The Diamondback Attack: A Complete & Vicious Gi & No-Gi Back Control Submission System by Joel Bane

What Will You Learn?

The back is the most dominant position in grappling, and Coach Joel Bane attacks it using something most Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners are unprepared to face: the relentless control and submission principles of Catch Wrestling.

Bane is a 3rd Degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt directly under 9th Degree Red Belt Rigan Machado. He is also a 5th Degree Luta Livre Black Belt directly under 9th Degree Red Belt Grandmaster Hugo Duarte and Duarte’s first-ever North American Black Belt. Additionally, Bane holds a 1st Degree Judo Black Belt under 8th Dan John Saylor, a three-time U.S. National Judo Heavyweight Champion and former Head Coach at the United States Olympic Training Center.

The founder and Head Coach of Snake Pit U.S.A., Bane served as a two-time Team Captain and former Assistant Coach of the U.S. Air Force All-Air Force Wrestling Team in Greco-Roman and Freestyle Wrestling. He was also a two-time U.S. Military World Team Greco-Roman alternate. Bane retired as a Master Sergeant following more than 20 years of active-duty military service, during which he taught hand-to-hand combative skills throughout the United States and while deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

With 30 years of training and coaching experience, Bane’s extensive background in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Catch Wrestling, Luta Livre, Greco-Roman Wrestling, and Freestyle Wrestling forms the foundation of this system.

The Diamondback Attack is a complete Gi back-control system, with carefully integrated No-Gi applications, engineered for total positional dominance, control, and submission. Bane begins with his four submission concepts and three primary control positions before introducing the three primary transitional attack controls and the Safe Bail. Together, these concepts teach you how to maintain the position and how to exit safely without surrendering control or exposing yourself to a reversal.

From there, the system expands into six foundational entries, including the Billy Robinson-style wristlock threat and the Basic Zipper Choke. Bane then develops attacks from Launch Pad Control, the Full Gi Diamondback, and Collar Control.

Next come the elements most Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners have never encountered: the Transitional Two-on-One, Double Wristlock Control with its German Pin entries, and the Transitional Russian Tie.

Tying the entire system together is Bane’s finishing standard: the Quarter-Inch Finish. This principle recognizes that, at the conclusion of every control sequence and transition, the success of a submission is often determined by the smallest possible adjustment. That is why these chokes, armbars, neck cranks, wristlocks, and shoulder locks continue to work, even against experienced opponents who know they are coming.

If you can take the back but continually lose it, or reach the position only to run out of attacks after the Bow-and-Arrow Choke, the missing piece is usually not another isolated submission. It is a complete control system that makes the submission unavoidable.

Learn how Coach Joel Bane combines three decades of elite grappling experience, Catch Wrestling methodology, and U.S. Air Force wrestling leadership to transform back control into eight volumes of relentless, systematic attack.

What Exactly Do You Get?

Part 1: Control, Transition and the Four Submission Concepts

• Coach Bane's Four Submission Concepts
• Three Primary Control Positions
• Three Primary Transitional Attack Controls
• Safe Bail

Part 2: Six Foundational Entries

• Pinky Pad Attack & Thumb Down Shoulder Fulcrum
• Billy Robinson Style Wristlock Threat Entry
• Basic Zipper Choke Entry
• Direct Leg Zipper Entry
• Late Defense Counter (Opponent Goes Full Thumb)
• Basic Bow & Arrow Entry w/ Inverted Triangle

Part 3: Attacks From Basic Launch Pad Control

• Key Lock Short Arm Scissor Variation
• Icepick to Lebell Grip & S-Grip Short Choke / Strangle Hold
• Icepick to Rear Naked Choke & Strangle Hold Grip Jaw Lock
• Icepick to Lebell Grip & S-Grip Cross Face Neck Crank
• Face-Locks
• Launch Pad Control & Heel to Hip to Chicken Wing Gag & Cross-Face
• Full Stockade From Launch Pad Control & Heel to Hip
• Dragon Sleeper From Launch Pad Control
• Cross Side Under-Hook Lapel Choke

Part 4: Attacks From the Full Gi Diamondback

• One Arm Collar Choke and Basic Bow and Arrow
• Bow and Arrow Shin in Spine & Neck Choke / Crank
• Back Swim Knee Bar & Inverted Heel Hook
• Scythe Gi Choke Basic Armbar & 45 Degree Canted Armbar
• Two Triangle Variations Inverted and Farside with Armbar
• Inverted Triangle Chain
• Half Leg Nelson Choke
• Half Leg Nelson Entry Into Scythe Armbar with Both Legs
• Half Leg Nelson to Japanese Armbar & Leg Scissor Choke
• Half Leg Nelson Entry to Leg Scissor Attack Into Triangle Leg Scissor
• Half Leg Nelson Entry Into Americana Variation of Top Wristlock Entry Into Full Leg Nelson
• Half Leg Nelson Entry to DWL to Omoplata
• Opponent Rolls Out of Omoplata to Biceps Slicer and Knee Bar

Part 5: Collar Control

• One Arm Collar Choke and Shin in Neck Bow & Arrow Variation
• Wedge Choke, Ratchet Wedge Choke and Half Nelson Wedge Choke
• Reverse Zipper Choke
• Armbar to Short Arm Scissor to Scythe Armbar
• Canto Style Choke
• Head & Arm Neck Crank and Shoulder Lock
• Collar Control to N/S Crucifix

Part 6: Transitional 2-on-1, the Launch Pad

• Side Choke with Power Choke Grip
• Armbar Entry to Short Arm Scissor Variations to Scythe Armbar
• Scythe Armbar with Both Legs and Traditional Armbar

Part 7: Double Wrist Lock Control

• Basic Armbar & 45 Degree Canted Armbar
• DWL Transition to Side Control Rotational & W.A.R. Finishes
• Seated N/S DWL Stockade Variation
• German Pin Double Wrist Lock
• German Pin DWL Entry Into DWL Reverse DWL and Short Arm Scissor with Omoplata
• German Pin DWL Entry Into Leg Scissor Choke / Crank Into Crooked Head Scissor & Seated N/S Reverse DWL
• DWL Control to Crucifix Matrix TWL & DWL with Legs

Part 8: Transitional Russian Tie

• Short Arm Scissor & Modified Russian Salto Grip Shoulder Attack
• Far Triangle Control to Armbar & Triangle Finish
• Russian Salto Grip Stockade Shoulder Lock