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Dave Camarillo, former coach at MMA gym American Kickboxing Academy (AKA), talks to Luke Thomas and Nate Wilcox of MMA Nation about his new book 'Submit Everyone'. Camarillo, a judo and jiu-jitsu black belt, talks the importance of tactics, UFC welterweight Jon Fitch's style of fighting and his future as a coach or cornerman.
Jan 19, 2012 - Luke Thomas and I had the opportunity last week to speak to Dave Camarillo, the long-time head Jiu-Jitsu coach at the American Kickboxing Academy. Dave is promoting his new book Submit Everyone: The Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu Files: Classified Field Manual for Becoming a Submission-focused Fighter, co-authored with Kevin Howell.
Dave told us at the beginning of the interview that he's left AKA to focus on his own gyms in Northern California although he expects to continue to corner Jon Fitch and Josh Koscheck for the rest of their careers. Luke and I got to ask Dave a lot of questions about his unique blend of Judo and Jiu-Jitsu -- he's one of the few people to have competed at a high level in both grappling sports -- and we drilled pretty deep into some of the ideas from Submit Everyone.
We also discussed Jon Fitch's fighting style, applying Camarillo's 'guerrilla jiu-jitsu' style to MMA, how Camarillo approaches teaching submission grappling to fighters with excellent wrestling backgrounds.
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Good interview, I'm kinda surprised he doesn't know Ronda Rousey
Are you guys doing a review of this book? If nothing is in the pipeline right now, could you tell us how you feel it compares to the other BJJ “manuals” that are out there?
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by menckenstein on Jan 19, 2012 7:09 AM PST reply actions
there will be a review of the book on BE
I’d have to say that its one of the very few “systemactic” grappling books out there. The only ones comparable in that regard are the Eddie Bravo and Matt Lindland books. But Dave’s Judo/BJJ is much more conventional and fundamentally sound than Bravo’s and obviously Lindland’s book covers wrestling.
I think it’s an excellent book. The organizational conceit is a little silly and the text can be hard to read as its gray rather than black but it’s a very good book.
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by Nate Wilcox on Jan 19, 2012 9:45 AM PST up reply actions
Very Nice
You guys make a good team.
by Coeman on Jan 19, 2012 7:40 AM PST reply actions
thanks
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by Nate Wilcox on Jan 19, 2012 9:45 AM PST up reply actions
Very enjoyable interview
Particularly the last 10 minutes. Some very interesting stuff re: looking at the nuances of judo as opposed to thinking of judo as a “bag of tricks”.
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by wonderfulspam on Jan 19, 2012 10:18 AM PST reply actions
yeah I thought that was pretty insightful
on Camarillo’s part.
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by Nate Wilcox on Jan 19, 2012 11:36 AM PST up reply actions
Dave is clearly a very smart guy
I’m always interested in Judo’s mma application. I think the right guy can make it work.
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by Stiff Jab on Jan 19, 2012 7:11 PM PST reply actions
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