Company: Jiu Joe Jitsu
Tape Name: Video # 1
Tape Cost: $29.95
Length
of Tape/Time: 35 minutes
Number of Moves/Techniques: Too many to count!
Return
Policy: Defective merchandise only
Experiences in dealing with this company: Good
The
Instructor: Joseph Saladino
Company's Address: P.O. Box 542, Mount Sinai, NY.,
11766
Company's Phone Number: ?
Web Page: http://www.selfdefense.net
E-Mail:
info@self-defense.net
Primary Grading Criteria:
1. Production/Tape Quality: 9
2. Instructors demonstrated skill level: 10
3.
Comprehension Score/Immediate Understanding: 9
4. Degree to which this will make
someone a better Martial Artist: 10
5. Score on delivery vs. hype: 9
6. Degree
to which we'd recommend this product: 9
7. Wasted Time (The higher the number,
the less "fluff"/repetition): 9
8. Playback Score/Watching it over-and-over
again: 9
9. Would I purchase more of this company's products: 9
10. Overall
grade based on cost vs. value: 9
Grand Total: Revised to 92% (Good = 3.0 stars)
Originally scored 98%
Secondary Grading Criteria:
1. Beginners benefit: Good
2. Intermediate benefit: Good
3. Advanced benefit:
Good
4. Time to benefit: very little time
5. The need to buy additional tapes
to understand this one: None !
Written Summary:
In this 1st tape of
the Jiu Joe Jitsu Self Defense series, Mr. Saladino shows how the techniques of karate,
aiki-jujitsu, and jujitsu can all be combined for street lethal self defense. This
tape, titled "Beginning Jujitsu", gets right into the "meat of things",
has no fluff, and is one of the better beginner tapes we've seen on incorporating
these various techniques. It definitely has within it a Vee JuJitsu flavor, yet leaves
out alot of the excessive talk and repetitive drills found on other Vee type tapes
we've seen such as Black & Blue's.
In this tape there are about 10 primary
self defense techniques shown. However the sub-categories and variations of each
are numerous. What Mr. Saladino shows on this tape, in our opinion, would keep a
"Beginning Jujitsu" student happily busy for quite some time.
Some
of the techniques were shown 6 times, 3 times on each side. Usually this would have
a tape scoring low on our "Wasted Time" criteria. Due to the techniques
shown, and the sub-components of each, this much replay was needed. Mr. Saladino's
thorough manipulation of painful come-alongs and aiki-jujitsu techniques, literally
had the opponent going all over the place and sometimes in circles. Portions of some
techniques had Mr. Saladino's back to the camera so that you couldn't see the entire
technique and it's various sub-components. In the thorough manipulation and transition
of various aiki-jujitsu and come-along techniques, that just can't be helped. It
appeared that on those techiques, Mr. Saladino knew that his mastery and demonstration
of them required they be shown from various angles. WELL DONE MR. SALADINO. This
tape had a logical progression, appeared to have alot of planning and thought put
into it, and was well produced.
In this tape, Mr. Saladino shows the viewer
how to serve up an "appetizer" using quick strike distractions, which allow
one to get in and make these techniques work. Then after the "main course"
has been served, he brings out the "dessert" and shows how to finish off
an opponent with rapid fire hand, elbow, knee and foot strikes. Mr. Saladino's fluid
and extremely fast delivery of his distractions and rapid fire "finish-offs",
not only show his mastery of this system, but more importantly, how one can REALLY
enjoy putting "the icing on the cake" afterwards. In summing things up,
Mr. Saladino introduces the viewer to the concept of how they can have, learn, and
use, a thorough self defense system.
This tape is for anyone wanting to learn
a system that has within it, strong karate, aiki-jujitsu and jujitsu influences,
which shows how to get in close, and make these various techniques work in the heat
of battle.
