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Summary: Another Winner!!!
Review: Great stiff arm defense counters! Great complement to Mastering Jujitsu. Highly recommend.
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Summary: Great book very advanced
Review: Jean Jacques Machado with Kid Peligro Black Belt Techniques is a have a great book. The techniques are very advanced and have a lot of flow. The descriptions are crisp and thorough and present each situation and the variations of the situation and a few options of attacks. Thre are both Gi and no Gi techniques with most of them Gi but easily adaptable to No Gi. The pictures and presentation, like all Kid Peligro's books, are top notch. I especially liked the intro were Jean Jacques explains his thoughts on Jiu Jitsu and the way he trains and progresses. I recommend this book to everyone even beginenrs, so they can see what the future is and how to get there. GREAT JOB!
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Summary: No katas????
Review: Like most of the BJJ books being put out now, this book has detailed, color pictures, and the sequences are numbered and labeled. Unfortunatly, the contents is a little lacking. I think that the biggest disadvantage here is that these moves require an understanding of body movement that can't really be conveyed in a book. While many of these moves end in a common submission hold, or have some other familiar element to them, they try to be "advanced" by showing different entries. I think the term "Black Belt Techniques" is well applied, because I think you'd have to be fluent in the basics in order to pull off most of these moves. For those with a good deal of experience in BJJ or submission wrestling, this is an OK book to look at, but I'm not sure the average reader or casual practitioner could gain too much from this. In my experience, the moves presented here are ussually the kind of things you stumble on while in the middle of a match. For the record, the first 85 techniques are all gi techniques, while the remaining 27 are no-gi holds, though as stated in other reviews, many of the gi techniques can be applied to no-gi situations, though not as many as I was led to believe. I'd recommend this book for intermediate or advanced students, but only if you really feel that your arsenal is lacking, or if you have a partner whom you can really drill these moves with.
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Summary: Techniques worth looking at.
Review: Like most of the BJJ books being put out now, this book has detailed, color pictures, and the sequences are numbered and labeled. Unfortunatly, the contents is a little lacking. I think that the biggest disadvantage here is that these moves require an understanding of body movement that can't really be conveyed in a book. While many of these moves end in a common submission hold, or have some other familiar element to them, they try to be "advanced" by showing different entries. I think the term "Black Belt Techniques" is well applied, because I think you'd have to be fluent in the basics in order to pull off most of these moves. For those with a good deal of experience in BJJ or submission wrestling, this is an OK book to look at, but I'm not sure the average reader or casual practitioner could gain too much from this. In my experience, the moves presented here are ussually the kind of things you stumble on while in the middle of a match. For the record, the first 85 techniques are all gi techniques, while the remaining 27 are no-gi holds, though as stated in other reviews, many of the gi techniques can be applied to no-gi situations, though not as many as I was led to believe. I'd recommend this book for intermediate or advanced students, but only if you really feel that your arsenal is lacking, or if you have a partner whom you can really drill these moves with.
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Summary: All Garnish, No Meat
Review: Much like the other books in Kid Peligro's Brazilian Jiu-jitsu series, this book looks great on the coffee table. Within, you will find an array of about 112 techniques and a similar design/layout as Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Self Defense Techniques by Royce and Charles Gracie. This book had a few 'tricks' in it that I had never seen before and upon the first thumbing through, it definitely captured my interest.
There are a few things that keep this book from dethroning the medal holding books (The Master Text by Simco, Passing the Guard, and Mastering Jujitsu) on my site: first, the descriptions need to be improved. For a book that is supposed to be intended for advanced individuals, a level of intellect and insight must be provided; much like comparing a college textbook to a children's book. This book falls short on good technical descriptions. Second, some of the techniques will only work in the event that you are A) Jean Jacques Machado himself or B) Performing them on someone who does not know Jiu-jitsu at all. The text lacks strong sequencing between the moves and more importantly, why. There are a lack of set ups in this book to make the techniques work and almost no reasoning behind the methodology is given. It is generally poorly organized and for this and the above reasons, it makes for a very poor learning and reference guide.
This book is true to its name, "Black Belt Techniques", in a sense and in another, it follows the deceptive advertising trend (it is advertised as 304 pages, which it is not) by not telling the reader (who will not, in most cases be black belts in bjj) that real black belts win most fights with basic high percentage moves.
