Product Description

In a follow-up to his popular Championship Sambo: Submission Holds and Groundfighting, Steve Scott teaches you 85 essential armlocks for jujitsu, judo, sambo and mixed martial arts. The armlocks taught in the Armlock Encyclopedia apply to gi and no-gi combat sports, allowing you to use them in a wide variety of situations, including self-defense and street applications. Steve Scott makes it easy to learn the most effective and popular armlocks of modern grappling sports by organizing them into four broad categories: the cross-body armlock, the bent armlock, the straight armlock and the armpit lock. In addition to teaching how to set-up and apply each of the locks, he shows you how to defend against common armlocks, fight from both the mount and guard, lever your opponent’s arm free for an attack and vary your grip for maximum power. For those new to grappling, you’ll also learn the core skills of applying armlocks, controlling position, and training smart plus a glossary of grappling terms and a Rules of the Room guide to common sense rules on the mat.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106439 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

About the Author
Steve Scott is one of the top sambo coaches in the US. He was the 1983 US Team Coach at the Pan American Games and has personally coached 3 World Champions, 2 Pan American Games Champions and 58 National AAU Champions in the sport of sambo. With over 30 years experience in sambo and judo, he was one of the founding members of the U. S. Sombo Association in 1985 and has coached hundreds of athletes to victory in both sports.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Topical Study Guide
This book cannot cursorily read. It is an in depth study and analysis of the variations on the arm lock. Often arm locks are viewed as a single dimensional move, especially in the MMA dominated environment. Mr. Scott teaches that there are multiple ways into the juji gatame and other arm locks. The focus of the book is to master the fundamental moves, train to recognize when opportunities present themselves from different perspectives, and then execute. If you are looking for a lot of flash, this book isn't for you. If you are a thinking practitioner of martial arts and want to really add some depth to your ground fighting, I highly recommend this book.

Armlock Encyclopedia
A large number of books on the market cater to beginners who know a couple of basic moves and drills with little knowledge of how to go beyond that. They offer little guidance for experienced fighters or combat athletes. Armlock Encyclopedia is one of these.

The photos are OK and it's well-written. Some of the other more critical reviews probably originate in the book's inclusion of armbars that no one would or could ever use with little to distinguish them from high probability moves. It is more like a compendium of variations on different armbars than the sort of book that will help you deal with a fight - either in sport or on the street.

I use it primarily to think of different ways to position myself for an armbar. While it is reasonable for that, the truth is I haven't looked at it for a long time and find other books to be much more helpful. It may be useful for someone who is not quite a beginner, but for anyone more advanced than that, it probably won't provide much instruction.

Pictures
In my opinion all the pictures should be bigger and in colour, so that the drills coud be more understood. But all techniques are very well explained and it's a very good reference for all levels of grappling fighters.