There are many ways to win a fight or a match; but none are as satisying, as complete and as final as winning by submission. Submission is the KO of Gracie Jiui-Jitsu, the unequivocal way of ending a fightt and the epitome of one's mastery over your opponent. When you submit someone there is only the certainty of the result; you are better than your opponent and he must submit to your technique. For the first time ever, Grandmaster Helio Gracie, the founder of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, joins hands with his son Royler Gracie to show the secrets of finishing your opponent.

Helio Gracie, widely accepted as the creator of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, put his theories to the test for decades fighting competitors from around the world in bare-knuckle battles. Royler is arguably the best competition fighter ever in the royal family of fighting. Royler is a four time World Jiu-Jitsu Champion, three time ADCC World Submission Wrestling Champoin, and multiple time Pan-American and national champion. Named fighter of the 90s by Gracie Magazine, Royler Gracie knows how to win and how to win quickly by submitting his opponents with his competition-proven techniques. In his latest book, Gracie Submission Essentials: Grandmaster and Master Secrets of Finishing a Fight, Royler showcases his favorite and most effective techniqes he used over three decades of winning national and international competitions.

Learn the details that make submission techniques work while others fail. Learn from the Grandmaster and Master how to put together lethal combinations of sumissions that will leave your opponent with no option but to tap in surrender.

In Gracie Submission Essentials: Grandmaster and Master Secrets of Finishing a Fight, Helio and Royler Gracie break down each of their favorite submission techniques, presenting important details that will make your game soar and transform you into a submission machine feared by you opponents. If you want to win fights by submission in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and submission grappling you need Gracie Submission Essentails: Grandmaster and Master Secrets of Finishing a Fight.

Contents

A Introduction
Attack or wait? Strategies of the masters
Grandmaster Helio Gracie
Royler Gracie
The game
What it takes to become a good finisher
Select techniques to finish our opponent
Power, timing and execution
Objective strength and power
The mantra of submissions: Timing and execution
Timing
Anticipation
Recognition
Reaction
Selection
Execution
How you develop these traints
How you develop quickness
Training partners
A conversation with the Grandmaster
The team
B Techniques
Classics: Grandmaster's favorites
1 Choke from standing
2 Kimura from standing
3 Takedown to foot-lock (same side leg)
4 Choke from the mount
5 Key-lock (Americana) from the mount
6 Arm-lock from the mount
7 Neck-crank from side control
8 Reverse arm-lock from the guard
9 Arm-wrap collar choke from the guard
10 Arm-lock from standing against the sit up guard
11 Arm-lock from side-control bottom
12 Arm-lock from the guard
13 Mata-leao, or rear naked choke
Royler's favorite submissions
Stand up
14 Choke from standing: Jumps to guard
15 Wrist-lock from the standing grip battle 1
16 Wrist-lock from the standing grip battle 2
17 Wrist-lock from the standing grip battle 3
18 Wrist-lock from the standing grip battle 4
19 Arm-lock from the standing grip battle
20 standing arm bar
21 Loop choke from the standing grop battle
22 Takedown to knee-lock (opposite side leg)
23 Takedown to knee-lock
24 Flying triangle
25 Flying arm-lock
26 Arm-lock from standing
27 Shoulder-lock (omoplata) from standing
28 Front clinch counter 1: Guillotine
29 Front clinch counter 2: Head and arm triangle
30 Front clinch counter 3: Head and arm triangle opponent succeeds
31 Takedown to reverse clock-choke
32 Takedown to crucifix
33 Takedown to clock-choke
34 Takedown counter: Choke
35 Takedown to calf-cruncher
36 Takedown counter: Arm-lock
Guard pass
37 Standing guard passing attack: Loop choke
38 Standing guard passing attack: Arm-lock
39 Standing guard passing attack: Triangle
Side control
40 Side control attack: Leg-lock
41 Side control attack: Shoulder-lock
42 Side control attack: Toe-hold
43 Side control attack: Lapel choke
44 Side control to knee-on-the-stomach attack: Parallel choke
45 Side control to knee-on-the-stomach attack: Choke
46 Side control attack: Own lapel choke (near)
47 Side control attack: Own lapel choke (near) variation
48 Side control attack: Arm crusher
49 Side control attack: Wrist-lock
50 Side control attack: Americana
51 Side control bottom attack: Reverse arm-bar
52 Side control attack: Collar and leg choke
53 Side control attack: Spine-lock
54 Side control attack: Brabo choke
55 Side control attack: Multiple attacks to key-lock (Americana)
56 Side control attack: Multiple attacks to key-lock near arm
57 Side control attack: Multiple attacks to head and arm choke
58 Side control attack: Choke to arm-lock (douible attack)
Mount
59 Mounted attacks: Single lapel choke
60 Mounted attacks: Collar choke (Double attack)
61 Mounted attacks: Collar choke (Double attack 2)
62 Mounted attack: Triangle
63 Mounted attack: Arm-lock
64 Mounted attack: Nutcracker choke
65 Mounted attack: Sleeve choke
66 Mounted attack: Arm-lock variation
67 Mounted attack: Knee-split
Back control
68 Back attacks: Collar choke
69 Back attacks: Collar choke to arm-lock
70 Back attack: Opponent stands up: Arm-lock
71 Back attackk: Opponent stands up: Triangle
72 Back attack: Opponent bridges: Triangle and arm-lock
Turtle and half-guard
73 Turtle position attack: Banana split
74 Turtle position attack: Calf-lock
75 Half-guard attack: Choke
76 Half-guard attack: Brabo choke
77 Half-guard attack: Kimura and the counter
Guard
78 Guard attack: Break the posture to choke
79 Guard attack: Break the posture to arm-bar 1
80 Guard attack: Break the posture to arm-bar 2
81 Guard attack: Break the posture to triangle
82 Guard attack: Break the posture to brabo choke
83 Guard attack: Break the posture to brabo choke variation 1
84 Guard attack: Break the posture to brabo choke variation 2
85 Guard attack: Sitting guard to choke
86 Guard attack: Sitting guard to loop choke
87 Guard attack: Wrist-lock
88 Guard attack: Omoplata (shoulder lock)
89 Guard attack: Omoplata to shoulder-lock variation
90 Guard attack: Omoplata to wrist-lock
91Guard attack: Omoplata to toe-hold
92 Guard attack: Omoplata to crucifix
93 Guard attack: Reverse Americana
94 Guard attack: Shoulder lock
95 Guard attack: Choke variation
96 Guard attack: X-guard takes the back to choke
97 Guard attack: Gogoplata
98 Guard attack: Gogoplata to arm-bar
99 Guard attack: Gogoplata to omoplata
100 Guard attack: Gogoplata to omoplata to arm-lock (complex)
101 Guard attack: Arm-lock from the open guard
102 Guard attack: Sweep to arm-lock