Key Takeaways
- A two-part DVD bundle with a couple of Roger Gracie classics on side control and mount.
- Goes over all the moves Roger incorporates in his game, starting with control principles and ending in submission.
- 4+ hours of world-class material on dominating side control and mount, presented in the Gi but intended for any type of grappling.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 9.5 out of 10.
SIDE AND MOUNT SYSTEM ROGER GRACIE DVD BUNDLE GET HERE
The Side and Mount System Roger Gracie DVD Bundle is as close as you’ll ever get to grappling like Roger Gracie. What it will do for you is improve your chest-to-chest pinning more than you thought was possible. It will also improve your finishing rate from those positions.
What it won’t do for you is automatically turn you into a world champion, allow you to tap everyone in your gym, or advance your BJJ progress in a Derek Mooneyberg-like fashion. Is it worth exploring? Yeah, it is, but since you find it prudent to ask that question about Roger Gracie material, check out the detailed review.
Roger Gracie: Simplicity Embodied
Deciding to go the Roger Gracie way means you’re already quite advanced, probably brown belt or beyond, or you’re unusually smart for a white/blue belt. Roger offers fundamentals at such an advanced level that you’d likely miss out on tons of details if he didn’t guide your attention to them.
The man did what very few have managed to come close to, and even fewer to replicate over the years. He’s won everything in Gi and No-Gi, had a solid career in MMA, but it was the way he did it that made him the GOAT—even according to Danaher. He submitted everyone in his way during his World and ADCC victories—on more than one occasion.
Roger always chose to do the basics—he likes to use closed guard, simple chokes, mounted pressure—but in such a way that he puts other black belts to shame. This Roger Gracie Bundle contains quite a lot of info on how he sets up his top positions, and you’d be a fool not to go for it.
Side and Mount System Roger Gracie DVD Bundle Review
The Roger Gracie Side and Mount Bundle is simple and straightforward, just like his game—seven volumes total, two DVDs, and just over three hours of material. Somehow, it’s all you’ll ever need to become a real nuisance from top pinning positions.
The Roger Gracie Mount System DVD — AVAILABLE HERE
Subject Matter:
The Side and Mount System Roger Gracie DVD Bundle begins with Roger’s dreaded mount system that was impossible to defend against—and yes, it features the notorious cross choke with all the juicy details.
Key Points Covered:
Roger’s introduction is a 15-minute-long chapter on the concepts of control and positioning from mount, which will teach you more about the position than 15 months of training. He then shares how to isolate the arms, gaining the ultimate control over the bottom person.
The cross choke doesn’t appear until the third volume of the Side and Mount System Roger Gracie DVD Bundle. Before you get ~20 minutes of details on it, you can enjoy control details on different mounts (low to high), grip tactics, and re-guard prevention. Oh, and there are armlocks too—bent and straight!
Technical DVD Specifications:
Just over an hour of material opens up the account in the Roger Gracie Side and Mount Bundle. Gracie spreads it all over three volumes and does every demonstration with the Gi on. Old-school.
The Roger Gracie Side Control System — DOWNLOAD HERE
Subject Matter:
Part two of the Side and Mount System Roger Gracie DVD Bundle is all about holding side control, setting up Kimura traps, lapel chokes, and eventually getting to the mount.
Key Points Covered:
Once again, Roger opts for concepts first, devoting almost all of the material in the first volume of this DVD to control details and principles. A short introduction of the Kimura grip is the only other subject in this opening volume.
Once that’s out of the way, this second portion of the Roger Gracie bundle delivers plenty of chokes (paper cutter, lapel, baseball bat, and triangle) and armlocks (Kimuras, wrist locks, and armbars). Everything you need to dominate everyone you ever trap in your side control.
Transitions to the mount also feature, involving concepts like being a “side control bully” and enforced by back exposure. Sequencing of attacks from side control and how to constantly threaten your opponent is another major theme in this DVD.
Technical DVD Specifications:
This Roger Gracie DVD offers around two hours of supercharged details on side control domination and contains four volumes. Both conceptual and technical instructions, with the Gi, feature in it.
Copying the Games of BJJ World Champions
You’ll never be what Roger Gracie is (or was). Before you go off thinking you can beat everyone with his material, you need a reality check—be sure to come back to these every time you get frustrated with the Side and Mount System Roger Gracie DVD Bundle.
That said, there is something unexplainable when you pull off something so super simple and sick like a cross choke from mount against your gym rival for the first time. It’s way better than catching them in a buggy choke or some nutty leg lock from an overcomplicated position.
The only way you can hope to copy anything from world champions is if you manage to understand what they’re doing. In the case of Roger Gracie, as opposed to others, this is fairly easy, as he loves to stick to simple fundamentals. So if you’re dead set on copying someone—start with Roger. You’ll likely end there as well.
SIDE AND MOUNT SYSTEM ROGER GRACIE DVD BUNDLE DOWNLOAD
Pressure like Roger!
Well, almost like Roger, even if you have his body type and his weight. The principles outlined in the opening parts of each of the instructionals in the Side and Mount System Roger Gracie DVD Bundle are all you need to feel like you’re 300 lbs heavy from top. It kind of makes all the submissions that follow feel like an unfair advantage—almost like playing with cheat codes.
