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Advanced Rubber Guard: Jiu Jitsu for Mixed Martial Arts Competition Paperback – December 10, 2011

by Eddie Bravo (Author), Glen Cordoza (Author)

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Eddie Bravo—world-renowned grappler and founder of 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu—is one of the most revolutionary and controversial martial arts instructors in the world. Since unveiling his philosophy of no-gi jiu-jitsu in his bestselling martial arts book Mastering the Rubber Guard, Bravo has been at the head of the no-gi grappling movement. He now has dozens of affiliate schools around the globe, and some of the UFC's best fighters are seeking his tutelage, including UFC Welterweight contender Dan Hardy and UFC Lightweight contender George Sotiropoulos.

In Advanced Rubber Guard, Bravo brings readers inside the evolution of the rubber guard. Through descriptive narrative and more than two thousand step-by-step color photographs, he unveils entirely new control positions and dozens of cunning attacks. Covering every avenue, Bravo also updates his half guard, butterfly guard and x-guard systems with new and highly effective techniques. Whether you're new to the 10th Planet system or looking to expand your knowledge, this book will take you ahead of the competition.

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304 pages
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English
Publisher

Victory Belt Pub
Publication date

December 10, 2011
Dimensions

11 x 8.5 x 8.25 inches
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1936608901
ISBN-13

978-1936608904
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About the Author

Eddie Bravo is a music producer and a world-renowned jiu-jitsu practitioner. He has hosted jiu-jitsu seminars around the globe and teaches 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu at Legends Mixed Martial Arts Training Center in Hollywood, California. He is currently producing two musical acts, 'compella and the twister' and 'Face Down.'

Glen Cordoza is a professional Muay Thai kickboxer and mixed martial arts fighter. He is the author of more than a dozen instructional books on the sport of MMA.

Erich Krauss is a professional Muay Thai fighter and a New York Times bestselling author. He has written over twenty books.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Victory Belt Pub (December 10, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1936608901
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1936608904
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.11 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11 x 8.5 x 8.25 inches

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Dimitris

a great book - not only for rubber guard

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2014

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I own many other books like M.Garcias "advanced BJJ techniques", "passing the guard by Ed Beneville", "Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt Techniques by Jean Jacques Machado", "Jiu-Jitsu University by Saulo Ribeiro", the first book of mastering the rubber guard, etc.
The delivery was excellent.
This book contains no blah regarding cannabis. It is much more serious and it helps to demonstrate Eddie's Bravo great ability to analyze movement.
The way the techniques are shown is quite good and the illustration is rich and informative. It is one of the few books that have so rich troubleshooting section. Alternatives for so many counters that you may face.
It is a great book to help you with your bottom and half guard game. Even if you do not care for the rubber guard, this book is great as it touches many other positions like half guard, butterfly, quarter guard, etc.
Eddie Bravo seems to be a master in sweeping from his back and exploiting bad positions.

I will update my review as I wish to spend more time with this book. I am not 100% sure, but I think that it is not required to have the first book as a lot of his techniques are repeated here but are updated with some additional troubleshooting.

I am not following the 10th planet discipline, as I study in a Gracie Barra dojo, but Eddies' Bravo books influenced my game big time. Together with Ryan Hall deep half guard DVD it will help you develop a complete bottom game.

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Chad E. Clark

Great continuation of the system.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2014

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This edition of the 10th Planet bottom game is a great follow-up to the original Mastering the Rubber Guard. If you are not familiar with the 10th Planet system, this book may be a little overwhelming at first, so I would recommend picking up either the original book or DVD or subscribing to Mastering the System (I'd suggest doing that anyway, as it is one of the best ways that $4.99 a month can help your jiu-jitsu.) However, if you want to go all in, there is definitely enough instruction that you will have little problem flowing through the basic path with enough times reading through and drilling.

This book is laid out differently than Mastering the Rubbe Guard; Advanced Rubber Guard gets right to the meat of the book, the rubber guard. What really stands out to me is the instructions on how to set-up rubber guard from traditional attacks (kimura, hip bump) and the details on how to re-counter from the defenses of those attempts to get a clinching style of attack going. Also the many triangle set-ups from common rubber guard counter techniques are very useful.

If you are interested in the 10th Planet style of jiu-jitsu, I would definitely recommend picking this book up, and also come and register at the 10th Planet forum at 10thplanetjj.com

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Simple

Took a while to get published, but the wait was worth it!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 10, 2014

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The content in this book is awesome and it genuinely expands upon the original Rubber Guard book and DVD. It takes the core foundation of what was previously taught and adds an incredible amount of variations for things like base positioning, setups, sweeps, passes, submissions, escapes, all with those crazy and easy to remember names like Special K, Five-O Sweep, Jellyfish, etc.. No doubt, everyone who trains MMA, No Gi, or even Gi, stands to benefit by incorporating the ARG curriculum into their game.

