Encyclopedia of Leg Locks

Author: Rigan Machado
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933901145
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
A world Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champion and trainer of many top Mixed Martial Arts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fighters, Rigan Machado reveals the techniques, training, and strategy for dominating and submitting your opponent with leg locks. Time-tested in real competition, Rigan's book is considered by many experts as the ultimate guide to leg-lock submissions, and a “must read” for all Submission fighters. It includes hundreds of photos and comprehensive information that will vastly improve the practitioner's ability to finish the opponent with devastating leg locks. This unbeatable volume is the only book you'll ever need to learn the leg locks submissions for Mixed Martial Arts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Encyclopedia of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Author: Jose M Fraguas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949753172
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
This three volumes series is fully revised, updated, and packed with more than 1,500 pictures! This masterclass work guides you step-by-step from essential Jiu Jitsu basics through the most advanced and sophisticated attacks, escapes, and defenses used by the top fighters in the UFC, ADCC and the BJJ World Championships. There never has been an instructional tool like the original series "Encyclopedia of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu". Each technique deals with separate strategies and positions, but they all combine into an integrated tactical solution to ground mastery.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Author: Alexandre Paiva
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462910009
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a guide to the most effective and devastating techniques in popular martial arts by World Champion and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu legend Alexandre Paiva. The book contains over 1,000 full-color photographs demonstrating the moves that made the author the most feared competitor in BJJ circles and now one of the most sought-after instructors. Jiu-Jitsu or Jujutsu came into prominence in the early 90's when jiu-jitsu expert Royce Gracie won the first, second, and fourth Ultimate Fighting Championships against much larger opponents who were using other styles such as boxing, muay thai, karate, and wrestling. Since then it has become one of the most popular styles in MMA due to its focus on ground fighting. Learn the techniques that have proven dominant in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournaments and in the Mixed Martial Arts cage: Takedowns The Closed Guard Passing The Closed Guard Butterfly Guard Open Guard Pass Side Control Half Guard Back Mount With sections devoted to both gi and no-gi techniques, whether training for a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament or a Mixed Martial Arts fight, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is one book no true competitor can afford to miss.

The MMA Encyclopedia

Author: Jonathan Snowden
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1554908442
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 717

Book Description
' "Did you see the big fight this weekend'" The question used to be about boxing matches, when the giants of the fight world were Mike Tyson and Roy Jones. Now fans are leaving the sweet science in droves for the combat sport of the future: mixed martial arts (MMA). MMA has drawn millions on cable and network television, as well as out-performed professional wrestling and boxing on pay-per-view. Fans are attracted to the sport, but unlike boxing (where strategy and technique are limited to using both your left and right hands), an MMA fight can be surprisingly complicated. The MMA Encyclopedia puts the fighters, the facts, and the fundamentals of the world's fastest growing sport at your fingertips as the definitive reference guide to mixed martial arts. The encyclopedia will break the MMA language barrier for those who don't know a wristlock from a wristwatch, while at the same time offering perspective and analysis that will entertain the hardcore fan who already has the basics down pat. With three appendices that detail the results of every MMA'fight in history, this the ultimate reference book for the ultimate sport.

Brazilian Jiu-jitsu

Author: Royler Gracie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931229296
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
The tactics and techniques of two of the greatest competitors in the history of mixed martial arts combat, Renzo and Royler Gracie, are captured in this book. Their "grappling" style of martial arts is explained-methods that focus on holds and throws rather than kicks and punches, and come closer to the spirit and nature of real fighting than other martial arts.

Jiu-Jitsu University

Author: Saulo Ribeiro
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
ISBN: 1628601922
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 704

Book Description
Saulo Ribeiro—six-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion—is world-renowned for his functional Jiu-Jitsu knowledge and flawless technique. In Jiu-Jitsu University, Ribeiro shares with the public for the first time his revolutionary system of grappling, mapping out more than 200 techniques that carry you from white to black belt. Illuminating common Jiu-Jitsu errors and then illustrating practical remedies, this book is a must for all who train in Jiu-Jitsu. Not your run-of-the-mill technique book, Jiu-Jitsu University is a detailed training manual that will ultimately change the way Jiu-Jitsu is taught around the globe.

The Essence of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu

Author: Rigan Machado
Publisher: Unique Publications
ISBN: 9780865681941
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
This book encompasses an amazing diversity of arm locks, chokes and leg locks in a very comprehensive manner. Rigan Machado, one of the most knowledgeable jiu jitsu instructors in the world and an active competitor himself, takes the reader through a great variety of principles, techniques and drills as used in "Machado Jiu Jitsu." This work examines the style, history, traditions and techniques of this martial arts method that shocked the world for its effectiveness.

The Complete Guide to Gracie Jiu-Jitsu

Author: Rodrigo Gracie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931229470
Category : Jiu-jitsu
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The definitive roadmap for anyone who wants to excel in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, this comprehensive guidebook offers step-by-step instruction on every aspect of the world’s most extreme and most effective martial art. More than just a string of techniques, this essential guide contains a full curriculum that will benefit martial artists of all skill levels. The methods necessary to advance quickly in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu are discussed, as well as the mental aspects of the art. Helpful instruction on a broad variety of important techniques rounds out the text, following students from the beginner’s rank of white belt all the way up to the coveted black belt of a master.

No Holds Barred!

Author: Rodrigo Gracie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931229401
Category : Jiu-jitsu
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This guide for jiu-jitsu practitioners offers 100 lethal positions of striking and grappling combination moves that will give fighters the edge they need to excel in the sport of no-holds-barred fighting. Rodrigo Gracie, winner of the 2002 Pride Fighting Championship, reveals techniques not only for high-level competitors looking to be unstoppable in the ring, but also for amateur fighters looking for new moves.

Gene Lebells Grappling World

Author: Gene LeBell
Publisher: Cfw Media
ISBN: 9780967654317
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 580

Book Description
This book has taken Gene years to write, and it is his legacy to the world of grappling. It is a massive text on the art of finishing holds. Among the 500-plus pages are chapters on grips and handles; catches and grabs; foot and leg controls; arm bars and shoulderlocks; wristlocks and twists; straight leglocks; ankle bends and twists; chokes; and necklocks and cranks. Many of the techniques shown in the volume are old, never-before-seen pro wrestling techniques. There will never be another grappling text containing so many unique and devastating finishing holds -- unless Gene LeBell pens a sequel.