Company: Michael DePasquale Jr. Enterprises
Tape Name: Upright Street to Ground
Grappling Self Defense
Tape Cost: $34.95
Length of Tape: 50 min.
Number
of Moves/Techniques: 18
Return Policy: Unknown
Experiences in dealing with
this company: Excellent
The Instructor: Michael DePasquale Jr.
Company’s
Address: P.O. Box 8538 Woodcliff Lake NJ 07675
Company’s Phone Number: 1-800-573-8050
Web Page: http://www.martialarts.com/mdpent.html
E-mail:
MDPEnt@aol.com
Primary Grading Criteria:
1.
Production/Tape Quality: 9
2. Instructors demonstrated skill level: 8
3. Comprehension
Score/Immediate Understanding: 8
4. Degree to which this will make someone a better
Martial Artist: 8
5. Score on delivery vs. Hype: 8
6. Degree to which we would
recommend this product: 8
7. Wasted time (The higher the number, the less “fluff”/repetition:
8
8. Playback Score/Watching it over and over again: 8
9. Would I purchase
more of this company’s product: 8
10. Overall grade based on cost vs. Value: 8
Grand Total: 81% (Poor)(.25 stars on a 5 star scale)
Secondary Grading Criteria:
1.
Beginners benefit: Good
2. Intermediate benefit: None
3. Advanced benefit:
None
4. Time to benefit: Some Immediate, greatest benefit with practice
5.
The need to buy additional tapes to understand this one: None
Written Summary:
Michael
DePasquale Jr. literally grew up learning the Martial Arts. His father is Michael
DePasquale Sr. who is considered to be one of the original pioneers of traditional
Jiu Jitsu in the United States. Michael DePasquale Jr. is also the editor of the
well known Martial Arts magazine Karate International and has a series of video tapes
on the market. This is the first Instructional video tape by Michael DePasquale Jr.
that MAVR has had the opportunity to view.
Mr. DePasquale begins this video
by explaining that he doesn’t believe in grappling on the street as you will injure
yourself. He explains that you need to limit your grappling in the street as it is
much different grappling on asphalt than it is on mats in the dojo. Mr. DePasquale
goes on to explain that what he is showing is Combat Jiu Jitsu and not for sport
etc etc. There are several references throughout the video made to bar situations
that people could encounter. After watching this video I came to the conclusion that
what Mr. DePasquale is showing could only work on two types of people. The first
being someone who is very intoxicated and the second type of person would have to
be someone who knows nothing about fighting in the street. Some of the techniques
presented could work in the street BUT anyone who has any clue about fighting would
easily be able to counter any of the movements shown. The most annoying part of the
whole tape was Michael’s constant bantering about how this is not sport and how dangerous
the techniques presented were. I had to ask myself, dangerous to who? Probably more
dangerous to the practioner if he tried any of this against a skilled opponent. Michael
really wastes a lot of tape time talking saying the same things over and over. He
began to sound like a broken record.
Now that I have that out of my system
let’s talk about what was on the tape. Michael demonstrates how a person can fall
without injuring themselves. Michael really doesn’t explain this, he just demonstrates
how to do it using a standard breakfall. Anyone past the beginner level will know
how to fall. Michael shows several ways to deal with the sucker type punch. The punches
thrown are long looping roundhouse type punches. This type of punch can be fairly
common in the street from the average person. Michael shows how to intercept the
punch with a deadarm block which leads into a outer reaping throw. This defense could
work on the street and I thought was one of the better defenses that was shown. Another
defense to the looping roundhouse punch shown was the hip throw. Michael stresses
that speed is of the utmost importance in executing this technique because the other
punch is coming. This would really take a lot of practice to become good at this
and even at that I don’t believe this will work on anyone except possibly the two
types of people mentioned above. Michael shows a few submissions when you get the
person on the ground. Very basic material complete with several technical errors.
The
next section deals with defending the tackle. The first defense was against a high
tackle which leads into a neck compression. This technique could work and is quite
painful. The majority of the tackle defenses on this video wouldn’t work in a real
confrontation. The problem with the defenses shown for both the punches and the defense
to the tackle is that the attacker will throw a punch/attempt a tackle then stop
in midstream while Michael applies the techniques. Very few people that I know throw
a punch and leave it hanging out in mid air to wait for someone to defend
against
it. The tackles were also very unrealistic as the attacker stops midstream while
a technique is applied. This works fine in the dojo but NOT in the street. Another
problem is that Michael leaves out a lot of the finer details that could of make
this video better. If the minor details would of been shown then this video would
of been of more benefit to the beginner. It was also never shown how the defender
could take someone down if he needed to initiate a tackle in response to a attack.
I could go on and on about the video but I think that it is clear that I did not
think much of this tape. There is some benefit for the beginner however there are
A LOT of better videos available for a beginner. This video has nothing to offer
the Intermediate or advanced practitioner.
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