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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Closed Guard (Book of Knowledge) Paperback – August 10, 2009

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BJ PENN—UFC World Champion, Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, and best-selling author of Mixed Martial Arts: The Book of Knowledge—sheds new light on the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with this unprecedented examination of the closed guard. Through step-by-step color photographs and descriptive narrative, Penn shares his elaborate system for gaining control of your opponent's body while fighting off your back, and then unleashes more than eight fight-ending submissions. He divulges his most vicious strangleholds, including collar chokes, arm chokes, and triangle chokes. He demonstrates how to apply bone-breaking pressure to your opponent's wrist, elbow, and shoulder using his most ruthless straight arm bars, inverted arm bars, kimura locks, Americana locks, and omaplata locks. And to ensure your offense never gets shut down, Penn unveils your opponent's most common submission defenses, and then teaches you how to capitalize on that defense by transitioning into secondary submissions and a host of sweeps. Detailing dozens of ways to chain your attacks together to form fluid combinations, this book leaves no stone unturned. Whether you are new to the grappling arts or an experienced practitioner, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Closed Guard will take your game to the next level.

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240 pages
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English
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Victory Belt Publishing
Publication date

August 10, 2009
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9 x 0.6 x 11 inches
ISBN-10

0981504469
ISBN-13

978-0981504469
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BJ Penn is the current UFC Lightweight Champion of the world. He was the head coach on Spike TV's hit show, The Ultimate Fighter, and drew the largest pay-per-view audience in UFC history.

Dave Camarillo is a black belt in both judo and jiu-jitsu. He currently trains dozens of world-class grapplers and fighters, including many who compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Erich Krauss is a professional Muay Thai fighter. He has written for the New York Times and is the author of more than twenty books.

Glen Cordoza is a professional MMA fighter. He is the author of eight books on the sport of MMA, including the best-selling title, Mixed Martial Arts.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Victory Belt Publishing; Original ed. edition (August 10, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0981504469
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0981504469
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.6 x 11 inches

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ERICH KRAUSS is a New York Times bestselling author who has written more than thirty books. Inspiration for his stories comes from more than twenty years traveling the globe, from living in the Amazon rainforest to fighting professionally in the Muay Thai rings of Thailand. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Georgina.
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Glen Cordoza is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Selling author, and a former professional mixed martial artist and Muay Thai boxer. He is one of the most published authors on the topics of MMA, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, and fitness with twenty books to his credit.
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Xerife

Excellent BJJ book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 29, 2011

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This is an excellent BJJ book. The pictures are very clear, and the moves BJ Penn has chosen to demonstate are all extremely useful. It is a great complement to more general books like BJJ University by Ribiero. Because it just focuses on the closed guard, it really gets into the details of the key moves from this position. The book has definitely improved my guard game as a blue belt. One can learn a great deal from just looking at the pictures and seeing how BJ Penn executes the moves as compared how you might be doing them. So even if you think you know a lot of guard sweeps, arm attacks, etc, you will learn something from BJ Penn. I hope his other books covering the different positions come out soon! - Xerife

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2009

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I was hoping it would be more exhaustive / detailed, since it deals with one particular -- albeit very important -- aspect of BJJ. One example is in the posture-breaking section: how hard would it have been to show options when your opponent's hands are on your biceps, or else if he's postured up with both hands on your belt? Instead, all of only several posture-breaking techniques assume your opponent is using a staggered grip on your belt and lapel. It's a little thing, but BJJ is all little things.

What this book had going for it, potentially, was to provide a really inclusive roadmap of the closed guard, and I think it's lazy in that regard. You can find all the stuff in this book plenty of other places.

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Lee

Great Supplement

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 2, 2011

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The Closed Guard Book of Knowledge is an excellent supplement to your Brazilian Jiu Jitsu game. Whether your a beginner or an advanced player the book goes into detail of how to chain some of the most basic movements and attacks off of your back. The book is organized well and is full of excellent explanations and pictures. The Closed Guard book of Knowledge is a great way to review some of the traditional attacks that you learn first in your Jiu Jitsu game and will help any level of player.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 2, 2011

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So, I can honestly say that I have a great BJJ Instructor who has done a great job at teaching me the basics... but while I was reading this book, I felt as though I was learning a NEW VERSION of the closed guard. The amount of detail that goes into each technique is insane!!! Each technique is presented step by step, with full colored pictures. Whether you are a newb or a seasoned grappler, you NEED to get this book to refine your game.

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Bart Janowski

Great Book of Old School BJJ

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Great book that really helped me see the potential of closed guard and build a good closed guard game.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 25, 2013

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An excellent insight to what made BJ Penn champ in the UFC, with his BJJ skills in the closed guard. Ideal book for the beginner student in BJJ and interesting read for the more advanced student, item arrived in fast and efficient manner and perfect condition.

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Best Book on the Close Guard

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2010

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This book will help you improve your close guard regardless of your rank and experience. I like the idea of just covering one aspect of the art of jiu-jitsu (Close Guard in this case) and really covering it from learning the basics to advance moves and putting combinations together. The book delivers on its promise.

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crocodile200

I agree with the other five star reviews

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 24, 2020

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I agree with the other five stars reviews. I found the book really insightful and well explained.

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BJPenn

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 23, 2012

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This book has really helped me with the closed guard. Loads of armbars and triangles, sweeps and omaplatas illustrated here. BJ teaches how to use all your strengths from the bottom.

Mr Lloyd James Powell

Good Book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 18, 2012

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I got this book when i first started BJJ, it has lots of solid fundamentals of BJJ. It was very useful for me at the time and still something i go back to read every now and again.

M Harrison

Need some ideas for closed guard?....look no further.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 19, 2011

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I bought this book to further my closed guard game and I was not disappointed . I already have a grasp of submissions and sweeps from the closed guard, but this book shows other ways to pass,sweep or submit. Clear concise colour photo's and text make this book easy to read and use. Ideal for beginners or intermediate BJJ practitioner's.

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