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We have compartmentalized our instructional DVDs into 5 broad categories: Striking, Grappling/Submissions, Shooting/Takedowns, Conditioning/Technique Cultivation, and Defensive Base/Street-Defense. The distinctions are refined enough to allow you to browse your area of need with greater focus but broad enough to allow for overlap and interlock with the other materials. If you have questions contact us at mark@extremeselfprotection.com
To assist you in making an informed purchase we offer the following suggestions for material consumption.
1. For an all-encompassing dirty-boxing/street-ready striking base we guide you towards THE COMPLETE PUGILIST as your foundation resource to be supplemented with ABC'S OF NHB VOL.1 and ARMOR PLATED, in that order of consumption. This product matrix supersedes EXTREME BOXING & ILLEGAL BOXING.
2. For those seeking a solid foundation in the basics of pugilism but who have no desire to move to the advanced level, we suggest the following order of consumption: EXTREME BOXING, ABCs OF NHB VOL. 1, ARMOR PLATED & ILLEGAL BOXING.
3. RAW DVDs 1-21 each contain striking instruction. All subsequent RAWs are specialized, see our RAW Products page for details.
Our latest commercially released DVD is the prefect introduction to our Down & Out Drilling concept featured on several RAWs and in our book FLOW CHAIN DRILLS. In a nutshell, Down & Out Drilling puts the mix into Mixed Martial Arts. Rather than train each element of the fight in a separate piecemeal fashion (boxing tonight, grappling tomorrow, and takedowns on Thursday, for example) Down & Out Drills illustrate how to make each and every training session an integrated whole of striking, shooting, clinching, ground and pound, and submissions.
This DVD introduces the concept with a 17-link drill set and then shows how to pull this same drill apart and insert new links to create entirely new drills for hundreds of hours of drilling.
This is a high-speed/low-drag volume that runs at a furious pace and clocks in at 55 minutes.
(10 hours) What THE COMPLETE GRAPPLER does for wrestling, this does for old school boxing. It is our encyclopedia of 4. oz. glove work: all the defense, all the tricks, all the illegal blows, and everything in-between. Suitable for boxers, MMA athletes, and street combatives alike.
(205 minutes) The Low Kick Stance, Kicking Footwork, 33 Outside Range Low Kicks, 16 Clinch Kick Options, +14 Unusual Circumstance Kicking Weapons. We follow this up with 47 Kicking Defense Tools (including defenses against High Kicks). We then present 62 Drills to put kicks into multiple kick contexts, Kicks + Upper Body Tools, and Kicking Counter-Chain Drills. We close with 6 Drills to build Kicking Power, Speed, and Pain Tolerance. All in all, an encyclopedic 3+ hours of Low-Kicking Instruction.
(Approx. 2 1/2 hours) This 2-DVD set introduces one dozen Knee Strikes from the outside range and then provides 6 Defensive Drills to combat these knees. Next, we introduce Outside Knee Combinations and Head-Hooking (gaining Head-Control to up the power of your Knee Strikes--nope, not a true-clinch, not yet). We then move to the inside with a wrestling tweak on the standard Knee-Clinch and then illustrate a dozen Clinch-Knee Weapons and then run these through 7 Skip Knee Combination Drills. Since clinching is about fluidity we detail 32 Clinching Drills in all 4 permutations an MMA/Street Clinch can assume. We then run a series of drills to make transitions between Kicks and Knees blend seamlessly. We end the material with a Street Specific Knee Arsenal 6 tools deep, and a Ground 'n' Pound MMA-ready Knee Arsenal 9 moves deep. And last but not least, two drills to educate punishing the shoot with Head-On-Collision Knees.
Purchase BELOW THE BELT 1 & 2 for the discounted price of $85 ($95 International Shipping).
(2 hours) This is your ground floor to intermediate primer on taking old school pugilism and adjusting it for the demands of MMA and the street. Topics covered include: Stance-work, Footwork, the Offensive Arsenal, the Defensive Arsenal, Combinations, and an introduction to Boxing Chain Drills and Trigger Punching.
