Key Takeaways
- A 3-volume No-Gi instructional that sheds a lot of light on calf slicers and their place in the leg lock game.
- Covers finishing mechanics in great detail, offering a few different ways to get a tap with calf slicers.
- Features a complete system that explains the role an timing of the calf slicer attacks in a submission hunting system.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 9.5 out of 10.
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If you want to be on top of everything that happens in the BJJ world and be hunting for all the new stuff that seems to be working at the highest levels, then calf slicers deserve your full attention. If recent matches are anything to go off of, then this is a very promising direction to explore for submission hunters.
The Slicin’ Calves Mikey Musumeci DVD comes at the perfect time to offer not just an overview of the most effective ways to hunt for calf slicers, but also a completely new approach to making this forgotten leg lock one of your best weapons. With Mikey at the helm, you already know what to expect, but if you want to learn more, read on!
Calf Slicers On the Rise
These days, the calf slicer is slowly creeping into the spotlight. We’ve seen plenty of uses over the years, from Eddie Bravo’s truck and ham sandwich systems, all the way to Lachlan’s distal control-based attacks, but none of them seemed to really stick and spread like heel hooks did.
Enter Helena Crevar and her incredibly impressive finish against Maggie Grindatti Lira at FPI 10 and the world suddenly started thinking about calf slicers again. Whether by coincidence or not, the Slicin’ Calves Mikey Musumeci DVD appeared just a couple of weeks later, adding fuel to the calf-slicing fire.
Long overdue, if you ask me. The calf slicer is a great way to ensure you don’t lose on an Ashi when the knee line is no longer under your control. You can use the threat of calf slicers to prevent any leg locks escape from Ashi, and even to follow-up to the back if you decide to change gears. Plus, it delivers a very fast and equally as powerful way to finish every one.
Mikey Musumeci’s Leg Lock Game
Mikey has one of the best leg-locking games in the world at the moment. His success lies in the fact that he is not just banking on using his signature Mikey Lock all the time but has no trouble diversifying his attacks to include everything that works.
Honestly, Mikey Musumeci has such a well-rounded game that he is dangerous from anywhere. However, if I had to pinpoint a couple of his strongest attacking areas, I’d say leg locks and back attacks. These areas tend to be favored by most top-level competitors, but sometimes, connecting them can be complicated.
That’s a gap that the Slicin’ Calves Mikey Musumeci DVD helps fill. Now, Mike shares his thoughts on one of the most underutilized and underestimated leg locks in the history of grappling sports. With calf slicers somehow becoming the move of the day lately, Mikey’s system is a great way to get ahead of your competition, fast!
Slicin’ Calves Mikey Musumeci DVD Review
The Slicin’ Calves Mikey Musumeci DVD contains three volumes, with al the material delivered in No-Gi. Each volume lasts a different amount of time, the first being the longest, and the total running length of the instructional being around two hours:
Part 1 – Calf Slicer Pre Requisites
Musumeci is always very methodical in his instructional and the Slicin’ Calves Mikey Musumeci DVD is no different. The first volume is the longest, and it delivers a very deep dive into calf slicers, from mechanics to setups, and most importantly, key problems and troubleshooting.
Mikey first talks about his favorite calf slicer finishes, before explaining where the calf slicer fits in the leg lock game. He follows up with a few core concepts – keeping a bent leg, placing tension on the leg, hip bites and how to use turning escapes into an advantage for yourself.
The breaking mechanics of calf slicers appear toward the end of this volume, and Mikey offers an alternative approach to anything I have heard until today, I am a huge fan of calf slicers. The most important chapter in this part, according to me, is the one explaining how far you can go with a calf slicer, and when to stop to avoid serious injuries in training.
Part 2 – A Different Way To Calf Slice
If Mikey stopped at his introductory volume, and just called it an instructional, it would’ve been a great one on its own. However, he has more to add (of course) with his actual calf slicing game explained in further detail in the second and third parts of the Mikey Musumeci Calf Sllicer DVD.
As I mentioned, Mikey has a different finishing idea for calf slicers, which he demonstrates through sequences. He starts with guards, such as the SLX and the K guard, offering complete context on how to get to a calf slicer, where your key checkpoints are, and how to finish should be applied.
A few back attacking follow-ups help round off Mikey’s game, and the idea behind attacking with calf slicers from bottom positions.
Part 3 – Alternative Finishes
Part three of the Slicin’ Calves Mikey Musumeci DVD introduces even more variety into the calf slicing game, providing different finishes and different ways to set up the submission based on the opponent’s reactions.
Submission-wise, Mikey uses positioning to adjust the finishing mechanics, offering ways to wrap a calf slicer up from under the opponent, from the side, or when you’re squared up. He also goes over the pros and cons of the different variations, providing you with a roadmap of when to use each one.
Common reactions like peeling hooks and rolling are just opportunities for Mikey to turn his attacks into different attacks, with back takes, Berimbolos, and falling back into deeper leg locks the routes demonstrated in this part of the instructional.
The X Factor Is…
While we all love to drool over the crazy amounts of control that BJJ positions offer and chant the ‘control before submission’ mantra, there are moves that only work because they come out of nowhere, and deliver the element of surprise.
The calf slicer is exactly that a move that has that X factor which is a surprise. There is a dual advantage to having calf slicers in your game – you have a move that people won’t see coming, and it is the same move that you can use to prevent them from defending leg locks, escaping the turtle, or getting out of your back control.
Not many moves in Jiu-Jitsu double as quick and painful submissions, and versatile follow-ups to many of your opponent’s defenses. The calf slicer is definitely in a category of its own, which is covered in great detail in the Slicin’ Calves Mikey Musumeci DVD.
So, calf slicers are somewhat illegal (until brown belt) to use. So what? That doesn’t mean you can’t be thinking forward!
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Slice ‘Em Up!
No point in waiting to see if calf slicers really become the next big thing in Jiu-Jitsu! It’s much smarter to pick up the Slicin’ Calves Mikey Musumeci DVD now and start adding these moves to your arsenal, regardless of how mainstream or not they are. At the end of the day, they work, and people have little idea of how to defend them – the perfect combination!
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