Fit To Defend

Description

This 4 hour DVD set is the ultimate guide to real, practical self defense and fitness that students can learn at their own pace and in the privacy of their own homes. It's designed for solo or partner training, with the hope the whole family will get involved, as the techniques are designed for and executed by, women, men, and children. FIT TO DEFEND includes instruction, recaps, and workouts, and combines the blocking and striking techniques of karate with the incapacitating grappling techniques of jiu-jitsu. The teaching is informative, lively, and fun with host Rita Sever, Jiu Jitsu World Champion Jean Jacques Machado, and Karate Master Roger Lacombe. The moves are kept simple but effective and they can be applied in many different situations. 50 specific counters to over 30 different types of attacks are detailed. Though intended mainly for the non-practictioners, FIT TO DEFEND can be used by serious martial artists to augment their formal training.

Customer Reviews:

Great content, style & production .......2006-08-24

This is 2 DVDs with 2 volumes/lessons/classes of both Karate & Jiu Jitsu in each one.
It starts with a long intro of Rita Sever (tv host personality) demonstrating the moves on several attackers in each of the many possible daily situations.
You learn along side Rita, her asking all the questions & making the mistakes you would ask. Both instructors have several degree black belts, show a lot of power/great technique when demonstrating on other assistants, cover almost any question you could have & are very patient, good-natured & friendly. They demonstrate both on other male assistants full speed & force & work with Rita slowly then over & over until she can do it full speed as well.
The chapters are broken up to just kicks, just blocks, grappling, etc.
There is a quick recap in each volume since they teach a lot of info.
There are workouts that include first agood amount of simple stretching in karate & balance moves to help increase your control for Jiu Jitsu, then simple practicing of each move you learned in that volume for about 10-20 min.
There is another chapter of teaching combinations with the insructors calling out moves for Rita to do against a bag, etc. for 10 min.

Disk 2 has lesson 3 & 4. Lesson 3: wrist grabs, clothes grab, shoulder & arm grabs, front & rear bear hugs, recaping what you learned & a short workout.
Lesson 4: front & rear chokes, headlocks, ground attacks, recapping what you learned & a short workout.

This is a great DVD set, the production quality is superb, the camerawork, the style of dvd, the great, very detailed instruction from the instructors, etc.

Some good info.......2005-09-30

High Quality and nice introduction to BASIC self defense techniques. If you believe in the KISS method (keep it short and simple), you will like it. I think very highly of JJ Machado (see my other reviews). The techniques taught appear to be very solid and pratical. The downside is that two styles are taught here: Karate and Brazil/Gracie Jiu Jitsu. The two instructors teach different techinques for the same situation, which is good for a more experienced student to add options to their arsenal, but the two styles are not really merged at any point to teach when a specific karate technique is better to use than a Jiu jitsu technique. Beginning students may find this confusing. Mid-level and advance students who don't want to be pigeon holed into a single style, will appreciate it. The production quality is VERY high, the host does a good job, review of techniques is well done. The workout portion gives some nice excercises to practice. Females would probably appreciate the articulate host (who acts as the student) and the fact that the techniques do not reley much on brute force and sure strength. Watch it with a note pad and a pen to take notes; lot's of information is provided

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