Looking for grappling art books/website

[Maddwraph]

wait, so im still kind of consfused on which book would be to get, because i started two months ago. would the first book i listed be good? i liked the look of it when i saw it.

[Adonis]

theory and techinque is good by Renzo and Royler gracie. Or you can go with Black belt techniques by Rigan and Jean jeac machado.

Go with what you like. Just remember not go through to much technique meaning. Quality is better then quantity you want to persue your training faster. Learn to get and maintain postions your instructor taught you as well as how to reverse or get out of them if you get put in the same postions. example is mount. If you get mounted learn to escape. not only by practing techniques you were taught but also by just postional sparring. Guy trys to hold that postion on you start with that type of resistance after you feel comfortable with the mechanics and doing the moves of the escapes. Then Work on your partner resisting you and trying to hold that postion work that till you fell comfortable

Then switch to having your partner work on keeping the mount and changing postions to knee on belly, side mount, scar hold or cross side or north south postion basically your partner feeling you move and chaging to a diffrent top game postion once you learn to deal with getting out of the bottom from there top game or at least getting your self in a better postion from the bottom like putting them back into guard. Have them work on submission and work on defeending those and trying to get out of his from the bottom.

THen switch to were you try to hold mount and diffrent postions and maintain them as well as work on setting up your subs. Key is resistance training.

I don't learn personally from full out sparring unless I use it as educational tool. example I keep getitng caought in certain postions or subs then I ask the partner how they set them up and then I start doing postional drilling and asking for feed back how to defend or escape those subs or postions and drill that certain aspect over and over.

Any way enjoy your training. Your going to get frusterated at times and some times feel like your getting know where but don't give up. You will improve just have patience and work hard, train smart, and stay with continue practice and you will do fine.

Books are more for refrence of techniques you already learned or they can be used as a good reminder for deatils in a certain technique. Maybe your doing the "UPA" mount escape and you missed what your instructor was talking about how to use angle to make it more effective and to work. But you read the same thing and a book explained it or went into more detail and you were able to pick it up or have it click for you.

I hope this helps.

[bunyip]

Karate25 is absolutely correct. Learning the moves from the book only gets you 10% of the way to the finish line. The other 90% is learning to use the move against a resisting opponent.

Crosstrain at another school. Learning with friends from a book is problematic because they won't have the technical skill to notice and capitalize on mistakes that you're making. You'll end up learning bad habits unless you roll with skilled partners.

[Adonis]

I second what bunyip said.

[yamesu]

Yep,

Good advice from the above two posters, IMO.

[Maddwraph]

thanks a lot guys, especially Karate25. i might pick up theory and technique to bursh up ont echniques, and myabe learn some new ones, but ill keep my actual training number 1. thanks a lot.

[Adonis]

Just be smart about your trianing. Create a game plan. Bring a note book each time to your training. After the training sessions or breaks if you guys take them. Write down moves you learned. As well as important details that you learned to make them work.

Also write down what you think are your weak points and strong points. Good be certain submissions you do. Or diffrent postions you have a hard time with.

Then on open mat time take time to pick one of those things you need to work on and drill it over nad over agian. Maybe you have weak game at escaping when some one gains your back going for the rear naked. So if you want you can take each sparring and purposely give up your back and work on escaping. Yeah it gets frusterating becaue people sub you. But keep working at it.

IF you ever watch PrideFC sakaraba purposely gives up his back to some of his opponents in the early prides. He can do this becaues he worked that postion so much that he felt he can get out of any one's sub attempts or back control tecnqiues.

He only got that way by practice.

So just create a game plan for your self when you train and work it. As apposed to others who just show up go through what ever there instructors tell them and leave. THats okay but remember your unless your getting private lessons. Those group classes aren't tailored for your indvidual success they are tailored for the group.

So what does that mean? It means you get enough stuff to survive. What ever you do outside or beyond your classes is for your sucess. Note book is one.

Checking out the book and broading your jiu-Jitsu knowledge is also good. Looking at Jiu-JIsu tournament tapes or instructionals. (I picked up moves that I use before in intrustionals but I had to drill them with resistance to make them finally work for me consitantly) Also extra practice. After each class if you can do this get a partner and drill for 15 minutes after class. After a few weeks or a couple months doing that you would see significant gains in your game.

Remember to have a game plan for your self on what you want to improve how you want to do it. THis way you can learn were your weak and were your strong and learn to work them.

Good luck in your trianing.

[Maddwraph]

ok, sounds good, ill pick em up to study. ill download some videos of BJJ fighters too. thanks a lot.

[jion]

A very basic book that I can recommend is "Mastering Ju-Jutsu" by Renzo Gracie. No doubt you can't learn everything from a book (10% is a good estimate), but my ground game improved from non-existent to take on anyone at my *karate* club. It's opened up a whole new world to me and was relatively inexpensive.

Highly recommended if you come from a purely striking arts background

[AndrewGreen]

I got about a dozen or so techniques up on my site, will be adding more over the next while. Almost 100 photos worth.

A couple, like the double leg takedwons one, shows a few finishes and counters as well.

http://innovativema.ca/index.php?section=techniques

There is also a couple articles that discuss training drills and methods.