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Months 1–2
Survive and escape
Learn to breathe under pressure and escape the two worst pins. Nothing else is worth studying until being flattened out stops feeling like an emergency.
Beginner pathway
The white belt roadmap
Jiu-jitsu is learned in a specific order: survive, then hold position, then reverse, then finish. Working out of sequence is the most common reason progress stalls.
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Months 2–4
Hold a position
Once you can escape, learn what makes a pin hard to escape. Side control and closed guard teach the same lesson from opposite sides.
3
Months 4–6
Keep your guard
Guard retention is the skill that turns a passive bottom game into a working one. Frames, hip movement and distance come before any sweep.
4
Months 6–9
Get on top
Add sweeps from the guards you already hold, then the passing families that answer them. Now you are playing both halves of the same game.
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Months 9–12
Finish from control
Submissions are added last because they cost position when they fail. Start with the armbar, the triangle and the strangles from the back.
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Year two
Build the standing game
Grip fighting and takedowns are usually postponed, which is why most people are worse standing than on the ground for years longer than necessary.
Where to next
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Once the pathway feels comfortable, work through a single category end to end.
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