I lost count of how many times I hit rewind at 1:48. Damn that was beautiful. It's a damn shame that Soneca is basically banned from BJJ events. He looks like he's still got it in him to tear some brackets up.

Originally Posted by
Brandon Mccaghren
Soneca's game really is beautiful. I've had the opportunity to train with him a few times and he usually blows me away with something. I took a private with him about a year ago on passing the guard . It was incredible.
The last seminar I took under him, he showed a lot of his omoplata style attacks that you saw in this video. Afterwards, I asked him how he felt about Eddie and his game. He showed 100% class and respect for Eddie. He said, "I learned my jiu jitsu from Jean Jacques Machado, who is his teacher. If I say Eddie has bad jiu jitsu, then I must say I have bad jiu jitsu. But I have great jiu jitsu."
Then he told me a story about how every time that Jean Jacques would come to pick him up for class, he would be asleep. That's how he got the name "Soneca."
Awesome story.

Originally Posted by
Tyler Larsen
Belcher is a stud. Problem is he has that Vitor belfort "which guy will show up" Syndrome
Nah. I think he was just making poor decisions that cost him a lot of opportunities to swing momentum in his favor.

Originally Posted by
bobby rivers
Soneca is the most attractive in jui jitsu. This is fact. He's 160 lbs so omo is his goto from closed guard and he's got variation for days. I got my purple under him using 10p. He appreciates our tech.
That sweep they started with is one Alan showed Eddie when they were training. Eddie said, "Thats good, but since he can elbow, try this." Then proceeded to demonstrate the boa to twistback. Alan was stuck in his ways and got beat down in bottom half by Yushin. Helio also just took his back from same posish. Once you're good, the hardest part can be to relearn.
I had the same observation bro. But Alan's got some good years in him. If he can make the right adjustments, he could work his way to a title shot.