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It depends on the inviduals traning expeirence. some grapplers do it for the sport others for self defense. I know quite a few who took Jeet Kune do or other matial arts were grain grabs/strikes or bitting has been taught as well. trained grappler is my opinion is better prepared because of there ability to control an opponent on the ground. They can utilize the dirty tactics more. on mount controling the arms. ie. One knee on a bicept and pinn the other hand down with one arm gives you a free arm to strike the throat gouge the eyes and what not.

"What do you do against a sweaty opponent?" Hand he/she a towel, that will take care of the sweat part lol!

Awesome! I am in Arizona right now also on vacatino from the military. I leave monday to go back to my unit. Any way I took a private from Gustavo, Pretty good deal too. 45 minutes for 60 dollars for non memebers of his school. For members its 50 dollars. Thats pretty good deal for black belt instruction and he teaches good detail. After you get down some moves and want to work on details to make the moves better I suggest taking privates from him and work on details of those moves to make them better. Alot of BJJ Black belts charge 100 dollars to $200 dollars unless your rickson Gracie who charge $400 dollars an hour and is booked 2years back for private lessons. Any way I am glad you had a good time. I wonder if it was the same purple belt i saw when I was there. I got a private from Gustavo last monday on the 24th. I saw purple belt in the 10:00am class. He was reall flexible and movement on the ground his technique was pretty sick!

what you do to get into that predicment run your mouth? Own up then go through with it. If you defeat him good for you. If you loose you know you need to work on some stuff.

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He said he was doing it at Villari's either way a chain offering a black belt through video instruction is silly in my opinion. You can learn from video's if your already experienced and have partners to test and work the material on. Either way sounds expensive. Private lessons are good and I wouldn't use them jsut to "catch up" You can get alot of quesitons answered about certain techniques, or why your doing moves the way your doing them or added details that aren't quite emphasized in class. Where you can move faster then your peers do. Either way main thing about shaolin kempo that is good is there 4 ranges of fighting. Kicking, punching, stand up grappling, and ground grappling therioes. Even though I haven't been impressed with shaolin Kempo's approach to those levels. Eihter way I would avoid any contracts like year contracts or such. As well as automated payments. Either way hope its good for you. Good luck

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my thoughts exactly

I agree with white warlock on this. You have every right to train were ever you desire. Intructors can think its disloyal to him or the style or what ever they choose to think. Oh well I wouldn't train with people like that. Martail arts for most people train for fun and becaue they enjoy it and learn something out of it. Rarely do most practioners face violence on a daily bases to make martial arts training a necisity for them. Martial arts shouldn't be treated like an occult and some of these instructors do treat it like that.

Karo Pariysan does really good with No-gi Judo. Any one know what school he tranis out of or instructs at if he does at all teach it?

To bad age range is from 18 to 20 years old. Such a small limiting age range.

Jiu-Jitsu unleashed You can get it at Amazon.com or other places online I believe. One I know of is Amazon though. If you want to order it on line.

I agree with you white warlock on that. There are some good teachers that cover alot of aspects of diffrent styles how ever most aren't as good like that in my opinion also. You are right it is better to go to diffrent teachers or find a gym that advoacates speaclist of the styles. Meaning not one person teaches every thing. The schools should have a good Jiu-Jitsu coach, a good wreslting coach, good boxing or mauy thai coach, or judo coach or what ever.

stretch your legs alot if you don't it isn't going to work as good for you. His half guard game though you don't need to be as flexible it is really good and worth checking out. You can get his book at Barnes and Noble or other book stores in the matial arts section. Its well worth the price. Down side is the moves are all in black and white but other then that book is worth it. Solid stuff in there. Only thing would some of his sets ups in rubber guard you have to work on that flexiblity for it. Eddie says him self it takes along time to get it down to work effectively but his half guard game you can almost use right away in my opinion. Its only $16 dollars where alot of the other BJJ books are commonely around $30 dollars or 29.95 lol!

Not neccisarily, True just practing mma. isn't going to help you just like doing any thing half way isn't. Got to find good teachers that are knowlegeable about it. THe fight was between Jorge Gurgel and Jason Von flute. Jason was the less experienced fighter. but in my opinion had better knee's and strikes then the other guy. I think Jorge was over confident and underestimated his opponent. Not to mention I hear he is GOOD but some people are better coaches then they are fighters. Von Flute has been training for awhile as well and is very good just ins't some street brawler or untrained fighter.

