Complete De La Riva System in 7 Min

This video I go through my basic foundation for understanding the De La Riva Guard. This guard is critically important because it is one of the easiest grips to achieve and can transition to so many different attacks and positions. I first discuss the importance of the dlr hook and how it can be switched for string knee pressure. Then I go in to discussing the possible options you have depending on each grip you can establish.
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[@David-dw2iq]

Never heard of your or seen a video of yours. I was expecting for you to tell me to buy your instructional. Instead, you provided exactly what you said. Great video, great content, subbed and liked

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Thanks a lot buddy happy you found my channel and hope you enjoy my other videos!

[@submityourfriendbjj2088]

You have a knack for distilling whole systems into simple parts. Great stuff, Jon!

[@JoshTheGrappler]

7 minutes of quality yet again! Awesome thank you professor

[@JonThomasBJJ]

No problem happy you enjoyed this format I will be doing more soon!

[@brianlilleyfilms]

Daaaamn! That was like a 1hr seminar in less than 7min. 🔥

[@jt1985]

Thanks for the links! - I wouldn't have guessed how to spell Caio Terra.

[@michaelkruppenbacher1711]

3:40 to 4:00 is exactly what I struggle with with most techniques. That was the best advice I’ve heard when it comes to concepts

[@marthahernandez695]

These video series are awesome! The way they are set up really help me learn! Can’t wait until I get to play with them on the mats 😆

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Hope they work well for you and let me know if you ever have any future requests.

[@SbgCanadaSteve]

Insightful and comprehensive information. Fantastic.

[@SbgCanadaSteve]

"Hip to the game" lol 👌

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Haha yeah like that expression. I like the fast overviews just need to find a good way to balance the fast overviews with useful in depth technique videos.

[@remoheugh9095]

O and let me just say, the grappling discourse podcast recommended your videos, and here I am watching. Just thought you'd like to know people out there really like what you're doing! Keep it up!

[@jo3agle67]

Fantastic. Thank u. Simple, sweet, and short. Something I can build off to improve my de la riva guard

[@jordankilpatrick]

Thanks for these tutorials Jon. They're very well thought out and are really helpful. Your channel is definitely destined to grow big :)

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Thanks! Just trying to stay patient and keep providing quality content and it will grow naturally over time. Appreciate the comment and support.

[@marcusv.matossouza3536]

Thanks to sharing your knowledge with us, today I was able to do one of the guard advices that you explained in a video. Keep going my friend

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Happy it helped buddy I will definitely keep them coming let me know if you have any requests.

[@errcoche]

One of the best brains teaching BJJ. It's kind of obvious, once you make the point, that establishing initial grips is step one and that you have to literally go step by step, progressing from what you can initially get to better and better positions. It's clearly not that obvious though because most instructors don't explain this to their students.

[@josephbreza-grappling9459]

The details here are incredible. I wrestled for about 30 years (Middle school, HS, collegiate, and beyond) before I started Jiu Jitsu. I’ve got to be honest, these systems made no sense to me for at least the first year. One thing I didn’t see before in any of my training and drilling was how he lifts that leg with control on the pants when he pulls forward on the collar and transitions to X guard. I’ve got to drill that. I was missing that detail and would often get my leg stuck against his leg when trying to transition. I see now that I need to lift the leg to make that transition smoother. I was thinking I wasn’t bumping him forward enough, but now I don’t think that’s my problem.

[@vsnellman]

I’ve been away from training big for a few weeks, and this was a great refresher.

[@chrissackinger9052]

Fantastic content. As a white belt it’s fun to research and take in moves the rest of the class is not working on. Really enjoy the simple concise videos!! Keep up the amazing work 🙏

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Will do buddy! Happy they are helping you, gonna start doing some really short breakdowns as well.

[@phredbookley183]

That was funny. I had a question about DLR then you got a full video on it. Of course! Jon Thomas on the job! :-)

[@arnau7773]

2 weeks white belt learning here. Very basic and simple. Thanks.

[@JonThomasBJJ]

No problem buddy happy to help!

[@JamezAdam]

Nice one mate liking the broad overview style of instructional

[@donlean2164]

That is the cleanest mat i've ever seen

[@chrislowe5575]

Subbed to your channel, As a fellow black belt I found some value with your video here and its very well organized ty

[@tairram]

Awesome. The concept of the whole system always make my game improve. Thank you.

[@nateszpyrka2694]

Id like to see content for Best defense and attacks for taller men or what a tall man should play

[@larrymccreary946]

That explanation helped a lot!

