BJJ Essential Tactics: Book 2 of the Dirty Dozen BJJ Curriculum by David Meyer & John Will

This follow-up to Essential Tactics takes you beyond the fundamentals and into the deeper waters of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu strategy, timing, and execution.

Designed to build directly on the foundations laid in Volume 1, Level Up Your Game is for practitioners who want to sharpen their understanding, develop a taste for detail, and develop a game that holds up under pressure.

In this second volume, John Will—one of the original Dirty Dozen and a global pioneer in BJJ—shares the next layer of tactics, transitions, and principles that have helped shape thousands of athletes and coaches around the world.

Inside you’ll discover:

• More advanced transitions and combinations that build on the basics
• Seemingly small details that make the big difference
• More tactics for Passing, Sweeping, Escaping and Submissions
• Lessons learned through decades of elite-level instruction
• A conceptual approach that helps make sense of complexity

Cohesive. Evolutionary. Field-tested.
If Volume 1 gave you the foundation, Volume 2 will give you the edge.

Length: 228 pages

Publication date: 2025