
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."