I am finally in a position to spend a little cash on no-gi instructionals and am looking for input into where I should spend my money.
It looks like bjjprim8 has been giving reviews but I must have missed them because I can't find the threads.
I have about $200-300 to spend. I was thinking of getting either Sperry Vale Tudo 1 or Sperry's Submission Grappling set and then adding on another cheaper set or some individual dvds.
I have been rolling for about 2 1/2 years (all no-gi) but have been out with a neck injury for about 9mo. The doc has finally cleared me (sort-of) to roll sometime in the next 1-2 mo provided my range of motion gets to where it needs to be.
I think his no gi stuff was his weakest set. Vale Tudo 1& 2 are very good. I would wait for Saulo's no gi set and wait for reviews on Caesar Gracie's new no gi set.
there is very little overlap between ValeTudo 1 and 2. In fact, I think there is none. I think VT 1 is a must have. VT2, I liked the top control tape, but the others were just alright.
If i were you, i might wait for the saulos to come out. Or you can get the gi less set from Cesar.
Baret's tapes are among the very best in no-gi grappling and MMA. It's
annoying there aren't DVDs (we must all bug Burton a lot more about
this!), but if there aren't plans for DVD conversion soon and you want to
see some top class no-gi closed guard, then you'll just have to bite the
bullet.
I don't suppose anyone cut and pasted bjjprim8's reviews into a word document.
Probably too much to ask for but I thought I'd ask since I feel like I'm wasting peoples time by asking about instructionals as he seems to have been reviewing recently.
If not and anyone remembers his 4 and 5 star reviews I would love a quick list or overview.
oh i do have to say barret yoshida has the best set on the guard for diffrent aspects of the game that i have ever seen, the stuff he shows is the matrix of what grappling really is , cant belive the stuff he was showing no filler at all. kind of hard to put into words you just have to see it for yourself/
ive been able to use most of the stuff on sperrys vale tudo 1 right away althogh i already knew pretty much all the techniques on the tape his approach is very practical.
I got my hands on VT 1, 2 and 3 a couple of years ago. A friend and I started meeting about 3 times a week and drilling the techniques hard for like 2 hours at a time, and fuck me dead! Our games went through the roof!! We were killing people on the mat!
1 and 2 are awsome!!! 3 was ok but I never could get the grip to work all that well for me, and the set kinda revolves around it.
his no gi set wasn't the greatest....and I havn't got his gi sets.
What I really got out of his sets was...a gameplan, from almost all of the various positions, top and bottom..He teaches great combinations of attacks..You get a great idea of the basic do's and donts from everywhere. I always had a plan, and a couple of backup plans based on my opponents various defences.