My matches from Naga San Diego (3 Electric Chairs)

I figured I would throw these up in here. I competed at Naga this past weekend and won 5 out of my 6 matches, 1 on points and 4 submissions. I ended up taking Bronze in no-gi and Gold in the Gi. I hit 3 Electric Chairs and actually popped a guys knee with one of them. (Just to save you some time or having to watch boring matches, my first no-gi match is won on points and the second one I lost on points, the rest are all submissions.) Any constructive criticism is welcomed. Thanks! #10P4L

No-Gi Match #1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQpXL_w4elg

No-Gi Match #2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNUwViMeD50

No-Gi Match #3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-lbzk6QMSs

Gi Match #1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkmSngYOgf4

Gi Match #2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTHOZeCx7o

Gi Match #3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJVGcVocfGY

Match #1, roughly 2:30 mark - Your right leg is being inactive. It's literally just hanging out there at one point. If you had put it on your opponent's hip you could have engaged it in the fight to keep him from stacking you.

3:30 mark - When I've got Lockdown and someone is trying to guillotine me from the top, which it looks like that's what's happening, I prefer to use Super Stomp to a butterfly hook sweep to try and get back on top and get side control. Assuming you can't break the grip around your neck, staying in Lockdown at that point is actually you working against yourself in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by DocDan84

Match #1, roughly 2:30 mark - Your right leg is being inactive. It's literally just hanging out there at one point. If you had put it on your opponent's hip you could have engaged it in the fight to keep him from stacking you.

3:30 mark - When I've got Lockdown and someone is trying to guillotine me from the top, which it looks like that's what's happening, I prefer to use Super Stomp to a butterfly hook sweep to try and get back on top and get side control. Assuming you can't break the grip around your neck, staying in Lockdown at that point is actually you working against yourself in my opinion.

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Thanks for the words man, I'm gonna review what you are talking about!

Overall I'd say you could stand to work on a couple things:
- Try to minimize the delay between when you sweep someone, and pass their guard. You seemed to do a better job of this in the gi versus no gi.
- Since you obviously like going for the Electric Chair (great job btw), learn to maintain cleaner control to the Stoner Control position for when it doesn't work. I'd say hug the leg tighter between your head and shoulder for starters.
- You could stand to clean up your side/top control so you don't wind up getting reversed so often once you're on top.

I know that's a lot to think about in the middle of a match, but it's just what I saw. Great job overall though, you never gave up, and that can't be taught.

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Originally Posted by DocDan84

Overall I'd say you could stand to work on a couple things:
- Try to minimize the delay between when you sweep someone, and pass their guard. You seemed to do a better job of this in the gi versus no gi.
- Since you obviously like going for the Electric Chair (great job btw), learn to maintain cleaner control to the Stoner Control position for when it doesn't work. I'd say hug the leg tighter between your head and shoulder for starters.
- You could stand to clean up your side/top control so you don't wind up getting reversed so often once you're on top.

I know that's a lot to think about in the middle of a match, but it's just what I saw. Great job overall though, you never gave up, and that can't be taught.

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Thanks again, man. I know my top game/side control can use a lot of work. I am not that heavy so I'm still trying to figure out how to use my weight to the best of ability. I do get swept (bumped over) fairly often from mount and side control. I'm gonna work on maintaining my base for sure! ...I appreciate the insight!

In your second to last match, you can speed up the electric chair by pushing away his shoulder/armpit that's closest to you as you're going for the sweep. Although you pulled it off (fine work, btw), he seemed to be a little annoying with the handfight battle. More explosive underhook whipups, transition to the electric clinch, and pushing his armpit away may help clean it up. But awesome job catching these in comp, bro.

Sweet videos broseph. One small tip I'd give that I got from EBI3 showcase Jacob Harris is when you have that lockdown and you're transitioning to EC get the lockdown up in the air more, it reall makes the person on too much lighter and easier to manipulate. Some of the Video made it appear to be like you had trouble taking their base away on occasion. I could be wrong, so take it with a grain of salt ;) but it helped me a ton. Still, very good especially to nail in competition. Great work

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Originally Posted by Arman Fathi

In your second to last match, you can speed up the electric chair by pushing away his shoulder/armpit that's closest to you as you're going for the sweep. Although you pulled it off (fine work, btw), he seemed to be a little annoying with the handfight battle. More explosive underhook whipups, transition to the electric clinch, and pushing his armpit away may help clean it up. But awesome job catching these in comp, bro.

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Thanks man, I definitely know what you mean.

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Originally Posted by ErikLavigne

Sweet videos broseph. One small tip I'd give that I got from EBI3 showcase Jacob Harris is when you have that lockdown and you're transitioning to EC get the lockdown up in the air more, it reall makes the person on too much lighter and easier to manipulate. Some of the Video made it appear to be like you had trouble taking their base away on occasion. I could be wrong, so take it with a grain of salt ;) but it helped me a ton. Still, very good especially to nail in competition. Great work

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Whipping is key, for sure! ...Big ups!