Firas Zahabi is the man to turn to when you’re trying to simplify something in grappling. Since there’s hardly anything more complex and diverse than BJJ guards, he is the perfect man for the job of providing an in-depth and simple-to-follow course for guard attacks. In yet another of his unique Firas Zahabi BJJ DVD instructionals, the Danaher black belt draws, talks over, and demonstrates a bunch of very useful offensive guard concepts.
Overview
Zahabi offers a No-Gi instructional that is as simple as they come – he covers true attacking basics but does so in a way that will mesmerize beginners and professional grapplers alike. The two-part Firas Zahabi BJJ DVD focuses on direct submissions off the back, gravitating around the classics like triangles and armbars spiced up baby a few interconnecting super basic sweeps. A true evergreen instructional for everyone training in combat sports that include grappling.
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Instructor Background
Firas Zahabi is one of the best BJJ and MMA coaches around. Based out of Montreal, Canada, where he heads the famous Tristar gym, he is famous for travelling constantly to New York and back while going through the ranks to learn from John Danaher, who awarded him his black belt in 2011.
In the meantime, Zahabi produced one of the best MMA fighters ever in Georges St Pierre. He is also the man behind huge combat sports stars like Rory McDonald, Miguel Torres, Ethan Crelinsten, and Oliver Taza to name a few.
Zahabi is an avid researcher of the Gentle Art, constantly trying to break down what works and why, as well as why some things that are considered staples of the sport have become redundant over the years. He is second to none in roll analysis, which is basically his signature way of making instructional.
He is also constantly active with Q&Aich YouTube sessions in which he is not afraid to voice his opinions, which sometimes air on the controversial side.
Subject
The subject of the Guard Attacks Made Easy Firas Zahabi BJJ DVD is pretty easy to deduce from the title. While Zahabi does tackle the vast subject area of the guard in this instructional he does so by simplifying everything by funneling all guard variations toward a select group of complementary submissions that have been proven to work effectively at every level of the sport.
Complexity
The instructional is easy to follow for everyone as it really covers things that everyone has encountered, even if they’ve only been training for a couple of months. Triangles, armbars, Omoplatas, pendulum, and hip heist sweeps make up the meat and potatoes of this Firas Zahabi BJJ DVD.
Zahabi is primarily a No-Gi grappler, meaning all the material is easily transferable to Gi BJJ.
The best part is that where beginners will only look to grasp the big picture concepts, advanced grapplers will encounter details and connections in between the material laid out in the Guard Attack Made Easy DVD.
Technical Details
A BJJ Fanatics release means that this instructional adheres to the gold standard of BJJ DVDs in terms of technical quality.
The DVD has just two volumes, which is somewhat short, and the only major “flaw” that we can outline in it. Each of the volumes lasts around 30 minutes, with the entire instructional being just over an hour long.
Guard Attacks Made Easy is available as a DVD and in digital format, both in high-definition video and audio quality.
Detailed Analysis
DVD #1
Firas opens up directly with an armbar chapter that is around 15 minutes long. Skipping any unnecessary introductions and needless talk, he goes straight into showing breaking mechanics, and several different ways of baiting armbars when you’re playing guard. The best takeaway is that he removes the unnecessary steps in setting up an armbar off the back, leaving no time for the opponent to react.
The Triangle and Omoplata follow, both getting quite long chapters (in excess of 10 minutes) of the same detailed information as with the armbar.
DVD #2
The second (and final) volume of the Guard Attacks Made Easy Firas Zahabi BJJ DVD has more chapters than the first one. It keeps exploring submissions in the beginning, in the form of the Kimura and Guillotine choke, following the same outline in which the other submissions were demonstrated.
The rest of the volume covers sweeps, starting with the pendulum sweep, and moving on to include the hip heist as well.
In true Firas Zahabi fashion, the Canadian coach brings everything together in a final couple of chapters, allowing for those looking for a system to get an entire highly-effective one in just an hour of material.
How We Grade The “Guard Attacks Made Easy” Firas Zahabi BJJ DVD Instructional
Considering this Guard Attacks Made Easy instructional DVD’s technical aspects and quality of content, we come to an overall score for this instructional that I’ll deliberate in short below.
Technical Quality: 9/10
While the quality of the material somewhat makes up for the lack of quantity, it does leave us wondering if Zahabi could not have added a bit more material to this. There is certainly space for it.
The lack of length is the only aspect of this instructional that is not up to par to what we’ve grown to expect out of a modern-day BJJ DVD.
Quality of Content:10/10
No question marks whatsoever in the quality of the material Zahabi presents in this instructional. Whether you’re looking to refine your triangle finish, your Omoplata setup, or looking for a ready-to-use sweep-submission combo system, you’ll find it in this DVD.
Overall: 9/10
A nearly perfect score and a nearly perfect DVD. Perhaps the inclusion of leg locks would make it the unique instructional we know Firas Zahbai can produce, but we’ll have to wait and see if he has a second edition brewing.
Wrap Up
Firaz Zahabi has never had a miss in terms of BJJ DVD instructionals and this one is just another in a long line of creative, original and super useful guides to perfecting some of the crucial aspects of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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