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...waited until the last minute but I did order Passing the Guard.
Ryan Hall's NEW DVD'S *Yep,
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Only half way through the first DVD of Passing the Guard. It is the awesomeness!
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For some reason they didn't give me any confirmation Emails but if you log on to the WMA website with your account you can find your order and a link to the shipping UPS tracking website. Mine came in last friday.
Half of the way through Passing and this is ridiculously good. Ryan has tightened up his delivery from the arm triangles series. That set was fantastic but delivery bordered upon verbose, much tighter in Passing. I'm watching once all the way through then I'll go back and watch a second time with notepad in hand.
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I believe I ordered Tuesday and got it in Arkansas on Saturday. Good speed considering Thanksgiving was during that span.
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Half way through. Pretty awesome. Only thing I think is weird is seph staring at the camera
Kinda creepy
Totally worth buying
Kinda creepy
Totally worth buying
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Am i the only one who thinks that Seph is a clone of the guy playing the "The pin" in Brick?
He looks like he had a rough night out the day before filming
Okay glad I'm not the only one. Normally I wouldn't worry, but I could swear they said there would be a confirmation email.
ALSO, for anyone who thinks they are too late, it looks like this got extended for another several days (with a new coupon code for cyber Monday). IDK I hate physical media but I'll do whatever to support Ryan, hopefully it is enough to get him to release more instructionals for next year.
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Brb, sending naked pictures of myself to you.
P.S. I'm a dude
P.P.S. An ugly one.
P.P.P.S. Can't wait to roll, buddy!
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Great vids. Does anyone know why Ryan blinks so much?
For some reason it distracts me from his instruction.
I believe he has Tourette's Syndrome. Although with 14 pages that I haven't read through, I'm sure somebody has already answered this.
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I'm about 2/3rds of the way through the 2nd disc, and he's just getting into the Leo Vieira style kneeling pass sequences. This set what you would expect it to be. Very good.
The first disc is like all of Ryan Hall's first discs, they're conceptual. Everything here is focused on stability, posture, alignment, pressure, etc. A lot of time and attention is put on understanding that you can go over, under, around, or through the guard...and then covering the fundamental guard passing positions (both knees, both feet, or 1 and 1). It seems fundamental, but Hall explains that very often people will be in the wrong position for the pass they are trying to do.
It's very cool to see Hall covering some of the more "in vogue" style guards and guard passing, and he has some cool perspectives on the knee-up led drag (Mendes) vs knee-down leg drag (Galvao/Cobrinha) methods. There's a good bit about the importance of passing towards the back, away from their defenses, and if you have the back attacks or arm triangles sets, you'll have an easy time spotting lots of openings for your harness, chair sits, side chokes, brabos/darces, ezekiels, armlocks, etc. From the chapter list it looks like the 3rd disc will actually cover some passing sequences to the back or various arm triangle attacks.
There's no point in talking about too many specific passing sequences. They're awesome though. There's a Reverse De La Riva pass to counter the dragon kiss style inversion that I have not seen used or taught anywhere, and it's pretty bad ass.
Not sure what else to say. If you've had any of his sets then you know what you're getting. Last year he just put out the arm triangles set, and usually he puts out 2 sets at a time. Last year I had heard it was arm triangles and guard passing. I was disappointed the guard passing didn't happen, but it's out now, and was a cool surprise.
One neat thing is that it's clear Hall's MMA training is in play, because he's always stressing the importance that the pass or passing concept work in Gi, Nogi, or in MMA. He always points out when certain things are going to need to change based on what you're doing, or whether this movement or that grip may need to change if the gi is on or off, or if punches are flying.
Ryan Hall can talk a lot (like this post which I promise to end) but everything is for a purpose, and this is still a very concise set. Everything is clear and direct. Production quality is high, angles are good. Yeah...check it out for the holidays. It's awesome and whether you have a lot of experience or are a new student, there is definitely stuff here that will help you.
Like someone else said, with the discount I would buy it for the first disc alone. These are probably the only actual DVDs that I would buy as of 2013. There aren't many DVDs left, and this is a good one.
5/5.
The first disc is like all of Ryan Hall's first discs, they're conceptual. Everything here is focused on stability, posture, alignment, pressure, etc. A lot of time and attention is put on understanding that you can go over, under, around, or through the guard...and then covering the fundamental guard passing positions (both knees, both feet, or 1 and 1). It seems fundamental, but Hall explains that very often people will be in the wrong position for the pass they are trying to do.
It's very cool to see Hall covering some of the more "in vogue" style guards and guard passing, and he has some cool perspectives on the knee-up led drag (Mendes) vs knee-down leg drag (Galvao/Cobrinha) methods. There's a good bit about the importance of passing towards the back, away from their defenses, and if you have the back attacks or arm triangles sets, you'll have an easy time spotting lots of openings for your harness, chair sits, side chokes, brabos/darces, ezekiels, armlocks, etc. From the chapter list it looks like the 3rd disc will actually cover some passing sequences to the back or various arm triangle attacks.
There's no point in talking about too many specific passing sequences. They're awesome though. There's a Reverse De La Riva pass to counter the dragon kiss style inversion that I have not seen used or taught anywhere, and it's pretty bad ass.
Not sure what else to say. If you've had any of his sets then you know what you're getting. Last year he just put out the arm triangles set, and usually he puts out 2 sets at a time. Last year I had heard it was arm triangles and guard passing. I was disappointed the guard passing didn't happen, but it's out now, and was a cool surprise.
One neat thing is that it's clear Hall's MMA training is in play, because he's always stressing the importance that the pass or passing concept work in Gi, Nogi, or in MMA. He always points out when certain things are going to need to change based on what you're doing, or whether this movement or that grip may need to change if the gi is on or off, or if punches are flying.
Ryan Hall can talk a lot (like this post which I promise to end) but everything is for a purpose, and this is still a very concise set. Everything is clear and direct. Production quality is high, angles are good. Yeah...check it out for the holidays. It's awesome and whether you have a lot of experience or are a new student, there is definitely stuff here that will help you.
Like someone else said, with the discount I would buy it for the first disc alone. These are probably the only actual DVDs that I would buy as of 2013. There aren't many DVDs left, and this is a good one.
5/5.
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