Showing posts with label Otavio Sousa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Otavio Sousa. Show all posts

Thursday, November 04, 2021

Otavio in Action: Pan 2020

Spent my cardio session today watching a couple of competition videos of Gracie Barra competitor Otavio Sousa. He's been one of my favorite guys to watch for awhile. I've been fortunate to attend one of his seminars at Gracie Barra Seattle years ago, and studying his sitting guard game (courtesy of BJJ Scout's excellent video on that position) led the way to one of the last Great Leaps Forward in my jiu-jitsu career.

He favors a closed guard attack more these days. But you can still see him working from the sitting guard a little from time to time. I've liked to watch his game because although he's a stockier guy than I am, we're both on the short side relative to our weight (especially in jiu-jitsu). He's also heavier - competing at medium heavyweight of late - which makes him less acrobatic, less reliant on extreme flexibility, etc.
















Thursday, February 04, 2021

On Being Closed-Minded


If two of Gracie Barra's greatest black belt competitors (okay, okay, how about "two of Carlos Gracie Jr.'s greatest" black belt competitors?) do their best guard work from the closed guard, then why can't I?

Saturday, April 15, 2017

Otavio's Omoplata


With a significant amount of teaching and drilling in my near-term, on the mat, future, Pan Middleweight Champion Otavio Sousa's omoplata attack from the arm wrap guard is near the top of my list as far as the latter is concerned.



Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Five Grappling PPV This Weekend - Discount Ends Thursday


If you are thinking about watching the Super League event sponsored by Five Grappling this weekend, then you've got about 24 hours to save 20% on the PPV fee of $25.

The event features two tournaments - women's and men's - as well as a pair of superfights that should be very entertaining. Keenan and Otavio have never competed against one another (check out this preview of their upcoming contest). But Joao Miyao and Gary Tonon participated in a closely contested match as brown belts a few years ago. Here's a preview of their upcomintg Five Grappling match. And here are links to the pair's first contest (Part 1 and Part 2).



Friday, August 30, 2013

You Say You Wanna (Win at the) Revolution?

Crying in my kimono that I'll miss this.


This is in November. I'll be in Singapore, on assignment for the Daily Planet, which will make it easier to handle being absent (though I'll be missing the November Revolution event itself, also). But, damn, this looks like it will be a very good time.