“Guillotine Traps” Firas Zahabi DVD Instructional Review

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Do you own a Firas Zahabi DVD? You might not, as he doesn’t have plenty of them out. However, you can quickly remedy that by immediately picking up his brand new instructional ” Guillotine Traps”. As the name suggests, it is a BJJ instructional about tricking people into one of the tightest and most versatile submission holds available in the BJJ World.

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Guillotines are among the highest percentage submissions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, grappling, and MMA. There are plenty of variations and other front headlock chokes that tie in together and revolve around the use of guillotines. moreover, they’re easy to use from both standing, top, and bottom positions. And Firas Zahabi is the man to turn to for deciphering the deepest secrets of these strangle holds. luckily, Guillotine Traps are exactly the subject of the first-ever Firas Zahabi DVD instructional.

One Of The Cleverest BJJ Coaches

Firas Zahabi rarely gets the recognition he deserves. And yet, he is one of the best BJJ coaches in existence. Begin focused a lot more on MMA, he does not try too much to expose himself in either discipline but is one of the best in the business in both. After all, he is the man that was behind GSP every step of the way. Oh, and he also happens to be ea Danaher black belt.

Zahabi was born in a Lebanese family in Quebec, Canada. He was in sports his entire life, starting American football. He discovered Jiu-Jitsu through the UFC, like everyone else in the 90s. Having nowhere to train, he drilled by himself before eventually a Renzo Gracie purple belt opened a gym in Montreal. This would open the door for Firas to start teaching at Tristar as a blue belt, and eventually making it his HQ. Along with GSP, Firas started to visit Reno’s blue basement in the early 2000s, training with Danaher, Braulio Estima, Roger Gracie, and others. Danaher promoted Firas to a black belt in 2011.

he has been extremely active as a grappling and BJJ coach in addition to MMA. He is a big fan of No-Gi training although he is also proficient in the Gi. Leg Locks and front headlock chokes are among his bread and butter techniques. that’s precisely why picking up a Firas Zahabi DVD named “Guillotine traps” is much more than just a good idea.

A Different Approach To Guillotines

Many people see guillotine chokes as just submission holds. Of course, they can be used to choke people out, but they offer much more than that. The Guillotine is also a position of extreme control, available to people of all levels and sizes, and from all planes of motion that we utilize in Jiu-Jitsu. It can help you control bigger and/or more experienced opponents without too much effort, even if you don’t and a submission immediately.

Pairing Guillotine chokes with traps only deepens the manners in which we can use them. As the name suggests, the “Guillotine Traps” Firas Zahabi DVD offers just that. In it, Firas demonstrates how to use the guillotine as a position that traps opponents when they least expect it. In other words, you’ll be able to sneak a Guillotine from the top, bottom, and standing just when opponents think they got you, which spares you the hard work of entering the position in the first place.

Guillotine Traps: A Firas Zahabi DVD Review

The Guillotine Traps Firaz Zahabi DVD is a three-part BJJ instructional that covers a common subject in Jiu-Jitsu from an uncommon perspective. Zahabi knows stuff about Jiu-Jitsu that baffles people. he has intricate knowledge of mechanics and has a way of simplifying things in a way that everyone can understand and integrate into their own game immediately.

The DVD starts off with Zahabi going over Some basic guillotine mechanics, but all of it done from his “traps” perspective. He then goes on to explore guillotine traps that provide you with sweeping options and other chokes. The final portion has ahs some crazy stuff in there, with takedowns throw into the guillotine traps mix.

Part 1

Opening this Firas Zahabi DVD is the key chapter on how guillotines work. It is closely followed by the first practical example, in the form of a stack pass counter using a Guillotine choke. But Firas doesn’t stop there and goes into up and over options from there, completely turning the tables on your opponent.

A very interestingly named chapter is the one on “thug of war” which will show you how to stabilize and solidify your guillotine positioning, Moreover, you’ll learn some interesting and “secret” details on finishing the choke even with one arm. A Granby Roll guillotine setup wraps up the first volume.

Part 2

In the second portion, Firas looks into different Guillotine trapping options. There are some interesting options that are named quite uniquely. The see-saw action chapter will definitely increase your Guillotine finishing percentage. The switcheroo is also something you will like to try out immediately.

A big part of this volume of the Guillotine Traps DVD focuses on the hook sweep, which, of course, you do from a Guillotine position. The hook sweep options include the aforementioned Swticheroo, Darces, getting on top, and some more Darces. A really useful chapter for me was the one on countering people with a heavy base, which has always plagued my Guillotines.

Part 3

Finally, Firas looks into some standing options, in the form of a high crotch and Sumi Gaeshi. In both cases, front headlock options open up very quickly, as long as you know where to look for them. And, as Zahabi puts it, there’s no better way to control a front headlock than with a guillotine. There are several versions of the Sumi Gaeshi, both proactive and reactive, as well as a detailed study of its mechanics.

An “easy” suplex rounds off this Firas Zahabi DVD.

In Conclusion

There’s no doubt about it – everyone needs this Firas Zahabi DVD. Gi or No-Gi it offers a great insight into the world of Guillotine Traps and will improve anyone’s grappling. Moreover, the fact that it covers different levels of the game (bottom, top, and standing) means there’s something in there for everyone.

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Age is Just a Number, Teixeira Choked Santos in the Third Round, Arlovski Indestructible

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Glover Teixeira defeated Thiago Santos by Rear Naked Choke in the third round of the UFC Fight Night 182 main event.

The great main event of UFC Fight Night 182 was offered to fans by Glover Teixeira and Thiago Santos, two experienced UFC Brazilians from the very top of the light heavyweight division. Teixeira won in the end, even though he’s already in the fifth decade of life and despite being in trouble twice during the fight, he took Santos by RNC in the third round.

