Ryan Hall's NEW DVD'S *Yep,

[Caladan]

At the end of the day I feel like I easily got my money's worth. I liked the details to finishing the passes, especially the single underhook and the leg drag. I need to go back and study the transitioning between passes and some of the grip fighting stuff, but otherwise quality stuff as expected.

One thing I would have liked to see more of, or perhaps I just need to watch again, would be establishing those passing positions from standing. One thing I've noticed in a lot of instructions for guard passing, unfortunately, is that when demo-ing standing passes, they always have the guy just kind of laying flat on his back. IDK if its just my school (or all schools in my city), but none of my training partners or opponents play that game. They play sitting guard or shin to shin or whatever else the case may be.

 

[sleeps anywhere]

Dude, Ryan knows his Terminator. You need to sit down and watch the masterpiece that is T2 again.

Finally got my guard passing DVDs. Looking forward to lots and lots of "aha" moments.

Arnold was the T-800, Robert Patrick was the T-1000.

Arnold was the T-800, Liquid metal was the t-1000, nano-girl was the tx

Thanks for the clarification, guys. I know what I'll be watching over the X-mas break.

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Actually, while we're on the subject of Ryan's pop culture references, there's something he says on the inverted guard series (I think...I have been wrong before) along the lines of "And he's like 'yea, yea, yea' and I'm like 'naw, naw, naw...back the f**k up [probably some name].'"

Anyone knows what this is from?

 

[Patrick F Carey]

and the troll ones

 

[Drew Foster]

Thanks for the clarification, guys. I know what I'll be watching over the X-mas break.

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Actually, while we're on the subject of Ryan's pop culture references, there's something he says on the inverted guard series (I think...I have been wrong before) along the lines of "And he's like 'yea, yea, yea' and I'm like 'naw, naw, naw...back the f**k up [probably some name].'"

Anyone knows what this is from?

It's from the new season of eastbound and down. Kenny powers

 

[selfcritical]

You wouldn't know where to get them? I've never tried but if you're interested I think it would be very easy. A few starting places:
1) The internet.
2) The guy in your BJJ class who looks like he is on the juice.
3) The biggest, cut guy in any weight lifting gym.
4) Probably, any specialist gym/fitness/supplement store that is independent and not part of a chain.

Also I remember there being evidence relatively recently that suggested gains from steroid use can be potentially prevalent years after stopping taking them. Just if you are interested in starting.


Your last question is interesting, it had me thinking. I think the main difference however is that supplements are the raw materials e.g. protein, certain biochemicals etc. whereas steroids (and other hormones (e.g. EPO) + pharmacological agents) directly alter your metabolism and your homeostasis.
I also think (perhaps due to the above reason) these agents seem to give the user an 'unfair advantage', out of proportion to how easy it is to take them.

It really depends on what you work on. The main advantage is increased recovery ability. So if you take a bunch of deca and just blast yourself with more HIIT than any human being could recover from.....I wouldn't expect that to last long.

If you use it to do Smolov, and keep up reasonable lower volume squatting after, I would expect your squat to stay up for quite a while.

 

[MyBodyHurts]

I've ordered all of Ryan's sets through groundfighter.com, as well as other sets through Amazon (but sold by World Martial Arts). Throughout the years their customer service has been excellent.

I'm writing this because I got both the guard passing and inverted guard DVD's. While watching the second DVD on guard passing it kept jamming around number 14. I wrote to groundfighter about it and without speaking to anyone they sent me another copy of the second DVD.

I'll be the first to complain about a company who treats me poorly so figured it was only fair to mention this. I'd definitely recommend people order from them and support their business.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

i finally picked my dvds up the other day - just working through the first dvd - taking notes, replaying it over and over.

good stuff as usual.

 

[Celestion30]

I just got this for xmas. Anyone notice that he said "Now that I don't compete anymore"?

 

[Drew Foster]

I just got this for xmas. Anyone notice that he said "Now that I don't compete anymore"?

Yeah man. He's been outta the straight grappling/bjj game for a while now. In early 2012 he went to pursue mma and he's had a few fights now.

 

[Kozbot]

At the end of the day I feel like I easily got my money's worth. I liked the details to finishing the passes, especially the single underhook and the leg drag. I need to go back and study the transitioning between passes and some of the grip fighting stuff, but otherwise quality stuff as expected.

One thing I would have liked to see more of, or perhaps I just need to watch again, would be establishing those passing positions from standing. One thing I've noticed in a lot of instructions for guard passing, unfortunately, is that when demo-ing standing passes, they always have the guy just kind of laying flat on his back. IDK if its just my school (or all schools in my city), but none of my training partners or opponents play that game. They play sitting guard or shin to shin or whatever else the case may be.

This. There needs to be more breakdown on getting the proper foot position, hip alignment, and body structure to enter the passing positions. From example getting the proper angle for the knee slide can take all types of resetting, footwork, and flattening your opponent out.