I Made A Tier List Of The Jiu Jitsu YouTubers
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- A tier list of who you should watch.
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Jedi: @jedidoesjiujitsu3177
Chewjitsu: @Chewjitsu
Jon Thomas: @JonThomasBJJ
BJJ Fanatics: @BJJ.Fanatics
Jordan: @JordanTeachesJiujitsu
Wiltse Brothers: @WiltseBrothers
Roy Dean: @roydean
Josh: @JoshRichBJJ
Lachlan: @AbsoluteMMAStKilda
Brian: @bzglick
Keenan: @fritzdagger
Eli Knight: @KnightJiuJitsu
Tristar: @CoachZahabi
Dom: @DubiousDom
Teach Me Grappling: @TeachMeGrappling
William: @WilliamTackettBJJ
B Team: @BTeamJiuJitsu
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Happy thanksgiving to all! Looks like I’ll need to make a version 2.
If you make a version 2 I’d love to know what you think about my channels content!
i was pretty shocked that Brandon McCaghren wasn’t on this list. I think his content is S tier or A tier especially with the availability of the PGF recently
We are one of those up-and-coming channels with original content like the Wheel of Submissions and the One Chip Jiu Jitsu Challenge that you should check out.
Kama Jiu jitsu
Tyler, you play Dead by Daylight too? :D
I appreciate the A! It's funny, I actually thought about making a tier list on this too but didn't want to piss anyone off lol. You did a great job breaking it down and being very respectful. Great work!
I’d love to hear your version of it! Thanks for the share amigo.
You're easily S-tier, Jordan.
Id swap Jordan teaches with bteam, but thats me.
@@vyndaio very kind of you. Thank you!
@@JordanTeachesJiujitsu Absolutely should be S tier. Miles above any other channel.
Hoping to visit your gym soon!
“Less Impressed More Involved” should be Class A!! They have amazing content🤙🏽
Yeah should deffo but also kinda like him being a secret
That channel is great to learn stuff
@@bigmanolly2889 Same. His channel is my secret weapon.
Agreed. I just found Less Impressive More Involved about a month ago, and it’s amazing!
Massive oversight with that one
How could you forget Brandon Mccaghren 💔 he’s easily an S tier for me.
Awesome camera personality and production, very educational with awesome teaching, but also does full rolls, short clips, and breakdowns. He’s also a commentator for lots of events.
he put Brandon at B tier which seems super low to me. Easy S tier
And his PGF content is good.
He's a geek hell of a coach, too. I'm lucky to live in his area.
S tier just for the 1 minute tips! The guy is THE GUY to watch.
Who else does a royal rumble Jiu Jitsu match? Brandon is the man. 😂
Thank you Tyler Spangler for the ranking! That was really cool. Thanks to everyone that has supported me… this is very motivating!! 🙏🙌🤙
Coach Brian, for what it's worth the roll you narrated a couple months back was straight fire. Also, like Tyler says the way you mix in wrestling with the BJJ is a big differentiator (and why learning from you way back when was so great for me).
I go to Teach Me Grappling for Takedown/Defense and it's really upped my game. I am using the Dagestani Arm Drag all the time now, and occasionally the arm throw/Ippon Seo Nage
Teach me grappling definitely should be A in my opinion! Great instructional. I think the production value is good enough. B-Team has cool videos I enjoy watching, but I dont learn a lot from it personally. Just my opinion. Kinda confused by this list but beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess.
Teach Me Grappling is an A plus channel for content. Who cares if you don’t have fancy editing lmfao. I’m watching to learn not for entertainment
Teach me grappling is A tier in my book. Helping me so much with my wresting! Keep it up.
