Submission Secrets Unlocked
Volume 1
Transform Your Training Dynamic
Submission Secrets: Master Control, Cultivate Trust
Are you tired of your training partner being stubborn, uncooperative, or trying to prove their strength instead of helping you? This video is your ultimate solution! Learn how to cultivate trust and seamless cooperation, making every workout more effective and enjoyable. From warm-ups to advanced submissions, we'll show you how to prepare your partner to be genuinely helpful, turning resistance into fluid movement.
Unlock Your Body's Full Potential
Our unique approach emphasizes a holistic warm-up and stretching routine, engaging your entire body from head to toe. Discover how to:
- Enhance proprioception: Close your eyes and learn to sense each other's movements, fostering a deeper connection.
- Improve balance and leg strength: Master exercises designed to warm up your legs and maintain perfect equilibrium.
- Perfect foot flexibility: Essential stretches for practicing leg locks, especially ankle locks, ensuring proper execution and safety.
- Identify vulnerable points: Understand the dangerous spots on the body (central line in front, two lines near the spine in back, and points below the kneecap) to maximize technique effectiveness.
The Power of Leverage and Body Mechanics
This video breaks down complex movements into easy-to-understand principles, focusing on:
- Center of Gravity Control: Learn how to get your center of gravity below his, making takedowns effortless.
- Legs are Everything: Discover why your legs are crucial for punching and takedowns.
- Head as a Weapon: See how your head can be used as an effective takedown tool.
- "Cinderella" Technique: A playful, memorable method for stepping over your opponent's leg and transitioning into dominant positions.
Master Submissions: Step-by-Step Breakdown
Dive deep into the mechanics of effective submissions with detailed instructions on:
- Leg Locks:
- Ankle Locks: Find the "sweet spot" near the heel and apply extra force by moving your elbow behind your back for undeniable pain. Learn proper leg crossing techniques for maximum effect, squeezing your thighs at the painful spot.
- Knee Bars: Change the angle of the foot by just 10-15 degrees for significant impact. Discover how to use your opponent's free leg as a bar for a double knee bar, creating inescapable pain.
- "Squeeze Lock": A unique technique to bring the heel to the hip and create separation in the knee joint.
- Arm Locks:
- Control is Key: Understand why controlling the arm is more important than the arm lock itself.
- Leverage Techniques: Break holds by using leverage over your own arm and applying pressure towards the opponent's thumb.
- Arm "Squeeze Lock": Adapt the leg squeeze lock principle for the arms, ensuring your body is parallel for maximum comfort and effectiveness.
- Head Control: Learn how to control the head with your leg while maintaining the arm lock, creating an uncomfortable and inescapable position.
- Chokes:
- Artery Location: Easily find the arteries behind the small muscles on the side of the neck.
- Arm and Wrist Usage: Utilize different parts of your arm and wrist like "scissors" to effectively cut off blood flow.
- Neck Cranks: Discover the right points on the head to press with your wrist, and how turning the head sideways simplifies the technique.
- Gi Chokes: Master simple yet effective gi chokes from both top and bottom positions, getting as deep as possible for maximum control.
Advanced Techniques and Drills
- Triangle Position: Adjust your body position before going for the triangle to ensure an easy finish.
- Guard Passing (or lack thereof): Learn alternative methods to dominate without "passing guard," using your knee to inhale the opponent's tailbone and achieving perfect ankle lock positions.
- Escaping Grips: A simple yet revolutionary technique: push the opponent's hand towards their thumb to break any grip, whether on the hand or foot.
- Takedown Drills: Practice taking down larger opponents by grabbing the heel, separating the knees, and using hip leverage to raise them like a tree.
- Controlling the Fallen Opponent: Place your knee like a "rock" over their hip to prevent escape, and use sophisticated leg control techniques for ultimate dominance.
- Striking: Learn to kick the foot in line with the toes for immediate effect, and target the knees in different directions.
- "Inside Guard" Position: Discover why this position is superior to open guard, allowing for more versatile lifts and throws.
Learn from a Master
This video is packed with insights, tips, and practical demonstrations that will elevate your martial arts game. From fundamental warm-ups to advanced submission mechanics, you'll gain a deeper understanding of body dynamics, leverage, and effective technique.
