March 11th, 2010 
Product Description
In a follow-up to his popular Championship Sambo: Submission Holds and Groundfighting, Steve Scott teaches you 85 essential armlocks for jujitsu, judo, sambo and mixed martial arts. The armlocks taught in the Armlock Encyclopedia apply to gi and no-gi combat sports, allowing you to use them in a wide variety of situations, including self-defense and street applications. Steve Scott makes it easy to learn the most effective and popular armlocks of modern grappling sports by organizing them into four broad categories: the cross-body armlock, the bent armlock, the straight armlock and the armpit lock. In addition to teaching how to set-up and apply each of the locks, he shows you how to defend against common armlocks, fight from both the mount and guard, lever your opponent’s arm free for an attack and vary your grip for maximum power. For those new to grappling, you’ll also learn the core skills of applying armlocks, controlling position, and training smart plus a glossary of grappling terms and a Rules of the Room guide to common sense rules on the mat.
Armlock Encyclopedia: 85 Armlocks for Jujitsu, Judo, Sambo & Mixed Martial Arts
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This book cannot cursorily read. It is an in depth study and analysis of the variations on the arm lock. Often arm locks are viewed as a single dimensional move, especially in the MMA dominated environment. Mr. Scott teaches that there are multiple ways into the juji gatame and other arm locks. The focus of the book is to master the fundamental moves, train to recognize when opportunities present themselves from different perspectives, and then execute. If you are looking for a lot of flash, this book isn’t for you. If you are a thinking practitioner of martial arts and want to really add some depth to your ground fighting, I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
A large number of books on the market cater to beginners who know a couple of basic moves and drills with little knowledge of how to go beyond that. They offer little guidance for experienced fighters or combat athletes. Armlock Encyclopedia is one of these.
The photos are OK and it’s well-written. Some of the other more critical reviews probably originate in the book’s inclusion of armbars that no one would or could ever use with little to distinguish them from high probability moves. It is more like a compendium of variations on different armbars than the sort of book that will help you deal with a fight – either in sport or on the street.
I use it primarily to think of different ways to position myself for an armbar. While it is reasonable for that, the truth is I haven’t looked at it for a long time and find other books to be much more helpful. It may be useful for someone who is not quite a beginner, but for anyone more advanced than that, it probably won’t provide much instruction.
Rating: 3 / 5
In my opinion all the pictures should be bigger and in colour, so that the drills coud be more understood. But all techniques are very well explained and it’s a very good reference for all levels of grappling fighters.
Rating: 3 / 5
This book is easily my favorite on the subject. The techniques are high percentage variations of the strongest armlocks anywhere in the martial arts. Clear pictures, excellent descriptions and thoroughly knowledgeable tips combine to create a useful reference for students of any level.
I especially enjoyed the quotation from my Sensei, Rene Pommerelle on page 239. Thanks to Steve Scott for a great job!
Rating: 5 / 5
I was referred to this book by a group of police officers. They discovered Mr. Scott’s books because he was a technical consultant for a class on a police control techniques. These officers trust Mr. Scott’s expertise to help them go home safely after every shift. These guys don’t fight for titles, they fight for their lives! For me this book has become an invaluable part of my groudfighting training.
Rating: 5 / 5