The very beginning of the fight belonged to Santos who immediately felt the distance well and tried a few attractive shots before hitting Teixeira hard with his right hand, who was visibly in trouble. Santos felt that Teixiera is wobbling and he wanted to end the fight immediately, but Glover responded by forcing Santos into the clinch. Teixeira managed to calm Santos’s attacks with a clinch, then quickly took the fight to the ground floor where he set out to dominate and hit some nice shots. He did the job dominantly until the end of the round. Teixeira continued similarly in the second round, where he immediately took the fight to the floor and dominated all five minutes, during which Santos worked just enough to stay in the fight.

Teixeira attacked immediately at the start of the third round, but now Santos is defending the crash by hitting the wicked right hook that sends Glover to the floor. Santos followed Teixeira to the ground and started hitting him from the top position, but the 41-year-old Teixeira showed tremendous endurance. He managed to stay calm after a series of strong blows and managed to get up. After getting up, Teixeira attacked his Santos’s back, came to a firm grip around his neck, and very quickly forced him to tap for his fifth win in a row. A truly great fight was given to the fans by these two warriors.

An interesting and exciting fight happened between Andrei Arlovski and Tanner Boser. In fact, it was a tactical heavy war that belonged to a more experienced fighter. Boser was a big favorite and he justified that in the first round, during which he moved better and scored more. Still, most of what Boser presented was about low kicks, while Belarus was hitting less but left a better impression. In particular, the above could be painted in the second and third rounds, which can also be described by outwitting in which experience prevailed. Boser reacted visibly to several blows, while Arlovski received everything without any problems and this was probably decided by the judges, who, each with two different rounds, unanimously scored in favor of the former champion. In fact, all three were very uncertain and the nuances really decided, and hardly anyone could object that the decision went to the side of the Canadian. The 41-year-old Pitbull thus came away with his second win of the year, and with a win against a potential like Boser, he confirmed that he still has no intention of stopping nor should he be written off.

UFC Fight Night 182 – Results

Glover Teixeira def. Thiago Santos – SUB (R3 1:49)
Andrei Arlovski def. Tanner Boser – Unanimous decision
Raoni Barcelos def. Khalid Taha – Unanimous decision
Giga Chikadze def. Jamey Simmons – TKO (R1 3:51)
Yan Xiaonan def. Cláudia Gadelha – Unanimous decision

Trevin Giles def. Bevon Lewis – TKO (R3 1:26)
Alexandr Romanov def. Marcos Rogério de Lima – SUB (R1 4:48)
Darren Elkins def. Luiz Eduardo Garagorri – SUB (R3 2:22)
Max Griffin def. Ramiz Brahimaj – TKO (R3 2:03)
Gustavo Lopez def. Anthony Birchak – SUB (R1 2:43)

AGE IS JUST A NUMBER!

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— UFC (@ufc) November 8, 2020

Beautiful Takedown to Side Control on the Street Without a Single Blow Received

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This is exactly how the street fight with a trained and untrained guy should like if a trained guy is involved in grappling training.

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Rener Gracie Police Jiu-Jitsu Initiative: We Need This Reform

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The last year has seen us face a pandemic, but it wasn’t just a pandemic of a virus. America also faced a pandemic of excessive use of force by police. In fact, things got so bad, that in certain cases, riots ensued after such examples in which civilians paid with their lives. There were plenty of suggestions on how to make things right, but one of the most logical ones comes from Rener Gracie, who suggests a Police Jiu-JItsu reform that seems like it has the potential to solve this issue.

The Rener Gracie Police Jiu-Jitsu Initiative is certainly a better option than defunding the police. In fact, defunding is only running away from the issue, instead of actually solving it. It is not about the blame and who was right or wrong in the cases of police brutality that ended up tragically. That much we all know. It is about how we can avoid similar scenes in the future by having a police force that’s properly trained and motivated.

The Rener Gracie Police Jiu-Jitsu Initiative

The Rener Gracie police Jiu-Jitsu initiative is as easy as the name suggests – teach police officers BJJ in a systematic fashion, allowing them to better do their job. The system Rener and the Graciessuggest is one that would see officers get invaluable BJJ training with a frequency that is both enough to prepare them for anything, and won’t take away from their duties at the same time.

Moreover, this system would be funded by the city, instead of seeing officers pay for additional training themselves. The benefits of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for police officers are many. For starters, they include the mental and physical wellness of the officers, as a result of training. The mental aspect is what makes all the difference here because officers will let the chance to forget about the stress at work to an hour or so while becoming better equipped to handle that work.

Furthermore, BJJ is a proven way of coping with PTSD, or other types of trauma. It offers people coping mechanisms that allow them to function and thrive in daily life and stressful job environments. There’s also the benefit of community interaction, given that BJJ classes include people from all walks of life. Knowing the community and vice versa is key for a police officer to be able to really do their job.

Last but not least, BJJ will provide law enforcement officers to develop real competence for their job, instead of just having a degree of completed training, but without any practical experience. Moreover, three are the aspect of reduced liability, given that officers will better be equipped to resolve situations that do not require the use of firearms.

Issues With The Current State Of Affairs

One of the greatest issues the police officers face, as per Rener Gracie, is being undertrained for situations of empty-handed resistance. At present, officers get as little as 4 hours of hand-to-hand training every two years. That is obviously far from enough. Moreover, the organization of training includes different subjects, from using different tools to arrest techniques which probably leaves no more than an hour for police officers to do actual hand to hand training. The Renner Gracie Police Jiu-Jitsu initiative really does pinpoint the issue here. But that is not the only one.

