Cesar Gracie is HERE!!!!

[Hdog]

Online video lessons are NOW available!!! Here's your chance to train with CESAR GRACIE no matter where you live!
Special introductory price: $15/month..$120/year..
New, detailed lessons every week..
SURE to improve your game....

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[mma_fan81]

what the...?

Wait! You want people to learn Jiu Jitsu over the internet? Is this something like cybersex?! Get the hell outta here!!

[Tant01]

Wait! You want people to learn Jiu Jitsu over the internet? Is this something like cybersex?! Get the hell outta here!!

You know, I don't really expect to become THE Ultimate fighting champion or some such nonsense but I think there's a legitimate market for these lessons. Why read Blackbelt Magazine? Do you expect to master Chi-Na from some two part technique breakdown of a basic concept? No, but you might see a new way to transition from wrist or finger lock to a elbow/shoulder lock??? There are some BJJ guys (mostly bluebelts) in my neck of the Redwoods that could benifit from other source material to supliment their training at the academy, eh? Just a little side note, I did learn a thing or two about the so called "half gaurd" and transitioning to leglocks from there by reading a stupid article then trying it out on some fellow students....

The look on the faces of my "victims" was priceless!

[frankenbeans]

Online video lessons are NOW available!!! Here's your chance to train with CESAR GRACIE no matter where you live!
Special introductory price: $15/month..$120/year..
New, detailed lessons every week..
SURE to improve your game....

www.DogsofWar.net ... www.GracieFighter.com

Hey, distance learning is no crime. There are plenty of people who get a degree over the Internet. People are able to reach others through a medium other than the classroom; sometimes quality instructors are hard to find in certain areas. I know of a person teaching Japanese to a kid in another state. Despite having a black belt in another style through years of regular classroom instruction, I still endorse distance learning because they didn't have these types of opportunities when I was a little kid. If they had been available, I sure would have considered this. I sent in a tape of myself doing some TKD forms and the test was graded, and I passed. This is fair, and sometimes harder when you do it by tape. You can't really cheat because someone can stop the tape and observe all of your body movements to the finest detail. It is very hard to hide anything because your whole body is competely exposed to view if you tape yourself doing things. However, I still encourage this to COMPLEMENT classroom instruction because just like anything else, there are some things in a classroom that can't be taught or shown on tape, like having the instructor there and him correcting your mistakes instantly. Instead, it might take a few weeks to get a response (unless it's live, but still helps to have some hands-on). It's always good, especially when studying another style, to have an initial foundation in one so you can identify what's going on in the tape when they actually perform the movements. There are some body mechanics that only experienced martial artists know when doing certain moves that may not immediately be apparent when watching a tape. Because I already understood the mechanics of the TKD forms (they are rooted in the basics, and if you've done one style similar to TKD, you can probably do another), I was able to learn the more advanced ones anyway. Similar application, just different ways of interchanging the same techniques to make a form. However, I wouldn't suggest trying to learn a 6th degree black belt form on your own overnight if you're only a yellow belt. You can do it, but there's no way you would completely understand the form or combination application in real combat or even know how power, force, timing, or speed might be generated in the techniques or proper positioning. At a certain point, stuff that advanced would be better spent, tape in hand, while having someone more experienced alongside you to help you along the way as you study the tape.

The best way to learn something like that is probably have at least one style that you regularly study in, while using some previous knowledge to help you study the tape. Or at least study the tape and apply it on your buddies so that you have more than your own perspective to study your movements. Classwork plus studying the tape as homework is even better. Think, to make it really work effectively, %50 tape, %50 apply in live environment.

[Hdog]

Tant01... exactly!!

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