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Mastering the Twister: Jiu Jitsu for Mixed Martial Arts Competition Paperback – July 15, 2007

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

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"The Twister" is a neck-jarring, spine-torturing submission hold refined and mastered by Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu superstar Eddie Bravo.

Early in his jiu-jitsu career, Eddie Bravo dominated dozens of jiu-jitsu competitions with this unorthodox move. When the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation banned his trademark move, he proved the effectiveness of his entire grappling style by defeating the legendary Royler Gracie without "The Twister".

In Mastering the Twister: Jiu-Jitsu for Mixed Martial Arts Competition, Bravo uses over 1,200 color photos and descriptive narrative to illustrate snaring an opponent in the infamous Twister from virtually every control position. Also revealed is the entire Twister Side Control game, dozens of submissions from the mount, numerous routes to take your opponent's back, highly effective ways to pass your opponent's guard, and the secrets of "The Truck", Bravo's patented control position.

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248 pages
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English
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Victory Belt Publishing
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July 15, 2007
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9 x 0.5 x 11 inches
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0977731553
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978-0977731558
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"Eddie Bravo's approach to jiu-jitsu is so unusual and innovated that it's literally a completely separate branch off the jiu-jitsu tree. And it's not just different; it's actually better. Much better."—'Joe Rogan, UFC commentator and host of NBC's 'Fear Factor'

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Victory Belt Publishing (July 15, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0977731553
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0977731558
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.5 x 11 inches

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Erich Krauss
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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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Kawakami

another great Eddie Bravo book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2007

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MY PERSPECTIVE
First let me say that this book and it's predecessor "Mastering the Rubber Guard" have totally changed my game. I always disliked grappling because the moves never worked well for shorter guys like me. I only practiced grappling to supplement my stand up fighting, because I disliked it so much. I did Shooto and BJJ, but I was always very "blah" about it. But now, I love grappling, and I have the excitement of learning something new every time I experiment with the moves in Bravo's books. And most importantly... these moves actually work.

ABOUT THE BOOK
While the first book was Bravo's bottom position game (guard, half guard, "pyramid") this book is his top game (mount, side control, and back). Like the first book, this book shows each move in step by step detail with full color photos taken from two angles. Also like the first book, he teaches all of the moves in a flowing sequence so you can get a good idea of how transition from move to move. Also like the first book, the first portion is dedicated to his childhood and his love of drugs. If this bothers you, then just flip through the first several pages until you see pictures of guys doing ju jutsu. Or, just rip out the first section entirely and throw it away. You'll still be left with exactly what you were looking for; a ju jutsu book that has a ton of great info and is worth every penny you paid for it.

PROS AND CONS
If you are new to BJJ or a hardcore gi lover, then you'll find this book to be chock full of great material. You'll probably see setups that are a little bit complicated for you, positions you've never even imagined, and some basic no-gi strategy that probably no one but the advanced students in your school know about.

On the flip side, intermediate students and gi haters will find themselves frequently skipping over setups and no gi strategies that they are already very familiar with.

Personally, I like that the book has a lot of subtle strategies and techniques, and I'm sure that I'll return to this book again and again every time I can't quite figure out what I'm doing wrong. However, I was dissapointed that this book didn't have the same "wow" factor as the first one. Maybe if I had read this book first and the other one after, then I would feel the opposite way; I'm not sure. But after reading the rubber guard book, I didn't feel that Bravo's top game was quite as Earth-shattering as his bottom game.

That being said, I still feel that this book is full of great info and absolutely necessary to complete the system that Bravo began to lay out in his first book. The quality of the paper, photos, and writing EASILY makes this the best martial arts book I've ever seen (much less the best BJJ book out there). And I think that if you don't buy this book, then you are truly missing out on a whole new world in grappling.

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Justin Maynard

Great sytem for modern mma

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 27, 2010

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Eddie Bravo is in my opinion the next Helio Gracie as far as jiu jitsu goes. Helio took japanese jiu jitsu which used more strength holds and adapted it to his smaller size by using leverage and the gi. Eddie Bravo has taken the Gracie jiu jitsu system and adapted it to mixed martial arts fighting without a gi. When no gi is present you must use other positions and techniques to accomplish similar goals. This book will teach you that system. Beware flexibility is not required to practice some techniques, but most will require a yoga type level of flexibilty. But hey if you wanna throw up crazy arm bars and triangles you must be flexible anyway. The system is great and you are beginning to see it in mma more and more. This is just the next level of jiu jitsu. I am sure more will follow as the sport grows, but for now these are advanced teachings. I want to trow in that my favorite technique is the electric chair. When someone has you in half guard revert to the electric chair and on someone who is not super flexible you will have it won in a suprising way. I recommend this book to anyone who loves the jiu jitsu game or mma.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2010

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Wow! What a read ( not just looking at pictures). Bravo's Jiu Jistu is off the planet-hence the name 10th planet. For lighter Bjj players you have to read and understand his leg riding style, for heavier guys you too must understand the twister and truck etc. so you don't keep getting caught by the smaller guys. Bravo is a revolutionary, his style his revolutionary and has paved the way for much of Bjj's continuing success in MMA. Understanding his principles will make your game better, no doubt.
This book offers more than Jiu Jistu. Bravo is a philosopher, and the insight he provides on how a Bjj/MMA player should think, I don't think there are many out there who offer their secrets so freely. This book forces you to think outside of just techniques, what this book does is forces you to think of how they are arrived at them the first place.
A well laid out book, easy to read, but not so easy to implement.