As for the book itself, it has high quality thick color pages, the photography is excellent, and as usual it's very well written with detailed descriptions for every step. What's different from the other RG book is this book's layout feels more modernized. The fonts are easier to read and the graphics and color scheme are super clean. One thing I like is Victory Belt chose to make multiple flow charts for each major topic rather than having one large flow chart at the beginning of the book which felt like they were cramming a lot of material in a relatively small space.

Do yourself a favor and get this book!

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Broken Ninja

Not for everybody, but well written.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2016

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I've read many, many martial arts books over my 30 year career. This book was well written, well organized, and in full color. The detailed instructional pictures were well thought out. Every element of this small, but effective no-gi rubber guard system was well thought out and well explained.

Two Downsides:

The odd names for techniques are memorable, but not very helpful. For example, if I said "Jiu Claw," you'd have no idea what that means, and even after I show it to you, it might take a while for the name to stick. Worse, those terms have nothing to do with any related movements or positions. A number of the terms are also related to Marijuana, which Bravo talks about in the book.

And of course, there is the fact that if you can't do a full-lotus you can't perform 90% of these techniques. Other jiujitsu forms are certainly more available to less flexible folk, while this style works exclusively with those who have extreme hip and leg flexibility.

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Would highly recommend reading Eddie's "Mastering The Rubberguard" book BEFORE getting this ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2017

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Eggie brah is at it again with another stellar installation of 10th planet knowledge. The information contained within these mystical pages of wisdom can be applied to BOTH Jiu Jitsu & MMA(Mixed Martial Arts). Would highly recommend reading Eddie's "Mastering The Rubberguard" book BEFORE getting this one. It will be wayyyyyy easier to comprehend if you read/study he Rubberguard basics FIRST! Anyway, great read (:

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Andrey

Great purschase, big fan of eddie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 6, 2015

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The book is very well done, great quality, lots of pictures from couple of angles on techniques, easy to understand. Lots of techniques from MTRGuard the dvd and many new ones. Highly recommend to everyone whos interested in the field, even must have. Eddies dvd series improved my game a LOT! Also recommend Jeffs glover Darcepedia

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Ken N.

Best available resource for people outside of the 10th planet system.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2016

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it is a very thorough book. Nice to see the evolution of the techniques over the course of the years and you can see that 10th planet has really refined them. The most detailed book of all the books from Eddie so far. Really overwhelmed by the information.

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John F

Each move is broken down nicely and from different angles

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2016

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Training at 10th Planet Phoenix and bought this to keep what I learn in class from leaving my brain when I get home. Each move is broken down nicely and from different angles. Highly recommended!!!

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Charles

Bleeding Edge BJJ

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 13, 2015

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For those of you that don't know this book is written by BJJ instructor Eddie Bravo, Eddie is famous for been the first American to beat a Gracie in competition and pioneering a new form of BJJ guard called the rubber guard. This book focuses on what makes Eddie's system (10th planet jiu jitsu) unique so common BJJ techniques are not covered.

INTRODUCTION
This explains the MMA focus of 10th planet and how this resulted in the system's move away from the standard BJJ.

RUBBER GUARD: THE MAIN PATH
41 pages showing the steps of the Rubber guard leading to the ultimate control(invisible collar) .There are sections such on topics such as stopping people posturing up, stacking, trying to slam you, and retreating.

RUBBER GUARD: ENTERING THE RUBBER GUARD DEAD ZONES
50 pages about the rubber guard dead zone ( when the opponent is trapped by the rubber guard and cannot do anything)
its up to you how to finish things.

TROUBLESHOOTING THE RUBBER GUARD
49 pages about what to do when things go wrong with the normal rubber guard setup

THE BUTTERFLY GUARD
34 pages of butterfly guard techniques

THE QUARTER GUARD
23 pages of quarter guard techniques

LOCKDOWN HALF
86 pages long

X CLINCH
7 pages long

PRISON GUARD
18 pages of a clinching full guard that does not require flexibility (unlike the rubber guard).
The homie control position (full guard with underhooked headlock done with Gable grip, bottom person is turned on their side and off to the side so they are not directly under top person)

SPIDER GUARD
11 pages of techniques for the standard jiu jitsu arm bar position

ESCAPES
15 pages of escapes from side control and 1 mount escape

CONCLUSION
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My criticisms are the standard ones 1) certain techniques (eg rubber guard) require extreme limb flexibility 2) use of non standard terms over normal jiu jitsu terms can be a bit confusing for people not used to this 3) I think maybe these unorthodox moves would work best as a supplement to normal no-gi BJJ, not a replacement.

At over 300 pages and 2000 colour photos this book will take a long time to read and much longer to understand, this book is a must for people interested in what makes the 10th planet system unique.

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giardia

Very interesting and well written book full of advanced techniques ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 27, 2016

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Very interesting and well written book full of advanced techniques and concepts. It also includes supplemental material on stretching in order to work up to the amount of flexibility required to perform many of the items the book covers

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KBJJ

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 26, 2015

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Great book but only for advanced practitioners with a lot of flexibility.

Rhys Samuel-Billy

Awesome book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 19, 2014

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