(2 hours) Volume 1 of this series builds upon skills taught in EXTREME BOXING and teaches you the secrets of extreme boxing chain drills. These high-steed drills consist of a prearranged sequence of strikes and counters that closely simulate the dynamics of a real fight while scientifically programming spontaneous combat reflexes. You will learn, step-by-step, 20 of the most effective chain drill sequences as well as learn how to extract practical combat striking combinations with takedowns and grappling techniques while maintaining your own airtight defense. If you want to fight like a pro, you need to train like one.
ARMOR PLATED(150 minutes) This project is all defense--it is designed for both the street CQB specialist and the MMA player and gets to the core of self-defense in that it is 100% D-E-F-E-N-S-E. This series covers in encyclopedic scope Defense for Punches, Kicks (all ranges and varieties), Elbows, Knees, Head-Butts, and then hits the ground for the must-know info for surviving a Ground 'n' Pound attack. Please remember, if you are looking for offense, you won't find it here, this is nothing but laser-focusing your defensive skills and tightening that shell so that you can survive and launch a tighter offensive game from behind your armor.
(90 minutes) ALL of the Illegal Shots drawn from old school pugilism, boombattle, and dirty fighters the world over. Every Illegal Punch, Elbow, Hack Saw, Louisville Slugger, and much, much more. (There is no overlap between this material and that found on our EXTREME BOXING title.)
A few suggestions for consuming our grappling instruction.
1. FLOOR BAG, although titled as a workout DVD (which it can be), is our foundational primer on position, riding, and pinning. All other material presumes that you have a grasp of the fundamentals and drills found here.
2. If FLOOR BAG is the root of the tree, THE COMPLETE GRAPPLER is the trunk. All of our other grappling material branches from this root & trunk system.
3. With the aforementioned tools in hand, you can plunge into any of our other grappling DVDs with no problem and be ready to move at full-speed.
4. RAW DVDs are specific focus tools designed for the serious/advanced grappler/MMA competitor. See our RAW DVDs here.
Our latest commercially released DVD is the prefect introduction to our Down & Out Drilling concept featured on several RAWs and in our book FLOW CHAIN DRILLS. In a nutshell, Down & Out Drilling puts the mix into Mixed Martial Arts. Rather than train each element of the fight in a separate piecemeal fashion (boxing tonight, grappling tomorrow, and takedowns on Thursday, for example) Down & Out Drills illustrate how to make each and every training session an integrated whole of striking, shooting, clinching, ground and pound, and submissions.
This DVD introduces the concept with a 17-link drill set and then shows how to pull this same drill apart and insert new links to create entirely new drills for hundreds of hours of drilling.
This is a high-speed/low-drag volume that runs at a furious pace and clocks in at 55 minutes.
(85 minutes) This two-in-one title give you dozens of solo grappling routines as well as providing a fast track education into the theories and tactics of pinning and riding with malicious intent.
(10+ hours) Although the name is a misnomer, ties series is pretty definite. It clocks in at just under 400 moves. This price includes the 479 page workbook.
(6+ hours) This material supersedes our previous ESCAPES titles with a truly encyclopedic focus on Submission and Position Escapes, Counters, Reversals, and Stalemates. It is ideally interlocked with BUSTING THE LEGS and CLEAN SWEEPS. This material introduces escapes according to positional reference maps, provides ABC templates using the Hierarchy of Utility, emphasizes escape chaining, and provides dovetail counter submissions where feasible. We provide escapes across the following broad classes of positional reference: Head-Holds, Head & Arm/Scarf, Head & Shoulder/Broken Scarf, Reverse Broken Scarf, Shoulder Choke/Arm Triangle, North South Permutations, Top Saddle/Mount Permutations, Cross-Body Permutations, Mount Transition Escapes, 1/2 Guard/1/2 Mount Permutations, Knee Rides, Quarter/Turtle Position Permutations, Bottom Scissors/Guard Submission Counters, Arm Bar Beats, TWL/Americana Counters, Rear Naked Escapes, Foot/Ankle Lock Escapes, Dorsals, Chancery/Guillotines, and Standing Jeopardy Escapes, 350+ Escapes in all.
(5+ hours) A complete guide to defense/offense inside the Bottom Scissors/Guard position. Covers Safety Positions, Ground 'n' Pound, Submissions Inside the Guard, Sweeps Beats, over 200 Passes, and Leg Locks, Leg Locks, Leg Locks.
