Rorion Gracie & Royce Gracie – Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Basics

These cassettes provided many Americans with their first exposure to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teaching.
Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Basics, being one of the earliest mass-market video sets available, is showing its age, yet it still has lot to offer.
The package includes five volumes: * How to Close the Distance * Escape the Mounted Position * Pass the Guard * Escape From Headlocks Armlocks and Chokes as Finishing Holds (Note: Originally, each book was offered on its own tape.
All five volumes are now available on three cassettes.)
Content
The first segment, How to Close the Distance, teaches you how to enter a clinch, take a challenger to the ground, and obtain the mount position.
This is taken from a self-defense standpoint.
The demonstrated technique is to duck beneath a punch and slip into a body grip.
The takedown is then accomplished with a hip throw or leg sweep.
As your opponent falls, you walk over them to finish up in the mount.
How to Escape from the Mounted Position teaches the basic arch and roll escape (also known as upa) and a simple sliding escape (elbow knee escape).
How to Pass the Guard explains how to pass the guard by placing one arm under one of your challenger’s legs and forcing it forward onto his chest.
The strategy demonstrated is a topic of continual contention since it may easily lead to your own surrender rather than a guard pass.
A player must know far more than what is displayed to be practical.
How to Escape From Headlocks is a useful collection of contingency-based tactics for escaping a head hold from the side mount position.
Many of these escapes lead to an arm lock submit.
Finishing Holds includes many arm locks and a choke.
This section also covers the submission for the headlock escape.