anyone have all of Danaher's instructionals?

[Fierce Brosnan]

I always thought arm bars from guard were just legendary tales, but after reading your take on it, I think I'm gonna check out the arm bar dvd first.

Have a look at this video, it's one of his armbar from the guard entries that works in the gi as well. If you like what you see then you will absolutely find value in the instructional. It's changed the way I view armbars and my percentage is way up. Good luck!

 

[mataleaos]

It is Ryan Hall's (arrogant?) sense of certainty that I find most similar to Danaher, along with their shared verbosity of course. To paraphrase Hall: they're not *wrong*, but maybe they're not as *right* as they act like they are.

I can dig it.

 

[vcmmafan]

love the Vagner Rocha one. if you bristle at Danaher or Ryan Hall's know-it-all style then you'll definitely like Vagner. He's animated, confident, and likeable. Techniques are solid all around, and you can readily find comp clips of him using most of them,

I wouldn’t compare Hall to Danaher. I actually enjoy Hall’s teaching style.

 

[yetanother]

Hall is a cool if bitter dude. Danaher is some stupid doorman who talks like a wannabe Plato.

 

[Daz2300]

is it much dif from johns? iv gotten matt arroyos first then johns matts was similar t johns just not near as detailed

i like danahers techs but my god i hate how long he talks and really only goes over a move 2 times in slow motion since i guess hes to hurt to do it normal speed i like for someone before they even teach a technique to do it full speed first so you know what to look for thennnnn slowly explain how it works

Haven't seen Danaher's back dvd sorry.

Went to Digitsu to compare the content lists and it looks like Rocha's back set is gone and was only a limited time release. No clue why as they don't normally do that and anything else i've ever got from them still seems to be available to buy.

 

[NSchoke]

I have 3 of Danaher's sets legs, back and kimura. They're definitely all good but Danaher is a little long winded and they're hard to get thru. I haven't watched them all yet.

I was considering getting the front headlock set but got Lachlan Giles chokes set instead. It's great! I really like his instruction and the flow of the instructional.
Lachlan Giles is the man, his YouTube is awesome!

I'm holding off on buying more for a little while since I haven't watched what I have. I am really looking forward to Giles passing series and Danaher's Gi series though.

 

[dimmyfinster]

I have all of his instructionals. It's hard to say which one helped the most. The Back Attack series changed the way I think about about the back and demonstrated, to me anyway, many details about control that I hadn't considered. However, that said, I still do not get the back as often as I'd like. However, my armbar and triangle finishes have gone way up since watching these two series. The triangle series greatly improved my entries into the triangle and has me hitting them a few times a month now whereas before the best I could hope for was getting stacked. The armbar series for me was a godsend; My s-mount armbar had always been trash prior to this series and my armbar from the guard was laughable in my opinion. With the former I always felt too light and off balance - not in control. With the latter, I felt like my terrible flexibility meant I was ever only going to hit that technique on white belts. I don't feel that way anymore. I went from not even attempting armbars outside of drilling a month ago to hitting them on longtime blue belts. For me, that's a massive improvement. My armbars are tighter, with a much higher degree of control that offers a much smaller opportunity for escape than before.

Much has been said about Danaher's teaching style. Yes, it's repetitive. Yes, it's verbose. My solution was to download the digital copies from BJJ Fanatics and watch them on VLC Player. VLC has a playback speed slider bar where you can finely adjust the speed. I find that I can watch the videos 25% faster than normal without losing any of the details. A big positive, for me, with regard to his teaching style is that it seems to stay in my head without drilling. I am not super talented when it comes to BJJ. I can almost never recall the details of a new technique unless I've drilled it numerous times. Not so with Danaher, I haven't drilled any of the details I've learned in his instructionals but I've been hitting them in live rolls from memory because I can hear him in my head. For me, it just works. However, I can understand why he annoys so many people.

I agree with VLC. I actually watch them at 2.5x, Danaher is that bad. I have back attacks, leg locks, kimura, front choke. Back attacks is the best, leg next, choke and kimura least. I haven't watched all of them all the way through. Kimura doesn't really have new setups or as much revolutionary stuff. It's good, but not good enough to sit through Danaher.

I have 3 of Danaher's sets legs, back and kimura. They're definitely all good but Danaher is a little long winded and they're hard to get thru. I haven't watched them all yet.

I was considering getting the front headlock set but got Lachlan Giles chokes set instead. It's great! I really like his instruction and the flow of the instructional.
Lachlan Giles is the man, his YouTube is awesome!

I'm holding off on buying more for a little while since I haven't watched what I have. I am really looking forward to Giles passing series and Danaher's Gi series though.

This all day. Lachlan Giles is amazing. His free YouTube is outstanding. I bought his half guard dvd based on hisYouTube, and I don't even play half guard. He combines the best features of everybody. He explains as well a Saulo or Braulio those guys, he shows counters to everything like Gui Mendes, his explanations are not too long or short, he shows common mistakes like Frazzato, he shows only high percentage techniques. He might be my favorite online teacher, along with Gui Mendes.

 

[tekkenfan]

Haven't seen Danaher's back dvd sorry.

