Walt Bayless 3rd set-Winning Tactics #2(1999)

Walt Bayless 3rd set-Winning Tactics #2(1999)

Salepage : Walt Bayless 3rd set-Winning Tactics #2(1999)

Arichive : Walt Bayless 3rd set-Winning Tactics #2(1999)

Walt Bayless has more black belts than Helio Gracie and all of his sons combined. Helio has one, Royler has two, Rorion, Relson, Rickson, Rolker, and Royce have one each, and Robin doesn’t have any. Walt has nine and one of them is a fourth degree jiu-jitsu black belt. Walt doesn’t mention where he got it. It wasn’t from the Gracies, obviously.

Walt thinks the Gracies are being stingy with the black belts they award. “It shouldn’t take 6-7 years to get a black belt”, he complained in one ad.  You can get black belts in Taekwondo, Tangsudo, and Hapkido in Korea in less than one year. I know because I did it and I know a lot of people who did it too.  None of us could fight of course. On the contrary, we were less able to fight after studying those estimable and illustrious Korean martial arts than before.  But we had belts and certificates and that was the important thing. No sane person is going to mess with a man who has Taekwondo black belt and a certificate to back it up.

Walt’s tapes are a mixture of wrestling, judo, sambo, and a little basic Gracie Jiu-jitsu ®. He teaches the moves with t-shirt rather than gi, saying that if you can do it without a gi you can do it with a gi but not vice versa. It’s true you can’t do a collar choke if your opponent doesn’t have a collar. That’s like saying you can’t do an armlock if he doesn’t have an arm. First you have to know a technique and then you have to use the good judgment that comes from experience to decide when, where, how, or whether, to apply it. The fact that guys on the beach don’t usually wear shirts doesn’t mean collar chokes aren’t worth knowing. What do muggers wear where you live? But in a UFC or other vale tudo type event, no one wears a gi you say? (Actually, quite a few have worn them). Walt tries to distinguish between street combat jiu-jitsu and competition jiu-jitsu. I find this questionable. Do you really think you are going to have to worry about passing the closed guard of someone in a street fight? What do you think the probability is that someone who is better at jiu-jitsu than you are is going to attack you on a beach where you live?

Guys who are good at fighting generally don’t fight for free (although there’s always the counter example of Ryan Gracie). The chances that someone with a jiu-jitsu black belt (I mean the kind that he didn’t give himself) is going to pick a fight with you out of the blue are remote. My point is that you don’t need to learn only moves that would work on champions. Moves that work on ordinary guys have their place too, because these are the guys who are going to be attacking you. It pays to be versatile.

It may sound like I don’t like Walt’s tapes. Not true. The tapes are not bad. There’s a mix of extremely basic moves, along with some variations and set-ups that are subtle and sophisticated.  A Gracie purple belt of my acquaintance said he found several moves that were new, interesting, and looked easy to learn and do. He tried them and they worked well.