The 12 Principles of Jiu-Jitsu Movement

By Max Luong

Every grappler hits the same wall. The technique is there. The drilling was solid. But under live pressure, something breaks, and it's never the thing you expected.

The problem was never the technique. It was the foundation underneath it.

12 Principles of Movement is the first BJJ book to organize the invisible principles of grappling into a single, connected framework. Awareness. Structure. Balance. Movement. Timing. Position. Control. Pressure. Flow. Efficiency. Adaptation. Simplicity. Twelve principles, each building on the one before, form the chain that holds every technique together, or lets it fall apart when a single link is weak.

This is not a technique manual. There are no step-by-step photo sequences. This is the book that explains what your coaches have been pointing at for years, the deeper layer beneath every correction, every reminder, every quiet conversation after a hard round. Max Luong, a BJJ practitioner and coach with a systematic approach to the art, has mapped the progression from raw awareness to the kind of simplicity that only comes after deep understanding.

Whether you're a white belt trying to make sense of the chaos or a black belt refining the game you've spent years building, 12 Principles of Movement gives you the language for what you already feel but haven't been able to name.

Movement before technique. Understanding before complexity. Clarity before cleverness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GVSD1TDW
• ISBN13: 9798254595465
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"