Teach Me Grappling should definitely be S Tier. They post the most practical and useful technique breakdowns out of every channel imo
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I agree
TeachMeGrappling put at C is absolutely crazy
Coach Brian is an amazing teacher and I have gotten more from their channel than any other
They frequently upload too
They have really good camera angles to really help understand techniques and show in detail where things might go wrong and how to fix them
They may have lower production quality (but then again I'm not watching BJJ videos for entertainment) but they have better teaching quality than most, if not all the other bjj channels out there
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I agree with this dude
Couldn’t agree more. Coach Brian is crazy knowledgeable and goes into detail like no one else I’ve found
TMG is pure gold in my opinion. I’ve gleaned more USEFUL gems and hacks from Coach Brian than any other sans perhaps vintage Chewy. These rankings do a great job of stirring the pot to get comments though!
Facts his channel is really the only channel where I learn techniques. My sit out escape, getting to the d'arce from a front headlock, . It's also the only channel that kind of combines wrestling and jiu jitsu together. Which is the style I want my game to be like. These other channels seem to just be about themselves more than the learning process.
Chewy is absolutely an A in my book. Although he doesn't make technique video's that often anymore, that's predominantly how his channel started. So, if you search for a technique, there's a good chance he's covered it. Also, What about Kesting?!?!? He's great!
It depends on the viewer too. I like the "philosophical" type videos Chewie puts out more than anything else and he's therefor at an S tripe-plus tier for me.
@@gabeclark8050 agreed, his channel is my favorite in the community.
Kesting became a vaccine marketing channel
Chewy is awesome. But I think that Tyler has a point that his channel is mostly helpful to beginners. He mostly answers questions, which leads him to giving lost souls the same answers over and over again on how to deal with Ben or something like that.
@@Flbari WHat's wrong with that?
In terms of quality of teaching, Jon Thomas is easily S tier for me. His conceptual videos are really great
And he has really slick BJJ
Jon Thomas is a hidden gem IMO
Same with TeachMeGrappling. Both JonThomas and Brian Peterson have had the most influence in my BJJ game.
100%
especially if you're advanced and digging a bit deeper on techniques.
Yeah, C tier for Jon is really harsh. Definitely one of the best source of BJJ techniques/concepts on TH-cam
BJJScout is S tier forever. I still revisit his old work in spite of the lack of new content
Nice list! I have you at S tier:). I was a bit surprised to not see Brandon Mccaghren on your list
Ditto
The Grappling Academy w/ Coach Tom Davey is a good one to consider and Stephan Kestings is one of the OG TH-camrs. I believed he had more subscribers than anyone until Chewy finally passed him up. BMac has a killer 10p channel. Great video and good insight🤙Hope your knee heels quickly brother. I went through ACL surgery when I was a purple belt.
Stephan Kesting and Grappling Academy have both been super useful to me. Kesting should have been A or S for sure. GA deserved at least a B. Also no mention of Rener and Ryron?!
Was looking for this one too. Great channel.
Absolutely.
No Less Impressed More Involved BJJ? Best channel out there for breakdowns and technique right now
you'd be higher in the tier list if you had links to all mentioned channels in the description
Good suggestion. I’ll add them
Roy Deans channel is extremely high quality and even cinematic, probably the most entertaining for me
The best educational channel for me by far is Jean Jacques Machado. Almost all of them are super short and sweet yet have enough depth and detail that you could spend hours working on it in class
Carlos machado has some sweet tech too.
I love you too ❤
Absolutely agree! Precise short and sweet, I often lose interest if too much philosophy!
Try Chadi to me he is the best
Completely agree. Have learned the most from Jean's videos
Knight Jiu Jitsu has been one of my top go-to channels for years, especially when there’s a specific technique I’m trying to break down and better understand. They’re instruction is great.
Got my blue belt from Eli, love to see his channel getting some much earned respect! He’s a great dude and an awesome teacher
Agree on all of the rankings. Less Impressed, More Involved is an easy A. Zombie BJJ is also pretty entertaining for short videos. Hopefully you can include both on tier list 2.0
Bump on zombie
Less impressed is awesome, high level technique breakdowns
Yes
I'm brand new to the sport and been looking all around at jiu-jitsu videos not knowing where to put my focus....you don't even know how helpful you've been with this video. Thanks!!!
