Check out/Critique my Match from Friday night against a purple belt...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju0VW...ature=g-crec-u

It may be the worst quality video you've ever seen but have a look anyway!

This is the first match of a 4 man grappling tournament that I did basically as a filler for an amateur MMA show. My opponent was wearing a gi, I'm not really sure why, maybe to make some sort of point or for ezekial chokes.

The match wasn't scored like a normal BJJ match. They wanted it to be 'more like MMA' so it is a decision based on aggression and submission attempts scored by 3 judges.

You can't tell from the video but I won the decision :)

Overall, you did great man. Very nice technique. Even though you lost position at the end, you clearly won the match. :)

Good match. What was the crowd reaction like? Was there something else going on at the same time??

Damn, you know the 10p system very well, I thoroughly entertained, great work! :)

nice lockdown, to old skool, into the truck. I thought you were gonna finish with the calf crank... The spider web looked good, would've like to see you set it up from rubber guard, but it still worked. Surprised you didn't try for the arm crush before committing two hands to the arm bar, but I thought it showed alot of your technical prowess in the system. In certain schools, that guy would've lost his belt, lol. Congrads.

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Originally Posted by Eddie Bravo

Damn, you know the 10p system very well, I thoroughly entertained, great work! :)

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Wow, thanks Eddie! I've got some more videos to put up in the next couple of weeks including my MMA fight :)

Nik - The show was at the local army barracks so the crowd was pretty rowdy, I know fight broke out at one stage but I'm not sure what was going on during my match. I liked when someone yelled "Eddie Bravo" when I went for the twister roll.

Overall people were pretty into the grappling and knew what was going on and such.

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Originally Posted by La'akea Sanborn

I thought you were gonna finish with the calf crank...

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I found out today that I actually tore the guys calf :/ ...it's not just a pain move!

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In certain schools, that guy would've lost his belt, lol.

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I'm a 3 stripe blue belt so even if I tapped him I wouldn't think it would be THAT bad. The guy actually asked me to come visit his gym for a roll some time :)

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Originally Posted by La'akea Sanborn

Surprised you didn't try for the arm crush before committing two hands to the arm bar.

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Oh, I totes did,you can't see it too well from the angle but I did, I swears it. I kinda freaked out when someone yelled '10 seconds left' (a bit early lol) and tried to just yank the arm with 2 hands - because there were no points I didn't really know I would win.

when your left foot is behind the head, interlocking with your right foot over the arm, is that the arm crush? On second look I think you did go for it. my bad.

His calf must hate him right now! Nice job. =) Great match.