then shin-on-shin to single-leg X and full X-guard before sweeping.

A scissor-style sweep run from the De La Riva hook, a simple entry point for people used to closed-guard scissor sweeps.