Victory Belt Publishing Jiu-Jitsu University

Ich habe dieses Buch auf Grund vieler Empfehlungen, Hinweise in Magazinen und nicht zuletzt wegen den Rezensionen. Es ist einfach DAS Standardwerk dieses Sportes. Gerade für Anfänger unentbehrlich. Sehr gute Fotos aus zwei Blickwinkeln. Genaue Erklärungen zu den Aktionen. Super Tipps für Anfänger. Mag sein, dass Fortgeschrittene nicht so sehr angesprochen werden. doch auch die können hier das ein oder andere erfahren.

Really easy to follow with colour pictures showing a step by step break down of particular techniques photographed from two different angles. It illustrates some really useful tips & also highlights common mistakes & what you should not do when you find yourself in certain situations. The book is neatly separated into different sections starting with white belt through to black belt - each section of the book is dedicated to each particular coloured belt. The chapters explain what is expected of each belt & the progress & milestones that you generally should be aiming towards within an approximate timeframe. As a relatively new white belt practitioner, I find this book a really useful tool to reinforce what my Instructor has taught me on the mat. It is a great complement to what I learn in class. I can highly recommend this book.

una maravilla, explica perfectamente las técnicas y es un gran apoyo, es de tamaño más grande de lo que cabe esperar

If this is not the best book on Jiu-Jitsu then I want to buy whatever is better.Everyone has pretty much given the run-down on this superb book so I will just touch on a few points that are of particular importance to me:The breakdown by CHAPTER==BELT COLOR==GOAL, e.g., white=survival, blue=escape, is ESPECIALLY useful for those just starting jiu-jitsu or those teaching.The white belt "survival postures" and the blue belt escapes from those postures are worth the cost of the book alone. Saulo Ribeiro has managed to keep the survival postures to a minimum (even for side mount where there are numerous top pinning styles and arm positions) and they all seem to work off the same principals and even a similar pattern.Frequently, Ribeiro shows a better (according to him and his also multi-time world champion brother Xande [shandee]) way to do common techniques, and also shows the common mistakes including what is wrong with the usually given methods for that same technique.This book immediately made me almost happy to have my back taken (by a similarly experienced and sized opponent) since the very simple defenses and escapes to those positions worked on the first try even though I messed up some of the details. (Really! -- my training partner is a bit stronger, heavier, younger than I am and he has quite a bit of judo training, but he can no longer hold me FROM THE BACK.)Although the book stands alone, it is especially useful if you have any of Saulo Ribeiro's Jiu-Jitsu Revolution 1 or 2, or Freestyle Revolution DVD sets. Although you don't "need" one to benefit from the other, the text gives the few CRITICAL points which is good for memorizing the techniques, while the videos show the moving details in case you are having trouble or something doesn't make sense.Although the DVDs and book overlap, their is no sense of wasting time or money when using both.(BTW, he in no sense means that you must wait to become a purple belt to learn the guard, but rather that the FOCUS is on a particular goal or position for each belt level. In the case of a purple belt, he is saying this is where you focus on MASTERING the guard.)Is there anything wrong with it? No index, but the contents is so good this is not a deficiency and the book runs the content RIGHT to the last page wasting no space. Crappy font for cover title but how picky can I get? A VERY FEW mistakes in left-right or picture correspondence -- or maybe clarity and I misunderstood, but that isn't very detracting, although I would offer to edit the 2nd edition if they ever re-publish it.)The techniques WORKS right out of the box (i.e., book) and if you practice it then it is even more valuable.Much of it is SPECIFICS on HOW to grapple using the techniques as examples rather than as the only answers -- he is teaching grappling using techniques, not JUST a bunch of (useful) techniques. Saulo is teaching us to fish (do jiu-jitsu) WHILE he feeds us some very fine fish (techniques).If you are a low rank jiu-jitsu play you MUST buy this book if you buy anything.If you are teaching jiu-jitsu, you owe it to yourself and your students to have and understand this book.I am reasonably sure that anyone in between (i.e., teacher and low level) will find this book superb, and probably the best, as well.

Beginner in BJJ?? Regular studying of this book WILL help you get your strips sooner. This book talks a lot about mindframe and the BJJ learning journey as well as being heavy on technique break downs and sequences. Every sequences has a write up. I've read the first 1/4 of this book 4 times. Learned something new everytime, especially while acquiring more experience in class. There are critical lessons layed out in a specific order. The pictures and descriptions offer a lot of insight. This is not an all-encompassing technique book. If an all encompassing technique book existed, it would basically be an encyclopedia set. This majority of this book covers A LOT of positions, defenses, escapes and attacks. It is meant to be learned in a specific order and a specific mind frame. For begginer, novice, intermediate, if you are looking to improve faster and learn outside of class, it would be STUPID to NOT have this book. I am not an expert, nor am I intermediate at BJJ so I can't speak for higher level practitioners. 6 stars.