I only watched the Leg locks/back attacks and kimura ones. The kimura one kind of sucked. The leg lock one seemed the best one (I train IBJJF rules only) so I only picked bits and pieces for it.
It has the inane Danaher babbling like all his stuff do but there is a lot more other quality kimura instruction so no need to endure that.What was bad about the limits dvd?
If so, which one helped you out the most? I don't have the bank account nor the patience to go through all of his material, looking to study only one of his instructionals at the moment.
It has the inane Danaher babbling like all his stuff do but there is a lot more other quality kimura instruction so no need to endure that.
Also parts of that where low percentage (like kimuras from bottom turtle).
Back attacks is the best. Leg locks next especially if you're into those. In my opinion the next best are the armbar one and then the triangle one.
The kimura and front headlock are my least favorite which is weird because those are 2 of my favorite positions. Front headlock is good if you want to learn entries to the position and control. But I really think the submission sections left a lot to be desired. #unpopularopinion but for a guy that can put together 8 quality discs on the armbar...the guillotine/brabo/anaconda world is way too deep to cover in 2 or 3 discs. It's a shame because that was his instructional I was most interested in. The kimura set is solid early on but ends up being padded I think with some either low percentage or more "filler" techniques near the end.
None of them are bad by any means. In fact they're all quite good but some are better than others. I like armbars slightly more than triangles so I ranked it higher but both are about dead even in quality.
So my ranking of them is:
Back attacks
Leg locks
Armbar
Triangle
Headlock
Kimura
Back attacks is the best. Leg locks next especially if you're into those. In my opinion the next best are the armbar one and then the triangle one.
The kimura and front headlock are my least favorite which is weird because those are 2 of my favorite positions. Front headlock is good if you want to learn entries to the position and control. But I really think the submission sections left a lot to be desired. #unpopularopinion but for a guy that can put together 8 quality discs on the armbar...the guillotine/brabo/anaconda world is way too deep to cover in 2 or 3 discs. It's a shame because that was his instructional I was most interested in. The kimura set is solid early on but ends up being padded I think with some either low percentage or more "filler" techniques near the end.
None of them are bad by any means. In fact they're all quite good but some are better than others. I like armbars slightly more than triangles so I ranked it higher but both are about dead even in quality.
So my ranking of them is:
Back attacks
Leg locks
Armbar
Triangle
Headlock
Kimura
I only watched the Leg locks/back attacks and kimura ones. The kimura one kind of sucked. The leg lock one seemed the best one (I train IBJJF rules only) so I only picked bits and pieces for it.
I haven't seen the Rocha one. Dunno if you like Danaher's style I super dislike it. The Danaher seemed just generic with most of the unique stuff being low percentage things.i have them as i said but i have not watched the kimura or the triangle yet though whats so bad about the kimura set? tbh i dont have a deep kimura game should i try to go with vagner rochas then?
Have both but have only watched a few bits of the Danaher one so far so can't say to much about it. I just find him hard work to listen too and its putting me off.i have them as i said but i have not watched the kimura or the triangle yet though whats so bad about the kimura set? tbh i dont have a deep kimura game should i try to go with vagner rochas then?
i have them as i said but i have not watched the kimura or the triangle yet though whats so bad about the kimura set? tbh i dont have a deep kimura game should i try to go with vagner rochas then?
You'll like the back attacks set he did recently with Digitsu so if you haven't already seen it.love the Vagner Rocha one. if you bristle at Danaher or Ryan Hall's know-it-all style then you'll definitely like Vagner. He's animated, confident, and likeable. Techniques are solid all around, and you can readily find comp clips of him using most of them,
Vagner's teaching style is awesome.love the Vagner Rocha one. if you bristle at Danaher or Ryan Hall's know-it-all style then you'll definitely like Vagner. He's animated, confident, and likeable. Techniques are solid all around, and you can readily find comp clips of him using most of them,
You'll like the back attacks set he did recently with Digitsu so if you haven't already seen it.
A lot of overlap between both involving using the kimura stuff as they defend chokes that means it combines really well with the 50/50 of the Arms dvd.
Vagner's teaching style is awesome.
I must be the only person that thinks Hall and Danaher teach very differently.
They both are talkative but Danaher has more of a distance to him and seems like someone that is brilliant about grappling but doesn't train. I don't want to say it seems like he's talking down to the audience but he gives off way more of a lecturer/professor vibe.
Hall comes across as almost a knowledgeable and quirky dude that you already train with.He may have know it all moments but he's also self deprecating so it's not obnoxious.
The following two sentences are two examples that I'm making up, but it should be super obvious who is JD and who is RH.
"I don't know about you guys, but I got heel hooked all the time, and the best way to fix that from this position is to keep your feet inside of theirs."
"I'll repeat this again because it's so important. I insist that my athletes never make the critical error of keeping their feet in the outside position from here."
I have all of his instructionals. It's hard to say which one helped the most. The Back Attack series changed the way I think about about the back and demonstrated, to me anyway, many details about control that I hadn't considered. However, that said, I still do not get the back as often as I'd like. However, my armbar and triangle finishes have gone way up since watching these two series. The triangle series greatly improved my entries into the triangle and has me hitting them a few times a month now whereas before the best I could hope for was getting stacked. The armbar series for me was a godsend; My s-mount armour had always been trash prior to this series and my armbar from the guard was laughable in my opinion. With the former I always felt too light and off balance - not in control. With the latter, I felt like my terrible flexibility meant I was ever only going to hit that technique on white belts. I don't feel that way anymore. I went from not even attempting armbars outside of drilling a month ago to hitting them on longtime blue belts. For me, that's a massive improvement. My armbars are tighter, with a much higher degree of control that offers a much smaller opportunity for escape than before.
Much has been said about Danaher's teaching style. Yes, it's repetitive. Yes, it's verbose. My solution was to download the digital copies from BJJ Fanatics and watch them on VLC Player. VLC has a playback speed slider bar where you can finely adjust the speed. I find that I can watch the videos 25% faster than normal without losing any of the details. A big positive, for me, with regard to his teaching style is that it seems to stay in my head without drilling. I am not super talented when it comes to BJJ. I can almost never recall the details of a new technique unless I've drilled it numerous times. Not so with Danaher, I haven't drilled any of the details I've learned in his instructionals but I've been hitting them in live rolls from memory because I can hear him in my head. For me, it just works. However, I can understand why he annoys so many people.
Vagner's teaching style is awesome.
I must be the only person that thinks Hall and Danaher teach very differently.
They both are talkative but Danaher has more of a distance to him and seems like someone that is brilliant about grappling but doesn't train. I don't want to say it seems like he's talking down to the audience but he gives off way more of a lecturer/professor vibe.
Hall comes across as almost a knowledgeable and quirky dude that you already train with.He may have know it all moments but he's also self deprecating so it's not obnoxious.
The following two sentences are two examples that I'm making up, but it should be super obvious who is JD and who is RH.
"I don't know about you guys, but I got heel hooked all the time, and the best way to fix that from this position is to keep your feet inside of theirs."
"I'll repeat this again because it's so important. I insist that my athletes never make the critical error of keeping their feet in the outside position from here."