My name is Stephan Kesting. I'm a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belt and a submission wrestling instructor. The goal of these DVDs is to help people just like you improve their BJJ and submission grappling skills as quickly as possible.

Along the way I've also produced over 50 instructional DVDs

Techniques are essential to grappling of course, but focusing on them and ignoring the underlying concepts that actually make them work can really slow your progress down.

Concepts are much more important than specific techniques. The bottom line is that if you approach grappling from a concepts-based point of view then you'll be able to...

• Learn New Techniques Much Quicker. It’s much easier to remember a few core concepts than it is to remember hundreds of techniques with thousands of steps and details.  Prioritising concepts over techniques allows you to learn the material faster and also make it much easier to remember it all.
• Become Faster and Improve Your Reaction Times. Understanding what really makes a technique work makes it much easier to figure out which technique to use in which situation. Concepts will make you faster by simplifying your decision-making process on the mats!
• Have Stronger, More Effective Techniques.The difference between white belt and black belt grappling is mostly the many little adjustments that black belts do without thinking to their techniques.  Concepts make those adjustments instinctive and automatic, which then exponentially amplifies the power of your techniques.
• Increase Your Confidence On the Mat. There are only so many ways to move your body on the ground, and that means the same fundamental concepts apply in gi-based BJJ, no-gi submission wrestling, and even in MMA. Having a good grasp of these fundamental concepts allows you to be confident of your skills regardless of who you're facing or what the rules are.
• Have Solutions to New Situations. Grappling and BJJ like Jazz; you have to be able to improvise, because new and unusual situations come up all the time. Understanding the concepts of grappling allows you to create, combine and adapt techniques on the fly.  This will allow you quickly and confidently know what to do in almost every situation on the mats.