Stephan Kesting – How to Defeat the Bigger Stronger Opponent

Well known instructor Stephan Kesting along with active competitor Emily Kwok have produced a huge set all about defeating a larger & stronger opponent.

DVD 1: Drills, Gi and No-Gi Gripfighting (1 hour, 39 minutes)

Emily starts by sharing her favorite fundamental, advanced and two-person partner drills. Warm up your body, build strength and endurance, and create a foundation for the rest of her system with these highly functional sport-specific movements.

In part two of the DVD Emily gives you a detailed what-to-do breakdown of stand-up and ground-based gripfighting. She covers techniques that’ll work against opponents of any size and of any grip strength. She also shares specific gripfighting strategies and mindsets that have helped her win world titles in both gi and no-gi grappling competitions.

Chapters

Introduction
Why You Should Drill
Fundamental Drills
Breakfalls
Technical stand-up
Forward Breakfall
Backward Roll
Shrimping
Leg Circles
Leg Triangles
Grappler’s Lifts
Advanced Drills
Butt Scoot Forward
Butt Scoot Backward
Shrimping Forward
Four Point Rotation
Kickouts
Spidermans
Jumping Lunges
Partner Drills
Leg Switching on Hips
Wheelbarrow Forwards
Crab Walk
Granby Roll
Leap Frogs
Drag with Sleeves
Bear Walk
Butterfly Lifts
Jumping Guard Sit Ups
Hook Walk
Guard Pop-ups
Introduction to Gripfighting
Four Fingers In
Pistol Grip
Lapel and Sleeve
Common Mistakes
Guidelines
Stripping Sleeve Grips
Stripping Lapel Grips
Stripping Elbow Grips
Stripping Over the Shoulder Grips
Stripping Grips on the Ground
Stripping Leg Grips
Demo and Summary
No Gi Grip Fighting

DVD 2: Compensating for Strength (2 hours, 24 minutes)

Not all guard positions keep you safe or are effective when you’ve facing someone who is much larger and heavier than you. Here Emily shares her favorite guard positions that work well against bigger people, and breaks them down so you’ll be able to keep good position and successfully defend guard passing attempts. Plus she teaches you which sweeps work against ALL sizes of opponents, not just ones your own size.

In part two Emily takes you through her bread and butter guard passes that she uses again and again when facing larger opponents. Don’t let guard passing turn into a battle of strength; use speed, leverage and timing instead! Emily teaches you the secrets of ‘ganging up’ on your opponent by using your whole body to dominate ONE of his limbs. Once you isolate a limb you can then use it to get past their guard and into a good position where you can dominate the rest of the fight.

In part three of this DVD, Emily explores the seldom-taught area of transitional escapes, sharing with you the strategies and mindset that completely changed her own approach to pin escapes. She also shows you the exact techniques you need to know in order to keep things moving, and to not end up completely flattened and helplessly pinned underneath your opponent.

Chapters:

Compensating for Strength
Intro to the Seated Guard
Knee Push Sweep
Butterfly Sweep
Butterfly Sweep with Head Control
Butterfly Sweep with Knee Push
Single Leg X Guard
Intro and Shin-to-Shin Entry
Butterfly Sweep Entry
Side to Side Finish
Heel Grab Finish
Dealing with Grips
Transition from Single Leg X Guard to Regular X Guard
Intro to the X Guard and X Guard Details
stand-up Finish
Backtrip Finish
Intro to the Half Guard
Taking the Back
Leg Grab Sweep
Roll-Under Sweep
The ‘Vomit’ Sweep
Guard Passing
Strategies and Tactics
Explosive stand-up
Standing Step Pass
Leg Drag & Hip Trap
Over-Under Pass
Transitional Escapes
Pin Escapes Intro
Block and Elbow Wedge
Multiple Bridging
Side to Side Bridging
Transitional Mount Escapes
Improving the Elbow-Knee Escape
Leg Trap Mount Escape

DVD 3: Top Five Moves (1 hour, 15 minutes)

Every champion has his or her favorite ‘go to’ moves… In this DVD Emily shares her top five submissions, her top five guard sweeps, and her top five escapes and transitions for dealing with much larger people. Most importantly, she includes the tweaks and details that take ‘regular’ techniques and change them into ‘giant-killer’ moves. Master these 15 techniques and watch your training partners develop a new-found respect for your skills.

