Description

What Will You Learn?

Go beyond points and start learning how to really control someone and hold them down with Australian grappling superstar Craig Jones’s 6-part guide to pinning. With his standard operating procedure, you can get real control and set up fight-ending submission holds without ever sacrificing position.

Learn the best ways to form strong grips and power from top with Craig’s system for applying turks, rear mount, cross faces, claws, and more into upper and lower body controls that all work together. Break down opponents so they can’t get away using these principles and tools for a new grappling arsenal from top position.

Craig Jones is one of the most popular grapplers and instructors in the world, with an ADCC medal from 2019 and many elite victories against some of the best in the game. Now you can learn his formula for dynamically pinning opponents after he has passed the guard – with techniques and concepts that grapplers of all levels can use.

On this six-part series, you’ll get great advice from Craig on how to use some of these control positions to set up submissions, including kimura, darces, arm triangles, and more. These strangles and joint locks will let you get way more taps against your training partners and opponents without ever worrying about giving up control.

So, What Exactly Do You Get?

PART 1

• INTRODUCTION
• TRADITIONAL SCORING: POINTS DO NOT MEAN CONTROL
• HOW MOVEMENT IS CREATED
• WHERE POWER IS CREATED
• STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE

PART 2

• LEG CONTROL – INTRO
• SPLIT
• RIDE
• TURK
• SHELF
• REAR MOUNT

PART 3

• UPPER BODY TOOLS – INTRODUCTION
• CROSS FACE
• CLAW
• OPEN ELBOW
• DAGestani HANDCUFF
• HALF NELSON
• ARM IN CROSS FACE
• REAR NAKED CONTROL
• REAR MOUNT HIERARCHY

PART 4

• CONTROL PRINCIPLES FROM TURTLE – INTRODUCTION
• KOSOTO HOOK
• CRADLE
• DIAGONAL RIDE
• CRAB HOOK
• SPIRAL RIDE
• UNDERCLAW
• PIECING IT ALL TOGETHER
• CREATING A LOOP

PART 5

• ENTRIES – SIDE CONTROL
• MOUNT ENTRIES
• KNEE RIDE
• REAR MOUNT
• LEG DRAG
• SMASH PASS
• DOPE MOUNT
• BODY LOCK

PART 6

• CONTROL TO SUBMISSION – INTRODUCTION
• ARM TRIANGLE
• BABY SEAL
• BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY
• REAR EZEKIEL
• BELLY DOWN REAR NAKED
• DARCE
• COW CATCHER
• KIMURA
• GIFT WRAP
• HALF NELSON
• FINAL THOUGHTS