There is also the expectation that civilians have from officers. As per the Police Jiu-Jitsu initiative, the public expects police officers to be trained like Navy Seals. The reality of the situation is, they get maybe an hour of training every two years. That is as big a gap between expectations and reality as anyone can imagine.

Finally, there’s technology to consider as well. The reason we see so many more incidents as compared to before has to do with the fact that everyone is now able to record and publish. That just means that police officers have always suffered from undertraining for situations they encounter quite often, but in modern times it is easy for us to notice that lack of training.

Why Are Officers Using Excessive Force So Often?

While it is more than obvious that lack of training is the reason why we saw so many wrongful death and excessive use of force incidents in the past few years, it took something like the Rener Gracie Police Jiu-Jitsu initiative to put things into perspective.

What Rener suggests is that the lack of training causes officers to panic in situations where they encounter unarmed resistance. Gracie talks about the prefrontal cortex and amygdala, which are parts of the brain that regulate how we respond in certain situations. An active prefrontal cortex means we analyze everything calmly and in a methodical fashion, using reasoning to solve “puzzles”. On the other hand, the amygdala is the fear center or the lizard part of our brain. When it takes over, it is all instinct and acting as if our lives are in danger.

In relation to police officers, this just means they enter panic mode and overreact in situations where they should have control. What it boils down to is that these officers get afraid for their lives, and start using punches, kicks, or any of the tools they have at their disposal like batons, pepper spray, and even firearms to resolve situations they could’ve handled with ease if the just had proper training.

The two ends of the spectrum include resorting to using deadly force, or staying so calm that officers are unremarkable at how efficient they are at subduing someone. In more practical terms, that would be the difference between shooting someone an officer is trying to apprehend, and controlling them from the mount or by using an armbar, for example, until backup arrives. There’s a world of difference here and the Police Jiu-Jitsu initiative can help solve this issue.

Rener Gracie Has A Solution

What Rener Gracie suggests is just one hour per week of training for police officers. Normally, they would have to train in a BJJ gym, in a class specifically designed to suit those purposes, so that they actually learn effectively. However, that is way more than the 4 hours every two years they are getting now.

While it may seem like it is not much, an hour a week is enough for muscle memory to develop. The Police Jiu-Jitsu Initiative focuses on stuff the officers will need, which means they don’t have to learn Berimbolos and other stuff. That significantly cuts down the curriculum and allows for faster progress in less time. That is what it takes to develop skills that save lives!

The Rener Gracie Police Jiu-Jitsu initiative includes a motivational system similar to the one officers already have. Just like they get a bump in pay if they qualify for a higher marksmen rank, and they get career points if they are fit, they can get the same for being able to handle themselves in hand-to-hand situations.

Rener has a system of uniform pins that will have officers get both career points and a bump in pay if they complete a certain level of training. In all honesty, it is the smartest thing on the subject that I’ve heard so far!

Conclusion

Rener Gracie has some weird ideas from time to time, but he certainly can come up with something efficient. His Police Jiu-Jitsu Initiative is exactly the reform of the police system in America (and the world) needs. The more officers know BJJ, the closer they’ll come to the civilian expectations of their abilities. Moreover, they’ll be able to stay calm, and in doing that, safer, and keep others safe, while also reducing excessive use of force, wrongful shootings, and all the other dark stuff we saw during the last few years.

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“Truck The World” Geo Martinez BJJ Instructional Review

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10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu is one of the more complex and intricate systems out there, and it is not just down to Eddie Bravo. He started it all, of course, but he has big-name students, the likes of Geo Martinez and his brother Ritchie, among others, that really do innovate tirelessly to expand and improve the system. Geo Martinez is definitely one of the most interesting characters in the entire sport of Jiu-Jitsu, and one of the best No-gi competitors ever, especially in lower weight classes. Among other unorthodox things, he is a real specialist in the signature 10th Planet position “The Truck”. Conversely, he now has a brand new BJJ DVD out, named “Truck The World”.

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If you want to learn 10th pLanet Jiu-Jitsu, go to 10th PLanet. It sounds easy. However, their crazy (but highly effective and attractive) No-Gi system has grown so vast, that you now need to seek out a specialist in different areas of the system, if you’re looking to become one yourself. So, if the Truck position is your main area of study, you need to learn from the best in the business. That would be Geo Martinez, AKA the “Freakozoid”. And since not everyone can get to !0th Planet Freaks to train, his “Truck The World” DVD is definitely the next best thing!

The “Freakazoid” Geo Martinez

Geo Martinez has one of the most interesting Jiu-JItsu stories ever. He was not involved in martial arts his whole life, nor has had a family member that rained and introduced him to the world of combat sports. On the contrary, he started off as a breakdancer and a great one at that. He came into contact with BJJ through breakdancing, when he came into BJJ gym to give dance lessons and was offered Jiu-Jitsu lessons in return. It is sufficient to say that is all it took for geo to get hooked.

He already had a very unorthodox and unique style of dancing, one that helped him immensely in mastering Jiu-Jitsu. In fact, he managed to get his black belt from Eddie Bravo in only three years, a feat not repeated by many others. The multiple times EBI champion and ADCC US trials winner went into all-in when it comes to grappling and has been doing nothing but experimenting, evolving, and competing. A submission rate of 70% clearly demonstrates how talented Martinez isCurrently, he owns and teaches at 10th Planet Freaks in San Diego.

“Truck the World” is a DVD instructional that has been long-awaited among those that admire Geo’s work, I included.

The Truck Position

The Truck position in BJJ is actually a modified wrestling ride. It is something of a checkpoint between side control or turtle and back mount, and as such, offers plenty of options. First of all, getting people stuck in the truck means you can control them easily, Moreover, you have a host of submissions available, mostly in the form of leg locks (calf slicers, heel hooks, ankle locks, hip locks, etc.). Finally, the position allows you to go to the back, but only after you go through another major 10th PLanet Jiu-JItsu checkpoint – the Twister.

