Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

BJJ Instructional Videos etc.

  • 26-04-2010 1:45pm
    #1
    BobbyOLeary
    Closed Accounts Posts: 859 ✭✭✭


    Hey Guys,

    I was asked by a friend of mine recently about BJJ videos and were there any good instructional videos out there for it. I told him the usual stuff that he won't learn it from a tape and that rolling is essential and so on and so on. It got me thinking though, are there any good videos out there besides the youtubey type stuff? I've learnt a thing or two from Submissions 101 or whatever it's called. Nothing major but just a tweak to what I'm already doing.

    Any ideas for stuff like that?


Comments

  • #2
    Doug Cartel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭Doug Cartel


    Uuuugh! Submissions 101, don't get me started on those guys.


    Check out Draculino's stuff. It's a bit pricey and I think it's really geared towards people who actually run BJJ schools, but it looked pretty good to me. (I'm a not BJJ guy, though.)


  • #3
    BobbyOLeary
    Closed Accounts Posts: 859 ✭✭✭BobbyOLeary


    Doug Cartel wrote: »
    Uuuugh! Submissions 101, don't get me started on those guys.


    Check out Draculino's stuff. It's a bit pricey and I think it's really geared towards people who actually run BJJ schools, but it looked pretty good to me. (I'm a not BJJ guy, though.)

    Cheers for that I'll take a look. Subs 101 isn't all that bad I've found. I tightened up my armbar from closed guard after watching that video a few times. Can't say I've really watched much more than that though!

    I've a Marcelo Garcia one on guillotines that I'm going to watch tonight, I figure his stuff may be half decent.


  • #4
    Doug Cartel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭Doug Cartel


    BobbyOLeary wrote: »
    Subs 101 isn't all that bad I've found. I tightened up my armbar from closed guard after watching that video a few times. Can't say I've really watched much more than that though!

    They just leave so many important details out of their videos. Then there's the whole Eddie Bravo fiasco...


  • #5
    Toes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭Toes


    The boxset of the world champs from budovideos is really good, learned loads from it


  • #6
    BobbyOLeary
    Closed Accounts Posts: 859 ✭✭✭BobbyOLeary


    Doug Cartel wrote: »
    They just leave so many important details out of their videos. Then there's the whole Eddie Bravo fiasco...

    Eddie Bravo fiasco? Dunno anything about that. I've watched a few of their videos and gotten stuff from it so I can't really complain.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Sid_Justice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭Sid_Justice


    Saulo Riberio, Matt Thornton, Rodrigo Medeiros all do excellent videos beginners and non-beginners can get a lot from. They can be got from the guy's websites and at seminars.

    The Eddie Bravo school, llyod irwing and a lot of other black belts I can't remember sell instructional videos online like gracie garage.

    Nothing wrong learning from tapes, but you have to take the material onto the mat and practice it to get anything from it.


  • #8
    dasmoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭dasmoose


    I actually find i get a lot more out of watching competition footage than instructionals. You can see how a technique is applied full power full speed under pressure. The half guard i play at the minute comes almost entirely from watching some of demian maia's mma fights and replaying certain parts in slow motion then trying to replicate the technique in drilling and sparring - marcelo garcia is great to watch for back control and so on. Frankly its also a lot more fun to watch your favourite fighter and try and figure out what he's doing, i find instructionals a bit dull most of the time.

    Marc Laimon espouses this belief to the extent that he has only ever released a few "remix" tapes where he shows short clips of a complete sweep, submission, takedown etc from the mundials 4 times in a row for each technique, set to some cool hippity-hop.


  • #9
    Doug Cartel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭Doug Cartel


    The Eddie Bravo fiasco I was referring to was him awarding the guy from subs101 a brown, despite the fact that he has no competition record. I have no idea about the quality of Eddies own online/video material.


  • #10
    pablohoney87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭pablohoney87


    Doug Cartel wrote: »
    The Eddie Bravo fiasco I was referring to was him awarding the guy from subs101 a brown, despite the fact that he has no competition record. I have no idea about the quality of Eddies own online/video material.
    Kinda off topic but i dont think competition record is a necessity to be graded in bjj. My coach was telling me that one of the best coaches in the world (who coaches GSP and Gunner nelson) never showed any interest in competing his whole journey to black belt. So i dont really think eddie awarded a guy his brown without competing can be considered a fiasco.


  • #11
    BobbyOLeary
    Closed Accounts Posts: 859 ✭✭✭BobbyOLeary


    dasmoose wrote: »
    I actually find i get a lot more out of watching competition footage than instructionals. You can see how a technique is applied full power full speed under pressure. The half guard i play at the minute comes almost entirely from watching some of demian maia's mma fights and replaying certain parts in slow motion then trying to replicate the technique in drilling and sparring - marcelo garcia is great to watch for back control and so on. Frankly its also a lot more fun to watch your favourite fighter and try and figure out what he's doing, i find instructionals a bit dull most of the time.

    Marc Laimon espouses this belief to the extent that he has only ever released a few "remix" tapes where he shows short clips of a complete sweep, submission, takedown etc from the mundials 4 times in a row for each technique, set to some cool hippity-hop.

    Interesting. I've done that before to review my own performance but never looked at other people's stuff for inspiration. Good idea.


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    Doug Cartel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭Doug Cartel


    pablohoney87 wrote: »
    Kinda off topic but i dont think competition record is a necessity to be graded in bjj. My coach was telling me that one of the best coaches in the world (who coaches GSP and Gunner nelson) never showed any interest in competing his whole journey to black belt. So i dont really think eddie awarded a guy his brown without competing can be considered a fiasco.

    It was Serious Business on the internets. Serious.

    You're right though, this is off topic.


  • #13
    cletus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 ✭✭✭cletus


    Doug Cartel wrote: »
    It was Serious Bidness on the internets. Serious. .

    fixed that for ya


  • #14
    Barry.Oglesby
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭Barry.Oglesby


    Saulo's one is the one that gets a lot of air as being great for beginners but I reckon Draculinho's one is the best. Really simple stuff done with good explanation. I don't have the Rodrigo one but loads of people reckon it's deadly.

    I know I'm repeating the obvious but seriously, really, get the man on the mats. And if watching a cool DVD is what inspires him to go train then more power to him!


Advertisement