Hello MTV 1994 happend about 10+ years ago with the UFC. LOL at the best practioner and best style. Especially based on point fighting. TTT for the great KUMITE!

Which book by royler? One with Renzo on the cover or Roylers No-gi book? I don't Roylers are good. I like Eddie's half guard game that is good to get the book. Its only around $16 dollars well worth the price. For the book. Only thing you got to really work on flexiblity to do his rubber guard game. His half guard game is great though!

http://bjj.org/a/people/alvan-marco.html this shows who his linage is as far as training goes. He got his black belt from Carlos Augusto who in turn got his black belt from Robson Gracie who got his from Carlos Gracie Sr. At least acording to BJJ.org on marco's personal site he says his teacher Carlos Augosto got his black belt from Reylson Gracie.

My advice no matter what school you go to. Learn tap and tap and tap some more. It was save your joints and neck from extra pain.

If you can go in there and compete and video tape. You can see people from diffrent schools and analyize there tecnqiues if you video tape it plus see where your at and what you need to work on. Either way have and enjoy the tournamnent.

You may not have time to do bjj but you can probably ask around your class and see if some one has done some wrelsting or hopefully you find some one who did or is doing in in college level or some one who was good in high school and made state. And ask them about how to defend takes downs maybe have them teach you sprawl and they shoot on you and you work the spraw and get back to your feet or work on preventing take downs in the clinch by basing your self right and how to avoid the opponent. I am sure you can spend 15 minutes after class doing that with some one then go home. That would be least a start

actually I would learn wrestling pacifically take down defenses, some basic stuff about the postions on the ground and focus no escapes and submission counters so you can work back to your feet. How ever the most important to focus on in gaining a high skill at wrestling take down defense. From both long range shoots to cllich take down defense. If they can't take you down then they can work there BJJ on you. Just don't let take down defense be only thing you should know how because maybe they do take you down. You got to learn to defend against submissions and then escape the dominant postions and work back towards your feet. Basically what I am saying is you want to deal with a grappler you got to know some basic grappling not saying you got to be expert but least be proficent at what keeps you up on your feet so you can work what you do best, striking. So now basically what I am saying is you want to defend agains't grappling you got to spend time acutally grappling.

Now while "I" like MMA over TMA's I have practiced and seen. Now don't get me wrong there some good styles out there with good instructors that emphasize good training methods to help the students make the moves work for them I guess. why I like MMA though. 1. grappling/striking approach instead of one over the other type thinking some styles have because of the way they are designed. 2. Restiance from a partner so you know the moves are working for you. (thats the biggest one right there) 3. MMA events are more documented and can easily be accessed then some grandmaster's stories of fighting or some old creater of an art used it in acient battles to prove it. thats fine they did it then but each invidual has to prove it to themselves this is why I like against #2 of what I said. So results and seeing what techniques worked and didn't work the results can be seen instead. of some one Theorizing this or that would work. How ever on that note TMA and RBSD places are good also. They teach multiple opponent stratgies, running (which I don't know why that should be common sense but some people lack that quality so I guess it should be taught) keeping opponent between you and the ohter so your not double teamed in 2 on 1 situations. which is good. 2 they teach other stuff that isn't common in MMA if taught at all like other techniques, stuff on Chi/ki and if some one likes that weather others opionions on how effective it is for real fighting it is still fun stuff to learn non the less. Either way I can write on and on. Eihter way like I said previously if you enjoy "wheat ever it is you do" keep doing it, if it helps you reach your goals.

I only been to one Ninjitsu school, they showed wrist locks or something they weren't really good at doing them. It was more based of Japense Jiu-Jitsu. Since Ninjitsu derived from japan. Either way, point of that is there realy isn't an actual ninja schools, and particular anicent methods aren't as pratical in common day with technology and what is going on. Most modern day ninja's would be that of special forces units or CIA or covert type agents would be more modern day ninja's. What is usually taught in ninja schools is some whats called taijitsu which the empty hand part of ninjitsu I believe. I read then some where I believe stephen K Hayes books. I tend to agree though. Either way other schools there probably just some karate and japense jitsu and people wearing ninja hoods fanticizing about times passed. As for MMA some technqiues that people believe would work didn't quite work well in sport combat. People were accustomed to dealing with grapplers and leverage applied for standing for punches is diffrent when on the ground and alot of leverage is lost with strikes when two opponets are very close to where the strikes become ineffective to do serious damage. Either way I say weather you do TMA, Ninjitsu, MMA styles, or Water polo if you enjoy it, and it helps you to towards your goals as to way you take it. Then thats great.

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