(180 minutes) Over 125 techniques covering all three main opponent reference points and every practical Turnover, Sweep, Switch, and Stand-Up from the Bottom Position to get you back on top.
(2 hours) No submission technique works every time. That's why the best No-Holds-Barred (NHB) fighters have an entire arsenal of finishing techniques to know how to flow from one submission to another based on their opponent's energy and counters. In this set, you will learn the concept of chaining techniques that combine punishing, joint-wrenching submission holds into natural progressions. When performed as drills they teach you how to set up and apply dozens of different finishing holds and smoothly transition from one technique to another. When applied in a fight, the reflexes, timing and positioning these drills develop enable you to automatically apply the best submission technique for the situation. They also teach you how to automatically counter your opponent's counters to always stay in control of the action.
(2 hours) Eight complete counter-for-counter submission chains. Over 60 individual submissions.
(2 hours) In this title we do a side-by-side comparison of two formidable grappling systems: BJJ and All-In Wrestling. We cover not only the differences in movement theory, pressurizing, flowing, and aggression disparities, but we also provide easy counters to many of the more common jiu-jitsu attacks. No matter your grappling style, this volume will sharpen your game.
(2.5 hours) These two discs add to your defensive vocabulary regarding the formidable art of BJJ. We offer a wide palette of defenses for common BJJ offense so that you can better flow through your top game. Included are: Inside Guard Defenses: Tie-up Releases, DWL/Kimura Beats, Guillotine Answers, Arm Bar Beats, Double Arm Bar Beats, Shoulder Choke Beats, Sleeve Choke Defenses, Triangle Defenses (8), Head Scissors Defenses for good measure, Split Arm Beats and Leg-Underhook Defenses are also addressed. Next, we move to Choke Defenses including a variety of answers across the following choke classes: Scissors Chokes, Shoulder Chokes, Guillotines, and 15 answers for the Rear Naked. Next, the Arm-Lock Defense series from the following classes: TWL/American Answers, Short Arm Bar Answers, and Cross-Body Arm Bar Answers (9). We finish up with Standard Ankle Lock Counters (9). In all, 94 defensive tools on these 2 discs.
Purchase both BEYOND BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU 1 & 2 for the discounted price of only $85 ($95 International)
(40 minutes) We approach the Bottom Scissors/Guard Position/fighting from the back in our usual call-and-response chain manner and present 36 stream-lined submissions.
(42 minutes) This DVD is 32 moves deep and covers submission chains for when you have gained your opponent's back from belly-down position, belly-up, and 1/4 position (Turtled). We also run a series of defensive skills for when your opponent has your back.
(45 minutes) Sorry about the non-descriptive title--this material covers submission chains for when you have gained Top Saddle/Mount, Cross-Body, and the Head-Arm Position. 38 moves deep.
(1.5 hours) This DVD, with a nonsense title (sorry about that title, folks. I fought hard.) is a one-stop destination for countering submissions and ground positions. It contains 132 escapes/counters from the most common grappling offenses.
A few suggestions for the consumption of this material.
1. THE COMPLETE GRAPPLER's first third is comprised of detailed shooting offense & defense from a variety of tie-ups.
2. Once THE COMPLETE GRAPPLER has been consumed we then recommend progressing to THE ABCs of NHB: Vol. 2.
3. SILENT PARTNER is meant to be used at every stage of the takedown training continuum. The throwing dummy is to the shooter, what the heavy bag is to the striker.
4. Many of our RAW DVDs are devoted to detailed advance takedown/clinch work. See our RAW Products for details.
Our latest commercially released DVD is the prefect introduction to our Down & Out Drilling concept featured on several RAWs and in our book FLOW CHAIN DRILLS. In a nutshell, Down & Out Drilling puts the mix into Mixed Martial Arts. Rather than train each element of the fight in a separate piecemeal fashion (boxing tonight, grappling tomorrow, and takedowns on Thursday, for example) Down & Out Drills illustrate how to make each and every training session an integrated whole of striking, shooting, clinching, ground and pound, and submissions.
