Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Submission Grappling Techniques

by Kid Peligro and Royler Gracie

Book Overview

The tactics and techniques of two of the greatest competitors in the history of mixed martial arts combat, Renzo and Royler Gracie, are captured in this book. Their "grappling" style of martial arts... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931229295
• ISBN13: 9781931229296
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Invisible Cities Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

From One of the Best..... Ever

We all know about Helio Gracie's sons. They have their champions in each arena and Royler's game seems to be submission wrestling. He is a perennial competitor at the ADCC championships and has come away with his share of medals. Royler is a natural instructor and likes to teach by showing the techniques. Teaming up with Peligro has proven to be a bit of a masterstroke. Peligro is a well credentialled writer, but has the advantage of being a BJJ black belt and being very familiar with the Gracie family, themselves. This family of books (Peligro) is always well organised and well photographed. This organisation and photography has improved over time, as well, and these later books are close to the best books in the market. The only ones surpassing them are the Ed Beneville books on the Guard and Passing the Guard. In this book, Royler spends a significant portion of the text talking about adaptation of the gi game to no-gi and training for each type of competition. His discussion of strategy and the mental game is an important part of this book and separates this volume from many other books in the genre. First, Royler covers grips and controls. These are well known to wrestlers, but this an area the jiu jitsu practitioner needs to get right to play no-gi. He follows this with drills for the basics. Stuff we all need. You've probably seen the drills before, but have you used them? Maybe it's time you did! Following this is a fairly in-depth look at standing grappling. Takedowns, takedown defences and using those grips and controls from earlier are covered. The standup section is good. Workman like, though. It's stuff you need to work on. The next section is the bit we buy the book for. It's when the man talks ground work. Surprising to some, Royler's game is basic. The techniques string together into a game. Royler shows how to combine techniques that flow together and shows details that make them work. The book is well worth it for the gi grappler who is looking to improve his or her no-gi game. Equally, it is for anyone who wants to see what is working for the man, himself.

A "recipe book" of ground fighting techniques

This is an excellent book for those who wish to take their submission grappling game to the next level. As other reviewers have pointed out, it's not a book for beginners. Instead, it lays out in detail 103 techniques that an intermediate or advanced grappler can apply on the mat. Every technique but one is given a single two page spread (the knee-through half-guard pass gets four pages) so you can see the entire sequence laid out at once. The action is easy to understand: the pictures are large and in color, Royler is always in white and his opponent in black, and the viewpoint of the action is constant. When an alternate viewpoint is given, it is shown in a circular or oval picture, so it's easy to distinguish from the main flow of movement. The visual content of the pictures is so solid that very little expository text is required. Each technique is prefaced with a paragraph explaining where it might be useful, and each photo has a sentance or two pointing out the pertinant details. The techniques are grouped in a logical order. For each of the starting positions there are usually three or four different techniques detailed, and these are found adjacent to one another in the book. For instance techniques 57 through 60 are all escapes from the half-guard. Moreover, the starting positions follow a logical progression: Techniques 29 through 36 are escapes from the mount, which usually puts you in a kneeling closed guard; Techniques 37 and 38 are ways to pass the kneeling closed guard, and so forth. Finally, I use this book as a kind of "grappler's cookbook". In the morning while I'm on the cardio machines, I'll open this book to a random two-page spread and study that "recipe" -- visuallizing ways to execute the technique and ways to counter it. When I go to my grappling club later in the week I always find that at least one of the techniques has stuck with me enough that I can pull it off. If you're an intermediate or advanced grappler looking to fill out your repetoir of moves, I can't recommend this book highly enough.

Outstanding

Royler, and crew have put together yet another excellent book on Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. This book is on par with JJ Machado's Black Belt techniques. Royler's book my well be the best of the series. No mean feat that. It deals more substantially with the stand up portion of a a grappling match than any of the other invisisble cities BJJ books and also discusses grips. This in itself is a huge plus. Most of the BJJ books on the market, even the much touted Brazilian Jiu-jitsu The Master Text, fails to deal adequately with stand-up material. Royler has put together some outstanding material. It has great techniques, great advice, and high production value. This is a book that will definately add to your submission grappling arsenal, while refining what you already know. Well worth the price.

Well written, good buy

Royler used a very practical approach with this book and He made it very easy to read and understand. The pictures show all the positions from more than one angle to give you a better look. Also the detailed descriptions leave nothing to figure out. I pulled many new moves and perfected some of my basics with this book. I would say this may be one of the best no-gi grappling books ever put together.

Fantastic

There is no better word to describe this book. If you are into Submission Grappling and No Gi training, you need to get it. The details and the instructions are top notch. Royler Gracie and Kid Peligro are to be commended, there is nothing to complain about, the organization is great, the technique selection covers all the important aspects of submission grappling.The intro is the best, Kid Peligro digs deep into Royler's pool of knowledge and extracts this strategy, insight and tips on everything from training, preparation for competition and even fight strategy. Then continues on to photos and descriptions of the grips and differences between Gi training and Submission, followed by standing techniques and the ground techniques. The ground techniques are grouped into areas making it very easy to follow and to get the what ifs and variations from the poisitions.Royler's success in No Gi tournaments is unquestioned and to be able to read and watch his favorite techniques in one book is fantastic. A must have