Saulo Ribeiro's Instructionals VS Marcelo Garcia's

[UrbanSavage**]

I'm considering getting an instructional from either Saulo Ribeiro or Marcelo Garcia. I've never owned an instructional before but I've been training for around a year and a half now, and have been looking to do a little bit of extra training once a week on Saturdays with a friend of mine when there's no BJJ class.

Now, the way my BJJ school is set up, it's 3 gi glasses a week and 3 no gi classes a week. So, I'm basically even in my gi game and my no-gi game. If I had to lean towards one, I'm better at no-gi because I was doing it first, and I'm also eventually looking to get into MMA.

I know both of these grapplers have a series of instructionals on both no-gi and gi. I'm looking for an instructional with a surplus of info (which I'm sure I'll find from either because they're 6 DVD sets). In particular, I've been looking at Saulo's Jiu Jitsu Revolution series 1 Gi DVD and Marcelo Garcia's Winning Techniques of Submission Grappling series 1 no-gi DVD.

The reason I'm leaning towards Marcelo's DVD is my game right now involves a healthy amount of arm drags, taking the back and I've been incorporating as much X-Guard as I can, as of late. I'm not looking for a DVD that's extremely advanced, so both of these seem like good options.

If someone can recommend one over the other for me, or maybe another one of the DVD sets out of Marcelo's or Saulo's series are better than these two, any advice would be appreciated.

Marcelo's
http://www.budovideos.com/shop/customer/product.php?productid=17104&cat=&page=1

Saulo's
http://www.budovideos.com/shop/customer/product.php?productid=19769&cat=&page=1

 

[sproggdawg]

Having only trained for a year and a half I would suggest Saulo's DVD's. Arm drags and X-guard are great, but its fundamental that matter when the shit hit the fan.

 

[UrbanSavage**]

Having only trained for a year and a half I would suggest Saulo's DVD's. Arm drags and X-guard are great, but its fundamental that matter when the shit hit the fan.

Yeah, definetely fundamentals are key in BJJ. The thing for me is, I'm getting a lot of fundamentals during the 4-6 other days I train at BJJ at my school, I was thinking Marcelo's DVD's would be good to enhance the strongest points of my game.

Does this seem like a reasonable thought or should I just cram more fundamentals in when doing extra training?

 

[sproggdawg]

It does seem reasonable. My concern is that alot of guys become enamored with fancier techniques and begin to ignore the basics. The arm drag to the RNC is by far my highest percentage setup/sub, so I cant fault you for wanting Marcelo's DVD's(I have them). Just make sure you dont neglect what your instructor is teaching you just so you can practice the fancier shit. Youll regret it later if you do.

 

[anaconda]

plus, you probably wont be able to add all this stuff to your game if youre attending class regularly. the only things that will end up sticking with you are things that coincide with where your game is or where its heading.

stick to saulo's as it is much more useful over all, dealing with fundamentals and talking about principles and positions rather than emphasizing techniques. best instructional by far.

 

[anaconda]

of course if you can use torrents, well...but i wont advocate that:redface:

 

[genkisudo69]

saulo is better for you. saulo is all about basic bjj.
marcello is great but learn his method is very difficult.
usually i learn a lot from saulo and uses some armdrags from marcello.
marcello