"You are a top player. You've got good wrestling, explosiveness and strength advantages over most of your opponents at your level. At your worst, you get outwrestled by stronger opponents and out-finessed by more technical opponents, particularly taller, longer opponents.
You win fights in the old school, Gracie in Action style: you take them down, get dominant position and finish, usually with a wrestling-based submission like the Americana. Most of your losses come while you are in the guard, to submissions by triangle choke and armlock.
Of the three main fighting styles, you are a slugger, like Foreman, like Liston. You will not by technical manuever, nor by a blitzkrieg attack, but by breaking the will of your opponent, usually by establishing a dominant position. For you, the submission is almost a formality. For your opponent, the thinking is: "God, this is hopeless. Please just get it over with and finish me already!!!"
Jiu jitsu fighters with this style, of course, tend to be the bigger fighters like Margarida and Pe De Pano. I would also put Jacare in this category. At the same time, this is a very old school approach to jiu jitsu, so it is also true that fighters like Renzo Gracie and certainly Carlson Gracie Sr. would be in this category, also.
So what do you need to do to become great? You to become unstoppable, the "irresistable force." You need to take opponents down, pass their guards and achieve dominant positions from which they cannot escape.
Takedowns: Given your athleticism, wrestling takedowns - both freestyle and Greco - are going to be your first options rather than judo type throws. Right now, given your southpaw preference, let's work an armdrag / double leg combination. We are always looking to grab his left wrist with our right grip, and then reach across and grip his upper arm with our left grip. Relentless attacking this way will encourage him to cheat his right side forward, shifting him into a southpaw stance that will make him vulnerable to the double leg.
Pass their guards: Stand, stand, stand. Remember not to keep your feet parallel but, instead, stagger them for better stability. Also remember that we are perfectly comfortable passing half guard. So don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Achieve dominant position: The main move is from watchdog to mount. Look for it immediately after passing half guard. From north-south, remember not to be too deep. You want enough room to be able to scoop under the armpits for armlocks, as well as having a good angle for kimuras.
How are we looking to finish fights given your skill set? For now, let's continue to work on the bent armlocks: the keylock and kimura. We won't get those from mount; you'll have to switch to the crossbody to finish the keylock and the crossobody or north-south to finish the kimura. But those are your attacks: again, strong, athletic jiu jitsu.
Most important: be aggressive. Like the jaguar, we stalk and ambush rather than chase. But always look to start the game. Force him into being defensive on the feet, to not want to engage. Fight off his grips. Look for the armdrag or double leg if he retreats from the armdrag.
Kron says that his father taught him to always look for the quickest route to the submission. For you, that route is through dominant position, through the takedown. Get those two and the third and final piece, the submission, is soon to follow.
Go. Go! GO!"