[@harryb9913]

Just started bjj I'm a white belt just found your channel liked this video and subscribed 👍🏻

[@alanroy1259]

Great video as usual, thank you.

[@gsp81]

Nice simple summary

[@mustaphamsr9617]

Awesome content and sum up, can't wait to drill all of this, as of ideas for new content the waiter position could be interesting to sum up (from full guard, deep half guard and de la riva with collar control when you drag the opponent as you showed here... )

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Sounds good buddy I will try to put something out on this soon.

[@mustaphamsr9617]

@@JonThomasBJJ thanks Jon you re the man!

[@MrJrhzues]

This was beautiful

[@carlosdiaz1498]

Excelente profesor. Saludos desde Chile

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Thanks buddy!

[@pedagogybjj]

Excellent!

[@BLMann]

Dude. What a repository of solid information. Thank you so much. Also, what brand is your gi?

[@peterheisterkamp6911]

Awesome sum ups. These fundamentals and principle ideas improve my game a lot. Maybe you could do something similar for other guards like X Guard, reverse dlr, knee shield or your favourite takedowns.

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Yeah that is the plan!

[@altantulgadavaadorj2024]

Thank you,Sir

[@hasbullaBJJ]

Thank you!

[@fisticuffspodcast6119]

Absolutely love your content, please can you cover chain guard passing/retaining? Similar to how you chain subs (armbar to triangle, etc) but with passing sequences

[@esterisk]

great explanation! love them, thank you so much!

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The two most straight forward jj instructors are Jon Thomas and Eli Knight

[@amorestperpe]

This is literally all the stuff this people belt does to me, and I get absolutely steam rolled lol

[@lightningmunk]

Amazing content :) Two questions. First, where would you place the hierarchy of grabbing a cross sleeve grip over a Collar or Far Sleeve? Second, you talked about variations such as De La X and Deep DLR and such, but is there a preferred position you would like to achieve with an Open Guard that you are using other open guards to get to? For me, I feel it's having the radar up to look for a better opportunity of control and having more options, and not sure how a guard like De La X might fair against a Deep DLR or a Lasso Guard. Thanks!

[@QigongAwareness]

Good stuff. Subscribed.

[@ShadeNinja2990]

Ciao Terra ankle lock has won me so many matches, even in no gi

[@mkum2141]

These complete overviews are really great. It would be great if you could make one for the double sleeve guard as well if you haven’t already

[@JonThomasBJJ]

I have I think it’s titled first attack series you should learn or something like that

[@shredmasta]

This is gold!

[@remoheugh9095]

Thank you so much for this content. I have 2 questions. 1. What do you do if he does a toe hold on that far leg? I get that you can just spin out of it because he doesn't have any other control points but then you've lost your de le Riva guard. 2. What do you do if he back steps to pass your guard? I tend to butterfly hook the leg with that far leg then reset but if he's fast and puts some heavy pressure then it seems to be an easy pass

[@michaelbarnhill2685]

This.....was an excellent video. Do you have more broad over views like this.

[@rodmhrd]

More videos detailing side control escapes verses difficult experienced opponents. Also how to escape situations where they are sprawling while on side control

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Hey buddy so realistically difficult experienced opponents doesn’t define the position at all, I just think in term of where my opponent is and my possible responses. Just because someone is experienced doesn’t mean they all hold side the same way and in fact some black belts can be amazing at some things and terrible at others. So I would need exact context for the specific control method the person uses, or I can just make a list of all my favorite side escapes in 1 video.

[@JamezAdam]

Great tutorial 👏👏

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Thanks James!

[@anonoumos]

love ur vids

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Thanks buddy! I’ll keep them coming

[@MrJrhzues]

Very few people can overview something as well as you did

[@jordanburton4147]

Utility Guard.

[@hortalica]

you must be seeing my trainings....lol, thank you for the content

[@JonThomasBJJ]

I see everyone’s training 👀

[@DaniriJiujitsuVeracruz]

very helpful!

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Happy it helped buddy

[@andym1594]

sweet. Also thanks for not wasting the first minute of the video on stupid heavy metal music intro.

