New: Younger & Athletic Opponents

Know your next move

BJJFlowCharts turns jiu-jitsu into flowcharts: if they do this, you do that.

A wall of FlowCharts by BJJFlowCharts, with Escapes, for John Danaher’s Pin Escapes & Turtle Escapes, picked out in blue among Half Guard, Back, Mount, Passing, Leglocks and others for John Danaher’s and Gordon Ryan’s instructionals
FlowCharts

A map of your DVD

PDF maps for DVDs by top BJJ instructors.

$29.90 each

Find yours See an example
The BJJFlowCharts app on two phones: the My progress page, and the Camping Control technique with its video
The app

Learn BJJ as a system

Flowcharts with a video and steps for every technique.

Free to start

Try it free See how it works

Which one is for you?

FlowCharts

You’re learning a DVD: get its FlowChart

Close-up of the FlowChart for John Danaher’s Pin Escapes & Turtle Escapes: after your UPA, Your opponent hides his feet leads to Bridge to Elbow Escape (DVD 2 - 25:18), zoomed in from the whole chart

Up close: the FlowChart for John Danaher’s Pin Escapes & Turtle Escapes.

  • One big PDF page: what your opponent does, what you do next.
  • Each technique card names its clip or time on the DVD.
  • Best on a computer or tablet, or printed as a poster.
  • Pay once: the download link comes by email.
  • A study aid, not a substitute for the DVD: there’s no video inside. The DVDs are sold on BJJ Fanatics.

$29.90 each. Bundles from $69.90.

See this FlowChart

Read what buyers say about it

The app

You want a whole course: try the app

You’re mounted. Now what? The free Mount Defense chapter tells you:

  • Your first option: Elbow Escape.
  • They cross their feet? Rising Shrimp.
  • They put in grapevines? Break the Grapevines, then Elbow Escape.
  • They get a cross collar grip? UPA.
The free Mount Defense chapter in the BJJFlowCharts app: Opponent crosses his feet leads to Rising Shrimp; tap it and its video and written steps open on your phone

Up close: the free Mount Defense chapter in the app.

  • Tap a technique to watch its video and read its steps.
  • 8 courses, more than 700 techniques, and new Patreon videos every week.
  • Mark each technique Learning or Mastered: your belt fills up.
  • In your browser on phone, tablet or computer: no store.
  • Made mostly for white to purple belts.

Free chapters to start. Then $9 a month, $70 a year or $129 once for lifetime access.

Try Mount Defense free

See how the app works

What buyers say

Three reviews by verified buyers, from the FlowCharts’ own pages, where you can read all the others.

“I am finding that using the flowchart as I view the instructional video helps to solidify the teaching points for me.”

Verified buyer, 2025 · FlowChart for John Danaher’s Master the Move: The Back Crucifix

“Super useful to lay out the potential options on paper beforehand so you have a plan to react when you see the scenario play out during rolls.”

Verified buyer, 2021 · FlowChart for Gordon Ryan’s Systematically Attacking the Guard

“Instead of jumping between techniques, it helped me see how positions and decisions connect.”

Verified buyer, 2026 · FlowChart Bundle for John Danaher’s New Wave Jiu-Jitsu

Hi, I’m Max

I’m Max Corteggiano, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt (1st degree). I’ve been grappling since 2010, and I created BJJFlowCharts in 2019.

Questions about a FlowChart or the app? Send me a message, or find me on Instagram: @maxigarami

Also by Max

Cover of the eBook How to Become a Decent Grappler in a YeareBookHow to Become a Decent Grappler in a YearFor white and blue belts: ten chapters, a month on each. $39.90See the eBook Cover of Max’s instructional Transform your Understanding of Pressure PassingMy own instructionalTransform your Understanding of Pressure PassingOne goal, three rules and five cues to complete the pass. $49.90See the course Drawing of a grappler in a black gi carrying a child in a white gi on his backFree to readThe blogArticles on learning jiu-jitsu, like The 80/20 Principle in Jiu-Jitsu.Read the blog

Made by Max Corteggiano, Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt (1st degree), grappling since 2010. The FlowCharts are study aids made by BJJFlowCharts, not affiliated with or endorsed by the instructors whose DVDs they map, or by BJJ Fanatics.