Went to Digitsu to compare the content lists and it looks like Rocha's back set is gone and was only a limited time release. No clue why as they don't normally do that and anything else i've ever got from them still seems to be available to buy.

i can get it still but was curious is all about it

 

[JagRoss]

I've watched the Back, Kimura, and Front Headlock ones.

I thought the front headlock one was really light. Didn't touch on the Anaconda/Darce game very much at all.

Liked the back one, but he repeated himself a lot. Think my finishing percentage has gone up, and the elbow across detail on the RNC was really good.
If you have some experience then conceptually it's nothing too new. If I was new to BJJ then I would have been very impressed with the concepts (e.g. head position when on the back).

Kimura one I liked. I also liked the Sakuraba style attacks at the end - they might not be the highest percentage finishes, but they're damn fun.

There are a couple things I picked up from the sets:

1. Specific cues in certain positions. He verbalizes certain cues for different positions that I find very useful (e.g. Hand behind the back, feet inside etc).
   
2. Verbalized some things that I'd thought myself, but hadn't heard anyone say - e.g. protecting the bottom hook, and the high wrist position when attacking the guillotine.
3. The systematic layout. This isn't unique to him of course but it's always nice to see a systematic approach that has been proven to work at the highest level.

On a side note: rolled with a visitor from Renzo's recently.
Got beaten up, but I recognized a lot of the stuff from the DVD.

 

[JagRoss]

Back attacks is the best. Leg locks next especially if you're into those. In my opinion the next best are the armbar one and then the triangle one.

The kimura and front headlock are my least favorite which is weird because those are 2 of my favorite positions. Front headlock is good if you want to learn entries to the position and control. But I really think the submission sections left a lot to be desired. #unpopularopinion but for a guy that can put together 8 quality discs on the armbar...the guillotine/brabo/anaconda world is way too deep to cover in 2 or 3 discs. It's a shame because that was his instructional I was most interested in. The kimura set is solid early on but ends up being padded I think with some either low percentage or more "filler" techniques near the end.

None of them are bad by any means. In fact they're all quite good but some are better than others. I like armbars slightly more than triangles so I ranked it higher but both are about dead even in quality.

So my ranking of them is:

Back attacks
Leg locks
Armbar
Triangle
Headlock
Kimura

Yeah I was really disappointed with the Darce/Anaconda section of the DVDs.
Of the 8 discs there are probably only 1 DVD that relates to the darce/anaconda.

There was some good stuff on control that I hadn't seen taught before (e.g. breaking the guy down when he tripods) that I liked a lot.
I also like the underhook-headlock roll pass that he showed vs half.

 

[mataleaos]

Yeah I was really disappointed with the Darce/Anaconda section of the DVDs.
Of the 8 discs there are probably only 1 DVD that relates to the darce/anaconda.

There was some good stuff on control that I hadn't seen taught before (e.g. breaking the guy down when he tripods) that I liked a lot.
I also like the underhook-headlock roll pass that he showed vs half.

And there’s really only 1 guillotine disc. I mean I guess there’s a second that covers seated entries but it essentially just retreads the same ground as the kneeling entries.

 

[berimBOWLoh]

I once read one of his Facebook posts and felt like I had been to a year long instructional on how to make a small point stretch into an epic monologue of his intelligence level

 

[Solidus Snake]

I only have kimura and front headlock ones and I truly like them, probably also because those are two parts of grappling I've always being fascinated with, but rarely properly explored.. so for me there is like a ton of new material to work on.

For the rest, I really am fan of how Danaher explains stuff. I understand that sometimes it can sound a bit too slow for many other tastes, but I find it relaxing and at the same time what he says usually stays stuck in my head.

 

[Gandhi]

It has the inane Danaher babbling like all his stuff do but there is a lot more other quality kimura instruction so no need to endure that.
Also parts of that where low percentage (like kimuras from bottom turtle).

LOL my coach was complaining but the non stop biology lesson that comes with each move,

 

[ThR1LL]

Go with Lachlan DVDs if ever. Danaher is a genius and concise in person at the gym, but without real constraints in a DVD setting he rambles and repeats too much

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

I don't have 1000$ to spend nor do I want to.

Maybe when they hit discount prices I'll purchase the back control or arm bar one.

 

[tekkenfan]

i do and havent even watched all but the front headlock series

 

[tekkenfan]

Go with Lachlan DVDs if ever. Danaher is a genius and concise in person at the gym, but without real constraints in a DVD setting he rambles and repeats too much

i agree i like his tecs but he takes 20 minutes per move which he only slowlyyyyyyyyyyy shows 2 times..


the best way t teach is to first show the move u are showing at normal speed thennnnn break it down slowly instead of talking and then going piece of piece

 

[ijustwannasurf]

The real question is whether anyone who has all of them has counted how many times he says "proprioception."

 

[xguardstrangles]

Haven't seen Danaher's back dvd sorry.

Went to Digitsu to compare the content lists and it looks like Rocha's back set is gone and was only a limited time release. No clue why as they don't normally do that and anything else i've ever got from them still seems to be available to buy.

Which series are you looking for cause I have all them.