Mastering The System Episode 31 "Doggy Style" Up Now

[Brent Smith]

The roll Eddie had with the blue was nasty. So many different techniques, wow.

Everytime I get schooled like that it just blows my mind, then to think the blue would school me, just such a long way to go and loving every minute of it.

You could tell that blue didnt want anymore after the 3rd tap. Always great to watch the master at work

[Dylan Ehrnreiter]

You could tell that blue didnt want anymore after the 3rd tap. Always great to watch the master at work

I've only rolled with a black belt once, and he must have tapped me every 30 seconds for 10 minutes straight. I had rolled all of his blues over the course of couple days and never gave up any taps, but I felt like a drummer that whole session. He even let me start in mount, on his back, wherever and it went the same: Slap five, bump fists, (???) tap. Slap five, bump fists, (???) tap. I can't imagine the honor of getting schooled by Eddie Himself. That blue belt = lucky, lucky dude!

[Tony Toffolo]

You could tell that blue didnt want anymore after the 3rd tap. Always great to watch the master at work

Ya felt bad for him. Pure destruction.

[Graeme Masciuch]

What was that awesome dubstep song playing whilst Eddie rolled? I've been dying to get my hands on that song and more music like it since I heard it.

[David Rosado]

LOL I"m late as hell, but LOL at the awkward hug between Henato and Ant Lopez.

[David Rosado]

The roll Eddie had with the blue was nasty. So many different techniques, wow.

Everytime I get schooled like that it just blows my mind, then to think the blue would school me, just such a long way to go and loving every minute of it.

I know that feel bro.

You could tell that blue didnt want anymore after the 3rd tap. Always great to watch the master at work

Can I wax drunk and philosophical for a sec? The conclusion that I've arrived at is this: MOTHERFUCKING REPS SON.

Look, inside my head, I'm a black belt. That's a faggy ass thing to say. But I been following this sport, both MMA and BJJ for over a decade. I've watched so many instructional videos. So many tourneys. Hit rewind and slo mo so many times. And yet, when I actually got on the mats, I was clueless son. All that head knowledge went straight out the window. Why? Because I lacked mat time. Because I lacked reps.


The thing is, master Eddie, and master Jean Jacques (in my head he's kinda like our master too) and my excellent coach Herzog and the assistant coaches from Scott, to Sarkis.....in a way, we "know" the same techniques.....but they have become intimate with those techniques. Forgive me if I sound like a crazy man. I'm just saying, I know how to do an omoplata. I know the gogo. I know armbars. I know stuff. But they know it better. Why? Reps. Hours upon hours of mat work. And that's the beauty of watching master eddie roll with blues...and even browns...and blacks for that matter. You get to see his experience. Hell, when I gas out at my school (which is often) I just sit and watch Coach Zog, Sarkis, Scott...and even a bunch of blues...work their magic...just to see that experience which translates into poetry in motion.

TL;DR I know. Pardon my epiphanies. Tequila has different effects on me.

[David Rosado]

wtf did I just write?

[Brent Smith]

Haha beautiful drunken ramble

[Brad Hallin]

I used Shazam on something I heard on a 10th Planet vid. Look up "You Got Soul" by DJ Shahash (if Shazam worked right).