Chapters

Top 5 Submissions for Smaller People
Choosing your Submissions
Cross Side Lapel Choke
Modified Baseball Choke
Reverse Armbar from Mount
Bow and Arrow Choke
North South Choke
Top 5 Guard Sweeps for Smaller People
Developing your Guard Sweeps
Knee Push to Single Leg X Guard
Knee Push to Sickle Sweep
Scooting Butterfly Sweep
Double Shin Lever
Counter to Backstep Guard Pass
Top 5 Transitions and Escapes
Moving in Transition
Closed to Open Guard
Elbow Push vs Guard Pass
Leg Over Head Escape
Granby Roll Escapes
Two-on-One Escape
Some Final Words of Advice

Bonus DVD 1: Q & A Session with Emily Kwok (1 hour)

This DVD was filmed during a semi-private Q & A session in which Emily answered questions from white, blue, brown and blackbelts. She shared the tricks and techniques she uses on a daily basis against taller, heavier and much stronger training partners – no matter how ‘agro’ they are. Here’s just some of what she covered, responding to questions and requests from grapplers just like you:

A highly sport-specific and functional warmup for a group of people of all sizes,
A detailed breakdown of Emily’s approach to atttacking from rearmount, including secrets learned from Marcelo Garcia,
How to finish the guillotine even when your opponent is taller and stronger than you with a much larger neck,
How to attack with the guillotine in a way that sets up an instant guard pass,
When NOT to attack with the guillotine from guard,
Sweeps that use your opponent’s size to your advantage,
A choke that works on bigger, stronger Goliaths, even if you’re only using one hand,
What to do when your opponent stalls in your guard, trying to shut down your attacks,
How to protect your fingers from getting mauled when gripfighting,
Emily’s favorite X Guard pass,
The keys to controlling the rear mount so that your opponent can’t squirm or power out of it, and how to put him into constant danger of getting submitted,
Which traditional teaching techniques actually hinder your progress,
Two high-percentage moves to recover from a failed butterfly guard sweep, even if your opponent is trying to use his superior size to crush you and shut down your game,
The mindset you MUST maintain to prevent your sweeps from being shut down and having your guard passed,
and more…

Bonus DVD 2: An Introduction to Total Body Stability,
by Roy Duquette with Emily Kwok (1 hour)

In this unique bonus DVD, master strength and conditioning coach Roy Duquette puts Emily through a workout from his TBS system. The goal of this system is to strengthen, stabilize and protect the joints and muscles that are most susceptible to injury.

Roy was Emily’s first conditioning coach, as well as the person who initially introduced her to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Emily, and many other martial arts athletes, recognize how important it is to create a strong foundation with this sort of conditioning, for the simple reason that it allows them to train harder in class and walk around without feeling crippled all the time!

Chapters

Standing Active Posture Series
Front Raises
L-Flyes
Dumbbell Shrug
Dumbbell Overhead Press
Upper Body Stability Bicep Curl
Sequential Roll-Up Series
Sequential Roll-Up
Roll-Up with Alternating Leg Raises
Roll-Up with Double Leg Raises
Superman Series
Double Arm and Leg Extension
Overhead Flyes
Leg Curls
Simultaneous Flyes and Leg Curls
Standard Plank Series
Sequential Plank
Plank Push-Up
Plank with Alternating Leg Raises
Swiss-Ball Bridge Series
Straight-Leg Bridge
Leg Curls
Bent-Knee Bridging
Alternating Leg Raises
Summary

Enjoy!