Enter The System Bundle by John Danaher: Six No-Gi Submission Systems

What it teaches

This bundle packages six John Danaher submission systems: leg locks, back attacks, kimuras, front headlocks, arm bars, and triangles. The product page describes it as all six signature submission systems and lists each component course by name.

The instruction is framed around systems rather than isolated moves: the source says the goal is to attack with a system, create dilemmas, and work through predictable resistance. That makes the bundle most relevant to grapplers trying to build repeatable finishing sequences across several submission families.

Curriculum overview

Who it is for

Consider this bundle if you train primarily no-gi and want a submission-first study plan that connects dominant positions, front headlock exchanges, guard attacks, and leg entanglements. The source specifically emphasizes no-gi grappling in relation to the leg-lock material and lists no gi-oriented submissions such as heel hooks, rear naked strangles, guillotines, darces, and anacondas.

It may suit students who like conceptual organization and staged problem solving. The armbar curriculum, for example, is organized around entry, control, orientation, configuration, separation, and breaking phases, while the back course includes alignment, deficit, and pinned-arm problems.

Prerequisites

The source does not state a required belt level. Because the curriculum includes advanced finishing positions and potentially rule-sensitive attacks such as heel hooks, toe holds, knee-line recovery, kani basami, and transitions to inside heel hook, our assessment is that students should know their gym’s safety rules and competition rules before drilling the lower-body portions.

For upper-body systems, a working familiarity with common BJJ positions will help: the curriculum references mount, side pins, closed guard, half guard, butterfly guard, turtle, rear mount, seated guard, kneeling front headlocks, and standing snap-down entries.

Format and training context

The supplied brief verifies the format as no-gi. The product page also says the course can be streamed or downloaded through the BJJ Fanatics app, but this guide does not rely on pricing, sale timers, or guarantee language because those details can change.

Research limitation: the source snapshot is a product-page curriculum and comparison excerpts, not independent testing. This guide can verify listed topics and format, but not teaching effectiveness, production quality, or buyer outcomes.

Strengths

The strongest buying argument is breadth with internal overlap. The bundle covers submissions from the lower body, back, front headlock, arm isolation, armbars, and triangle configurations, and several chapters explicitly connect one system to another, such as kimura to back, kimura to triangles, armbar with lower-body attacks, and triangle to inside heel hook.

Another strength is the attention to control before the finish. The curriculum includes hand fighting, inside position, knee-line recovery, back-control principles, strangle-hand versus control-hand roles, kimura power lines, armbar control mechanics, and front-headlock control versus submission.

Limitations

Buy less if you only want one specific submission area. The bundle is built from six full systems, so a grappler who only needs leg entanglements or back finishing may not need the whole package.

This is not the most targeted choice for gi-specific gripping study. The verified format is no-gi, and the listed curriculum emphasizes submissions and controls that do not depend on lapel or sleeve grips.

Suggested study order

Our suggested order is to start with back attacks, then front headlock, then kimura, then armbar, then triangles, and leave leg locks for a rules-aware block. This prioritizes positional control and upper-body finishing mechanics before lower-body entries and heel-hook-specific breaking mechanics.

Within each system, consider studying the overview and control mechanics first, then entries, then finishing mechanics, then transitions. The chapter list repeatedly follows that pattern through system overview, principles, entries, mechanics, breaking, troubleshooting, and transition lessons.

Bundle or individual courses

Consider the bundle if you want the cross-system library: the source confirms it includes the six individual courses together. This matters for students who want to connect front headlock entries, back control, kimura transitions, armbars, triangles, and leg entanglements into one long-term study plan.

Consider an individual course instead if your current training problem is narrow. The supplied comparison sources verify Leglocks: Enter The System and Back Attacks Enter The System as standalone components, so those are the clearest focused alternatives from the provided research.

Alternatives to consider

Leglocks: Enter The System is the focused alternative for lower-body study. Its comparison source lists inside position, ashi variations, knee-line recovery, heel hooks, toe holds, and entries from standing, guard, inversion, half guard, and double seated positions, whereas the bundle adds five other submission systems around it.

Back Attacks Enter The System is the focused alternative for rear-mount control and finishing. Its comparison source emphasizes straightjacket structure, head traps, alignment and deficit problems, rear strangle mechanics, auxiliary systems, and rear-mount entries; the bundle is broader but less focused for a buyer who only wants the back.

• Leglocks: Enter The System by John Danaher — check current price
• Back Attacks Enter The System by John Danaher — check current price

Purchase guidance

Consider buying this bundle when you are ready to commit to a long-term no-gi submission curriculum rather than patching one finish at a time. The product page presents it as the total collection of the submission systems and the source snapshot verifies a large 48-volume curriculum.

Buy less if you need immediate depth in only one narrow area, especially leg locks or back attacks, because those standalone components are independently verified in the supplied comparison sources.