Volume 2
Unlocking Submission Mastery: The Advanced Techniques Video
Elevate Your Submission Game with Revolutionary Insights!
Are you ready to truly dominate on the mat? Our new video, "Unlocking Submission Mastery: The Advanced Techniques Video," goes beyond the basics to reveal groundbreaking strategies and hidden nuances that will surprise your opponents and dramatically improve your submission success rate.
Forget conventional wisdom and discover techniques that prioritize effectiveness and control over brute force. We'll show you why some traditional approaches create vulnerabilities and how to exploit them with precision.
Leg Locks: Precision and Power
Master the most dangerous leg locks with unparalleled control and efficiency:
- The Power of Proper Leg Position: Learn why crossing your feet can be a critical mistake and how to avoid it, ensuring your opponent has fewer counter-move opportunities. Discover a superior, more dangerous method of breaking your opponent's legs over their own!
- "Squeeze Lock" Defense: While challenging, we reveal the key to escaping this formidable submission: a precise forward hip jump.
- Toe Hooks Demystified: Learn to attack the knuckles with your pinky finger aligned to your opponent's little toe. The beauty? You only need to control your own wrist; the rest is about a continuous turning motion. This is the snake-like approach to submission, requiring minimal body control from your opponent. Remember, a bent knee is crucial for success.
- Heel Hooks: Calculated Danger: Understand the proper wrist placement (closer to the elbow) for this highly dangerous move. We emphasize slow, controlled practice due to its high-risk nature. Crucially, we teach you sophisticated knee control to prevent escapes, transforming common heel hook attempts into inescapable traps by turning with your entire body, not just arm strength.
- The "Salt and Fresh Water Crab": A unique leg lock where your legs become a "stick" to break your opponent's leg over their own. Control the knee first – it's non-negotiable for finishing the move. Learn how to align your heel with your thigh for maximum leverage, using only your hip to drive the submission. Don't forget chin down and one hand protecting your neck!
- Primitive Defense for Salt Water Crab: A simple yet effective counter: if their right leg is over, use your left, and vice versa.
- The Unpredictable Toe Hook: Surprise your opponent when they go for a triangle by providing a "little help" – a funny and highly effective toe hook that they won't see coming.
- Knee Bar from the Bottom: Learn to create space by pulling yourself out and getting on your side before initiating the knee bar or squeeze lock. This move is incredibly effective, even if it doesn't result in a tap, as it forces your opponent to jump and change position, potentially reversing the entire fight.
- "Banana Split": This powerful move requires placing your opponent's foot behind your neck and pulling their knee forward while maintaining your weight on their lower back.
Arm Locks & Chokes: Head-to-Toe Control
Master the art of upper body submissions with emphasis on strategic control:
- Head Control is King: Discover why controlling the head is like a locomotive – the rest of the body will follow. Block vision, create uncomfortable positions, and maintain dominance to set up your arm locks.
- Bone-on-Bone Pain: Use your knee as a bar to break your opponent's defense, driving your shin bone into their ribs for intense pain.
- Neck Cranks from Any Position: Learn the ground technique for neck cranks, using your hip and legs to stretch your opponent while pushing their head up with your hand or head.
- Mountain Position Dominance: When you have their head up, immediately get your knees under their elbows. Place your weight on their chest to stop their breathing, using leverage to reach for the arm. If they throw you off, finish the move by cracking their leg sideways.
- Avoiding Arm Traps: Never put your arms between their legs if they are strong; they can squeeze and trap you.
- Leverage Over Your Own Leg: Grab your opponent's leg from the inside, fall back as if to sleep, then push their head backward to secure the arm.
- Pushing for Submissions: Instead of pulling, learn the highly effective principle of pushing the rest of the body off the part you want to submit (legs, arm, or neck).
- The "Canary" Choke: A Russian secret, this move makes people "sink so well." Hook their leg with your left foot, turning your entire body. Grab their free leg, lay on your back, and choose from dozens of finishing techniques.