If you are looking for a book of low percentage, flashy tricks to fill the big holes in your fundamental techniques, this book is sure to veer you from the course of black belt. BJJBOOKS.COM
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Summary: The Most Advanced Jiu-Jitsu Book to Date
Review: My first reaction upon receiving this book and browsing it was page after page of "Hmmm, I haven't seen that anywhere else before" and "Hey, that's really cool". This is truly the most advanced jiu-jitsu and submission grappling book released to date. I base this opinion on being a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu brown belt, an instructor under Erik Paulson, having an enormous martial art book and video library, and producing/distributing high-end grappling videos (www.grapplearts.com). This book is addresses the usual gamut of BJJ techniques (guard sweeps, guard passes, submission setups, etc.) both with and without the gi. Most of the gi material would be directly relevant to no-gi submission grappling as well, as evidenced by Jean Jacques outstanding performances at Abu Dhabi, the most prestigious submission grappling event in the world. The book is about 250 pages, and has 112 carefully detailed technical sequences. This would be a great book to get if you are an advanced grappler or an intermediate grappler trying to step it up a notch. Novice grapplers won't find any of the basics they need to learn in this book, but it would still be a pretty cool book to own if they are disciplined enough to continue training the basics. Enjoy!
Stephan Kesting
www.grapplearts.com
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Summary: The Most Advanced Jiu-Jitsu Book to Date
Review: My first reaction upon receiving this book and browsing it was page after page of "Hmmm, I haven't seen that anywhere else before" and "Hey, that's really cool". This is truly the most advanced jiu-jitsu and submission grappling book released to date. I base this opinion on being a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu brown belt, an instructor under Erik Paulson, having an enormous martial art book and video library, and producing/distributing high-end grappling videos (www.grapplearts.com). This book is addresses the usual gamut of BJJ techniques (guard sweeps, guard passes, submission setups, etc.) both with and without the gi. Most of the gi material would be directly relevant to no-gi submission grappling as well, as evidenced by Jean Jacques outstanding performances at Abu Dhabi, the most prestigious submission grappling event in the world. The book is about 250 pages, and has 112 carefully detailed technical sequences. This would be a great book to get if you are an advanced grappler or an intermediate grappler trying to step it up a notch. Novice grapplers won't find any of the basics they need to learn in this book, but it would still be a pretty cool book to own if they are disciplined enough to continue training the basics. Enjoy!
Stephan Kesting
www.grapplearts.com
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Summary: The Most Advanced Jiu-Jitsu Book to Date
Review: My first reaction upon receiving this book and browsing it was page after page of "Hmmm, I haven't seen that anywhere else before" and "Hey, that's really cool". This is truly the most advanced jiu-jitsu and submission grappling book released to date. I base this opinion on being a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu brown belt, an instructor under Erik Paulson, having an enormous martial art book and video library, and producing/distributing high-end grappling videos (www.grapplearts.com). This book is addresses the usual gamut of BJJ techniques (guard sweeps, guard passes, submission setups, etc.) both with and without the gi. Most of the gi material would be directly relevant to no-gi submission grappling as well, as evidenced by Jean Jacques outstanding performances at Abu Dhabi, the most prestigious submission grappling event in the world. The book is about 250 pages, and has 112 carefully detailed technical sequences. This would be a great book to get if you are an advanced grappler or an intermediate grappler trying to step it up a notch. Novice grapplers won't find any of the basics they need to learn in this book, but it would still be a pretty cool book to own if they are disciplined enough to continue training the basics. Enjoy!
Stephan Kesting
www.grapplearts.com
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Summary: Holy @#$!
Review: Of the Invisible Cities Press Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu released to date (Royler and Renzo's book, Royce and Charles' book and Kid Peligro's book) this book by JJ Machado and Kid Peligro is by far, the best of the bunch. that is not to say that the other books that I mentioned are not good. They are extremely good. However, they lack a special something that this particular effort has in spades. Personality. One of the really great things about this manual is the insight it give the reader into the style and approach of a particular fighter. JJ Machado has been, it seems, remarkably forthright in this book. He reveals his very unique approach by showing us the way he does things. The oher Invisible Cities books have been useful, but they remain I think beginners manuals (not at all a bad thing!). This book is about seeing a larger picture. It is a guide post for paving your own road in this most wonderful art.
On the content side this book does not dwell on the basics, it is not that kind of book. Technically it is strategy manual, specifically it demonstrates the way you can play with the movements of BJJ in unpredicable ways. JJ Machado is known as a finisher and that is the other thing the book trys to demonstrate, how to finish from nearly everywhere in sound, BJJ fashion. This isn't exactly a beginners book, but I think the beginner could benefit from owning it.
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Summary: A cool book, seems a little unrealistic though...
Review: Ok, I'm no Jiu Jitsu expert like JJ Machado, but after buying and reading this book i feel like... 1.) in the words of another reviewer, alot of these moves will only work if you are A.) JJ Machado B.) Rolling with a complete beginner who has no knowledge of Jiu Jitsu. On the positive side, the book is very well put together in terms of organization, quality of photos, and descriptions. Alot of interesting ideas are presented and the book did broaden my perspective on things. That is, while I didnt find many moves that work for me in this book, it did help me to see things in a different way and incorporate that understanding into my game.
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