Tinguinha's Open Guard for Beginners

My instructor, Tinguinha, is coming out with a new instructional DVD called "Open Guard for Beginners". They're now accepting pre-sale orders:

http://www.fightlife.com/catalog/pr...d=400&osCsid=b5c3f8232dd6ed5d44d47addd3db2355

 

sorry for my ignorance but how good is his english? i think its a great topic to release an instructional out on now, could be pretty good

 

He's got very good English.

 

He's in Gustavo Machado's half/quarter guard DVD

 

His instructional for the Spider Guard was great. Its awesome to see an open guard instructional for beginners.

 

awesome, thanks

 

This could be very helpful to my game, thank you.

 

Not to jack the thread, but do you have an opinion of how Machado's half guard DVD compares with Kesting's?

 

never saw kesting's

 

kesting's is a basic half guard dvd. Very very basic. Gustavo machado is blue belt +

 

I want to buy some of Tinguinha's stuff, but it's so damn expensive. A single dvd of his can range from 40-60 dollars on budovideo.com.

It was my birthday this past week, and instead of ordering one uber expensive dvd, I ordered a 12 disk dvd set for $100 which has guys like Rodrigo Medeiros, Joe Moriera, Rey Diogo, and Rinaldo Santos on it.

I love the Medeiros dvd's, and while I think Moriera's guard passing dvd's revolve a little too much around the 'smash pass', it's some really great stuff. I've only watched 6 of the dvd's so far, but it's some high quality stuff. There's enough material on these dvd's to keep me busy with new stuff for at least 6 months.

 

Gosh darn it I told myself NO MORE Dvd's, more live training at the dojo. It's like a drug, I can't control myself. I just need to buy one more and I think this one is it!!

 

Gosh darn it I told myself NO MORE Dvd's, more live training at the dojo. It's like a drug, I can't control myself. I just need to buy one more and I think this one is it!!

 

FLMikeATT: Tinguinha's DVDs are probably some of the most comprehensive stuff out there re: open guard. Off the top of my head I can only think of a small handful of DVDs that address the open guard in any depth (Kesting's butterfly guard, Bittencourt's DLR guard, Marcelo's x-guard DVD and Diogo's DLR dvd). If you're looking for a valuable resource for helping you develop your open guard then you get what you pay for.

 

I know. I want to get some of his dvds, but they are too expensive.

Rodrigo Medeiros' open guard dvd is great though. He covers a lot of stuff from classic spider and foot on hips, to dlr and "lasso" guard, and some other stuff I can't remember. There's so much stuff packed into each dvd that I'm going to need at least 3 viewings of each to absorb all the material.

 

Do you have any insight on how basic it is?

Like on a scale of 1-10 (1 being no brainer basic and 10 being stuff that browns should know but dont/forget) how basic will this be?

If it is too basic do you recommend any other Tinguinha DVDS?

 

Uh... hard to judge. I would say a 3 or 4. Learning open guard is harder than basic closed guard. Personally, I think you need to at least have basic hip movement and guard recovery.

 

My guard recovery is fine and my hip movement is something I will always be working on. I'm just looking for an instructional that lays out the key points of a simple open guard style and gives you sweep and sub options that you can expand from there.

Is that too much to ask?:icon_chee

 

yes, I think tinguinha's is clearly 3 stripe white belt and below, or maybe orange belt with 2 stripes depending on age. gustavo's is more for blues with 3 stripes that have good strong legs, or maybe purples with 2 stripes that have weaker legs, or possible even blues with one stripe that think they feel like they could get another 2 stripes real soon. Also clearly whites with 2 stripes that tap out 13 blues 4 purples and almost a 4 stripe brown once because of their l33t knee on bicep spider guard that they invented while holding a camera. this is definitely good for thems.

 

I think you'll like this DVD. It's for guys who are just trying to learn open guard and incorporate it into their game.