John Mejia MSC Chicago Matches

[Amber Kamischke]

There will be a lot of new guys in the other thread so I wanted to post John's separately since a lot of you guys know him.

[David Rosado]

Damn that Darce! Yo John, are you trying to set a record for most darces on comp? Hahah. I swear, whenever I read your name in my head it's synonymous with darce.


Constructive criticism, for what it's worth....even though your darce is killer, I'd say maybe add some back up plans to your darce attacks/turtle attacks. Only reason I say it is because you were dominating until you fell to your back for that marce. I feel like you coulda taken the guy's back instead of falling to your back. I feel like a dick for even offering advice when I know you can whoop my ass, but I've watched all your matches that you've posted on here and I feel like it's good advice. You get turtle a lot. You fight for the darce often and it works for sure. But maybe life would be easier if you make them defend the darce so much that you catch them with something else. Unless you really are trying to set a darce record.

Dope match btw.

[Amber Kamischke]

John's finals match

[John Mejia]

Damn that Darce! Yo John, are you trying to set a record for most darces on comp? Hahah. I swear, whenever I read your name in my head it's synonymous with darce.


Constructive criticism, for what it's worth....even though your darce is killer, I'd say maybe add some back up plans to your darce attacks/turtle attacks. Only reason I say it is because you were dominating until you fell to your back for that marce. I feel like you coulda taken the guy's back instead of falling to your back. I feel like a dick for even offering advice when I know you can whoop my ass, but I've watched all your matches that you've posted on here and I feel like it's good advice. You get turtle a lot. You fight for the darce often and it works for sure. But maybe life would be easier if you make them defend the darce so much that you catch them with something else. Unless you really are trying to set a darce record.

Dope match btw.

David, You couldn't be more right

Since this was my first time in the Advanced/Expert division, I neglected alot of things, just so I could work on getting out of leg locks, I saw it as my achilles heel. Nerves, pressure, all that Aside, I am going to start putting more reps in on my back takes and my bottom game all the time. I appreciate the comment, because you and I are essentially on the same wavelength right now. I'll be back better than ever next time.

[Slick Rick]

Dang John would have loved to see you get that last sub in brotha! First time in the expert division? Very awesome for stepping up man. I could tell your opponent had been there before with his NS positioning. No worries. Good job!!

[David Rosado]

John's finals match

Tough break on that one man. Good news is that you're very composed in bad positions. That's huge. For your first time in advanced, you showed better composure than most.

Another suggestion I can think of is the watch Coach Zog's ghost series. Not just for the escape. But for the marce. He shows the ghost to the marce and I feel like the details he gives for the marce control could've helped you out. It's kinda like you uppercutted the arm through for the marce and sat out for it, but didn't have solid control of the back of the head, allowing it to pop free. Zog's detail on the control is helpful. Especially the "hoorah" grip. I'm thinking an adaptation to those details could help your marce. Like instead of releasing the vice grip, keep it, just slide under, hoorah, and lock it up...then roll up top. Just throwing out some feedback man.

You're a straight beast man. We already know you're gonna be back better than before.

[John Mejia]

Tough break on that one man. Good news is that you're very composed in bad positions. That's huge. For your first time in advanced, you showed better composure than most.

Another suggestion I can think of is the watch Coach Zog's ghost series. Not just for the escape. But for the marce. He shows the ghost to the marce and I feel like the details he gives for the marce control could've helped you out. It's kinda like you uppercutted the arm through for the marce and sat out for it, but didn't have solid control of the back of the head, allowing it to pop free. Zog's detail on the control is helpful. Especially the "hoorah" grip. I'm thinking an adaptation to those details could help your marce. Like instead of releasing the vice grip, keep it, just slide under, hoorah, and lock it up...then roll up top. Just throwing out some feedback man.

You're a straight beast man. We already know you're gonna be back better than before.

Thanks Brother, I love the Ghost to M'arce, I tried baiting him for it as he cut through when I opened my lockdown, But he was just a 1 step a head of me. In retrospect, I should have just used the ghost and gotten back to guard and battled from there, but hindsight is 20/20. :-)

[Sergio Lozoya]

Your matches are always a great learning experience (even for the viewers). I started working darces after I saw one of your vids a few months back (not really sure how long ago) but now I catch them in training. One day I will get one in comp (gotta compete more).

Thanks for posting these!

[Tony "The Goods" Garcia]

Who the fuck is this Mejia cat? His game's pretty tight, sorta reminds me of a hockey fighter :-).

[Brent Smith]

Damn that Darce! Yo John, are you trying to set a record for most darces on comp? Hahah. I swear, whenever I read your name in my head it's synonymous with darce.


Constructive criticism, for what it's worth....even though your darce is killer, I'd say maybe add some back up plans to your darce attacks/turtle attacks. Only reason I say it is because you were dominating until you fell to your back for that marce. I feel like you coulda taken the guy's back instead of falling to your back. I feel like a dick for even offering advice when I know you can whoop my ass, but I've watched all your matches that you've posted on here and I feel like it's good advice. You get turtle a lot. You fight for the darce often and it works for sure. But maybe life would be easier if you make them defend the darce so much that you catch them with something else. Unless you really are trying to set a darce record.

Dope match btw.

JNT maybe...?