Key Takeaways
- A three-part bundle with many interesting methods for BJJ athleticism used by Jeff Glover.
- Features drills, solo and partner scenarios, flows, stability ball training, and injury recovery protocols.
- ~4 hours of Glover brilliance, inspired by his very serious spine injury and the road to recovery that followed.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8.5 out of 10.
OFF THE MAT IMPROVEMENT JEFF GLOVER DVD BUNDLE GET HERE
I am not a big fan of instructionals claiming to offer unique movement skills to grapplers off the mats. Most of them have no carry-over to the real deal, as most of them don’t factor in a live person giving you resistance when you train or compete.
Well, trust Jeff Glover to figure out how to add that resistance (to a point) and change my mind. While I’m still not going to do everything, I was in the Off The Mat Improvement Jeff Glover DVD Bundle during this review, and I will stick to a few favorites. I tried every move from every chapter — here’s what I think of them.
Grappling Rebel Jeff Glover
The man who always went against the grain on the mats has some super useful advice for you about what to do off them. Jeff Glover has always been a fun character to watch, and not just because of his shenanigans — he knows how to grapple.
Having spent a lifetime in Jiu-Jitsu and fought (sometimes even beating) the who’s who of early 2000s BJJ greats, the “Human Monkey” always brought the element of entertainment. Even when he lost, Jeff did crazy stuff that ended up not just being talked about, but even replicated.
His nutty Donkey Guard even forced the IBJJF to change their rules, after some unpredictable behavior from competitors trying to copy it and annoying opponents. But Jeff Glover isn’t just about wacky behavior and super experimental grappling moves.
He can actually move — inversions, flying attacks, crazy scrambles — they were all in his arsenal simply because he had the athleticism to pull them off. This Jeff Glover BJJ DVD Bundle explains (to a point) where all that athleticism comes from off the mats.
Off The Mat Improvement Jeff Glover DVD Bundle Review — The Details
The Off The Mat Improvement Jeff Glover DVD Bundle delivers interesting, unusual, and certainly unorthodox ways to get limber and fit for BJJ. It’ll benefit you if you’re looking to improve the range of motion or if you’re coming back from an injury.
BJJ Drills for BJJ Skills DVD — AVAILABLE HERE
Subject Matter:
BJJ drills are not having the best of times in terms of reputation at the moment. That doesn’t mean that the versatile ideas and setups from the first part of the Off The Mat Improvement Jeff Glover DVD Bundle are not worth exploring, though.
Glover’s drills are not boring and repetitive, but rather very much focused on complex motor skill development.
Key Points Covered:
Jeff begins with a very valuable introduction, which explains exactly what he considers to be a BJJ drill — it’s not what you likely expect. He then goes immediately into examples, talking about the thing nobody in BJJ wants to practice — break falls.
A set of super cool shooting and sprawling drills follows, requiring quite a bit of conditioning, and leading into some classics such as shrimping, bridging, and stand-ups. Those are just the basics from volume one.
As the DVD rolls on, Glover also covers turtle, closed guard, and open guard drills, moving to more positional organization. He ends with plenty of takedown and escape drills, capped off by a very weird yet seemingly effective way to practice guillotine defense.
Technical DVD Specifications:
The opening salvo of the Jeff Glover Off The Mat Bundle delivers just over an hour of diverse drill ideas, organized in three volumes and covering solo and partner bottom and standing drills.
Glover’s Balls DVD — DOWNLOAD HERE
Subject Matter:
The second part of this Jeff Glover Off The Mat Bundle explores the use of stability balls for improving grappling skills. This is one of Jeff’s signature methods for developing the unpredictable, movement-focused style he’s so recognizable for.
Key Points Covered:
This instructional is like no other, not just in grappling, but anywhere. All Glover talks about is exercise balls and how they can affect and improve your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills. He begins by exploring games and workout ideas using small balls, some of which offer very cool twists on classics such as dodgeball.
He then moves on to medium-sized balls, which help mimic BJJ flow scenarios, helping you develop balancing and motor skills that are hard to build when you’re fighting off submissions. Big balls and increasingly acrobatic and dangerous moves wrap up this weird part of the Jeff Glover BJJ Bundle.
Technical DVD Specifications:
Glover delivers more information on training with stability balls than I’ve seen anywhere else (not that I’ve looked too hard). This two-part instructional offers approximately an hour and a half of super fun and valuable guidance.
Back to the Fitness DVD — GET IT HERE
Subject Matter:
Part three, which is also the final member of the Jeff Glover Off The Mat Bundle, addresses the optimal road to getting back on the mats after recovering from serious injuries. It was inspired by Jeff’s path back to grappling after a bad spine injury.
Key Points Covered:
This is basically a DVD offering BJJ drills, most of which require a partner, that are loaded so you can easily get back some of the grappling skills you had before taking an injury-induced break. The first part is solo, with Jeff offering a crazy but sensible way of training Shadow Jitsu.
After sharing super valuable advice on moderating speed and intensity, he introduces partner training, starting with some mellow takedown drills. Passes and guard drills follow, along with some interesting turtle scenarios that would be fun to try even if you’re not injured.
The best part comes at the very end, where Glover puts combinations of drills together, offering very interesting flows. As long as you are working with a cooperative partner, these are bound to get you back into rolling shape very quickly.
Technical DVD Specifications:
As we reach the end of the Off The Mat Improvement Jeff Glover DVD Bundle, we get three more volumes of Jeff’s instructions, this time delivering a total of an hour of instructional material.
Do Your Grappling Homework
There is something about Jeff Glover that makes you want to learn from him, even if you never intend to do some of his crazier stuff. The man has got charisma and all the necessary skills to back it up.
This Jeff Glover Bundle offers something that is so different from what we’re used to from Jeff that I had to check a few times if this is the same Jeff Glover we’re talking about. It turns out it is, and an injury he sustained prompted him to develop and record this super-useful BJJ DVD.
It clearly demonstrates how all the work you do off the mats — let’s call it homework — can affect your grappling performances on them. Understandably, not dedicating time to improve your athleticism and motion off the mats will also show on the mats, but in a negative way.
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Set Up For BJJ Success!
Grab the Off The Mat Improvement Jeff Glover DVD Bundle. Even if you’re not injured or in great shape at the moment, that won’t be the case forever.
While this bundle won’t bulletproof you for BJJ, it will most certainly help get you back on the mats faster. Even more importantly, it will help keep you injury-free for as long as can be reasonably expected in our sport.
