Ralph Gracie's NEW tapes?? anybody?

[Guest]

Has anybody seen or know where I can read a review of Ralph's new (not the old ones from 3 or 4 years ago) tapes. There's like 8 tapes for $300. The thing is, some people might say that they are great, however those people might be white or early blue belts that are watching moves they never seen before. With me, I got my Blue belt in 1997 from Pedro Sauer, and I'm about 6 months or so away from my purple with Rigan Machado. So, my question is; can some body with a purple belt or higher that has seen these tapes tell me if there is anything beneficial on this tapes for me? Are they really worth $300.00? Because for a punk 19 year old like myself, that’s a lot of money!
THANKS GUYS

[vortrex]

did you watch the previews on his website?

[L3FTH00K]

Sorry I have not seen the tapes either. But I'm curious on what happen to ralph gracie? He looked impressive early in his career but on the other hand no one knew of submission fighting. I just wonder what's he up to today?

[ArAi]

I'm interested in a review too...looking from the video clip thats on ralph's website, looks like some interesting stuff.

[tuffguy]

I have the set and I'll try to give a descent review without going on too long. First thing I'll say is that the price is a little high, $50 a tape is a lot, and $300 for the set is still high. I wasn't real impressed with the Valetudo tapes, I thought they were real basic. The leglock tape is the same stuff on other tape sets, if you have other tapes with leglocks you don't need this tape. The gi tapes aren't bad, they have some really cool stuff on each tape, but also a lot of review from other tape sets. As a blue belt myself I also have sound a lot of tape sets are real basic and didn't show me anything I hadn't already seen. The first 4 tapes(finish from mount, open guard sweeps, attack from guard, side and back) have a couple of really good moves each that I haven't seen before, definatly not for beginers, the rest of the moves I would clasify from beginer to intermediate. There is about 10 moves per tape, wich isn't a whole lot. If you don't have any other tape sets then it has some merit, if you have other tape sets then I would say save your money and hopefully the price will drop and you will get better value. The valetudo tapes are definatly inferior to the Sperry valetudo tapes and if you have them you don't need these. The gi tapes i would rank behind both Sperry gi tape sets, Cesar Gracies newest set. I would rate it the same level as the Bob Bass/Rick Williams tape set. Hope this helps. Let me know if there are any specifics you want to know and I'll do my best.

[Guest]

Tuffguy,

Thanks bro. This helps a lot. The reason why I wanted to know all this info is becuase Ralph told me that when he was making these tapes, he was debating on whether or not he should show the moves that he did. He said that he felt like he was giving out to much information. However, it felt like he was trying to sale me. I figured he was talking bull shit. You know what I mean? anyways I have a great idea. I have a lot of origanal tapes- not the slopy copys. Would you concider making copys of Ralph's tapes for copys of some of mine? let me know. we'll get in touch and I'll give you the list of my collection, let me know what you want and lets make this happen and save some money.
THANK.