The truck is basically when you get a lockdown type of control over one leg, for example from the turtle, but from the outside in. The goal is to lie on your back, place grips on the other leg, and make sure the hips are off the ground. This is the basic Truck position which will allow you to set up different transitions and submission holds. Everything you need to know about the position is in the “Truck The World” Geo Martinez BJJ DVD.

“Truck The World”: A Geo Martinez DVD Review

Geo is unorthodox in everything, so his BJJ DVD is also an unusual one. the only thing usual about it is the 4-part format that we have now accepted as mandatory for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu DVD instructional. In terms of content, he really does take care of every aspect of the Truck, from basic mechanics to his weird and innovative entries to key control points, and of course, Geo’s favorite – submissions.

Entering the Truck involves a lot of rolling and spinning stuff, holding it involves lots of creative movement and subtle shift as well, making the position really dynamic, but also extremely powerful. “Truck The World” is the most comprehensive instructional on the subject so far, one that has all the information on the subject organized in the best possible way.

1. Truck Basics

In the opening volume of the “Truck The World’ Geo Martinez BJJ DVD, you first get introduced to the truck position. Geo talks about its origins, how he got to know the position, as well as the years he has spent evolving it.

After the introduction, Marinez explains the position, but does so by covering some basic entries, mostly from the turtle position. When you see that the Samurai roll is considered a basic entry, you can rest assured the rest of this DVD is going to be highly entertaining. The NInja roll also makes an appearance, and both of them revolve around the prehook leg position which is probably the most important lesson from this opening volume.

2. Entires

The second part of the instructional is all about entries, and it is the longest of all four volumes. Geo Martinez does strat off easy, from the half guard, where he goes over dogfight entries, Speaking of guard entires, a closed guard entry via the 100% is also among the opening chapters of this second portion of the DVD.

All the fun starts a bit later on when geo starts talking about rolling entries, stacks, and arm drag combinations that open up the Truck. OF course, you can’t expect Geo to end there, and he introduces a new guard in the process, called the De X, which was a real revelation for me. Reverse De la Riva, staple pass, and Berimobolo entries follow, along with some uniquely named ways to get the truck, like the Piza truck and freak bolo, to name a couple.

An interesting back truck flow marks the halfway point of this instructional.

3. Control

Controlling the truck position has to do with knee lines and hip positioning, similar to everything else in BJJ. the key thing t remember is to get a triangle wedge on the far leg in the truck, in order to kill off any chances of a counter heel hook. The second major thing you’ll learn in “truck the World” is not to let your opponent’s hips touch the ground because they can “flip” the truck on you.

Geo’s take on things is to sue different positions to enhance and change the aspect of control over the truck. These include Cui control, Azusa control, Lotus control (a personal favorite), and the knee clamp.

4. Submissions

The cherry on top is the submission holds that you can hunt from the Truck position. Geo Martinez opens up with the calf slicer, a real classic when it comes to the Truck position. He goes on to cover some crazier versions quickly, though, like the Sneaky Kamikaze. The crotch ripper is also an option that’s always available, along with a route to the twister without actually leaving the Truck. You’ll have to see it to believe it, as it is one of the typical nutty Geo Martinez innovations that probably nobody else can think of.

The final chapter is all about the truck stop, before Geo wraps things up with a short outro.

Closing Thoughts

A Geo Martinez instructional is always a good idea. Even if you don’t like the truck position per see, a Martinez BJJ DVD is both entertaining to watch and will teach you something about BJJ, without a doubt. “Truck the World” is one of the best instructionals I’ve seen in 2020, and that’s saying something given the sheer number of DVDs that came out in this past year.

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Firas Zahabi Explains Why He Does NOT Roll With Women

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MMA coach Firas Zahabi gives his thoughts on rolling with girls. He doesn’t roll with females in wrestling or Jiu-Jitsu, Firas explains why:

“If you don’t want to grapple with females, how should I communicate this as a newbie? Hey, coach, listen, mo offense to anybody here, but I don’t roll with women. And for whatever reason, you don’t have to give a reason. I have my own personal reasons.

I personally as a trainer, as a coach, I never roll with my female students. One time I had a situation where I was sitting down on the mat and some girl walked up to me. She was from another school with a club and she asked me would you like to roll?
I said I’m sorry, I can’t roll with you.
She was like OH you gotta roll with women.
I said, no offense, but I don’t.
And she was like, you’re joking, right? And she got offended.
I said, no, I’m not joking. I’m sorry. I don’t mean to offend you, but I won’t roll with women. That’s my prerogative.
She asked me why and she tells me you know what? I just came from another gym, like she was asked to leave it cause she had an affair with the instructor. And now it turned the gym upside down. So I found it kind of weird because she was shocked that I won’t roll with her. Then she was offended.
I wouldn’t roll with her. I had to kind of apologies to her, which I don’t feel I should have to apologize. But I did apologize to her.
I said, look, I’m sorry. You know, I hope I don’t offend you, but I won’t roll with you.
Then she proceeds to tell me that her rolling with her other instructor ended up having a sexual relationship with Him. And I believe he was married or whatnot or he had another girl or something like that. I wasn’t interested too much in the story but there was a social conflict between them.

So she came to my gym and now she’s asking to roll with me. And I was like, Listen, I personally don’t do that.
I know some guys out there will be like, I know. I know. Some of you’re gonna be like, coach I roll with women all the time and I never have an issue and when I roll it’s strictly jiujitsu. It’s strictly jiujitsu and I never have impure thoughts.
Now, you are the holy you guys. You guys in that group of people are the holiest guys.
I look up to you and I see these men as angelic, they’re angelic. They’re so pure of thought that if they roll with a beautiful attractive girl, not the least bit of wrong thoughts inside them.

