Company: World Grappling Federation
Tape Name: Oleg Taktarov Series - Tape
Three - Escapes
Tape Cost: $ 24.99 ( All five tapes of series $99.95 )+ s/h $4
per tape , $12 max. per order
Length of Tape/Time: 40 min.
Number of Moves/Techniques:
Nine
Return Policy: Unknown
Experiences in dealing with this company: Unknown
The
Instructor: Oleg Taktarov
Company's Address: P.O.Box 366, Lakeside , CA 92040
Company's
Phone Number: (619) 938-0611
Web Page: ?
E-Mail: ?
Primary Grading Criteria:
1.
Production/Tape Quality: 10
2. Instructors demonstrated skill level: 9
3. Comprehension
Score/Immediate Understanding: 9
4. Degree to which this will make someone a better
Martial Artist: 9
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: 10
10. Overall grade based on cost vs. value:
10
Grand Total: 93 %
1. 80%-100% = 93 %
2. Poor, Fair, Good, Excellent
= Good
3. 0-5 stars = 3.25
Secondary Grading Criteria:
1.
Beginners benefit: Fair
2. Intermediate benefit: Good
3. Advanced benefit:
Good
4. Time to benefit: As usual , practice makes perfect etc. etc.
5. The
need to buy additional tapes to understand this one: None
Written Summary:
This video
focuses on what should, in the reviewers opinion , be the basis of grappling training,
i.e. the ability to escape from inferior positions and/or submission techniques that
are about to be applied. A list of contents of this video is as follows :
1.
Defence against straight arm-bar
2. Escape from arm-bar attempt from rear-mounted
position
3. Escape from triangle choke
4. Escape from rear gi choke
5. Escape
from the mount
6. Defence against the guillotine
7. Defence against the ankle-lock
8.
Escape from knee-bar
9. Defence against the heel-hook
Inevitably, I liked
some of these techniques better than others. As stated in the previous two reviews,
I believe, and yes, it is only my opinion , that Mr. Taktarov, in spite of his obvious
ability and experience , operates from a slightly different conceptual basis than
the one my grappling instructors emphasised . Once again, I feel that Mr. Taktarov
works via his specific, individual technique against his opponent's specific , individual
technique. I was taught to work via positions , rather than techniques. What this
means in practice is that Mr. Taktarov will, for example , create some space so as
to escape and then will execute a counter- technique without first obtaining a superior
position. I feel that this would work against an inferior opponent but not against
one of equal or even slightly superior abilities. I was taught that the first priority
would be to work oneself into a superior position and to then only counterattack.
Again, this does not make this tape useless or inferior , it just means that , in
the reviewers opinion it would not be one of the top ten "must buy" grappling
instructional tapes.
E.P.
