Polaris 22 Results: Jimenez Shines, Condit Submitted

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Polaris 22 results: Jimenez wins, Condits taps

Polaris 22: Middleweight Grand Prix had exciting matches throughout the night between the Grand Prix and a big-name super fight. Roberto Jimenez walked away as the new Middleweight Grand Prix Champion and UFC start Carlos Condit got submitted in the super fights. We bring you all the Polaris 22 results in detail.

Polaris 22 Results: Middleweight Grand Prix

Last night (November 5) Polaris 22 took place in Southampton, England, featuring an exciting showdown between 8 of the very best middleweight grapplers on the Polaris roster.

Roberto Jimenez walked away with the belt, after a stellar display that saw him get past Shane Fishman, Hunter Colvin, and Jed Hue on his way to the Polaris Middleweight Grand Prix title and a $20.000 cash prize.

Jimenez defeated Fishman on points, before submitting Colvin and Hoe with a  triangle choke and arm triangle, respectively.

England’s Jed Hue had an impressive way to the finals himself, racking up wins over top-shelf grapplers like Alan Sanchez and Oliver Taza.

The detailed Polaris 22 results show how the action took place in the Middleweight Grand Prix:

Round 1

Hunter Colvin def. Owen Livesey (RNC)

Roberto Jimenez def. Shane Fishman (Points)

Oliver Taza def. Mateusz Szczecinski (Decision)

Jed Hue Def. Alan Sanchez (Points)

Round 2

Roberto Jimenez def. Hunter Colvin (Triangle Choke)

Jed Hue def. Oliver Taza (Points)

Final

Roberto Jimenez def. Jed Hue (Arm Triangle Choke)

Polaris 22 Super Fight: Williams vs. Condit

Ash Willimas earned a heel hook victory over former UFC star Carlos Condit in the Polaris 22 super fight.

Condi, with the obvious size advantage, scored a takedown over Williams early, but Williams displayed some trademark high-level guard play to lure “The Natural born KIller” into a leg entanglement, where he quickly go the tap with a pretty tight 50/50 inside heel hook.

Immediately after wrapping up the Polaris 22 results for the night, Williams issued a call-out to current UFC champion Aljamain Sterling who, after his impressive performance at High Rollerz, looks like he doesn’t mind filling the time in between UFC fight with high-level grappling matches.

Danielle Kelly One FC Title Shot, Inspiration, The Musumeci Diet

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Danielle kelly One FC Title Shot, inspiration, diet
Danielle Kelly One FC performances have earned her another trip back to the circle against Mariia Molchanova soon. Before their match, she talked about training Sabmo herself, drawing inspiration from other grapplers, and thinking about trying the Mikey Musumeci diet.

In anticipation of the next Danielle Kell One FC performance, her third, set for November 18, at One on Prime Video, Kelly has been quite active on social media and different outlets, talking about many different subjects.

Danielle Kelly is looking to become the first ever One Submission Grappling female world champion, and going 3-0 with a win against Sabmo World Champion Molchanova would no doubt get her a title shot in her next outing.

Even though an official Danielle Kelly One FC title shot offer still has to wait until after November 18, the Karl Pravec black belt has her sights firmly set on it:

“Whoever I go against for the title, if I ever compete for the title, it would mean the world to me. It’s because it’ll just be another accomplishment that I wanted to accomplish since I was a kid doing the sport since I was 11.”

Despite begin an accomplished BJJ black belt, Kelly has some Sambo experience:

“I competed in a few sambo tournaments. So the rules are kind of weird, but I think when I was starting to do sambo tournaments, I was focused on the leg locking because I want to just work on that when it started to become popular.

“I feel like they get a submission or they get an arm or leg on you, you would have to be really intelligent and actually know what you’re doing when you’re trying to get out of [the] submission. We can’t just let them take an arm or a leg, or they’re going to break it.”

The Danielle Kelly One FC career can be a log one, perhaps even extending into MMA in the future. For now, though, the 26-year-old draws inspiration from Mikey Musumeci and the Rutolo brothers’ performances in One submission grappling:

“When I saw Mikey winning the world title, at first it made me really motivated because I do wanna win the ONE championship world title for women’s grappling. It brings a lot of motivation and Kade and Mikey winning it was really good to see.”