I can understand if you tell me because the girls are not attractive I have no sexual thoughts. And I would say look, that makes sense because that girl’s not attractive. But you have to understand I can’t go around saying hey, you’re ugly enough for me to roll with. No, you’re pretty enough. You’re too prettier. You wouldn’t do that. Right? You’d roll with them all. You’d say Look, I don’t roll with girls. It would be the equivalent of a girl saying look, I don’t roll with men.

I would understand that it’s not a problem for girls walked up to me in my class and said, coach, I just want to warn you I don’t roll with women or excuse me, I don’t roll with men. I’ll say that’s your prerogative no problem roll with the girls, not a problem and if you feel uncomfortable with rolling with anybody you don’t have to…”

You can check the rest of Firas’ thoughts in the video below.

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Mikey Musumeci – The Berimbolo System Instructional Review

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Mr. Mikey Musumeci is one we all enjoy watching grapple. The three times BJJ world champion is one of the best featherweights in the world and known as one of the deadliest guard players in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He is not just fun to watch, but also a very good professor to learn from. In that sense, he already has several great DVD instructionals out, but his latest one, “The Berimbolo System”, has to be the best one he has issued so far and we have the complete Mikey Musumeci DVD review right here.

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The Berimbolo is a move everyone has tried, there’s no denying that. Gi or No-Gi, at all belt levels, a perfectly executed Berimbolo is a thing to marvel at and respect. That said, some people simply fall in love with the move so much, that they build their entire game around it. So far, there have been instructionals to help explain the Berimobolo as a move, or even ways to defend it. However, up until Mikey, nobody has ever released an instructional as comprehensive as “The Berimbolo System”. As you’ll see from our detailed Mikey Musumeci DVD review, it is an 8 part instructional that really features everything there is about the Berimobolo and all associated techniques.

The “Legendary” Berimbolo Artists

Mikey Musumeci is one of several highly esteemed lighter weight grapplers that are real wizards with the Berimbolo. The Mendes and Miyao brothers are also among the pioneers of the move and all innovation that came with it. However, Mikey is one that has been developing and evolving the Berimbolo for more than a decade now and has really made key breakthroughs.

Mikey Musumeci DVD Review: The Berimbolo System 1 The man behind the name Berimbolo is Andre Galvao, who just so happens to also be associated with the Mends brothers who truly took the Berimbolo and made it their own. The Berimobolo is a move that stems from the De la Riva guard and involves inverting and spinning to get to an opponent’s back or sweep them. The first man to do it was Samuel Braga, and the move just never faded always since then with plenty of the lighter weight grapplers building entire games around it. Musumeci is one of those grapplers and has really created a complete grappling system around the Berimbolo. His “The Berimbolo system” instructional is the first one to show the complete evolution of this move and leave plenty of doors open for further experimentation. Enjoy the comprehensive Mikey Musumeci DVD review of the “The Berimbolo System” instructional.

The Berimbolo System Mikey Musumeci DVD Review

What can you expect to learn from the “The Berimbolo System” DVD? Well, the Berimbolo, of course. However, the mere fact that this is an 8-part instructional as opposed to the usual 4-part format means Mikey has a lot more to say about the Berimbolo, and plenty of associated subjects, than most of us, thought possible.

Mikey really covers everything there is about the Berimbolo and does it in the most high-level way possible. Starting with different ways of pulling someone into you for a Berimbolo, he goes on to cover inverting techniques and shortcuts, discusses how and where to post your arms, and even goes in stacking entries to the Berimbolo. But that, as you’ll see from the detailed Mikey Musumeci DVD review is merely half of what you get. Musumeci also talks at length about back takes, chaining attacks together, the top positions bolo, and an innovative aspect he dubs “the back hip”.

1. Berimbolo Basics

While most folks usually start with an introduction to whatever a DVD subject matter is, Musumeci goes further than that, talking a lot about the history of the Berimbolo as well. he goes into his own history of using the move as well, further explaining his development and contributions in that area of BJJ. He also covers several key aspects like reading your opponent’s reactions, inverting issues, and the concept of two worlds, before moving on to the double pull.

The double pull position is something that is present throughout this Mikey Musumeci DVD review. It is the launching pad for most of Musumeci’s Berimbolos, something he explains further along. At the moment, he really does cover things not many people have thought of, the likes of soft tissue vs. bone, turning the knee in, back leg positioning, etc. He even covers troubleshooting advice from the De la Riva. The first volume wraps up with key chapters that explain how to hand fight for a Berimbolo from the De la Riva guard.

2. Inverting

This is arguably one of the key volumes of “The Berimbolo System” Mikey Musumeci DVD. Inverting is a crucial part of any Berimbolo, and Mikey is a wizard at explaining every single step of it. It all starts with the mechanics of seamless inverting, mostly in terms of how to use the shoulders. plenty of interesting drills follow suit, making inverting really easy. The chapter I particularly enjoyed during this Mikey Musumeci DVD review was the one on the “traditional” inversions using the neck, and why they are ineffective and potentially dangerous.

But that’s not the craziest part! Mikey’s completely nutty “Facebolo” makes an appearance here, and it is something you’ll have to see to believe. It is not just a joke, though, and opens up the subjects of muscle activation of the arms and inverting without grips, that follow suit.

