Perfecting the dead orchard

[John Mejia]

You are actually thinking of my first match in EBI 3 against Matt Secor. In all my time working the "dead orchard" there have only been two people that have ever gotten out. Matt Secor and Denny Prokopos. Denny got out because he has an incredibly deep knowledge of rubber guard and amazing body awareness. Secor got out cause he is a monstrous freak of nature that cut down from 205. His arms and wrist were so thick I just couldn't get it done. No move works absolutely %100 of the time. But I might say the dead orchard works %99 of the time. ��

I met Matt at the ADCC trials, He basically said he made peace with the fact that you were gonna break his arm, and then just hoped for the best and did what he could to escape.

[Tori Applegate]

It's hard when they have big shoulders. If you can roll both of your shoulders back in, you're not safe, but it's a start to getting out. :-/