The Diamond Back Attack by Joel Bane

What Will You Learn?

The back is the most dominant position in grappling, and Coach Joel Bane attacks it with something most jiu-jitsu players never train against: catch wrestling.

A 3rd degree BJJ black belt out of the Rigan Machado association and a Luta Livre black belt under 8th degree Grand Master Hugo Duarte, Bane is the founder and head coach of Snake Pit U.S.A. He wrestled heavyweight at the Air Force Academy, was later named captain and then assistant coach of the USAF wrestling team, and retired as a Master Sergeant after more than twenty years teaching hand to hand combat. Nearly 25 years of jiu-jitsu, catch wrestling, freestyle, Greco, boxing and muay thai all feed into this system.

The Diamond Back Attack is a complete gi system with a little no-gi built in, engineered for total back dominance, control and submission. Bane opens with his four submission concepts and the three primary control positions, then the three primary transitional attack controls and the safe bail, so you know how to hold the position and how to leave it without giving anything up.

From there the system opens out. Six foundational entries, including the Billy Robinson style wristlock threat and the basic zipper choke. Attacks from launch pad control, from the full gi diamondback, and from collar control. Then the parts most jiu-jitsu practitioners have never worked: the transitional 2-on-1, double wrist lock control with its German pin entries, and the transitional Russian tie.

What ties it together is the finishing standard. Bane calls it the quarter-inch finish, the idea that at the end of every control and every transition the submission is decided by the smallest possible adjustment. That is why the same chokes, armbars, neck cranks and shoulder locks keep working against people who know they are coming.

If you can take the back but keep losing it, or you get there and run out of attacks after the bow and arrow, the missing piece is usually not another submission. It is a control system that makes the submission unavoidable.

Learn how a lifelong catch wrestler and Air Force wrestling coach turns 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