Awesome video Tyler, thank you! My humble additions the list: Kama Jiu-Jitsu, Stephan Kesting, The Art of Skill, and The Grappling Academy
Missing in Action, deserving a minimum B-tier grade
• Brandon McCaghren
• Less Impressed, More Involved
Disagree with Grade
• Chewjitsu (easily A-tier)
• Jedi (not quite at the level of Jordan or Chewy, but definitely a solid B-tier)
• BJJ Fanatics (so inconsistent with their quality; camera angles and audio are straight out of 2010; Bernardo is amazing, but many of his guests do not know how to communicate their ideas; A-tier for Bernardo, C-tier for everything else, average to B-tier)
Humble brother. Your channels really my fav. Down to earth, funny and going around different gyms that takes balls. 🙏🏼
You, jedi, and B-team are my favorites. Love the humor.
Great rankings man! I love the honesty. I believe you are rapidly approaching b tier with the journey to other gyms. Loved the roll at 10th planet!
You’re dead to me, Tyler. 😂❤
I’ll put you in the second version 😅😅
@@TylerSpangler I’m just busting your chops, dude. Do your thing! And big congrats on having a great channel. 🙏🥰
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂this killed me!
I tend to favor your channel, Jedi's, and Jordan's. These ones have helped me the most I think.
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Less Impressed More Involved needs a mention!
Ahh I watched one of his videos now that you mentioned it. A good BJJ Meta channel
Watch more
I'm a huge fan of the Grappling Academy. Most of my strats on the ground are from these guys. As for standing techniques, my picks are Prime Wrestling System and Shintaro Higashi.
Coach Tom is awesome! We hung out at master worlds a few years back.
Shintaro has some of the best Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, and Wrestling cross over out there👍
Nice breakdown of channels! Thanks for the video 👍
Thanks for this! Getting into BJJ and have been looking for TH-camrs to watch
Of course I get a lot from your channel but it’s humbling to me to watch Jedi and realize we’re the same belt (though I think he’s got a few years on me at that rank), and see how well rounded his game is and how deep his knowledge goes
Not enough posts, but I love some of the long-form Pedigo videos that come out from time-to-time.
I see they’re kicking up more videos lately which is pretty cool
Good stuff. Thanks for putting this together
Lachlan Giles has gotta be the GOAT youtube instructor for me, so to see him in C tier cuts deep - But great shout outs to Jordan and of course B Team
great video! Im sure youll have enough comments of other people to do another tier vid. I like "The Grappling Academy"
So far you seem to be right 😂
Great rankings! Stephan Kesting just shed a tear
Grappling academy was the first channel I ever watched along with Chewy can’t thank em enough.
Jon Thomas is definitely a higher ranking! Great job on making the list and video, well said without being harsh, I would find this hard to do. But Id say roll against him. 😂 I am a white belt so I appreciate all of you 🤙🏼
Yea, his didactics is exceptional, I don't mind the lack of jokes over the video and stuff like that but it does make sense to lower the tier if that's part of the criteria.
Teach me grappling is S tier, at least A despite production value. Coach Brian's techniques are for immediate use and easy to remember concepts
Super diplomatic with your list and I agree with every single point here. It's funny because I started posting jiu jitsu videos on TH-cam almost 13 years ago but at the time it was such a niche market. I have an amazing crew of guys- I might have to join y'all again.
-the 15 year white belt
Edit- I also hit the thumbs up for this. I don't do that very often. But you deserve it for sure.
I would place brian Peterson from teach me grappling and Jon Thomas higher. I agree with the B team.
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gym tours are priceless, you are a top youtuber
Next gym tour will be a unique one!
@@TylerSpangler can’t wait! Being a black belt in italy means I have not so many possibilities (just when I travel) to visit those gyms. so interesting
Less impressed more involved BJJ is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels
Brandon McCaghren is S tier.
