Cesar Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Grappling Instructional Series

I don't know Brazilian jiu jitsu, (due to there being no place to learn in my area), I've had an interest in it for the past few months from watching UFC, so I thought I'd buy this DVD to see what its all about, and its a great set.I know its always better to learn from a teacher instead of a video, but you can pick up quite a bit of info on these discs, Cesar Gracie does a great job demonstrating the moves, he makes them very easy to follow and shows you what to do and what not to do on each move, and it's not cheesy like some older martial arts videos I've seen.I've been practicing the moves with a couple of buddies in my dining room and they actually work, its pretty cool,(except for the carpet burns). I know I'd get tapped out in a second by 99% of white belts who actually take classes but I've only had the DVDs for 2 weeks. Its pretty fun, I've gotten to the point where I can spot out and pull off some chokes, armbars, sweeps, and takedowns when wrestling around with my buddies, so you know, you will pick up some stuff from the videos, if you sit down and practice everything on the DVDs you could do all of the moves, thats how easy Cesar Gracie makes it to understand the moves.There are moves for sport (with gi) and street (w/o gi), for most people like me, some of the "sport" moves you can't do unless you happen to have a gi laying around or you practice on someone with a coat on or something, but most of the moves you could do with or without a gi.I don't know what someone who knows BJJ would think of the videos aside from the other reviews written on here, but for the average person like me who would like to learn some stuff, and has no other way, I would highly recommend this, its really well presented. I'm not trying to say these moves are easy to do, because most of them aren't theres a lot of thinking involved in these moves, but they ARE easy to learn how to do, I can't stress enough on how good of a job Cesar Gracie does explaing the moves.

I want to rate this DVD a five star, however cannot. DVD has been tried in two different players and get the same error message: Cannot read disk. Was about to return, and decided to try it in my computer where it played just fine.

I have been studying martial arts on and off for years. I recetly have had the opportunity to start studying Gracie Style Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I wanted to get some additional materials to assist me in digetsting the information provided in the dojo, and I stumbled upon this DVD. Listen.. Cesar Gracie is a awesome teacher.1. He is easy on the ears :) His english is great no accent whatsoever and he gives great analogies2. In many cases he demonstrates moves from a variety of angles3. The DVD is broken up into different skill levels. Within just a half our of watching the basic DVD helped to shed new light on many of the techniques that have been presented to me in class.Bottom Line is that this is worth every penny. In fact if I had seen a few of the lessons I would probably have paid double for it. Please keep in mind that I am writing this review as a beginner so I cant speak to the inetermediate and advanced DVD's included with the set. Lastly I would like to repeat that I am using this as a suppliment to in class training.

These DVDs are great. My previous set of videos in my collection was the Gracie Jiu-jitsu videos done by Rorion and Royce Gracie. After watching this series by Cesar Gracie, I was able to learn many additional moves. This series covers many moves not shown in the Rorion Gracie series, and vice versa. This makes me feel that this series serves as a good addition to what I saw before, rather than being a complete library of jiu-jitsu moves (probably no DVD series can do that, but I have yet to watch the Kukuk A-Z 11 DVD set or the Froes BJJ 11 DVD set :p).Just additional thoughts here and there:-I was expecting some more emphasis on no-gi street grappling, but I was still satisfied with what was shown.-I was surprised that he demonstrated many sweeps from the guard, which I happen to like very much.-The price is reasonable for the amount of materials shown.This set is a great addition to any jiu-jitsu library.

During my first 5 days of BJJ lessons, the instructor would show the whole class certain moves and we would practice it with a partner. When it came down to "rolling" during my first few lessons, I didn't know what to do. I kept getting tapped out or choked while in the guard and didn't have any moves to apply or really know what I was doing or how to defend. I didn't have any GAME. After watching the video it dawned on me. This video tighten my GAME and I am no longer being used as a training dummy. Suddenly I'm a challenge to the Advanced Players, I'm not that easy to tap out anymore. Thanks to this video! What I really like about this Video is that Cesar Gracie goes over the moves in different angles and explains in great detail on how to execute, and apply the techniques correctly and the reason behind each move. EXCELLENT WORK! JOB WELL DONE!

This is a great product. I am recently a new fan to the UFC, and have begun to take notice of the power of ju-jitsu, i bought this tape as an enthusiast to the sport and its has given me great insight. Cesar speaks very good english and explains the moves very clearly step by step. He will show you how to do the move from several different angels, and is very good at explaing what you should be doing at a given time during the move. My only complaint is i would have like to seen a better scence selection. Currently each dvd is spli tinto 3 parts, with each part containing several moves... it would have been nice to be able to choose exactly which move you want to review, without having to fast forward through the parts. I give this dvd a 9 out of 10