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David Roselip

The best

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 27, 2020

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Love this book, love the system and love the trick/twister route in particular. This system adds an easy flow between back attacks, side control and back again with effective submissions in between. This also gives you a slew of solid hip and spine control positions.

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Josh Vogel

Mastering the Twister Rulz!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2008

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I got this book because I really liked how Mastering the Rubber guard was set up and hoped that Mastering the Twister would be just as useful and enjoyable. I can honestly say that it was and that I was very pleased with the purchase. What I liked about both products was that they both teach a System of techniques that all link together and include "go to" moves for when things don't go according to plan. I also liked the personal stories that Mr. Bravo included; I felt that the combination of these two elements took these books well beyond what most martial arts books provide. The value of these books is that they are useful as reference, good for new ideas as they contain an unorthodox BJJ game, and they are highly entertaining. Definitely well worth the purchase. Keep up the good work!

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A. Grubba

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 2, 2012

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This book has definitely helped my top game a lot. I have wrestled over 10 years, but never actually learned the twister or banana splits until reading this book. Less than a week after I got this book, I was hitting those moves on the college wrestlers I coached like I had known them my whole life. It also gave me many more options for submissions and transitions with a unique and unorthodox style.
The first section... If you are easily offended, don't read it. I found it somewhat interesting, but Eddie certainly has some unique views. I feel that this does not detract from the main content of the book in any way.

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Craig731

A superb book that does so much more than the title states

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 16, 2012

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I bought the book after reading the other reviews. We have recently practiced a number of moves in bjj which lead towards the twister so i wanted to buy this book and see if it could help. It gives you a full insight into eddie bravos top game with so many extras. Itll take you a while to practice everything in the book and no doubt will be hard to become a master of everything. But the book came with next day delivery and since then i havnt put it down. Its a must buy for anyone looking to improve their bjj or mma game, or even a beginner

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Mr. R. Blackett

Well produced but difficult techniques which certainly won't suit everyone, and largely not tournament legal

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 2, 2014

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This book ("MTT") is the sequel to Bravo's "Mastering the Rubber Guard" ("MTRG"). MTRG set out Bravo's bottom game, and MTT sets out his topgame. It is not something which someone who is just starting to learn BJJ/grappling should necessarily rush out and buy. Like MTRG, MTT is not a general beginner's manual - it's a specialist book about a particular aspect of the no-gi ground game. There's nothing in here about stand-up, takedowns, striking or guard.

Like MTRG, the first 35 pages of MTT are spent on a rambling essay about Bravo's life, drug use and music career. Aside from that it's really well produced. It's divided into sections, with each section looking at techniques which can be used from a particular position. The techniques for each position follow a logical sequence - "if this doesn't work, do this, if that doesn't work do this". The heart of the book, in my opinion, is really a two page flow chart, which shows how all the techniques fit together, and helps you navigate the book. Rather than just set out an assortment of individual techniques in isolation, it really does set out a comprehensive bottom-game "system" with an internal logic. This is the real value in the book. I would also say that the book has been produced to a very high standard. Each technique is illustrated with large, colour photographs, showing the technique from different angles. There will always be accompanying commentary / explanation, and this will highlight subtle but important aspects of the technique which you could easily miss.

Personally, I've found it much, much more difficult to deploy the techniques in MTT than the ones is MTRG. I have the sense that the techniques in this book are especially 'situation specific' - they'll only work if your training partner reacts in just the right way, and there is a low margin for error. Much of the book is therefore devoted to troubleshooting those problems, with dozens of alternative ways of getting into the right position if your opponent doesn't react like he's supposed to. Often several such techniques have to be strung together in order to get to a finish, creating even more opportunities to mess up and get reversed. And if you mess up a twister / truck / twister side-control type technique then your training partner usually gets your back.

I should also say that the twister move itself is very often illegal in competitions (at least in the UK). As such, quite a lot of this book (though certainly not all) is going to be pretty useless from a competition perspective, even if you find the technique more to your liking than I do. If you're looking for a book with more high % tournament-legal stuff in it, I'd suggest Marcelo Garcia's "Advanced Brazilian Jiu Jitsu" over MTT.

Jose Manuel Reina Castillo

Revoluciona tu amm- mma.

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on July 26, 2013

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Eddie definitivamente es un nuevo visionario.
Tecnicas y conceptos nunca antes vistos por la red.
Compra segura para practicantes de cualquier arte marcial.

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ju jitsu

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on February 20, 2018

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per gli amanti del ju jitsu , una delle interpretazioni dell'arte soave, insieme ad altre e molteplici che completano il panorama

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Andy J

the twister