This DVD introduces the concept with a 17-link drill set and then shows how to pull this same drill apart and insert new links to create entirely new drills for hundreds of hours of drilling.
This is a high-speed/low-drag volume that runs at a furious pace and clocks in at 55 minutes.
(10+ hours) Although the name is a misnomer, ties series is pretty definite. It clocks in at just under 400 moves. This price includes the 479 page workbook.
(2 hours) This 2 DVD set breaks the high-percentage Double-Leg Takedown into minute detail both on the offensive side and the defensive side. It also includes material on chaining your takedowns and takedown defense.
(3 hours) For those of you who have been using FLOOR BAG and have requested our follow-up using a grappling dummy, well, it's finally here. This is your encyclopedia to solo grappling training with a throwing/grappling dummy. This DVD covers 130+ drills in both the horizontal and vertical positions including sections on developing Leg Scissors, Head-Locks (real Old School Head-Locks, not Head-Holds), Conditioning, Tie-Up Drills, Head-Lock Tosses, Wings, Body-Lock Tosses, Pummeling, Arm Tie-Up Tosses, Collar & Elbow Tosses, Outside Arm Tie-Up Tosses, Reverse Head-Lock Throws, Head Drags, Arm Drags, Double Legs, Low Singles, Fireman's Carries, Flying Mares, Drop Scissors, and an extensive section on developing the proper Backcast (Suplex) with a high arch (no flat-backing). We then conclude with chaining concepts. Again 130+ Drills-combine these drills with the FLOOR BAG material and you've got a full vocabulary of tools to work when you lack a partner or the drill is just too mean for human consumption.
For those seeking to hone defense skills as a priority over sportive offense we offer the following suggestions.
1. ARMOR PLATED is our encyclopedia of striking defense.
2. THE GREAT ESCAPES serves as the primer on primary ground positional and submission escapes.
3. CLEAN SWEEPS provides the defensive base needed to use the bottom scissors/guard as a defensive/offensive tool.
4. BUSTING THE LEGS deals exhaustively with escaping/passing the bottom scissors/guard and going offensive between the legs.
5. Specific volumes of ESP RAW feature advanced escape/defense topics. See our RAW Products page for details.
ARMOR PLATED(150 minutes) This project is all defense--it is designed for both the street CQB specialist and the MMA player and gets to the core of self-defense in that it is 100% D-E-F-E-N-S-E. This series covers in encyclopedic scope Defense for Punches, Kicks (all ranges and varieties), Elbows, Knees, Head-Butts, and then hits the ground for the must-know info for surviving a Ground 'n' Pound attack. Please remember, if you are looking for offense, you won't find it here, this is nothing but laser-focusing your defensive skills and tightening that shell so that you can survive and launch a tighter offensive game from behind your armor.
(6+ hours) This material supersedes our previous ESCAPES titles with a truly encyclopedic focus on Submission and Position Escapes, Counters, Reversals, and Stalemates. It is ideally interlocked with BUSTING THE LEGS and CLEAN SWEEPS. This material introduces escapes according to positional reference maps, provides ABC templates using the Hierarchy of Utility, emphasizes escape chaining, and provides dovetail counter submissions where feasible. We provide escapes across the following broad classes of positional reference: Head-Holds, Head & Arm/Scarf, Head & Shoulder/Broken Scarf, Reverse Broken Scarf, Shoulder Choke/Arm Triangle, North South Permutations, Top Saddle/Mount Permutations, Cross-Body Permutations, Mount Transition Escapes, 1/2 Guard/1/2 Mount Permutations, Knee Rides, Quarter/Turtle Position Permutations, Bottom Scissors/Guard Submission Counters, Arm Bar Beats, TWL/Americana Counters, Rear Naked Escapes, Foot/Ankle Lock Escapes, Dorsals, Chancery/Guillotines, and Standing Jeopardy Escapes, 350+ Escapes in all.
(1.5 hours) This DVD, with a nonsense title (sorry about that title, folks. I fought hard.) is a one-stop destination for countering submissions and ground positions. It contains 132 escapes/counters from the most common grappling offenses.
(180 minutes) Over 125 techniques covering all three main opponent reference points and every practical Turnover, Sweep, Switch, and Stand-Up from the Bottom Position to get you back on top.
