The best techniques in the world are of no use if you can’t perform or remember them

You’ve probably had this happen before:

You watch a cool BJJ technique online, in a seminar, or in class. It looks so easy when the black belt does it and makes sense in the moment. But later, the details blur, and you have a hard time actually pulling it off sparring. A few weeks go by, and even though you tried, you give up on the technique, figuring that it wasn’t for you.

Guess what? You Are Right!

The fact is that many of the techniques shown by world champions are hard to pull off in the real world unless you have the coordination, strength, and flexibility that these athletes have. Worse yet, they have been doing these techniques for years, and there are details, concepts, and strategies underlying these techniques that they are not even aware of and that they take for granted. Sadly, you don’t know this, and so the technique is useless to you.

My name is Don Whitefield. I am a 4th-degree De La Riva black belt, and I have been training for over 30 years. I have never competed seriously, and I have never won any important titles. However, I trained with and watched countless seminars with the world’s best Jiu-Jitsu fighters. I have a degree in adult education; I have decades of experience teaching average people that love Jiu-Jitsu, and I can see all the details on what makes techniques work for each student.

I promoted more than 30 black belts, most of them people just like you. I have high standards, but I am not interested in teaching serious competitors anymore but rather focus these days on helping normal people to become martial artists while learning jiu-jitsu with all the physical and mental benefits.

I am teaching techniques that anyone, even recreationally BJJ students, can do, and I have been doing this for a long time. I have more than 1,700 specific techniques; many of them are unique or simplified versions of competitive techniques. That’s why I have created a structured video library starting more than 15 years ago. Instead of relying on memory, random screenshots, or scattered videos online, you can review exactly what you need when you need it, knowing that the techniques will actually work for you.

A different view of Jiu-Jitsu

I have been training since 1997. Back then there were no internet BJJ instructionals, so I actually had to travel and train with the top fighters in person. My job as a technical trainer for an international automaker allowed me the freedom to train with anyone I wanted, and so I did.

I had the chance to train with many, many BJJ legends, from Ricardo De La Riva, Rickson Gracie to Marcelo Garcia, and when we created the West Coast BJJ Association, as my students became black belts opening their own schools, I started to offer our annual Wintercamp, where we hired one of those legends at the time to teach us at exotic places a week at the time.

Whether you want to review fundamentals, troubleshoot problem areas, or expand your game with advanced techniques, this library gives you a place to come back to again and again. And best of all, the techniques are demonstrated by a legitimate Ricardo De La Riva black belt who has been training with the world’s best for 30 years.

The more I trained with them the more I realized that they all had their own very individual style matching their physical abilities. The problem is, if you do not have the same abilities and experience, it will be hard to develop your own skills copying their techniques.

I learned that every Jiu-Jitsu student, regardless of belt color, has their own style, preferences, and abilities and that it is much more important to teach concepts and strategies than just techniques to allow students to shape the techniques to match their own abilities.

Until today, I am still travelling all over the world, training and teaching thousands of different students from vastly different backgrounds, and yet I always get the same feedback: What I teach simply works for them, and they can use it right away.

Why would you spend your money on this?

I understand that you can watch tons of techniques online and that your professor can guide and teach you like no one else can. I also know that there are Jiu-Jitsu champions, and high-level schools have great online tutorials that may work for you if you are competitive. However, if you are a recreational Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, I am convinced you will find my techniques, strategies, and principles are priceless to you learning Jiu-Jitsu faster.

How do I know? Simple, when I visit schools and teach techniques, professors and students alike remark how they have never seen any techniques like them and how useful and functional they are. When average Jiu-Jitsu practitioners from Canada, Japan, and South Africa remark on how much I have changed their view of Jiu-Jitsu and how much I have improved their game, then you can be sure that you can learn too.

You are spending thousands of dollars on the martial art you love over the years, so consider spending the same amount you spend on a single Jiu-Jitsu kimono and change your Jiu-Jitsu forever.

I am so sure that my techniques will help you that I offer you that if you are not satisfied, let me know the first week, and I will refund 100% of your money. You have nothing to lose so give it a try.

It’s All About the Details

If you train seriously, you already know this.

The difference between a technique working and failing is often something small. Grip placement. Elbow position. Pressure. Timing. Angle. Weight distribution.

Forgetting one detail can ruin the whole move.

That’s why it helps to have a reliable system you can come back to whenever you want to review, troubleshoot, or refine your understanding.