Bernardo Faria All Access Pass Bundle: Half Guard, Pressure Passing, and Fundamentals

What it teaches

This bundle is presented as access to Bernardo Faria’s existing BJJ Fanatics library, with more than 25 full-length instructional series. The supplied course list emphasizes half guard, over-under passing, pressure passing, fundamentals, escapes, guard retention, submissions, closed guard, back takes, mount attacks, side control, and transition work.

Our assessment is that the bundle is most coherent as a pressure-and-half-guard study path rather than a random library purchase: many included titles cluster around half guard, over-under entries, pressure passing, and “old guys” adaptations.

Curriculum overview

Who it is for

The product page specifically frames the teaching as useful for older grapplers, hobbyists, and students who want techniques based on leverage, timing, and efficiency rather than athleticism. It also states that the instruction is aimed at a range from white belts to experienced black belts.

Consider it if you prefer a single-instructor roadmap and want to build around half guard and pressure passing. Buy with more caution if your current goal is a narrow, highly specialized course rather than a broad library.

Prerequisites

The source includes beginner-facing titles such as Introduction to BJJ, Foundations of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Foundations of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu No-Gi, and Fundamentals of Jiu Jitsu, so the bundle is not positioned only for advanced students.

Our suggested prerequisite is basic positional literacy—knowing what guard, passing, side control, mount, and back control are—because the bundle quickly branches into specific systems like half guard, over-under passing, mount attacks, and back takes.

Format and gi/no-gi coverage

The supplied metadata marks the format as unverified. The title list, however, includes both gi-sounding general BJJ courses and explicitly no-gi courses, including Foundations of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu No-Gi, No Gi Pressure Passing, and The No Gi Half Guard.

Our assessment: treat the bundle as format-mixed, but verify the gi/no-gi split on the seller page before buying if you only train one ruleset. The research limitation is that the source snapshot lists course titles, not full technical inventories for every included course.

Strengths

The bundle’s main strength is breadth within one instructor’s system. The verified list covers fundamentals, half guard, closed guard, guard retention, pressure passing, over-under entries, no-gi passing, escapes, submission escapes, positional submissions, mount attacks, back takes, and transitions.

For a grappler who wants continuity, this may be easier to organize than buying disconnected single-topic instructionals. The repeated themes suggest a coherent study loop: play half guard, get on top, pass with pressure, stabilize, then attack.

Limitations

Future Bernardo Faria releases are not included in this pass. The source also does not provide detailed lesson breakdowns for each listed included instructional, so buyers cannot confirm every subtopic from this snapshot alone.

Buy less impulsively if you only need one small technical answer, such as a single submission family or one escape, because this is a broad bundle and several included titles overlap around half guard, pressure passing, and older-grappler systems.

Suggested study order

Our suggested order is to start with Introduction to BJJ, Foundations, or Fundamentals if you are newer, then move to the half guard and pressure passing courses, and only then layer in escapes, submissions, mount, back, side-control, and transition modules.

For an intermediate student, our suggested loop is bottom half guard first, over-under or pressure passing second, and positional attacks third. That ordering matches the bundle’s repeated emphasis on half guard and pressure passing before expanding to submissions and control.

Bundle or individual courses?

The product is a bundle of Bernardo Faria’s existing BJJ Fanatics library rather than a single course. The source says it includes more than 25 full-length instructional series and lists individual titles across fundamentals, guard, passing, escapes, and attacks.

Consider the bundle if you expect to study several Bernardo systems together. If you only want one subject, such as no-gi half guard, mount attacks, or closed guard, an individual course may be the cleaner purchase path, but specific individual-course comparisons were not supplied in this research brief.

Alternatives and comparisons

The only supplied researched alternative is Barry Robinson’s A Million Styles: Boxing Pad Work, which is a striking pad-work course, not a BJJ positional curriculum. Its source centers on catching strikes, cueing combinations, pivots, slips, and boxing pad reactions.

If your training need is grappling systems, Bernardo Faria’s All Access Pass is the relevant option among the supplied products. If you are coaching striking pads or want boxing-reactivity drills, Barry Robinson’s course addresses a different problem entirely.

• A Million Styles: Boxing Pad Work by Barry Robinson — check current price

Purchase guidance

The product page says the pass covers Bernardo’s complete existing BJJ Fanatics library, while explicitly excluding future releases. It also states that the course can be streamed or downloaded through the BJJ Fanatics app.

Before purchase, consider checking the current included-course list on the seller page against your actual goals. The bundle makes the most sense when multiple listed systems—half guard, pressure passing, escapes, fundamentals, and positional attacks—are on your study plan.