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Alexander Volkanovski and Arman Tsarukyan using reverse/standard butterflies to get the fuck up from underneath Islam Makhachev. Craig Jones did his homework
It's funny - what Jack Slack wrote about Volk is 100% true. You come into range thinking you're safe but he's already switched stances and you're unaware of the new shots he's given himself. He changes your range by stance switching. Lead leg denotes true range and he abuses this
Catching up on yesterday - Brian Ortega hit a cool rear ezekiel/arm-in and Craig Jones had a nice part of his power ride instructional on the arm triangle to rear ezekiel chain you can do from top
Craig Jones is the biggest menace in the southern hemisphere. Casually hitting Jay Rod with one of the most embarrassing submissions, the ezekial choke, 5 times in a row
Double your lead hands like Bobby's jab slip and lead hook combo. No one in the world of MMA expects the hand that just tried to hit you, to try and hit you again
Leon used smart JJ transitioning from a half guard to z-guard to butterfly half to stand up against Usman. One thing that wrestlers do is throw in a turk - I.E. hook the half guard ankle and lift to stop them from getting up. A counter to this is the knee lever sweep
This is a great story. Not because it's inspiring, but because it shows a million $ business bro couldn't even make more than $65k USD in 12 months with prior experience and education while cosplaying as homeless thus showing that hustle culture is a bullshit step out of reality
Look at this guy.
Heโs a millionaire who went homeless as a social experiment.
His goal? Prove that anyone can make $1M in 12 months with just a phone.
The story of Mike Black and what happened next:
Rare Craig Jones tap. Nicky Ryan is probably my favourite grappler. Knew Craig was going to go for a sumi gaeshi as soon as he felt the butterfly and did an anticipatory cartwheel pass to scramble. Don't know what the back take is called but the sprawl into sit was cool
Craig Jones and his butterfly sweep or sumi gaeshi. If you pressure his butterfly half guard you'll get swept. If you don't, he'll get head height and sweep you anyway.
Following Volk's great escape I think most people were too shocked to remember what happened next. He used intelligent Mexican Ground Karate to take advantage of Ortega's habit of diving on all-or-nothing submissions when he's unable to pin someone
Volk taking a blueprint given by Khabib and integrating it with his early career strategies. A basic look showing top full and half guard pinning tactics to land damage and wear down the clock in a dominant position
People having a meltdown over this because it's a bit camp makes me like Payton Talbott even more because nothing stimulates my jellies more than MMA fans getting riled up over fighters doing traditionally feminine things
Rewatched round 2 because fuck watching any Holly Holm cold open. 3 minutes of Jack wailing on him with sparse responses from Hafez followed by Jack jumping the guilly and sat on in half guard with no damage for 2 minutes. Genuinely baffling how you can give Hafez round 2 at all
I'd like to introduce you to my favourite all or nothing defensive strategy against the cage clinch: the harai goshi, uchi mata, ashi guruma and o guruma - or defensive cage throws
After rewatching the Weidman x (Bruno) Silva fight I for one am shocked at how Chris Weidman could have possibly eye poked Bruno Silva 4 times - it's just such an unlikely thing to have happened.
Surely one of the mysteries of all time
Rener Gracie charging $3000/hour for 42 hours to give expert witness testimony in a BJJ negligence case then giving an inaccurate 'expert testimony' has me simultaneously thinking that he's scum while respecting his talent of parasitically sucking $ out of any situation
It's not that Boxers are scared of MMA or that they can't do it. It's that there's no incentive to do a more taxing sport for laughable pay. Opportunity cost of learning boxing over MMA at the top end favours boxers comfortably. 6 months of Sprawl trainingโข๏ธ
My take on Anthony Joshua in MMA:
He's a big athletic fella who hits really hard and seems pretty coachable. I'll have any of those you've got please
We must never forget that Big Francis first got into the UFC with takedown defence that amounted to "put your chin in his eye"
Grounded knees would give grapplers and wrestlers more tools and opportunities to dish out damage in side control, against the fence, and north/south would become a horrific position again. Unified rules basically makes it useless.
Strikers benefit less, by and large, not more,
The opening for the headkick on Volk was shown in the Max rematch, Islam even landed it in the first fight but didnโt actually land the KO blow like he did in the rematch
Anthony Hernandez subbing a very tired ADCC and IBJJF worlds champion Rodolfo Vieira with a seated arm triangle/kata gatame. Can be setup from front headlock or my preference - top turtle
This transition is so cool. Reconsolidated on the roll-through rather than fight a potential hitch hiker escape on the armbar. In MMA Chokes > Joint locks
A small look at the 2 on 1 Leon used using Khabib as a case. You prevent them from locking hands on the rear leg for the single, and wide base stops the double. Can't take the back cause you can't join hands for the body lock meaning you let them out on the open angle if you try
So much going on. You can chain a single leg defended by an underhook into a knee tap then re-shoot once the underhook is gone. A limp leg is good outside single defence until they run the pipe and you fall over and now your back is exposed. Love Gamrot's and Fiziev's grappling
Izzy has had a rough time lately seeing his friends lose in heart breaking manner. For his flaws and public controversies you can see he really cares for them and has immense loyalty to them
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I hate how there's actual technical reasons why Sean won that you'll talk about on the pod yet I just don't want to fucking hear them because of how stupid this divison is
This is one of the few things that I'll say is truly a special of the Caucases - the split leg drag on the fence with the inside wrist ride. Makes it impossible to turn in to face your opponent so you can only turn face down and give up your back