John Danaher: Pin Escapes and Turtle Escapes
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Pin Escapes & Turtle Escapes: BJJ Fundamentals - Go Further Faster
By John Danaher
John Danaher’s eight-volume fundamentals course covers the main grounded pin positions, with particular depth on mount and side control. Bridging, elbow and knee escapes sit alongside explanations of framing, space and leg insertion. The course also addresses high mount, opponents who sit out from side control, knee-on-belly and several north-south configurations, before closing with rear-mount and turtle escapes.
Is this for you?
- You want a broad positional-escape course covering more than one bad position.
- Mount and side control are recurring problems, and you want both general escape concepts and variations for different forms of control.
Also consider
Brian Glick: Dynamic Back Escapes — For a course devoted to rear control, with separate overhook-side, underhook-side, body-triangle and strangle-defense sections.
Coverage and limits
- Escape goals, pinning concepts and body movements, including bridging, shrimping, back heists and shoulder rolls.
- Mount bridging and elbow escapes; side-position elbow and knee escapes; framing, leg insertion and alternative side-pin escapes.
- High mount, knee-on-belly, north-south, rear mount and turtle recovery.
Limits
- Most of the series develops mount and side-pin escapes; rear mount and turtle share the final volume.
- Its main subject is positional recovery, with no dedicated survey of defenses to individual submissions.
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Pin Escapes & Turtle Escapes: BJJ Fundamentals - Go Further Faster by John Danaher — official listing; checked 2026-09-19. Verified John Danaher as instructor, the eight-volume syllabus, escape families and volume-relative start times. The official page embeds a sample labeled Elbow Escape From Mounted Position; video content has not been reviewed. On 2026-09-19 UTC, verified the introductory player in the product banner and the course cover image. Muted inline autoplay was verified on https://bjjgraph.org by observing advancing video time. The introduction content was not reviewed.
Only Way Out: Dynamic Back Escapes by Brian Glick — official listing; checked 2026-09-16. Verified the narrower rear-mount alternative divides escapes into overhook-side, underhook-side, body-triangle and special-control sections.