- Yasuhiro Yamashita's Unbeatable Leverage: Learn a Judo legend's secret – pulling the sleeve with pure leverage, no muscle power. Your elbows on your back set up a perfect arm lock where his side is facing you.
- The "Bull" Move: A move so effective it broke an ear! Learn how to use your head literally to generate immense power for this submission.
Guard Control & Escapes: Anticipation and Innovation
- Breaking the Hold: If an opponent has a deep grip, learn to turn your hip to the side (right hip for right leg, left for left) and release one leg at a time.
- Passing Guard (Your Way): Don't just "pass guard." Instead, learn to slide your knee between your bodies, "inhaling" their tailbone to achieve perfect, uncollectable positions.
- Escaping Any Grip: The ultimate simple secret: push their hand towards their thumb. This principle applies to both hand and foot grips.
- Countering Kicks: Always have one arm free to protect your face. Learn to get on the "dead side" of the opponent to minimize danger. Kick the foot in line with the toes for effective takedowns.
Tactical Advantages and Fighting Wisdom
- The "News" Choke (Cowboy Style): A variations of a noose. Remember to never stop rotating to adjust your hand position and maintain full control.
- Kicking the Bladder/Solar Plexus: A powerful, legal technique in some sports to bend your opponent down, setting them up for a nose attack.
- Conditioning is Everything: Understand why 95% of victory is conditioning. Learn how to use your belly/lower stomach on their nose/face to stop breathing for a second, effectively winning the fight.
- "Avoiding the Punch like Water": Learn to move along with the punch using your shoulders and turning your body to avoid being knocked out.
- Breaking Holds by Turning: Break grips and get to your opponent's "dead side" by turning your body.
- Countering the Kick: Get on the "dead side" to reduce danger, and then transition into a leg lock.
- "Scissors" Takedown: A slow, precise takedown that can be performed with surprising speed, just like in Bruce Lee movies.
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By Oleg Taktarov - Winner of the UFC
Oleg TAKTAROV, "the Russian Bear"
"Some men are part of History, other men make History !
Oleg is one of those who write things with destinies that noone could have imagined… This great Sambo Champion is a technique virtuoso, he gives the impression of creating something in each new fight.
He will live forever in the Hall of Fame of ultimate fighting and prides...
Oleg Taktarov was born in Russia, and arrives in the U.S. with the dream of becoming an actor. He is discovered thanks to the quality of his fighting, and today, besides his fights, he can also be seen on the silver screen, in films such as “15 minutes” with Robert De Niro, or “Benjamin Gates” with Nicolas Gages, and “Rollerball”, “Bad Boys II”... Oleg never stops training, and with training sessions all over the planet, you can seriously realize the huge quality of the character and of his work.
Hervé Gheldman, partner of Oleg in this vidéo, was born in Paris of Slav descent. World Champion of Amateur Sambo Fighting, he assists and represents Oleg Taktarov in Europe. Hervé discovers Sambo in 1985, and will pass every certificate at the Moscow Sports Academy, and in Ktsovo, the Sambo and Judo University.
His amazing career, being a student and the assistant of David RUDMAN, Oleg TAKTAROV & Igor YAKIMOV, makes him an international expert.
In this first opus, Oleg wanted to share his Sambo, a universal Sambo meant for any fighting style. He demonstrates the techniques he used during his fights, but also techniques specific to self defense, to police forces work... It starts with a warm up sequence, then goes on with throws, explanations of the immobilizations and of the locks, ankles-legs-arms-wrists locks techniques, various chokes, triangle techniques, and within the guard, combinations standing-ground with immobilizations and the film ends with ground defense with release of immobilizations.
Vol. 1 - Running Time: 37 Minutes
In this second opus, Oleg presents new fight and self defense techniques. You will discover controls on the ground with finishing in ankle lock, leg lock, knee lock, arm lock, back of the neck lock, defense on the ground with finishing in triangle, controls with turning over and lock on a kneeling opponent, various choke techniques with grips on the nose, followed with suffocation techniques, strikes, dodges, techniques standing/ground with immobilizations, throws and control on the ground, defense against grips from behind, explanations of defense techniques with various positions, and at last one assault.
Vol. 2 - Running Time: 40 Minutes