3. Arm Posts

The first time I tried the Berimbolo was after I had already spent months messing around with the Tornado guard. In that sense, inverting was no issue for me, but using the grips to help with the Berimbolo was something I struggled with. If only something like “The Berimbolo System” was available back then. The subject matter of where to place your arms, how, and most importantly, why is key to mastering the Berimbolo. Mikey Musumeci dedicates an entire volume of his instructional to solving this particular issue.

From shoulder scooting, through inside and outside leg Berimbolos, all the way to plenty of drills that’ll have you use one arm, two arms, or no arms, Mikey systematically explains how and where to place your grips or posts to move around unimpeded. An infesting aspect is that in this particular volume, Mikey also covers some Berimbolo counters and defenses, which, as it seems, have everything to do with grips and their placement.

4. Stacking Your Opponent

How can you get Berimbolos off of stacking your opponents? Mikey Musumeci’s take is easy – control the hips, and you’ll be able to Bolo anywhere you want. Once aging, grips play the biggest role, along with posting the arms and using some of those inversion drills explained previously in this Mikey Musumeci DVD review.

The point of the stack is to open up the back anyway, and introducing a Berimoblo to the mix simply means you increase your chances to get there. Mikey offers different stack options in the form of a middle and far hip stack, the ladder bolo stack, and plenty of other innovative ways to combine stacking with Berimbolos.

5. Pulling Grips

Mikey Musumeci DVD Review: The Berimbolo System 2 What happens after you successfully Berimbolo? You need to take the back, or at least, secure a sweep. If you followed the material from the previous volumes of “The Berimbolo System” Mikey Musumeci DVD, you can definitely complete a perfect Bolo and end up behind Now, it is time to figure out how to pull the opponent towards you and secure back control.

The chapters include pulling the hips, the shoulders, and using collar grips to get people out of balance. The key chapter has to be the one on combining grips together, along with the chapter that covers climbing.

6. Attacking Chains

The part of this Mikey Musumeci DVD review that everyone was waiting for – attacks. Despite every move of the Berimbolo, from grips to completion being an offensive one, there are still more attacks to include.

In this volume, Musumeci starts combining things together. Pulls with stacks, twister hooks, ladder bolos, and double leg bolo options that open up back attacks, sweeps, or even direct submission holds. Most of the volume is centered around the use of the twister hook, which is literally the glue that holds all Bolo attacks together. You’ll simply learn how to see it everywhere and use it as a door to access the Berimbolo System Mikey has created.

7. Back Hip

I have to admit that this volume was the most interesting one to watch during this Mikey Musumeci DVD review of “The Berimbolo System”. Why? Because it covers something new. That is the concept of “uninverting”. It is something Mikey has developed in his Berimbolo system that really helps you complete a Berimbolo, by utilizing a very powerful base to start attacking from.

Mikey offers plenty of uninverting variations, as well as different variations of the back leg basic Berimbolo, and even uninverting into the mount. In fact, the mount is one of the best outcomes of using uninverting in combination with “The Berimbolo System”. Collar attacks also work off of uninverting, with back takes and twister hook openings in different directions and at different stages of executing the Berimbolo.

8. Top Bolo

The final volume of The Berimbolo System Mikey Musumeci DVD is about getting the Bolo from top positions. It is the most attractive way of hunting for Berimbolos, and definitely, one of the Bolo uses that opponents least expect. In that sense, Musumeci uses Bolos to threaten opponents and get passes, or even submissions like the arm-triangle choke. Back takes off of top position Berimbolos are also here, as is the body lock pass, rolling to get back control, and the double leg Bolo.

Another key moment of this final volume is the final chapter on putting everything together. here. Mikey doesn’t only cover the technical aspects of it, but also how to think about chaining things together, and set traps for your opponents.

In Summary

All in all, if you want to learn a Berimbolo, you need to learn from Mikey. He might not be the one who named it, the one who first used it in a tournament or the one who made it famous. He is the one, though, that has taken the Berimbolo system to a whole new level, ages ahead of what everyone else is doing. His world titles and victories over the biggest names in the sport further testify to that. If you don’t get “The Berimbolo System” after reading this Mikey Musumeci DVD review you’ll be shooting yourself in the foot in terms of BJJ progress, even if you don’t really enjoy doing the Bolo.

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Video of The Only Fight that Khabib Nurmagomedov Lost

The footage of the fight which is written to be the only one that Khabib Nurmagomedov lost.

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s victory over Justin Gaethje came to his 29th victory in an equally professional MMA fight. If he does not decide to return, which UFC President Dana White hopes for, he will retire as the only elite fighter in MMA history to be withdrawn without ever being defeated.

It is an amazing result for this great fighter, but it cannot be said that he has never experienced defeats in his life. A video from a combat sambo tournament in which Khabib competed at the age of 17 is circulating on the Internet. It is about the final fight of the Russian sambo championship, in the category up to 68 kilograms. Khabib was defeated in that match by a fighter named Magomed Ibragimov. Unfortunately, due to the frequent name, we could not find exactly what the guy’s further martial arts career looked like, but it is possible that he is the current owner of an 11-2 MMA score (Tapology profile).

What is particularly interesting to see is Khabib’s reaction after his defeat was announced. He first put his hands over his face and then knelt much like after the win against Gaethje. There is no doubt that it was difficult for him and that after that he was even more motivated not to do it again.

Na internetu možemo pronaći još neke snimke s grappling natjecanja, gdje postoje insinuacije kako je riječ o Khabibovom porazu, no ovo je zapravo jedina snimka s nekog pravog natjecanja gdje vidimo kako je to uistinu Khabib. Pogledajte borbu!

