John Danaher – Half Guard Passing and Dynamic Pins – BJJ Fundamentals – Go Further Faster

John Danaher – Half Guard Passing and Dynamic Pins – BJJ Fundamentals – Go Further Faster

Pass the half guard with John Danaher’s focused “463 Method” of attack (including his favorite techniques and positions to pass with)

• Hold the tightest possible control and transition from pin to pin with maximum efficiency, using these techniques and concepts
• John Danaher is the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach of champion athletes like Gordon Ryan, Garry Tonon, and Georges St. Pierre
• Study the newest installment of John Danaher’s Go Further, Faster series, made to help Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu students of all ages and skill levels improve faster than ever
• Know more. Win more.

SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS ON THIS SERIES?

Vol 1:

• Half guard passing introduction
• Overview of half guard passing: The 4.6.3 system
• Essential skills of half guard passing
• 1st Skill: Forcing Half guard
• Split squat
• Pinning the knee to the mat
• Inside knee position
• Using standard guard passes to attain half guard
• Double knee position
• 2nd Skill: Removing Barriers
• Clearing the knee shield
• Clearing the Scorpion (Lockdown)
• Clearing a deep half guard
• 3rd Skill: Negation of opponents attacks and stabilizing the position
• Negating your opponents attacks
• The fundamental gripping stance
• The fundamental starting position (FSP)

 THE FUNDAMENTAL STARTING POSITION

Vol 2:

• 4th Skill: Controlling head and shoulders
• The skill of crossfacing and underhooking
• 5th Skill: Freeing the knee of the trapped leg
• Shoelace method
• The ball of the foot method
• The hand post and elbow post method
• Square tripod hand post method
• The shaking method
• Zig Zag knee direction
• 6th Skill: Multi directional switching, passing, and freeing your foot from four dominant positions
• Pass from 3/4 side sit-out
• Pass from 3/4 side
• Reverse 3/4 side
• 3/4 mount
• Moving between the 4 dominant passing positions
• Half guard passing direction and the law of perpendicularity

Vol 3:

• The single most important reason why I put so much emphasis on half guard passing
• Different upper body configurations for half guard passing
• A crucial skill of half guard passing: Setting a crossface
• A crucial skill of half guard passing: Setting a crossface 2
• Dealing with an opponents underhook

Vol 4:

• Configuring your free leg
• Configuring your free leg 2
• Configuring your free leg 3
• Passing half guard 1: Half Kata Gatame
• Passing half guard 2: Lapel cross face
• Passing half guard 3: Top head and arm
• Passing half guard 4: Head block half guard pass
• Passing half guard 5: Double underhook half guard passing
• Near side and far side knee wedges from chest to chest
• Getting the inside knee to the floor
• Overview of the half guard passing system ‘The 4.6.3. Passing system’

Vol 5:

• Passing Half Butterfly Guard
• The golden rule of half butterfly guard passing
• Upper body gripping
• Lower body leg positioning 1
• Lower body leg positioning 2
• Passing Half butterfly guard: Putting it all together

Vol 6:

• Introduction to Dynamic Pinning
• Theory of dynamic pins
• Definition of a pin
• Location of wedges
• Base of support
• No pin is perfect but there is perfect pinning
• The main directive of dynamic pinning
• The 3 golden rules of dynamic pinning
• Understanding the scoring criteria for pins in jiu jitsu
• The battle for inside position
• A theory of wedges, inside position, and base
• Static pinning
• The main lines of resistance to any pin
• Pushing
• Shrimping
• Bridging
• Knee escapes

SIDE TO REAR MOUNT (REACTIVE)

Vol 7:

• The three skills of dynamic pinning
• The 1st skill – Maintaining a single pin
• Side pin (variations)
• North south pin (variations)
• Mounted position (variations)
• Rear mount (variations)
• The 2nd skill – Transitioning between pins
• Side to mount Part 1 – Knee drive
• Side to mount Part 2 – Kneeling step over
• Side to mount Part 3 – A sit-out step-over
• Side to side
• Side to knee on belly
• Knee on belly to knee on belly
• Mount to back (reactive)
• Mount to back (proactive)
• Mount to back (leg entry)

Vol 8:

• The 2nd Skill – Transitioning between pins (cont.)
• Rear to side
• Rear mount to mount
• Side to rear mount
• Side to rear mount (reactive)
• The 3rd skill – Extracting a foot
• Maintaining/Retaining pins
• Maintaining the mounted position: Practical applications
• Maintaining the side position: Practical applications
• Retaining the rear mount
• The minimum requirement of back control: Diagonal control
• Lower body game
• The three most important mover to maintain lower body control

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