Overdueeeeeeeeee mini review of this great book I got for my birthday.
Not a heck of alot I can say to review a book, as its my first book/instructional review, the basics of it are that the book:
a) has 245 pages
b) pictures on most pages (ON EVERY page page with a move - see attached sample page)
c) Has a small blurb/bibliographical piece by JJ Machado. Covers his philiosphy on the right approach to training, and also his thoughts on the guard, etc.
d)pages 22 to 191 cover GI Techniques, pages 192 to 245 cover nogi stuff (yay for us nogi players)
But yeah there isnt alot else apart from a page by page analysis of what techniques are in here, which you wont get
I'm definetely NOT at a blackbelt level on gi grappling, training gi grappling probably once in the last 3 years of BJJ. But nogi i find the techniques easy to incorporate into my game regardless of "rank", some are a bit more complex, but you can pretty much pull any technique off if you know your controls. the sample page was actually a technique Erik Paulson (former world shooto LW champion) worked me through and has become a fav of mine since attending his seminar. But the book covers the techniques well, good instructional writing and easy to follow along with pictures of the step-by-step incorporation of the moves.
I've provided thumbs as the pics are a bit big for some peoples screens.
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All in all, a great book. 10/10 from the foz-rate-o-meter.
~Foz