(5+ hours) A complete guide to defense/offense inside the Bottom Scissors/Guard position. Covers Safety Positions, Ground 'n' Pound, Submissions Inside the Guard, Sweeps Beats, over 200 Passes, and Leg Locks, Leg Locks, Leg Locks.
(1 hour) This compendium volume features Mark Hatmaker, Loren Christensen, and Vince Morris each bringing their own expertise to the following common street fighting scenarios: Haymaker Punch, Lapel Grab, Side Headlock, Rear Choke, Front Kick, Tackle, and a Punch.
(3.5 Hours) This first volume is meant to accompany the harsh tactics we advocate in our street self-defense manual NO SECOND CHANCE. This first volume clocks in at over 3 1/2 hours and introduces the Natural Weapons Vocabulary, the Head-to-Toe Target System, introduces Static Scenario Drilling, and closes with Fluid Scenario Drilling i.e., the statistically most likely assault situations. (Disclosure: This volume is weapons-free. Volume 2 will cover that contingency in great depth.)
You can purchase Volume 1 and NO SECOND CHANCE as set below
A few suggestions regarding our conditioning material.
1. The GLADIATOR CONDITIONING PROGRAM is our ground floor conditioning tool. Once the levels have been mastered we recommend progressing to our NHB: Conditioning Manual found on the Book Products Page.
2. We also recommend the drills found on FLOOR BAG and SILENT PARTNER for both conditioning and solo technique cultivation.
3. For a free conditioning resource see our inTENS Page where you will find workouts posted daily.
(70 minutes) This program emphasizes fitness that is fight specific while utilizing chained exercise groups to harness synergy and reduce training time while boosting results. Covered are The Grappler's Dozen, a Head-to-Toe Flexibility Regimen, and The Eight to Hate, a hardcore calisthenics program to build strength, endurance, and explosiveness. We also cover The Dirty Dozen, a sandbag workout for eccentric lift training and Breakdown The Ground Round, a routine for building mat mobility and fluidity.
(2+ hours) We provide an encyclopedic approach to bodyweight conditioning breaking the body into 5 Classes: Squat Grinders, Push-Up Grinders, Hinge Grinders, Neck Grinders, and the Pull-Up Grinders. We offer a myriad of exercise choices in each to keep your body-weight regime fresh and continuously challenging. Included are suggestions on how to utilize and integrate the material at different conditioning levels. We introduce 26 Squat varieties, 26 Push-Up varieties along with suggestions on how to double this number, 13 synergistic Hinge exercises meant to be performed in exact sequence, 19 Neck Strengthening exercises, and 25 (+) Pull-Up varieties. This is followed with the Menu Section for shaking it up and putting it all together: 1x1 in 20, Crap Shoot, The 500, The Sprint, The Marathon, One-at-a-Time, and The Countdown.
(85 minutes) This two-in-one title give you dozens of solo grappling routines as well as providing a fast track education into the theories and tactics of pinning and riding with malicious intent.
(3 hours) For those of you who have been using FLOOR BAG and have requested our follow-up using a grappling dummy, well, it's finally here. This is your encyclopedia to solo grappling training with a throwing/grappling dummy. This DVD covers 130+ drills in both the horizontal and vertical positions including sections on developing Leg Scissors, Head-Locks (real Old School Head-Locks, not Head-Holds), Conditioning, Tie-Up Drills, Head-Lock Tosses, Wings, Body-Lock Tosses, Pummeling, Arm Tie-Up Tosses, Collar & Elbow Tosses, Outside Arm Tie-Up Tosses, Reverse Head-Lock Throws, Head Drags, Arm Drags, Double Legs, Low Singles, Fireman's Carries, Flying Mares, Drop Scissors, and an extensive section on developing the proper Backcast (Suplex) with a high arch (no flat-backing). We then conclude with chaining concepts. Again 130+ Drills-combine these drills with the FLOOR BAG material and you've got a full vocabulary of tools to work when you lack a partner or the drill is just too mean for human consumption.
Purchase both FLOOR BAG WORKOUT & SILENT PARTNER: THROWING DUMMY TRAINING for the discounted price of $55 ($65 International)
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