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Don't want to come across as spamming the forum, but I do want to share the most recent video I shot at the Marcelo Garcia Academy. It's a profile of one of the instructors but there's a pretty cool clip of Marcelo at around 1:50 where you see how Marcelo defends the butterfly sweep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8HlDSTllXs
nice
I will be using that from now on!!!
Yeah, all you have to do is have perfect balance and timing, and just not go over! It's easy - just be Marcelo Garcia and butterfly sweeps don't work. In all seriousness, though, I have met and trained with Henrique at Marcelo's, and he both a really nice, down to earth guy as well as a great teacher.
Henrique is awesome and a super nice guy.
I rolled with him for the first time three years ago in Miami and I thought he was really good back then. He was a lot smaller than me, but very technical. After that, he got his black belt from Fabio (and unofficially from Marcelo), and eventually moved to NY to follow Marcelo.....
When I rolled with him two months ago, I was amazed to see how much better he was....super dangerous and still technical as hell. It is a big inspiration to see someone get their black belt, but then continue to get even better and better as a black belt rather than peak and plateau....Look for big things from Henrique in the future.
Here's a very close recent match with him and Caio Terra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Xu77CGLrGa0
Oh, land on my feet and bounce back to center. That's all it took.
Great video, thanks for posting it.
Great thread!
Marcelo sure loves that inverted arm attack off a failed DU butterfly sweep, that will eventually get officially integrated into the tpjj system. Super pro shoot Ric, top notch as always :)
Great post! I have had the opportunity to train with Henrique a few times in NYC, he's a wonderful instructor and a pleasure to learn from. Looking forward to getting back to the east coast soon :)
Awesome!