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Clever setup. Nice work

I might be reaching here, but here it goes. Overeem uses the lockdown to take away Takahashi’s base. By doing so, Valentijn can minimize the damage he sustains. He then waits for the right moment to scramble to his feet.

I’ll dub this technique: “Lockdown To Flying Knee Combination”

Here’s our East Coast brethren competing at GQ.

Obviously flexibility is important for playing rubber guard. It’s one of the things I’m constantly working on improving.

Here are Eddie and Brandon Quick both talking about the subject matter. Eddie has specifically stated numerous times, in order to get a black belt in the 10th Planet system, you’ll need to get your knees all the way to the ground on the butterfly stretch. That along with knowing the entire system of course. When you’re watching the “Way Cool Weekdays” block on the boob tube with “Family Matters and Full House,” be getting your stretch on.

“This is a set up that works really well against an opponent that likes to strike from your guard. Instead of transitioning from New York to Chill Dog, sometimes I like to go directly for a triangle choke.”
-Balletman

I always like to see the techniques being used in MMA, I want to find more stuff like this. Apparently, there are small shows every weekend where guys are pullin off amazing Rubber Guard set ups in MMA. If anybody has links to these fights, send them over, I’ll put them up.

Brandon goes over the gogo plata at a seminar in texas

I was really on the fence with this one. I peeped this out a while back, and thought about it long and hard. I’m going to have to go with um… NO.

Robert Drysdale = Top Jiu Jitsu player who defeated Marcello Garcia, but I’m not so certain, made apparent by this video, Rubber Guard is not his forte.

10th Planet’s Ian using rubber guard in the cage.
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Ian’s great usage of the half guard

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Brandon Quick shows the 100% Twisted.

Rubber guard sighting at 18:00 into the fight Pros? Cons? Too little, too late? What do you guys think about the Renzo Gracie affiliates doing rubber guard? They seem to be doing it with consistency, Ricardo Almeida, Dante Riviera, Luke Cummo and now Andre Gusmao. Let’s discuss people.

The Sanitarium (aka Asylum) by 10th Planet Stand out, Jerome Basillio.

Luke Cummo goes to rubber guard several times in this fight. Not too successfully however. Word on the street is, Tamdan McCrory is a rubber guard player. He talks about it in the post fight interview after UFC 87. It’s popping up all over!

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