Roy Deans vids are so epic I can’t say anything less than S tier 👏👏👏
How have I never heard of The B Team?! Also, you could have mentioned The Art of Skill (a Roy Dean affiliate) and my sleeper channel is CVBJJ. The second channel is a no-nonsense, technique-based show that is also a Roy Dean affiliate.
So the criteria was the average of: Production value, entertainment value, and BJJ skill of the presenter? That makes sense, obviously, because it’s TH-cam.
Out of all these guys, the ones who made the videos that had the most positive impact on my jiu-jitsu were Keenan and Lachlan Giles, and boy were those some boring, low production value videos, but they changed my game massively. So, it’s hard for me to justify tier lists because of outliers like that that aren’t edu-tainment friendly.
The one I watch for most for entertainment is Jedi- he’s the first guy I saw make a BJJ instructional video that was actually really fun to watch. I like the narrative structure Chewey uses to present information. As a coach that resonates with me a lot, and I find it has a deeper long term impact on students than simply presenting facts and data.
If Ryan Hall would upload more than one video a year, I wouldn’t feel bad about putting him in the S-tier of a ranking list, but as is, he’s barely a TH-camr. Dan Lukehart probably has the best audio engineering out of anyone making BJJ instructionals on or off TH-cam, and that makes a massive difference, but again, he doesn’t upload consistently to TH-cam.
this is so great!!
Might have to make my own version of this. Ill give props for the idea 😉
Shout out to all you guys, so much good content out there now. When I started training all we had was Submissions 101 😬😬😬
Sub101 taught me the gogoplata. I tried doing that on like day 5 of bjj lol
@@TylerSpangler literally did the same thing 😂
Brandon Mccaughren is an easy S tier between his instruction and the PGF streams his channel is at the top for me right now
This is a great idea for a video. People should produce more videos like this so that we can rank them.
Give me a couple of years. Hopefully I’ll be on this list by then. But first - gotta get good at Jiu-Jitsu!
Wiltse's explosive and aggressive style is an artform. He's what got me into wrestling for bjj.
His buzzsaw technique is nice
Tyler you are at the absolute least a high B tier TH-camr! Keep up the great work😊
Man I think you hit every channel I watch EXCEPT ONE - TheGrapplingAcademy ... besides that this was a top tier list! Thanks!
If I can be so bold I would like to recommend Brandon Mccaghren. Love his 1 min bjj hacks in short format.
Chewy is at least an A tier. I would put him in the S. Posts rolling footage, techniques, and answers all of the crazy questions people send him. Plus answers tons of questions weekly on his Instagram stories.
Great, but you forgot to mention the S tier channel of Tom Davey ,Jiu Jitsu academy, he got me into Jiu Jitsu! :)
I love Roy Dean videos. Chris Mikuta brown belt crucible is the one I send my friends when they ask me what is all about my hugging with men in pijamas
I really like Roy deans as well. I love the more cinematic approach with piano. Too bad most viewers prefer lofi
Honorary mention for bjjscout THE GOAT
Less impressed more involved is quickly becoming my favorite channel since adcc.
TMG S TIER
TRISTAR A TIER
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Like others have said, surprised you didn’t have Brandon McCaghren, he’s easily A and maybe S tier. Also Less Impressed More Involved is excellent for blue belts and up. Lol nobody watches Fallon for the jiu jitsu.
I love all the channels you mentioned! You are too modest Mr Spangler, your channel is easily A or high B Tier! Not fluffing you here bud, I've never laughed harder at jiujitsu videos! A Teir!
Just a thought.. Would be really cool to see a BJJ TH-camr comp, all the top names in BJJ TH-cam come together for a roll, would be like the Avengers Infinity War of BJJ TH-cam lol
I'd love that
th-cam.com/video/_0HSz_YS8XY/w-d-xo.html
Me and Chewy had some fun matches that day. That was my welcome to the Super Heavyweight division tournament🤙
@@JordanTeachesJiujitsu You would love that cause you would smash them all lmao... Although you and Craig J would be very interesting to see
Lachlan is an easy A tier, especially after recently posting his BJJ beginner course for free on TH-cam.
