BJJ Book for techniques

TKD SC

Hi Guys,

Anyone know a good BJJ book that shows techniques (basic ones!)? And decent photos / explanations!

I know you can't learn from a book (from any of my previous MA book purchases!), but might be good to have for before / after a class to refresh your memory a bit. No doubt I'll read it intently for a day and then put it aside never to look at again! Anyway, I'll probably end up buying one soon / over Christmas, so if there's a good one out there / better than others, any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Simon

ryoishin

Walk into chapters on parnell st (im making a silly assumption your in dub) and go to the MA section they have very good book by BJ Penn, Eddie Bravo, Gracies, Dave Carmillo, Karo Parisian etc.

You can learn some good stuff from them, most bjj/mma books seem to be following the same format with explinations than the close up pics on the grips or a point of particular importance.

Leave the book in the toilet you ll defo read it then.

Mark Hamill

Save yourself hassle and money and go to Lockflow.com and use their techniques section. Its all free, you don't even need to register, all techniques come with photos, descriptions and a lot of the new ones have videos as well. (if you need to have something beside you for when you roll, just print off one technique you like the look of and bring the sheet with you).

MaeveD

.........or go to Phil Migliarese's Jiu Jitsu share site http://www.jiujitsushare.com/ Lots of free video techniques

g_fegan

check out www.beginningbjj.com enter your email address to recieve an excellent free e book called bjj roadmap - highly recommended!

TKD SC

Thanks very much for the replies guys...
Will check them all out...

Hail 2 Da Chimp

I've had a few friends recommend Eddie Bravo's book to me recently. Was thinking of buying it - although Amazon have 2 Eddie Bravo ones:
Mastering the rubber guard &
Mastering the Twister.
Anyone read any of Eddie's books? which one would you recommend?

Killme00

At the most recent UFC, Joe Rogan (one of Eddie Bravo's dope smoking students) interviewed 50c. After 50c mentioned his new album, Joe turned to the camera and said "Dont download it bitches, buy it".

I have seen the Rubber Guard book in Chapters on Parnell Street and Waterstones in the Jervis centre for €30 approx. I would suggest to you that you would find this much cheaper elsewhere (possibly even free).

Clive

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

I've had a few friends recommend Eddie Bravo's book to me recently. Was thinking of buying it - although Amazon have 2 Eddie Bravo ones:
Mastering the rubber guard &
Mastering the Twister.
Anyone read any of Eddie's books? which one would you recommend?

I wouldn't really recommend either.

Mastering the Rubber Guard is okay if you specifically want a book on the rubber guard, and are committed to using it a lot. However, most people, doing a few classes a week, shouldn't have that amount of time to invest in it (IMO).

Roper

Since the OP trains with me I suppose I should chime in!

At beginner level, as in absolute beginner, I would actually stay away from books and videos. They tend to put the focus on the fancy bits like submissions, rather than things like pinning and posture. There's a good reason for that and that's that pinning and escaping and posturing and stuff are things that need someone to grapple with and that require you to put in lots of hours. There's not really any magic bullet for beginners, unfortunately.

In my experience of people in our gym, people who get good quickly do two things:
1) Show up really regularly, twice per week minimum
2) Train in the Gi at least once a week.

Will probably get some questions about 2) but I'll qualify it by saying that if they train in the gi they also have access to more training. Who knows, if they did a nogi session on the same night it might be the same.

philip graham

renzo gracies book "mastering jujitsu" is a great book for someone just starting bjj. i have found it to be very informative and full of basic techniques that are explained well.

i have also read both of eddie bravos books which are good but would be for someone who is looking to specialise in either rubber guard or looking to play around with the twister. i also enjoyed reading marcelo garcias book too but also like eddie bravos books its mainly about one aspect of bjj, the xguard.

TKD SC

Thanks Barry - interesting. One of the e-books I downloaded was actually going on about postures - "positions over submissions" or something like that. I haven't actually read it yet, just glanced through it quickly.
Thanks for broadcasting "absolute beginner"! Will try to get to more classes :rolleyes:

Thanks Philip - will take a look at that Renzo one, even if it's just to give someone Xmas pressie ideas for me!

Clive

"Mastering jujistsu" is quite good alright. It's a good overview of BJJ and it's evolution right up to modern MMA. There are very few "techniques" in it per se, just a few examples for each position - but the upside of this is that you can sit down and read it as an actual book, with like, words n' stuff.

Martin25

I just got his Book of Knowledge which seems to be one of those books that you could use for a lifetime of study.