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The Bible of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Kioto Jiu Jitsu System

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Grand Master Francisco Mansor is, with the passing of Helio Gracie, the highest-ranking BJJ instructor in the world. A student of Helio's for more than 50 years, Mansor has been a part of the development of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and it was his association with the Tijuca Tennis Club in Rio that led to that establishment being the home of BJJ competition.

Having just experienced a seminar with Grand Master Mansor, I absolutely recommend this book for BJJ players looking to refine their games. As mentioned in other reviews, this book is set up as simply as they come - it's a series of photos with very little explanation. Consequently, I can't recommend this as the first book someone should buy to learn BJJ - I'd opt more for something like Saulo Ribeiro's "Jiu Jitsu University." That said, the techniques Mansor demonstrates in this book are flawless, focused very specifically on basics, and rely on leverage and positioning.

Like I said, an absolutely fantastic reference to supplement an existing library.

Master Mansur is one of the legends of BJJ, but this book does not do any justice to him or his system. It is more of a pictorial of moves with no explaination of how to execute them. Unless you have some background in BJJ, this book would be very hard to learn from.

This is primarily a picture book that covers basic positions and moves. There is a short prologue, which is actually reprinted on the back cover, that gives a brief intro of Master Mansur, and reviews the making of the book. It also contains a brief but informative history of Brazilian Jujitsu and Mansur's relationship to Julio Gracie. It lists the belt levels within the system and lists the numbers of lessons within each level, but does not identify what they are. The remainder of the book contains pictures of various positions and moves, with the name or title of each listed in 3 to 6 languages. There is no explanation of any of the moves or positions. There is no discussion of theory, strategy, application, finer points, or the methods of teaching or training each position or technique. The photos are all black and white and most are quite grainy. Most if not all of the finer points of each technique will be lost on any inexperienced person. This may serve well as a guide to beginning students or intermediate students who are beginning to teach and need a memory aide for what they have already been taught. This is not recommended for non-martial artists or beginners, or even advanced students for that matter. Your money would be better spent on other resources.

A true master of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu 9 degree red belt Francisco Mansur. A must have for any practioner or anyone who want to learn the history and basic techinque that is used all over the world today.

This book is good for visual learners. The details are excellent(moves)and this book would go well with his videos.However, this book is of great value if you study jiujitsu,or judo. You can't go wrong but please get the videos and you will see the value of this book.

I think that this book is good for people that are good visual learners. Like a previous reviewer said it has no explainations to the techniques. It has the name of the technique in six different languages but no descriptions. But this book is also really cheap and it does have some good pictures so if you got an extra 15 bucks and don't mind carefully studying pictures instead of text buy it. Im glad I added it to my collection considering he's a 9th Degree Black belt under Helio Gracie.