Your iPhone: Now a war weaponGrapplearts – Helping You to Kick More Ass With Your iPhone

Something I pride myself on, obsessively in some cases, is my instructional collection.

Videos and texts, DVDs and cassette tapes, a diverse array of martial arts… everything I’ve ever been interested in.

You can’t even buy some of the things I have anymore, and if you could, it’d be tattered or worn, likely warranting some serious arts and crafts work for the sake of sustenance of the material.

An old book handed down to me by my father, an early text on Goju Ryu Karate that was nearly seven times as old as I was when he gave it to me, comes to mind.

Not everyone has an eighty year old tome or comparable martial relic, however. Even then, technology’s advanced. With everything you can do via your cell phone these days, who even needs television anymore?

MY GOD, this iPhone. Every time I sit down to a friend’s iPhone or iTouch, I’m there for a good number of minutes. The applications functionality of the device is some of the best I’ve ever seen on a gadget of its’ kind, and what Grapplearts did with their product is not only innovative, but practical, and ridiculously inexpensive. And now, instead of mindlessly wasting minutes of my night via that ridiculous "roll the ball around" application, I can further my knowledge of how to choke you out.

I once paid a triple-digit sum of money for an instructional set, as much as I hate to admit that. Even worse, I don’t even have it anymore… it ended up sacrificed to a journeyman training partner who mysteriously disappeared, not a year after I invested. In the case of this Grapplearts product, it’s safe to say that the only way your friend is walking off with this instructional is if he has a deeply-rooted death wish.

"Grapplearts Submissions", the NEW iPhone and iPod Touch Application for MMA, BJJ & Submission Grappling, is currently on sale at the iTunes Store, and has done well in the month that it’s been available. It actually held the number one app spot for around a week, and remains firmly in the iTunes Top 20 list for Applications, even despite the start of the Baseball season and a flood of new-release, Baseball-related applications.

With this app, you can take with you a ready-made list of varied submission holds, articulated detailed in study-aide fashion, geared towards furthering your own pursuit of discovering the nuances of the submission grappling game.

Use of the iPhone and iTouch Wi-Fi function would be necessary to download the application directly to the phone, because it’s huge – There is a LOT of video instruction contained within this thing. Considering average-going comprehensive instructional costs, and the number of them I’ve painstakingly gathered by now, it’s hard not to feel completely cheated when I look at this application’s price-tag on iTunes: a humble $3.99.

Of all the educational material I’ve invested in geared towards my pursuit of becoming a more effective killing machine, none of it offers free updates, free interval injections of new content, or a neat little iPhone (or iTouch) to play with.

The developers at Grapplearts are currently evaluating potential for development on other portable platforms (Blackberry, Windows Mobile, etc.), and are working on adding additional features to the existing application. In addition to these new features being made free to those who have already bought the application, updates to available content once the application has been purchased are also free.

Discussion has also been thrown around regarding the addition of new sections, as currently, the application offers a diversity of no-gi submission techniques to accommodate submission wrestlers, and no-gi grapplers alike. There have been requests for, and may soon be development on, a section dedicated to techniques using the gi.

Innovation in our sport and it’s practice are awesome, and this is as good as it gets. Stephan Kesting struck a brilliant idea in his pursuit of developing a martial arts instructional application for the iPhone, and numbers indicate that he’s certainly gotten attention for his work.

New material is being added all the time, and as said, updates at this time are free to all users once the application has been purchased.

Grapplearts has a page on facebook.

They also have a page setup on their own website that details the content they currently have available.

Currently, the application retails for $3.99, and is available through iTunes (search for "Grapplearts Submissions" in the iTunes store). The Grapplearts Submissions application is available for the first generation and second generation models of the iPhone and iPod Touch.

It can be downloaded via the Wi-Fi function to the phone directly, or via the iTunes application to a computer that is capable of synching with the iPhone or iPod device.

Face it… occasionally you need to Google the names of certain submission holds, in order to know exactly what your friend is threatening to put you in if you don’t start showing some respect.

Armed with your iPhone, not only will you know what he’s talking about without having to Google it, using his computer as you endure further ridicule, but you might actually throw a reverse and a decent submission attempt of your own.

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