Mastering the Rubber Guard: Jiu-jitsu for Mixed Martial Arts Competition

Mastering the Rubber Guard: Jiu-jitsu for Mixed Martial Arts Competition | Eddie Bravo, Erich Krauss, ... | Mastering the Rubber Guard: Jiu-Jitsu for MMA

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	Mastering the Rubber Guard: Jiu-jitsu for Mixed Martial Arts Competition Eddie Bravo, Erich Krauss, ... Victory Belt Publishing, 2006 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 44 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Well done, good illustrations, and entertaining too!

Eddie's book is a vast improvement over his last. The illustrations are well done and easy to follow. I especially like how he shows two angles of view for many of the positions. For those who have never tried the Rubber Guard, this book should give you some new tools to work with, although you will need to increase your flexibility to get the most out of it. The introduction is entertaining, but I think it detracts from the professional quality of the book a little bit. Overall, I think it is a great book for any grappler to have.

Mastering the Rubber Guard: Jiu-Jitsu for MMA

Superb!!! This book will improve your game to a new level. Great Job, Eddie!

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purple belt

Personal section, interesting to read, not my thing but if it works for him, good on him. Techniques section, best instructional book by far. It is not just a catalogue of techniques like 99% of other jiu jitsu books that fail to mention key areas that you need to make the techniques work. This book contains a COMPLETE system of grappling (we'll, if you have the first book as well). All areas are related back to each other and explained in enough detail for you to follow. five stars from me for the techniques section. If you are serious about your grappling, you should get this book

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Bravo Jiu-Jitsu & Boo-Hoo Intro

You're writing the definitive textbook on repairing transmissions for 1960's General Motors Muscle Cars. Your audience loves 1960's General Motors Muscle Cars, and they are anxious to learn about how you repair the transmissions so well. Now what kind of introduction would you write to prepare your audience for your brilliant and innovative transmission repair manual? How about 10 pages full or ramblings about your pet chihuahua?

Here Eddie told us all about his pet chihuahua, except Eddie's chihuahua is an illegal drug. The audience for his book does not care and does not want to learn about Eddie's hobbies un-related to the subject matter of the book they just bought. Although I applaud Eddie for coming out of his druggie closet, he failed completely in his choice of forum for it. If he so strongly wanted to spread his message about drugs, he should have written a book specifically about drugs to target an audience that cares about that topic. I care about grappling, and that's why I bought the book. If Eddie thinks that he "owes" drugs for his success, then he could do like every other writer and list drugs as one of his acknowledgements.

Now, about the rubber guard. This is much better than his Twister book in that this book is very focused on one position where the Twister book is focused on a general introduction to Eddie's system. The pictures are very good quality and in color. The paper is glossy high quality. Both the color pictures and paper quality are an upgrade from the Twister book.

There are a lot of moves and counters shown in this book, which makes it valuable to a grappler. The descriptions for the pictures are excellent, however they are in too small a font. Don't try reading this small print in dim light, or while in a moving car. The overviews before the pictures for each move, which are written in larger font than the descriptions, could be trimmed to about half as much text and still convey the same points.

The names for the moves don't mean anything to anyone except Eddie, which makes the names hard to remember and assimilate to anyone with a traditional judo, BJJ, sambo or wrestling background. "Old School" could better be named "basic half-guard sweep" or "half-guard foot sweep," and the Eddie-names for dozens of other moves would be more useful if the moves were named to describe what they do. The screw-driver in your toolbox was so-named because it drives screws, but Eddie might rename it an "Okatomo." What does Okatomo mean? Nothing, and that's the point with Eddie's names for these moves.

So, as big a fan of Eddie's BJJ as I am, the druggie rant, egotistical naming of moves, and small print for the descriptions brings his 5 star rating for the brilliance of his rubber guard game down to 3 stars overall for this book, Mastering the Rubber Guard.

SS Barra BJJ Seattle

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Hard to say...

It is very difficult to disassociate the introduction of the book with what follows: solid Jiu-Jitsu techniques. Already, the few reviews written either focus entirely on the fact that the beginning of this sports book is highly disturbing because of its excessive support of an illegal substance, or they focus solely on the usefulness of the techniques. I would like to focus on both.

The fact that Eddie Bravo included both parts of his Jiu-Jitsu game leaves them equally susceptible to scrutiny. That is a simply fact. That is where I will begin.

It is hard to take any athlete seriously who attributes all of his success to a drug. Even if the rubber guard works - I've seen it work in numerous Pride matches - it still doesn't bolster o even prove the fact that drugs are what made it work. That is a crazy assertion. That is the assertion that Eddie Bravo makes in the introduction.

I don't recommend the book. The book is tainted by something grime, and Bravo's lamentations about his life should really be omitted. The title of the book is "The Rubber Guard" not "Smoke Weed and do Jiu-Jitsu and play music at the Same Time." I would recommend his first book "Jiu-Jitsu Unleashed." Even though the pictures are not in color in his first book, the book, at least, focuses on Jiu-Jitsu. That is what the book should of been about.

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