The approach

Grappling is infinitely complex

There are more positions, transitions, and variations in No-Gi grappling than any one person could ever catalogue, let alone solve. Chess has been studied seriously for centuries and still hasn't been closed. Grappling is worse — the pieces are unique bodies, the board is three-dimensional, and the metagame mutates every year.

Trying to write down every technique and the scenarios it applies in is a dead end. So is trying to build one giant decision tree for the whole sport. Both collapse under the weight of the material. The honest version is to accept that complete documentation is impossible — and then ask what the next-best thing looks like.

A living repository

This site is not a course, and it is not a finished product. It is a structured documentation of how I currently think about the sport — concepts, systems, positions, dilemmas, and the mechanics beneath them. It will be updated as the metagame shifts, as I learn more, and as gaps get filled in.

It will never be complete, and it will never be fully "right" — there is no complete, and there is no right. What it can be is an ongoing amalgamation of high-level instruction, competition-proven technique, old fundamentals that keep working, and newer concepts emerging from CLA and modern training methods.

Inspirations

Fractal BJJ owes an obvious debt to others already doing serious analytical work in this space:

Last updated: 22 April 2026