Nice ranking! I like grappling academy too!
Throwing bmac in there is an absolute must.
Art of Skill is the GOAT for those of us 35+ with arthritis. I stopped having so much soreness and bruising after watching his Old Man Jiu Jitsu series.
Less Impressed More Involved is at least A tier for me when it comes to technical breakdown. Less entertainment but some of the best technical discussion out there
This video is great because it introduced me to a bunch of BJJ channels I didn't watch or know existed!
You’re a solid B tier in our hearts Tyler ❤️😂
Agreed!!
Teach me, grappling is underrated that’s level B for me
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Roy Dean glad you brought him up great guy great videos
Yeah, you need to check out the grappling academy from Australia. I think they’re pretty awesome.
Great content!!!!
Thanks b
Disappointed I didn’t make the cut…
Jokes aside, live your channel bro, it’s good to have some decent stuff to watch. Big fan of Jedi too, his mini tournament recently was one of my favourite videos in a while.
Henry Akins' Hidden Jiu-Jitsu channel is definitely worth subscribing to for the technical content.
Oh dude, for me Brian Glick is always SO underrated. He might light charisma but his instruction is top notch. Also, Tarik BJJ is another channel I love. Good video!
This is a great video 👌👌
Bmac, Less impressed and more involved, and DPS breakdowns are S teir. And I include dps breakdowns because wrestling is a part of bjj whether you like it or not. Jack Slack puts out sporadic content on grappling, but when he does it's top teir.
Honestly, most of my submissions I've learned from The Grappling Academy, he breaks moves and defenses down a "t", definitely take a look!
The grappling academy is top tier plus he reminds me of my high school spanish teacher 😂
I’ve had the pleasure of rolling with chewy. I remember the first Time meeting him at a small Indianapolis tournament. Great dude, great roll.
Jason Scully?
1. you should be much higher. 2. You left out Stephan Kesting!
Ah Stephan. How can I forget him!
Zombyproof bjj is a small channel but has cool slick and new techniques
Love the Roy Dean Crucibles.
"Less impressed more involved" should defeanetly be in the S tier! It's not even mentioned in the rooster... (just as BJJscout which is like the father of all this type BJJ analysis channels, this is SAD...). I do really think TMG (teach me grappling) should be A or S tier, this list is nonsense to me... i feel the video has been made to rub the back of those new trendy channels. Special mention for BrandonMcgaren, sonny brown and Trickster bjj (hence the lack of content)
Less Impressed More Involved BJJ
thanks! Ur definitely at least B tier bro but I see where youre coming from with this. Kudos to You
Pretty good list. I disagree with some of your rankings but for the most part good job.
Awesome content. Where is less impressed more involved. His content is more focused on colored belts/ competition grapplers.
Boom back at the top
Right where you belong
BJJ Concepts and RVVBJJ put out top-notch content
I would have liked it if you ranked them by how educational and easy to follow their videos are. Personally i dont care if they have cool effect or are comedians, im here for learning how to get better at the sport.
I agree with most of the people on your list but I would put you on an A tier. Good job brother!
TeachMeGrappling is the best one for me
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Man I need class to work off all this food.. last hoorah before competition time. Happy Thanksgiving all!
Great reviews!
Agree with all your rankings except jonthomas, he deserves to be higher imo
I’m just starting my channels and have a long way to go but hope to one day be featured on a list like this
I think you should be an S tier and also teach me grappling with Brian Peterson. I think his teachings are super high level and he’s an awesome guy as well. The two of you are S tier in my book.
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“Less Impressed More Involved” for more advanced BJJ peeps IMO, but very entertaining breakdowns, especially of popular matches, such as Gordon's current strategies