videos from the submission tournament
I competed in the West Coast Submissions Championship this weekend. The format of this tournament was that you fight everyone in your division once. Only submissions count; there are no points in any individual match. You get 3 points for a submission win, 1 point if it goes the distance, and 0 points for a submission loss. Most total points wins the division.
Here are all my videos, I would be appreciative if anyone with a grappling background has any criticism or suggestions for improvement.
In the first four videos, I am wearing a white t-shirt.
Match #1, me vs. Calvin. I thought this was a really entertaining back-and-forth match, though perhaps a little sloppy. But fun.
I fought match #2 literally about 30 seconds after my fast-paced match with Calvin ended. That's why there is a lot of me resting for most of it.
My third opponent, Yan, was a tough kid with incredibly good submission defence. He is the way I was not long ago; likely spending so much time being roughed up on the bottom because he's small, but becoming really good at turtling and fending off submissions.
Round-robin match #4. This kid is huge! I can't believe he makes 134 lbs. Here you will hear Don in the background coaching him.
The first overtime match against Calvin. We are both wearing black rashguards, but Calvin is wearing the longer shorts and has the white stripe down his rashguard.
After the first overtime decided nothing, Don just decided to do a sudden-death, "first submission attempt wins". Basically sudden death for advantage points. The result is a very conservative minute of dancing around each other and maybe 15 seconds of actual grappling.
Here are all my videos, I would be appreciative if anyone with a grappling background has any criticism or suggestions for improvement.
In the first four videos, I am wearing a white t-shirt.
Match #1, me vs. Calvin. I thought this was a really entertaining back-and-forth match, though perhaps a little sloppy. But fun.
Click to viewI fought match #2 literally about 30 seconds after my fast-paced match with Calvin ended. That's why there is a lot of me resting for most of it.
My third opponent, Yan, was a tough kid with incredibly good submission defence. He is the way I was not long ago; likely spending so much time being roughed up on the bottom because he's small, but becoming really good at turtling and fending off submissions.
Round-robin match #4. This kid is huge! I can't believe he makes 134 lbs. Here you will hear Don in the background coaching him.
The first overtime match against Calvin. We are both wearing black rashguards, but Calvin is wearing the longer shorts and has the white stripe down his rashguard.
After the first overtime decided nothing, Don just decided to do a sudden-death, "first submission attempt wins". Basically sudden death for advantage points. The result is a very conservative minute of dancing around each other and maybe 15 seconds of actual grappling.