Cora's tournament video from today

These are a couple of videos from today's tournament. I hope you are proud of my little girl as I am. I told you guys that she will try to Rubber Guard everyone she faces and she ALMOST did just that. She had many coaches talking about her and her Rubber Guard. Some even said they have never seen a kid playing rubber guard like she is doing. Needless to say they were shocked!!! Today, besides trying to win, we want to make a statement for 10thplanetJJ. Here are the vids, enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxLq2HZFEWE

For the Gi, they bumped Cora into the 11-13 yr old division. This girl never back down from a good fight. I'm so dang proud of her. Can't say that enough.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0eNqiKPl0E

Awesome!!! The next world champ!!!!

Simply, just awesome!

She is so fun to watch. Congrats to Cora!

Wow. Those first two matches. Absolutely ridiculous. Her path is so polished. And her transition from the triangles to the armbar is nasty.

Big ups

That second nogi match looked like she was drilling form rather than competing. Very impressive. I love how easily she holds double bag and clears the head like its nothing.

Awesomeness

Very impressive!

She is such a beast. I don't know if I can watch any more of her vids though, because it just makes me feel bad about my own game! Congratulations and keep working hard.

Amazing double baggin to IC on both sides, incredible for a 10 year old. And nothing to be ashamed about a 10 year old girl getting beat by 13 year old dudes, Cora is on a path to greatness :-)

Wow!!! What a killer! They boys had no idea what was happening to them

Awesome job Cora !! Great transitions, everything looked spot on! Glad to see the rashie fits her perfect too :)

Insane how polished her guard is. Exceptional.

awesome guard, great work Cora.

Fantastic..great to so a young kid at that level, the first 2 kids just didn't know what was happening! Congrats.

All great stuff, but that second no-gi was insane. Just routed that poor boy!! Great job.

Amazing performances!! every single one of them!

She plays rubber guard the way I wish I could! Her transitions were just brilliant!

10 years old???? Unbelievable, she is the future!!

Great job to you guys!!!

wow, very high skill level!

Thank you guys. All props goes out to you all and Master Eddie for all your guidance. I think we accomplished what we set out to do in this tournament. We set out to find new kids to fight and to test Cora's skill. She trians hard as you all know, so it only make sense to test it out. She trains hard to compete, she competes so that she has motivation to train hard, thus the cycle continues.

1st No-Gi match, Cora had beaten the boy before. I would think his coach would get him ready for Cora but she finished him the exact same way as last time.

2nd NO-Gi match, Cora was scared of this kid Aden as he was looking really tough against the other boy he went with before her. With that in mind, she was determined to get him out fast before he know what hits him. Game plan worked..:)

3rd No-Gi Finals match, this was the same kid from the "Rubber Guard vs Wrestling" video, he had gotten a lot better since Dec and was tapping out all of his opponent. Cora was sort of worried but still have the confidence that she can take him. Match was exciting, and she finally slowed his wrestling down and caught him.

1st Gi match- the kids coach seen enough of Cora's rubber guard so he want the kid to pull guard first so he won't end up in Cora's guard. Well he executed his game plan, but Cora does have a top game that noone hasn't seen before because she always on the bottom. I was watching his coach face as cora broke his guard and starting to attack.....priceless.

2nd Gi match- don't let the white belt fool you, the kid been grappling since he was 6, his dad is a black belt, he is now 11. Way more experience than Cora. On top of that, he's a wrestler also. Which you can see by his take down. Everytime Cora put the rubber guard on him, he would head butt her face. So mean!!!! Not trying to get out the right way, he's coach was telling him to smash his head on Cora's face. He did this many times as you can see on the vid. So with time running out, he pass Cora's guard (3pts) then when they got up, he shot in for a take down (2pts). When he keeps on smashing his head on her face, she got mad and whoop up that triangle to armbar and hurt him. She knew he was hurt so she told me she let him go because she feels bad for him. So he end up winning with 5 pts. At the end of the match he was crying in the corner holding his arm, so I went to see if he was ok. He end up at the Finals with the 13 yr old kid and got tapped out super fast because Cora already hurt his arm.

3rd Gi match- this kid is a former teammate of Cora at one of our affiliate gym. They don't see each other much. Only spar with him one time. However, every summer he goes and train at AOJ with Mendes bros. At every tournament he represent AOJ instead of the gym that he trains at most of the year. For that I personally don't like. So needless to say I want so bad for Cora to beat him, but the fact still remain, he is very good for his size. But I have to keep in mind that he is 13!!! Twice now that Cora goes against him, he has shown arrogance everytime he beats her. You can see it on the video. Cora always smile and shake her opponents hand and even hug them after every match, but this kid doesn't even want to look at her, just walk pass her like she wasn't even there or up to his level. At the rate Cora is improving, she should catch up with him by the end of the year, then it will be a good fight. I'm glad she went against him, now we have more motivation to train harder.

Watching her, all I have to say is Holy Baby Zombie Jeebus.

LOL that's funny dude...LOL you know we woke up this morning and watched the videos over again about 5 times now..I'm also still amazed how good she performed yesterday. Sometimes when I'm busy recording I don't stop and appreciate what is going on, but watching it over again...WOW

She destroyed her first 2 opponents. Phenomenal

When she starts dating, you won't need a shotgun to scare the boys. Just have them fill out a waiver and show up with proof of insurance. The fact that they had to move her up an age group...I've only seen that pulled when there were some really big boys in the age group. She's scary good. Keep up the training.

beast of a kid, shes going to be scary good in a year

I just want to give props where its due. I can't take all the credit for her achievement, here is her coach who pushed her hard everyday. And spent his time helping her. He is a BEAST himself. He won 2 matches in Pan Ams in the Blue Belt division before he got DQ for a bugus leg reaping call. He was on his way to the Gold. You guys can check him out on youtube under Cameron Graves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq2a83HZY7E

Cameron moves like a beast, I am very impressed with him, Cora is in good hands :)

In the video at 1:55 mark, Cameron tried the rubber guard. He actually has a book of the Rubber Guard but doesn't use it. However I made a bet with him that if he finish someone with the Rubber Guard, I will buy him buffalo wings..LOL So during the match he put it on the guy and turn to me and smile...that is why I had to repeat that part... it was funny. During this tournament, Cameron actually tried some of Cora's moves that he has seen her pulled in sparring. He of course tried the RG, and he got a tap out from side control using one of Cora armbar moves. Cora and him always compete to see who has the most tap out....they always have fun at tournaments.

Cora finally got enough tournament footage for me to make a highlight video. Hope yall enjoy....Bruce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2m8Mo9Rv3w

Amazing/insane/fantastic/ferocious/beautiful/epic highlight reel :-)

You gotta make Cora's highlight reel without unlicensed music. It won't play on mobile devices if you have music that is unauthorized. Most people watch on their phones

Is that why I am having all these problem watching my own video on my phone? How do I know what is licensed or unlicensed music? Sorry I'm very new to this Youtube thing.

Very impressive :)