Pablo Popovitch Diet: A Proven Nutrition System For Grappling

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In all the information available on specific diet plans for grapplers, fighters, athletes, etc., it is very easy to get lost. It is even easier to fall prey to diets specific for BJJ athletes, or even those for Gi or No-Gi practitioners (I haven’t heard of one like this, but it’s bound to show up). Most of them are not worth a second look or are just re-written versions of old diets that don’t really work. However, every now and again, a really useful system that is tried and tested comes along,. One is the Gracie Diet, but an even better, more modern one is the Pablo Popovitch diet.

The Pablo Popovitch diet is worth exploring because of two key things – it is simple, and it is sustainable. If you can’t stay on a diet, there’s no point in ever giving it a try. It is not about cutting weight, but about finding a nutrition system that you can keep up with for years, not just a few weeks. A veteran grappler himself, Pablo Popovitch has had his diet tested out not just by himself, but also plenty of other high-level grapplers and MMA fighters.

Who Is Pablo Popovitch?

Some of you newer generation grapplers might not recognize the name Pablo Popovitch. A 4th degree BJJ black belt under Jorge Gracie, Pablo is an ADCC champion who managed to defeat Marcelo Garcia, as well as multiple-time world champion and Pan American No-Gi champion. He also is one of the best submission grapplers to ever compete in the Gentle Art.

The Brazilian started training early, as his father was already heavily involved in BJJ, and he also had an aunt that was married to a Gracie. He started training at the Gracie Barra academy in Tijuca, under Jean Jacques Machado. Pablo has a record of 41 wins and 12 losses in submission grappling, with lots of the greatest names of BJJ marked down as his victims.

However, it is not Pablo’s accomplishments or fighting style that really fall into focus the first time you see him. It is his crazy, superhero-like physique that gets noticed first, and with a good reason – the man knew how to eat and take care of his body so he can perform at the highest possible level. Now, the “secrets” of the Pablo Popovitch diet are up for grabs, as long as you understand how to organize things correctly.

The Foundational Principles Of The Pablo Popovitch Diet

How exactly does the Pablo Popovitch Diet work? He has developed his own system that is not too different from the Gracie diet. He eats every three hours and the main goal is to speed up the metabolism so that he burns through everything he eats. That means his performance is better, and he uses most of the food he ingests. The system has to do the nutrient timing or avoiding certain macronutrients at certain times of the day.

Similarly to the Gracie Diet, and the Gracie family, Pablo does not claim to be a nutritionist or doctor himself. He just knows what has worked for him throughout the years, and has shared that with everyone. His system is based on personal experiences, his contacts with the Gracie family, as well as talking with plenty of athletes during his worldwide travels as a competitor.

The Pablo Popovitch diet is based around combinations of food that digest easily and do not tax the body, but rather provide it with energy. In that sense, Pablo states that different combinations of foods take different times to digest. For example, combining protein sources with vegetables takes about 3 hours, whereas combining carbohydrates with vegetables takes half that time. The concept here is that the body uses different enzymes to digest different foods, and that is mainly the case with carbs and protein. So, in order to relieve the stress on your body, it is best to eat them separately.

Macronutrient Digestion Breakdown And Timing

The Pablo Popovitch diet is not a system of recopies and complex measurements that will require you to go everywhere with a digital scale and 3 different apps on your smartphone. Instead, the general guidelines are not to mix animal protein and carbohydrates, especially complex ones, in the same meal. In that sense, this is how long it takes for the body to digest certain macronutrient combinations:

Protein with Salad:3:00 hours to digest
Carbohydrates with salad: 1 hour 40 minutes to digest
Fruits: 15 minutes to digest
Fruits and Protein: 3:00 hours to digest
Protein + Carbohydrates: 7 – 10 hours to digest

Timing your food intake is even simpler – just skip eating protein at night, apart from protein shakes. Instead, opt for complex carbs that will provide energy and allow for better sleep. No animal protein should be eaten before going to sleep. Even protein shakes are best taken right after you wake up, as opposed to drinking them at night.

Of course, plenty of water is a given, with Pablo’s recommendations at 2 gallons per day.

Popovitch also outlines several things to avoid, like salt, milk, and processed foods, and sugar. He also advises limiting dairy and egg intake to two times per week, and drinking coffee only in the morning, with green tea the beverage of choice for the rest of the day.

A Simple Pablo Popovitch Diet Plan

Here’s how a day of eating on the Pablo Popovitch diet would look like:

BREAKFAST: Fruit with a protein shake and wheat bread with olive oil (simple carbs and protein meal);

SNACK (15 minutes before lunch): Fruit (Banana, Plum, Fig, Raspberry, Cherry, Apple)

LUNCH: Meat and a salad (protein and vegetable meal)

SNACK: wheat bread with olive oil (3-2 slices)

DINNER: Wheat Bread with Olive oil and Tomatoes / Sweet Potato soup / Wheat Rice, Sweet Potato, Wheat Pasta, Yucca, Green Vegetables (Carbohydrate meal).

30 minutes before bed: nuts / natural yogurt with fruit/protein shake

Final Thoughts

According to Pablo, his diet will help you lose weight, speed up metabolism, feel more energetic, and improve your recovery time after training. Moreover, the Pablo Popovitch diet will improve your digestion and your sleep as well, all while making you look leaner and ripped.

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Fundamentals Of Powerlifting Louie Simmons Instructional Review

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Fundamentals Of Powerlifting Louie Simmons DVD Review

Do you want to get strong? How strong? If being stronger than an Ox, and denser than a brick house is your goal, then powerlifting is what you need to be looking towards. If you also happen to be one of those grapplers that don’t mind fighting in the highest weight divisions, then powerlifting is really a no-brainer for you. It will do wonders even for people that grapple in lighter weight divisions, as long as it is planned and executed in an organized manner. I’ll just cut to the point: the ‘”Fundamentals Of Powerlifting” Louie Simmons Instructional has everything you need, especially if you’re a grappler or MMA fighter looking to get extremely strong.