Speaking of Musumeci, Danielle Kelly is looking to put some muscle on, and is considering giving the Musumeci pasta and pizza diet a go (The MMA Superfan):

“I’m a small person. I walk around 115. I’m a natural one-fifteener so I don’t really gain weight, which is kind of sad. So right now lately, I’ve been trying to gain some muscle so I’ve been trying to eat a lot, so I might just do the Mikey [Musumeci] diet.”

Brandon McCaghren: Stop Quitting Early In Training!

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Brandon McCaghren on Early Quitting in BJJ
1oth Planet Jiu-Jitsu standout coach and ADCC commentator Brandon Mccaghren has something important to say on the notion of quitting early in BJJ, or worse, faking being tired and scrambling at the very end. Everyone should listen to this.

The head coach of 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu in Decatur, Brandon McCaghen shared a very insightful video on his Instagram account. In what seems to be an after class addressing to everyone in the room, he calls people out, in a very polite and respectful way, on quitting too early during rolling in class.

Brandon’s focus is on the syndrome of claiming you’re done and have nothing left but then scrambling like there’s no tomorrow a couple of rounds later. Rolling hard is all tight, and scrambling hard is also perfectly fine… but when you do it right, you shouldn’t be able to scramble at the end of class.

According to Brandon McCaghren: “There should never be scrambling at the end of practices“.

Scrambles are all good, but you should use them in trying to apply your game to any roll possible. There is no real point in quitting early vs. some people in the room, just to go all out berserking when nobody expects it on others at the end of practice. This takes away from everyone’s ability to learn.

McCaghren also adds, challenging his students without offending anyone in particular:

“If you have nothing left, hey, no problem, cry, quit, there’s nothing left, I get it. But if you cry, quit, give up, “I need a beak” and then you are scrambling at the end, I don’t know… “You tell me.”

The takeaway message here is that you can quit if you have to, and it is perfectly okay,. However, either quite when you’ve got nothing left in the tank, or if you quit early, stay out. Otherwise, you’re just gaslighting your training partners.

 

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Firas Zahabi: Jiu-JItsu Does Not Have This

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Firaz Zahabi: Jiu-JItsu does not havethis
Firas Zahabi, the famous John Danaher black belt and head coach of the Tristar MMA academy in Montreal, shares his thought on what Jiu-Jitu is lacking, and, as usual, is spot on in his analysis – it is BJJ conditioning.

Firas Zahabi is never afraid to speak his mind, and he does that again, pinpointing an area in Jiu-Jitsu where there is a major gap that grapplers need to fill. Compared to all other competitive combat sports, Jiu-Jitsu has a very lackluster approach to conditioning and it shows every time BJJ athletes encounter Juokas or wrestle.

“BJJ guys are s— athletes. No offense to the BJJ world. I love BJJ; I’m a BJJ fanatic” – Firas Zahabi said. I” just think that their counterparts — the wrestlers — have outdone them in the physical realm.

Firas Zahabi also believes that Jiu-Jitsu athletes make more tactical and strategic mistakes compared to wrestlers, particularly in MMA:

“Two, the wrestlers are better strategists. Why? When you wrestle, you have three rounds, so you start thinking about strategy as importance. In jiu-jitsu, it’s one round. When the wrestler starts in MMA, he’s thinking, I’ve got to win two out of the three, minimum. That’s the minimum for victory. It’s not what I’m looking for, but it’s the minimum. A jiu-jitsu guy will do something crazy at the end of a round he was winning. Maybe he goes from top position to the bottom looking for a fancy armbar and gives up the round or gives up the position. They make more strategic mistakes than the wrestlers.”

Finally, he points out that wrestlers are open to learning Jiu-Jitsu and other grappling martial arts, whereas most BJJ athletes act like grappling royalty and refuse to experiment and learn from other grappling sports.

“Wrestlers are learning jiu-jitsu, and jiu-jitsu guys aren’t so open-minded to the wrestling” – says Firas Zahabi.” They don’t understand that wrestling is as technical as jiu-jitsu. It’s jiu-jitsu standing up, why are you not in love with it? Why doesn’t it fascinate you?”

In summary, Firas Zahabi says the fact that Jiu-Jitsu athletes do not pay attention to conditioning, nor try to adopt writing into their game is a huge detriment to their abilities, especially in MMA.

