Wrestling Fundamentals From The Bad Guy by Chael Sonnen
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The Winning Fundamentals Of MMA by Chael Sonnen reviews
The Winning Fundamentals Of MMA by Chael Sonnen has 34 customer reviews in this archive, averaging 4.68 out of 5. 79% are five-star and 1 is one or two stars. Reviews run from July 2, 2021 to December 16, 2025. All of them are published below in full, unedited.
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4.68 / 5
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The reviews
Fight Philosophy
I watched this again for the third time over the three years that I owned this video, and now I appreciate how valuable this opening material is to integrate all the tools one develops.
A good tape for beginners and advanced martial artists
This tape is well structured and helps to clear the overload and confusion caused by the multitude of advices from the numerous MMA “experts” on the market.
Philosophy First
I purchased this series of instructional videos because I wanted to understand the strategy and tactics used by high-level MMA fighters. I was not disappointed. One thing to note is Chael emphasizes philosophies more than techniques. Personally, that's something I appreciate very much, but this may not be what someone else is looking for. Thanks Chael!
Great
Teaches fundamentals
Excellent thoughts. Excellent communication knowledge
Great
This instructional is very conceptual. Not a ton of different techniques, but what it lacks in variety it makes up for in opening your eyes to MMA and the necessary concepts to be successful.
Winning fundamentals of MMA
Chanel shares so many valuable fighting insights.. just wish they were a little longer
Good Instructional
fast progress, easy message.
Entertaining and informative
The man Chael knows more than anybody what he's talking about. This is very basic but entertaining.
Winning Fundamebtals OF MMA
Great instructional. Understand effective fight philosophy that will work at the highest levels. Chael is great at explaining and entertaining.
Valuable
The Bad guy shares some of his MMA wisdom and its worth buying. Chael gives great insight to executing moves in an mma style where striking is involved. Great Buy!
Basic but cool
Looking to transition to mma ? awesome Already on your journey but need a bit of insight ? still awesome
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗good
change the way how you about fighting in mma
Good fundamentals instructional
I much preferred this instructional to most of the other MMA fundamentals instructional's as it focuses on key concepts which is much more useful for most people who are probably already aware what a jab,cross and a double leg takedown are (if not you can google it for for free) however what this instructional contains is much harder to find which is insightful views of a highly experienced and proficient practitioner.
Quality
Very, easy understandable concepts that apply instantly.
C.J.
He is the best. Philosophy, techniques, history of MMA. Great Instructional!
Fantastic introduction to fighting
This course takes a different approach, instead of teaching specific techniques as the main focus, Chael teaches the overall philosophy of a set of techniques primarily and also teaches some specific techniques. If you already have a large library of techniques from other training and want an introduction to the sport of mma, then this is perfect. It will teach you to find your personal fight philosophy and incorperate what you already know into an mma repetrior.
Good fundamentals instructional
I much preferred this instructional to most of the other MMA fundamentals instructional's as it focuses on key concepts which is much more useful for most people who are probably already aware what a jab,cross and a double leg takedown are (if not you can google it for for free) however what this instructional contains is much harder to find which is insight from an highly experienced and proficient practitioner.
Cool Perspective on MMA
This guy has a different mindset when it comes to training and selecting the techniques you wish to study. For example, Chael says the best strategies to use in MMA are the ones that are illegal in other sports. They're illegal because they're effective.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Fundamentals
Excellent instructional for beginners
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗Solid basics
Mma for grapplers
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Good Fundamentals
Good tutarial with many useful basics of MMA. As always Sonnen explains the techniques in a great way.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Great tutorial
Great teaching with legend.
Good
Very good!
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Excellent
The Bad Guy does it again. An excellent conceptual overview of the modern mma meta. Great for all mma athletes, coaches and fans.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Wrist Lock The World: No Gi By Pete Letsos
Great video covering wrist locks in no-gi. Will be drilling this next class for sure.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Fun Tutorial
This is a well filmed tutorial with lots of info in one. It’s concept heavy rather than lots of different techniques but it’s well worth a watch.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻The Winning Fundamentals of MMA by Chael Sonnen
Priceless information, it's not just moves to repeat but it's the way to think about the situation.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Joe
Excellent concepts and outlining of the broad goals of winning in mma. Would recommend for anybody interested in using their bjj base to get good at mma.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻great
simplifies complex topics for newbies.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗🤙🏻Low ratings for this are nonsensical & unfair
The criticism about this course seems nonsensical. At the beginning of the trailer he informs that he will be helping one establish not just moves, but a philosophy for fighting. He got a 1 star review for doing what he said he would do? The other criticism (3 stars) came from overlap with his wrestling content, which was his base style before MMA. This is an articulate expert who knows how to teach through the medium of video.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Good Stuff
This is some very valuable material from one of the best and most experienced fighters. Easy and fun to watch.
Response from BJJ Fanatics🤗👍🏻Not that great.
it's more Chael talking about ideas and not true study material.
Uncle Chael Is Back to Work
A lot of the material within this instructional is already included in Sonnen's Gangster Grappling video...considering this, there are several little tricks and tips that is reviewed in this instructional that aren't included in the Gangster Grappling video that I found helpful. Overall, I would say for the price point its a nice instructional; however, if you already have Sonnen's GG instructional it isn't worth the extra bits of info. As always, its nice to get new material from The Gangster.
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