Eddie has destroyed me countless times but in 2010, specifically when I was a purple belt at HQ, he put 7 arm triangles on me in one round....I nearly cried!
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Eddie has destroyed me countless times but in 2010, specifically when I was a purple belt at HQ, he put 7 arm triangles on me in one round....I nearly cried!
LAst year, May 2013, I rolled with Denny300 at HQ, and he proceeded to play with me like a puppy. I think I actually urinated all over myself.
Libo did the same to me. He's amazingly technical and an absolute bear. Ive rolled with him 3 times and it was the same every time. One time he smashed me so hard with a uchi mata variation that it squeezed a fart out of me.. good thing it was just air, coulda been shit, or my intestines... I have to say if there's 1 thing I miss about ATT. Its Ricardo Liborio.
The kickboxing one wasn't a complete ass whooping. It was more of a humiliation. lol. So I did a muay thai seminar with Master Toddy. He keeps a few of young, attractive, small, female muay thai badasses around... well I had to work with one since I was the most experienced participant... It was just a seminar, sparring drills and whatnot.. so its not like it was in a competition. But that girl proceeded to embarrass me the entire couple hours. I tried to keep up... but I just couldnt.. her cardio, her pace, her skills and experience. she was so much better than me... sigh. I think I fell in love.
My favorite was rolling Eddie at the midwest training camp in IL. I seriously couldn't even get started. Knew the paths he was going to take and couldn't do a thing about it. Then Panda crushed me so bad that same day I almost had to go get my inhaler.
Same story with Brandon Mccaghren when I got to roll him in Indy. Tried a couple of things and just couldn't get off the starting line. I think he hit me with the same choke two or three times in a row. He offered to teach it to me but I was so star struck by his awesomeness I couldn't retain it.
In my first comp match ever I got hit with a flying triangle just a few seconds in. I got bumped up in skill bracket and ran into a destroyer right off. In my last comp I made one mistake on not getting an underhook and was done for for the rest of the match. I watch the video all the time and can't get over how I couldn't recover from it.
Eric Schuettenberg beats me so bad that Ive thought about calling the cops lol
I'll give this a Top 5:
#5- John Salami... when I was a White Belt, I drove 6 hours to take a private lesson with him... and I got destroyed.
#4- Rodrigo (my current GI Instructor)
#3- Keith Owen (a Technically sound beatdown)
#2- Professor Eddie
#1- Renato
My first comp as a blue belt. I weighed in at 202. I'm not sure of his exact size but his NFL bio said he was 6' 8" 300 lbs. ( offensive lineman for the Cardinals ). Had to fight him twice that day got dropped like a bad habit.
How many main instructors would come on a thread like this and put up there list? Eddie, always appreciate your honesty and sincere interest in making us all better.