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Simco may not be a great competitor himself, but his BJJ Master Text is excellent. As the cliche goes, those who can't do, teach.

Thanks for posting that. If you do rehost it, could you please include the segments that were missing from the first hosting? (parts 2, 4, 5, 9, and 10. The original zip file had most parts- 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, & 14, but was missing the others.) Thanks again.

Do you have videos of any of those matches? I read that Joe actually gave Rickson a hard time, and I wouldn't be surprised if that were true. I have a video of a Rickson vs. JJ Machado match that is pretty back and forth (though Rickson eventually subbed him.) When I compare that to a match...

The argument that wearing the gi makes one more technical seems to be based on several points, which may not be entirely true or relevant: 1. The leading no-gi grapplers come from a gi background: This seems like good evidence, but as Eddie Bravo points out in his book, if Greco Roman...

Eddie isn't the first to submit a Gracie. Off the top of my head I recall that Walid Ismael clock choked Royce and Mario Sperry did the same to Royler in Gi. It is more of an evolution than a revolution, but then again, so is BJJ in general. Every position, including Half Guard, De La Riva...

Its not the overhead so much as its the low volume. If your selling a million copies of a Sopranos DVD, you can afford to not make much per DVD. A popular instructional probably sells only in the low thousands of copies, if that. The multi disc instructional sets are like getting multiple...

You could also agree to sometimes, such as if you ar preparing for a tournament, spar with no breaks allowed, but only for 5-10 mins or so (whatever the time limit in competition is for your belt level.)

While it is better to never make excuses, people often don't realize when others are going light with them or even directly giving them positions or submissions to practice working out of them. Next time someone makes an excuse, instead of instantly interpreting it as lame BS, first, ask...

You can prove to yourself the superiority of rubber guard to regular guard/open guard in mma by sparring mma. See how much less, and less forcefully you get hit on the bottom in rubber guard compared to regular, let alone open guard. Eddie may start the book on half guard, because it is only one...

How is it impossible for them to turn the point of their elbow away from your shoulder? The couple of times that this type of armbar has been attempted on me, I have gotten out of danger by turning my wrist (in both cases my left wrist, turning to the right) and pointing my eblow away from his...

The strength it seems to require is more grip strength, on his wrist, to keep him from turning his arm. This is also true, to a lesser extent with a regular armbar but you don't have your knees pinching his arm to help stop it from rotating, and with the positions of your bodies to each other...

I've done that to new white belts who I've let get my back, to demonstate that they need to be careful with their arms. Its a common counter if the person choking is sloppy with their non-choking arm. I've never seen it work against anyone decent, but I imagine it could still work if the person...

He's at Chute Box, so he's doing everything they do, but I doubt he's going there for the grappling, even though he is participating in it.

I recall that it's in the Fighters notebook as the bully mount. I haven't seen Bas' DVDs but, if it's the same position, you stay in place by holding onto the guys head as if you were doing a can opener on them from the mount, but with your legs exteded forward, your knees under their armpits...

A guy who used to go to my school before he moved had a custom mouthpiece from a dentist that cost him a lot of money, yet it still only fully protected his upper teeth. I bought one from a sporting goods store that protects both my top and bottom teeth and has a hole in the center to breathe...

Well, sandbagging is rampant at NAGA, or at least was until a year and a half ago, when I last competed. The proof was that they let people who previously took first in higher divisions (e.g. purple belt & up, advanced no gi) still compete in blue belt. When I mentioned this, they said...

Yeah, I remember now, that it was on Roy's Heel Hook seminar tape and on one of leglocks.com's Leglocks That Work tapes. Your variation is a little different, you end up with a half-boston-crab, instead of ankle lock or heel hook lying on your side, and you grab your own foot to bring it in...

Good idea. I hadn't thought of that, because I was trying to initiate it without him having to do anything first. I still would like to find a way to do that without depending on him throwing a wild punch. Also a good idea. I've actually done that before, but only in pure grappling. Again, it...

Is arm-drag, as a takedown (setup), and way of getting-the-back while standing, a flawed artifact of pure grappling that won't work in real fight or mma fight? When standing in a pure grappling match, people very often keep at least one arm down, to defend their legs against takedowns- this...

When you go for a gullotine, you could possibly end of with one of several types of guillotine, unless you readjust: 1. Just his head: standard guillotine 2. His head on one side of your body and one arm on the other side of your body: opposite-side-arm-trapped guillotine. This is the only...