I would be remiss if I didn't point out that I told you to go buy George St. Pierre's DVDs back on June 11 so that you could say you had them before he was the welterweight champ. Now it is too late to say that but go buy them anyway. Also visit GSP's webpage. www.gspmma.tv you owe it to yourself .

Congratulations to Georges, and thanks to both fighters for some interesting bouts over the past few years.

Peter Aerts - Volume 3 - Combinations - approximately 35 mins

See the other posts for comments on layout and production. still the same here, overall good.
This is a good video consisting of 15 combinations. The majority of these are purely offensive but a handful start with a defensive move. As expected there are some very interesting and useful combos here. Simple perhaps but certainly effective.

There is less of the fight scenes spliced into this video. I like to watch fight action as much as anyone but this doesn't really bother me too much as most of these fights are available for viewing from different online sources. Google is your friend.

Without the slow motion replays the tape would have time for another 10 combinations, that is the only complaint i have. I'd like to see more. All the instructinoals from this time period have these slo-mo replays so I guess I can't complain too much.

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Muscle & Fitness Complete Taining System
5 DVD set $59.99 US available from Muscle & Fitness webstore

My friend ordered this from the magazine. I feel guilty as I buy these trash books occasinoally when I have to fly or waste time in some other way. I think he may have gotten the ad in a mag I passed onto him when I was done. For that I am sorry.

I can't say anythingbad about the production quality, with the mega millions of this publishing company behind it these can be nothing but hollywood quality. Unfortunately the same can not be said for the exercises and workouts.

Like the magazines these DVDs are all about body building, isolating a muscle for the pump, whatever. $60 for 5 DVDs and a log book isn't a bad price but you will find better workout information from places like Testosterone, and for free. If you need to spend money than buy Georges St. Pierre's set, even though it duplicates the workout, you'll get more out of it.

Peter Aerts Volume 2 Power Kicking ~35mins of techniques

See Volume 1 post for the layout and technical presentation thoughts, this video is the same in those attributes.

This is a very thorugh presentation of the basics of kicking. As an example the first 15 minutes or so of this video is the basic round kick at 3 levels and two sides all shown separately. Sounds boring but each time Peter has a hint or two to share.

After this comes front and back kicks briefly. Then right into defense and attack combos. Block the low kick and kick back, scoop the front kick and kick the leg are examples. This material fills out the rest of the video and it is good stuff. In all 18 techniques are shown.

Like the volume 1 this video is interspliced with fight clips, this time it seems to be better lined up with the techniques being taught, you can see Peter practice the head kick and then watch a clip of some poor soul getting knocked out with it.

I liked this one better than volume 1, perhaps becasue I like kicking in general I suppose. It is worth a watch for sure though as Peter shares some good tips for setting up kicks.

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Peter Aerts - Volume 1 - Power Punching - 35 mins approximately.

Filmed in the Chakuriki gym run by Thom Harnik.

Lay out is the tried and true - Technique One: Peter explains slowly, then lets loose, then the technique is shown a few times in slo-mo with some bad music playing in the background. Lather Rinse Repeat. Pretty much par for the instructional course. As a nice addition some fight clips are mixed in between techniques. These aren't tuned to be the technique just shown or coming next but if you watch the whole tape you will see the combinations taught in action in this clips.

Peter's English is good, it isn't his first language and it comes out stilted but the explanations are clear. In all he covers 16 combinations, touches on slipping and weaving and loves the liver punch.

Unfortunately we don't often see past the bottom of the shorts, Peter says many times that turning the body is important but we never get to see how his feet move to accomplish this. Near the end of the video as Peter explains slipping and moving outside punches we do get glimpses of the footwork but he doens't really spend anytime telling us anything about it.

Overall this is a good video for ideas on combinations to practice. Certainly worth the time to watch.

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