[@krusmatrieya3181]

Do you know if the De La Riva guard can be trained without a sparring partner? I've been forcefully incarcerated in multiple psych wards and what I found is that the ambulance staff tend to over-stretch my arms from guard position. I'm not a martial artist though and am overweight and the only street fight I ever had was when I tried grabbing the wrist of three attackers with knives and held the knife edge instead. I'm also asking because I have met with people inside psych wards where ambulance staff took advantage of them sleeping and waking them up in the night. These weren't violent people just people caught off guard. My critique of modern BJJ is that they do not address issues of multiple attackers versus psychiatric staff which are often grapplers, don't abide by the rule of law (law here being Constitutional rights as opposed to whatever state laws are present) and even traditional BJJ supporters like Jocko Willink who recommend BJJ for the street don't address the difference between street fights and being forcefully incarcerated. (A street fight can be escaped, ambulance staff will lie to get you into an agitated state and then surround you at your weakest mental state, A street fight can be won by incapacitating an arm or leg - ambulance staff will use that against you and the self defense element comes not in beating the ambulance staff or knowing your legal rights (they don't care - you need your lawyer to be on speed dial) and the goal is not to escape or win the fight just to have the right flexibility to not get your arm injured or strained because any form of shouting is used as evidence for your mental illness.

[@jonidelapaternal3629]

This is My Style

[@jonathanwilliams1746]

So do I learn each grip attack series if so are you gonna make a play list

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Yeah I added some videos in description with some of them, I’m gonna start making more small playlists soon too.

[@TheOnlineMarket]

what does the hook actually do? not the reverse hook, the regular one. I often used to make the mistake of trying to put it in on a completely straight legged partner. It was awkward, and couldnt find anywhere on youtube that tells me what it actually does. manage distance? keep him in place? do you only put it in when they bend their knee? if so, why? I feel like no instructor has truly gone in depth about what the hook actually does. when and when not to use it, so on and so forth. Could you reply or make a video on it? Much appreciated!

[@TheOnlineMarket]

is it to keep your leg in place? is it a multitude of reasons? etc etc

[@jg1000c]

Looking for details of the de la riva hook, mine doesn't seem sticky enough.

[@Coop_De_La_Woop]

Where is the playlist of in depth stuff!?

[@Freduccine978]

DLR isnt a guard that we drill much at my school. Any advice on trying to systematically implement this system during live rolls, when guys might be using various methods to pass, or passing on the knees? what i find is that guys i roll with pressure pass a lot, and then when i'm up against someone who is standing and passing, the muscle memory isnt there to wrap them up in my guard and have these tools readily available to keep the guard and get the sweep. i find that i'm not spending a lot of time in these positions to really absorb them

[@JonThomasBJJ]

The best is if you can find a partner you can work with before or after class and do specific sparring from the position you want to work on to speed up the learning process in the positions. If the guys in gym play from both knees often I use collar sleeve or double sleeve as a way to threaten them with Omoplatas or triangle to get them to step up to a leg then you can switch to de la riva.

[@Freduccine978]

@@JonThomasBJJ Collar sleeve is what ive been trying to focus on, developing my game to go between omoplatas and triangles, but i want to start working in back takes. I'm gonna try this thank you!

[@nicocontreras5366]

I still have issues with this guard, only can get single leg and situp sweeps but the knee detail changes everything, I just wonder if Caio´s way to attack is legal for white and blue belts. What if it hurts the knee ?

[@JonThomasBJJ]

I think it is completely legal even at white belt, I don’t think they will call it as a knee bar or anything

[@nicocontreras5366]

@@JonThomasBJJ Ah thank you.

[@AustinPiedmont]

Any advice on preventing the DLR leg from being pushed down? I know you talk about pressuring into the leg to get push back to put in the hook, but even when I get the hook it doesn't feel strong, usually my opponent just compresses my knee towards my chest and then the position starts to crumble.

[@JonThomasBJJ]

I’m gonna make a video about it today actually it’s a great question!

[@AustinPiedmont]

@@JonThomasBJJ cool, thanks man! 😄👍🏼 I think videos like this would be really helpful - how to initially maintain control with maybe some drills or rolling footage or even letting a lower belt try it on you while you point mistakes/errors. Your videos are awesome and the techniques are on point but I'm in a situation where I know all these different DLR techniques front to back but can never stabilize in the position enough to attack.

[@nashcajee4680]

I have to ask, have you actually ever trained with de la Riva?

[@pr7293]

How to pass Deep DLR guard?

[@emilbodzioch9133]

or XDLR

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Thanks for recommendation

[@guilhermevenites9679]

Confuse your explain! Beginner cant get it!

[@crakface]

you summed that up in a nice box shipped Amazon prime😮