Key Takeaways
- A 3-part Gi BJJ instructional offering a revolutionary way of organizing DVDs.
- It offers various sweep attacks from different guards, followed up with the best ways to beat them.
- Contains closed guard, half guard, butterfly, lasso, collar-sleeve, spider, DLR, and X-guard.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 10.5 out of 10.
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I just love it when people make BJJ simple again, but introduce originality into what they have to teach that blows my mind away. This is exactly what the Two Sides One Game Sweep and Pass Marcos Tinoco DVD does, with one of Marcelo Garcia’s star students showing the way forward for BJJ instructionals.
Marcos Tinoco offers a unique way of organizing BJj DVDs by exploring the subject of guard through both the lens of the guard player and passer. In doing so, he not only offers options for everyone’s affinity but also helps people understand each aspect of guard wars better since they now know what the other person is trying to achieve.
Reverse Engineering in BJJ
The art of reverse engineering things in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is not something that is optional. You simply have to master the ability to figure out what you’re supposed to do, whether it is offense or defense, in order to beat a position you’re struggling with.
The best way to approach it is to put yourself in the opponent’s shoes, or better said, Gi. What I mean is that you need to do the opposite of what your goal is, and reverse engineer from there.
Let’s say you’re trying to pass the butterfly guard, which is something covered in this Two Sides One Game Sweep and Pass Marcos Tinoco DVD. Start playing the butterfly for a while, and focus on preventing passing and sweeping. Then, take all that knowledge and apply it to your passing game, reverse engineering the goals the bottom person has.
Doing this allows you to beat any type of position and keep dealing with it as positions evolve and adapt. While your coach’s input is invaluable, it will lcome down to you to work out the finest details, which can only happen if you know what your opponent si trying to do to you, not just name the position they’re in.
Marcos “Lekinho” Tinoco
When Marcelo Garcia awards you a black belt, you know that you really are one hell of a grappler. The GOAT (which Marcelo is, according to me) was Marcos Tinoco’s mentor throughout the Brazilian’s Jiu-Jitsu journey, despite not being there during his early grappling days.
Tinoco started to train in his native Rio de Janeiro, when he was 16, focusing on competing a lot along with the strong team at Araruama Jiu-Jitsu. As a purple belt, he went to the US, first to compete, and then to live and work as a coach at a friend’s academy.
It was Tinoco’s wife Hana who introduced him to Marcelo, who she worked for when the two met. The rest is history, as joining MG Jiu-JItsu is any competitor’s dream. Mareclo guided Tinoco to a world title as a brown belt, and eventually to his black belt.
Marcos went on to conquer the Euros twice, No-Gi Pans twice, and the Brazilian nationals at black belt and launching himself as one of the top competitors in the world. His competitive appearances have been scarce after the pandemic, but he has been training and coaching actively.
While we may not see him regularly on the competition mats, we get to enjoy some of his trade secrets through his Two Sides One Game Sweep and Pass Marcos Tinoco DVD. Let’s see if any of Marcelo’s teaching magic has imparted on Tinoco along with all the grappling knowledge.
Two Sides One Game Sweep and Pass Marcos Tinoco DVD Review
The Two Sides One Game Sweep and Pass Marcos Tinoco DVD is an instructional that offers a revolutionary format for not just demonstrating Jiu-Jitsu in DVDs but also teaching and learning the sport. Tinoco offers both aspects of guard attacks, in terms of executing and defeating them over the course of three volumes. This Gi Jiu-Jitsu DVD lasts just over two hours.
Part 1 – Closed & Half Guard
I am really enjoying simplicity more than anything else these days, and this Two Sides One Game Sweep and Pass Marcos Tinoco DVD is the perfect example of working with nothing but the most basic.
He begins by demonstrating a couple of attacks from the closed guard, showing great detail on the scissor sweep and the hip bump. Immediately following those chapters are the counters to these moves from the top, showing how to neutralize them and pass the guard.
He moves on to half guard attacks in the same fashion, spending a bit more time on both top and bottom options from the most used guard in BJJ, including great details on the Bikini Sweep.
Part 2 – Butterfly, Spider & Collar-Sleeve Guard
Sticking to the same bottom followed by top narrative, Tinoco moves on to open guards in the second part of the instructional. The butterfly guard is first, with a great breakdown of hook sweeps, both from the guard player’s and the passer’s perspective.
Since this is Gi instructional, Marcos shifts his attention to Gi-based guards, with the collar-sleeve guard featuring before the spider guard in this part of the Two Sides One Game Sweep and Pass Marcos Tinoco DVD.
I particularly enjoy the portion on the collar sleeve guard, especially the wrestle up sweep. Given that Marcelo was among the first to introduce wrestling to BJJ, Tinoco offers incredible details on both executing and dealing with this awesome attack.
Part 3 – Lasso, DLR and X Guard
The third part of the Two Sides One Game Sweep and Pass Marcos Tinoco DVD is all about the most utilized open guards in the sport, starting with the lasso guard. While I am not personally a fan of the lasso I found the passing portion particularly useful, which is what makes this DVD so unique.
The X-guard portion which wraps the instructional up is incredibly useful, featuring lots of Marcelo’s own innovations in a position that he pioneered during his competitive days. There are tactics for destroying the X-guard that also seem effective, although I doubt they’d work on Marcelo.
The De la Riva guard sits between the lasso and X-guard in this part of the Marcos Tinoco DVD, offering a couple of regular and RDLR sweeps, and, of course, the methods to best deal with them when someone’s trying to use them against you.
Best Way To Learn Defense/Offense
My answers often frustrate people in the academy who ask them, but then again, I am answering what they inquired about. When someone asks me the best way to defend armbars, for example, I tell them to start doing armbars.
Frustration comes out of the fact that my answer wouldn’t fit in a YouTube Short while offering a way to beat any armbar they come up against. It sucks, I know, but learning Jiu-Jitsu is not easy, and it takes experimenting a lot.
I have a similar answer to give those who like to start learning armbars – I encourage them to get caught in armbars intentionally first before they get the task of not allowing any armbars.
The method behind this madness is that if you understand what the other person is going to do, you’ll be a lot better equipped to learn how to do what you want to do, be it attack or defense. Everything we do in BJJ has two sides to it, and you’ll be on either one of those, so understanding the goals for each helps balance your development in any given area.
The Two Sides One Game Sweep and Pass Marcos Tinoco DVD is a unique instructional that is the only one addressing this aspect of BJJ in DVD format. Marcos decided to offer both sides of guards in immediate proximity to each other in a quest to help grapplers better understand Jiu-Jitsu. And it works!
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Pass & Sweep!
I genuinely feel that everyone who considers doing a BJJ instructional needs to follow the structure presented in the Two Sides One Game Sweep and Pass Marcos Tinoco DVD. Even better, everyone should apply this method to learning anything they’re interested in exploring in-depth. In the instance of this instructional, guard attacks got a different, far more realistic perspective compared to the traditional method of following a bunch of steps against no resistance. Let’s make BJJ work again!
