I read about this thread over on mginaction where someone said there was a guy named Kevin Green who was claiming he rolled with Marcelo and had never been tapped and couldn't be tapped by him. Upon checking it out, I am happy to see Kevin is claiming no such thing, but am shocked to see all the comments praising him for not getting tapped including a comment by Eddie Bravo. As a member of mginaction who has watched every single one of Marcelos rolling vids and more than once to and has based my game off of his I have to tell you Marcelo is going extremely slow and easy in that roll. I live 5 hrs from his school and have been training there quite regularly for over a year and have been fortunate enough to roll with Marcelo many times. I sometimes get tapped 5, 6 or even more times in a round and sometimes not at all and let me tell you its not because of anything I am doing that changes the outcome. The guy is the best grappler in the world and how anyone could think upon watching that video that Marcelo was even trying is beyond my understanding. Anyone that is half way decent has gone with guys they could tap easily, but because they are working different parts of their game or are allowing the other guy to work a little bit they choose not to go hard. I can only hope for the OP's sake he is lucky enough to go with Marcelo when he is going harder to experience getting tapped many times with ease. Trust me when I say I am not trying to be disrespectful to OP. I am only a purple belt myself and don't think I am anything special. I was just amazed to see some of the ignorant comments here that in my opinion are disrespectful to one of the best and nicest grapplers ever.
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