Your Advice My Friends

[Louis Hermann]

Uploaded to YouTube and added annotations about what I was thinking during the match. Please give me your advices

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqEzv6nLVk

[Louis Hermann]

[Louis Hermann]

Respectful bump?

If you don't have the time I understand, but your advice on things would be really really welcome.

[swap]

My advice... Get a new camera guy.... =P

[Louis Hermann]

My advice... Get a new camera guy.... =P

Or smack the current one across the head. Technique-wise though...

[chronic_jiujitsu]

Im a white belt in the 10th planet system so take what i say with a grain of salt.. but Im just commenting bc nobody else seems to be and it'll get it to the top :P so anyway..

at about 2:50 ish.. with the knee on belly... its always a good idea to have one knee on the belly, and the other foot out without that knee touching the ground..

At 2:59, when you go for the armbar.. maybe either wait to get your other arm free before falling back for it or get a good deep hook in so that way you can secure the arm a little better. Without that arm free it makes it impossible for you to get the spiderweb so he is able to sit up into you.Though in this instance it didnt seem to make much of a difference because it appeared that you werent able to get both legs across his body (It was hard to tell bc it was out of camera for that part)

And at the end.. Try to remember to cross your feet under his far arm for that.. 1 for better control of him.. and 2 because it will prevent him from dropping his arm out and under both feet and just pushing them over his head and rolling onto you.

Anyway, looks like you guys are enjoying the whole learning process. Have fun!

[AJ Camacho]

The Von Flue Choke is done from within your opponent's full guard like this.



From half guard, the best you can do (at least from what I know) is to setup the grip for the arm triangle and then advance position to mount or side for the finish. When you advanced to side and drove your shoulder you were just applying shoulder pressure to his neck. I'm sure a ripped dude could finish from there but you probably would have had a better shot cinching up your grip to an arm triangle and jumping to the opposite side or mount for the finish.

Naming conventions aside, spiking your ass up and increasing the angle of your upper body is an effective defense against a half guard guillotine. Easy to defend but embarrassing to get caught in, especially with a dude who won't let go of your head.

[Louis Hermann]

I first learned the Von Flue here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjhcPeIIvSs

That has a link to it being done in MMA by Von Flue, and I've tapped people with it before from side control so I know it's doable. I got my buddy with it earlier and so he was ready for it and brought his other arm up to his neck to make space. Neat video though and good advice.

Thank you as well, chronic.

[Ehsan_Karam]

Von flue from side control is legit, I hit it all teh time.

[leach_jeffrey]

Louis,

If I was to give you some advice (other than just roll as often as possible), it would be to look for opportunities instead of trying to force the action.

An example of what I'm saying is at 4:40 you decided to get the twister going, but it just wasn't going to happen because your opponent knew what you wanted to do and was just not going to let you get it. You spent 40 seconds trying to force it and ended up getting in a bad position (and tiring yourself out). You could have easily gone to North and South control when the twister wasn't happening and tried to make something happen there.

My point is that the best players are the ones that recognize opportunities and take advantage of them. They seem effortless, they don't force things or use excessive force to make things happen. If you try to force things, you'll be unsuccessful most of the time and you'll exhaust yourself.

You are still pretty new to this, so you going to miss tons opportunities that are there, but try to look for opportunities when rolling and it'll shorten the learning curve. Blue belts recognize more opportunities, Purples recognize even more, and so on.