Description

The practical grappler is a 6 hour video (Three 2 Hour DVD videos) introduction to grappling from a beginner’s perspective, carefully organized to start someone with no knowledge of grappling, and create a solid foundation with simple and effective techniques. There are approximately 200 techniques on this 6 hour video production. It was created totally with the beginner’s learning process in mind, and the techniques are taught STARTING FROM THE BEGINNING and leading you through a step by step process, each step building on the one before, until your grappling foundation is complete. The techniques presented in the practical grappler are performed without the gi. Of course, most no-gi techniques also work with the gi. The seven video phases are described below.1) Overview of Principles: The first step in this process is to explain the “Essentials for Success”, which paints a general picture of what you will be learning, and important concepts to keep in mind while you are progressing.2) Common movements: This phase teaches the common movements that you will need to train your body to accomplish in order to practice fundamentally sound grappling.3) Position Protection: When you first start grappling, you will constantly be submitted due to fundamental errors in positioning. This phase teaches the basic things you should do when in the various grappling positions to avoid giving up the easy submission to your training partners.4) Escape and Transition: This phase shows you how to escape from pins and pass the guard, and how to then transition into advantageous positions, along with some basic submissions from inferior positions (That is, escape by submission of your opponent)5) Submission Defenses: This phase teaches how to defend and escape from your opponent’s submission attempts.6) Pinning and Transition: This phase shows you how to maintain the dominant positions, and how to prepare to submit your opponent.