For this week’s Essential Series Entry, we’re looking at my favorite ten gi less grappling events or specials. The criteria is simple, these are the ten events that I feel everyone could be happy with as a part of their collections. The only guideline that I have imposed on myself is that I pick only one event from each production.

Here we go again! The second installment of my ten essential grappling dvds. To qualify each DVD must be focused on gi less grappling of any sort - that is all! Once again, these are in no particular order or ranking and each production is allowed one title on the list.

6. Real Pro Wrestling Season 1 - This dvd has the best combination of production value and tenacious wrestling that I have seen in an event. Basically, Real Pro Wrestling is a league event that pitted former collegiate wrestlers against each other in a national elmination series. Greco stars faced off against their freestyle counterparts and the result was explosive action, great reversals, and the most athletic takedowns I have seen.

A new feature to the Budo Blog beginning with this review is the Favorite Five. The purpose of the Favorite Five is to provide the reader with not only five of my personal favorite instructionals, tapes, etc., but to also provide a solid foundation for your instructional library. Therefore, it is my intention to showcase DVDs that both I myself enjoy and round me out as a student.

This week we will take a look at five judo instructionals that would make great additions to any library. Like all future Favorite Five lists, these instructionals range from encyclopedic to highly specialized to ensure a proper sampling of the world’s best in Judo coaching.