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Who would you turn to in order to learn leg locks, or Berimbolos, or the rubber guard? It would surely be the best in the business: Danaher for leg locks, Mikey Musumeci for Berimbolos, and Eddie bravo for the Rubber guard. Why would strength training be any different? There is literally nobody better in the realm of powerlifting than Westside Barbell’s Louie Simmons, a name that is legendary in weightlifting circuits. With a lifetime in powerlifting, several books on the subject, and lots of other content, Simmons is now condensing everything into an incredible DVD instructional dubbed “The Fundamentals Of Powerlifting”.

Louie Simmons And Westside Barbell

In case you have no idea who Louie Simmons is, let me point you to the story of a legend in weightlifting. Simmons is an American powerlifter who founded the Conjugate method, also known as the Westside Conjugate Method, given that Louie has spent his entire career as part of the legendary Westside Barbell gym.

Fundamentals Of Powerlifting Louie Simmons DVD Louie has spent his lifetime lifting heavy weights and helping others do the same. He is one of the best strength coaches around and the man behind the success of plenty of acclaimed powerlifters and professional athletes. His methods are unique and extremely effective. Apart from the Conjugate methods, which have to do with the periodization of training and the use of different methods to obtain different strength or explosiveness goals, Louie is also the man behind groundbreaking lifting equipment, like the reverse hyper machine.

Louie has some crazy numbers of his own. In a competitive career that has lasted over half a century, he has a 920 lbs squat, 600 lbs. bench press, and 722 lbs. deadlift, all achieved after the age of 50! He also holds powerlifting records in five different weight categories that nobody has been able to break so far. Currently the owner of Westside Barbell in Columbus, Ohio, he now also offers his coaching tips in the form of the “Fundamentals Of Powerlifting” DVD.

Powerlifting For Grapplers

For grapplers, strength, especially relative strength, is one of the most important athletic abilities. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t just need strength in BJJ to execute techniques – in fact, that’s one aspect of Jiu-Jitsu where you don’t need it. You need strength to stay injury-free, have a solid posture, grips that are difficult to break, and control over your entire body that will allow you to transition through space, hold positions and prevent attacks in combination with technique and tactics. It is not about how much you can lift, but rather, how strong you are relative to your bodyweight. And powerlifting offers the best bang for your buck in that department.

That said, being strong for grappling does not mean you need to go out and win powerlifting competitions,. it also doesn’t mean that you have to eat, train, or look like powerlifters, who do their best to be as big as humanly possible in order to move massive amounts of weight around. Instead, you need a solid periodized training program that will get you stronger without getting you heavier, and allowing you to retain full range of motion. All of the above, along with plenty of the important aspects are all included in the “Fundamentals of Powerlifting” Louie Simmons DVD.

DVD Review: The Fundamentals Of Powerlifting By Louie Simmons

Louie Simmons came up with the Conjugate method quite a long time ago. To this day, the method still works, universally, for all types of athletes. the reason behind it is that Louie likes to keep things simple and use proven ways of making you the strongest version of yourself. Henceforth, his “Fundamentals of Powerlifting” DVD is also simple, straightforward, but incredibly effective. If there is one BJJ strength instructional that you should own, and that you can use for the rest of your life with constant progress, it has to be this one.

The program is organized in a 12-week system that will provide you with an increase in strength you’ve never thought possible. There are plenty of individual aspects to putting it together, so Louie offers a template that is highly adjustable to anyone, young or senior, female or male, white belt or black.

1. The Philosophy Of The Conjugate Method

The “Fundamentals Of Powerlifting” DVD opens up with an introduction to Louie Simmons and his training history and methodologies. Some of his own successes, along with success stories of his most famous students also feature here, helping people learn what powerlifting is, and why the bench press, deadlift, and squat are the only lifts you need.

Fundamentals Of Powerlifting Louie Simmons Everything you need to know about the conjugate system, periodization of training, the Law of accommodation, the different types of strength, etc, feature in this first part of eth instructional. Louie doesn’t hold anything back, and you’ll definitely learn about some of the myths and stories of lifting weights, and why things haven’t always worked for you as planned.

There’s also a very important proton in this first volume on overtraining, how to avoid it, and how to make sure your training program is set up in an optimal manner. Two of the staple methods of the program, the max effort and repetition method also feature here, explained in extreme detail.

2. Creating A Dynamic Method Based Program For Fighters

The second part of this Louie Simmons DVD starts off with an explanation of the natural cycle of the body which will be extremely useful to everyone that’s not already a strength coach. The key concept of accommodation also features here, as well as some interesting takes on how to do more pushups, pull-ups, and other common questions people ask.

The conjugate method itself is explained through its origin, along with the value of the three staple exercises of powerlifting – bench, squat, and deadlift. Louie leaves no stone unturned, factoring in age, warming up, general physical preparedness levels, and all other associated parameters, before moving to explain the dynamic effort method, the key part of the conjugate system for grapplers and fighters. Apart from program design, nutrition advice, gear recommendations, and thoughts on strength, muscular endurance, and cardio, there are also some key techniques in this portion. those include the power metrics squatting technique, power metrics good morning, and some incredible deadlift and bench press pointers.

Conclusion

Getting strong is hard, but not complex. The Westside Barbell Conjugate method is a tried and tested way of getting your strength levels through the roof. This Louie Simmons instructional puts everything together, helping you build a program based on your needs and capabilities. What you can bet is going to happen is that you’ll start benching, deadlifting, and squatting way more after watching the ‘Fundamentals Of Powerlifting” DVD than you ever have before. Moreover, your strength levels during grappling will be off the charts!

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