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(More customer reviews)You're writing the definitive textbook on repairing transmissions for 1960's General Motors Muscle Cars. Your audience loves 1960's General Motors Muscle Cars, and they are anxious to learn about how you repair the transmissions so well. Now what kind of introduction would you write to prepare your audience for your brilliant and innovative transmission repair manual? How about 10 pages full or ramblings about your pet chihuahua?
Here Eddie told us all about his pet chihuahua, except Eddie's chihuahua is an illegal drug. The audience for his book does not care and does not want to learn about Eddie's hobbies un-related to the subject matter of the book they just bought. Although I applaud Eddie for coming out of his druggie closet, he failed completely in his choice of forum for it. If he so strongly wanted to spread his message about drugs, he should have written a book specifically about drugs to target an audience that cares about that topic. I care about grappling, and that's why I bought the book. If Eddie thinks that he "owes" drugs for his success, then he could do like every other writer and list drugs as one of his acknowledgements.
Now, about the rubber guard. This is much better than his Twister book in that this book is very focused on one position where the Twister book is focused on a general introduction to Eddie's system. The pictures are very good quality and in color. The paper is glossy high quality. Both the color pictures and paper quality are an upgrade from the Twister book.
There are a lot of moves and counters shown in this book, which makes it valuable to a grappler. The descriptions for the pictures are excellent, however they are in too small a font. Don't try reading this small print in dim light, or while in a moving car. The overviews before the pictures for each move, which are written in larger font than the descriptions, could be trimmed to about half as much text and still convey the same points.
The names for the moves don't mean anything to anyone except Eddie, which makes the names hard to remember and assimilate to anyone with a traditional judo, BJJ, sambo or wrestling background. "Old School" could better be named "basic half-guard sweep" or "half-guard foot sweep," and the Eddie-names for dozens of other moves would be more useful if the moves were named to describe what they do. The screw-driver in your toolbox was so-named because it drives screws, but Eddie might rename it an "Okatomo." What does Okatomo mean? Nothing, and that's the point with Eddie's names for these moves.
So, as big a fan of Eddie's BJJ as I am, the druggie rant, egotistical naming of moves, and small print for the descriptions brings his 5 star rating for the brilliance of his rubber guard game down to 3 stars overall for this book, Mastering the Rubber Guard.
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