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IMPROVE THE WAY YOU PRACTICE
The majority of BJJ training uses an outdated approach that typically involves warm-up, compliant technique, and live training.
But there is a better way!
LEARN THE SYSTEMS, PLAY THE GAMES
Let me ask you a question: suppose you learned a back attack system, drilled it, and you feel ready to go…but then go to live training. How many minutes did you actually spend working attacks from the back?
The answer: probably not enough.
If you want to master the system you learned, you need to spend A LOT of time in that scenario, and that's where games come into play!
The best way to take practical knowledge and develop those into skills is to play constraint-led games!
BJJ GAMES
A game is played in a specific scenario where you have goals to achieve, subject to various constraints.
Using this method will help you spend the necessary time in the situation you’re focusing on, forcing you to implement the technique(s) you want to improve. You cannot take an easy shortcut, and you will make the system your own.
Playing games is one of the best ways to enhance your BJJ skills as quickly as possible!
THE TEAM
RYAN - 3rd Degree Black Belt
My coach, Mario Cerezo, has been a black belt for well over twenty years and leans toward being about as old school as it gets - but his approach from day one with us was always dynamic and involved a lot of live work and this greatly affected how I ended up running both my adult and youth programs when I opened my academy.
Despite all this, connecting with Greg Souders is what really pushed me into overhauling how I frame training and we went fully ecological shortly after. This full adoption of the constraints-led approach was difficult due to a lack of solid centralized resources (outside of random videos on various platforms and Rob Gray’s books), so I decided it was time to develop my own.
From start to finish my practices are a series of curated games, even on a student’s first day.
MAX - 1st Degree BJJ Black Belt & Founder of BJJFlowCharts.com
I’d like to share a brief story about how I started incorporating games into my training: back in 2015, I had just been promoted to purple belt, and it was during this period that I began training daily and took ownership of my practice.
My first thought was: "Okay, we are supposed to be killers from the mount and the back positions…but how many minutes did I actually spend on mount or back this week during live training?" My answer: “A few minutes?” Then I thought: "How am I supposed to become competent in those dominant positions if I only spend a few minutes a week in them?"
With that in mind, I began designing games and playing them as much as possible. I drastically improved in a relatively short period.
Why would it be any different for you?
Essential for every level, from day one beginners to elite grapplers.
It's also great for coaches who want to improve their classes.
Nope. Anyone who trains can use these to guide their learning or improve their game.
No. These are structured live training scenarios designed around resistance, decision-making, and constraints.
Definitely not. We’ve done the work for you. Just press play and play the game.
50 complete games, 1-3+ hours of instructional video, breakdowns, coaching cues, and competition-tested setups.
Yes. You can insert 1–2 games into warmups, skill blocks, or replace traditional drilling entirely. You can also build full sessions using just games.
No. Every course is a one-time purchase. You buy it, you own it.
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CHANGE YOUR GRAPPLING
I started using games in 2015, and it completely changed my grappling. Why? Because it's the most effective way to work any given grappling situation. If you’re serious about becoming a better grappler, you have to play games!
WHY IS IT BETTER?
It will teach you to use your systems in more realistic scenarios. The first step to mastery is to gain knowledge: you study instructionals, you talk to your coach. You learn techniques and systems. The next step is crucial; you need to go from knowledge to skills. And the best way to do that is to play games! To make that transition, you need to spend a considerable amount of time in the situation you want to improve upon (cf. the 10,000-hour principle). You’ll find the adjustments that your coach cannot teach you (because they aren’t you): how to distribute your weight, small angular changes, connections...our games are designed to help you work on that.
YOU DON'T NEED TO LISTEN TO TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT - JUST WATCH WHAT THE BEST PLAYERS DO
But don't listen to what I have to say; watch what the best grapplers in the world do. I've traveled the world and trained with the world's elite, and I can tell you they all play games in various forms (and often call them “drills” or “situational sparring”). If the best do it, why shouldn't you?
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT
50 games across 6 categories Standing / Passing / Guard / Defense / Upper Body Subs / Leglocks. You’ll work all aspects of grappling with games designed to make you work some of the most important systems in grappling. Each game has a precise and extensive writeup (we call them “descriptions”). In that description, you’ll find the setup of the game, the goal you need to achieve, the constraints you must follow, pertinent advice to help you, alongside coaching cues (if you're a coach), as well as a video and anything else we’ve added to make the game as clear and straightforward as possible. The video is there to give you an idea behind the game and what execution can look like. You don’t need to play it exactly like us - we encourage you to make the game your own and be creative.
PAY ONCE, OWN IT FOREVER
GETTING STARTED:
FREE Sample Course
6 Foundational Grappling Games from our NoGi Essentials Course