How To Get The Rockhold Arm-In Guillotine From Cradle

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David Avellan, known as the founder of the Kimura trap system in BJJ shared a video recently where he breaks down an arm-in guillotine which he refers to as the Rockhold guillotine (he learned it from UFC star Luke Rockhodl). The move is done from the cradle position and is one of those torture moves that hit multiple points on the opponent’s body at once.

Rolling Cradle Setup

The cradle is a wrestling position that is used at all levels of wrestling, from kids to Olypmic champions. There are two main variations – the near and far side cradle.

The cradle used to see set up the arm-in guillotine, Luke Rockhold-style, is the near-side cradle, placing you in front of your opponent, in the top position (think side control on top).

A cradle involves you having a grip around an opponent’s neck with one arm and around their knee with the other, effectively squiizeng their body together as youtry to connect both hands.

In wrestling, the position allows whoever is controlling the cradle to pin their opponent to the ground for the win.

In Brazilia Jiu-Jitsu, grappling and MMA, the position offers plenty of submission options, one of which is the Rockhold guillotine choke.

Avellan begins by snapping down the head of an opponent in butterfly guard. he does a same-side snap down and immediately grabs the leg to establish a standing cradle position.

In order to obtain a top position, Avellan rolls under the opponent, with what is a gator roll variation, once again from wrestling. This helps him achieve a top position.

A crucial detail for both improved controls from the cradle and setting up the brutal finish is to windshield-wiper the legs over the opponetn’s top leg, getting both knees behind the opponent’s knee (kind of a leg-in guillotine position).

Cradle to Rockhold guillotine

The Rockhold Arm-In Guillotine Choke

This arm-in guillotine choke variation works from the top when you have control over your opponent via the near-side cradle.

Once in position, Avellan releases the arm that is around the opponent’s legs. there is no need for this arm anymore, as his legs are now holding the opponent’s top leg in place.

The free arm can then ovehook the top arm of the cradled opponent, as Avellan looks for the ball-in-socket arm-in guillotine grip. This is when the arm that goes over the opponent’s top arm grabs the arm already around their neck, which should be clenched in a fist.

The finish is as simple as sprawling with the hips forward while twisting the elbow in order to achieve not just a guillotine choke, but also a brutal neckcrank. The entire position is highly uncomfortable due to the cradle, making this Rockhold guillotine a very tempting submission option.

Pat Shagholi: The 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu Prodigy Everyone Fears

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Pat Shagholi is a 16-year-old grappler who seems to be the new 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu prodigy. He is known as the “adult slayer”, due to his incredibly efficient counter-leg locking game. The only problem with the kid is that he torques his heel hooks just like Palhares did, landing himself a very nasty reputation.

10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu always produces interesting and talented fighters, but their last JIu-Jitsu prodigy leaves a lot of place for questions. Pat Shagholi, a.k.a. ” The Adult Slayer” is turning heads for the wrong reasons, despite his grappling record showing that the kid has a very bright future in front of him. Potentially.

At EBI absolutes, we saw a chubby teenager with long, blonde dyed hair destroy 4th-degree BJJ black belt David Vieira with one of the most brutal heel hook finishes we’ve seen since Palhares. By destroy I mean completely destroy the knee of his opponent, without a care in the world that he did so.

The teenage Jiu-Jitsu prodigy got his spot in the prestigious EBI tournament by conquering the in-house qualifying tournament at 10th planet Headquarters. These qualifying tournaments have competitors from all over the US 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu gyms come together to fight for a spot at the Eddie Bravo Invitational.

While there is stiff competition in these qualifying tournaments, the competitors look at each other as 10th Planet teammates, even though they train at different gyms in different cities. Pat did not look like he was sharing that sentiment, going for his favorite 50/50 heel hook and twisting as if his life depended on it.

“The Adult Slayer” is a counter-leg locker, meaning he allows people to get him in a leg entanglement, secures his feet, and then viciously attacks his opponent’s heel, causing real damage to their knees.

His finishes in the 10th Planet qualifiers did not reach too far, but anyone that has seen them react in the same way – cringing. His EBI performance, though, saw him act as carelessly as you would from a 16-year-old, but not on the mats.

While there is no doubt that Pat is a Jiu-Jitsu prodigy, he still has a long way to go, and reaping heel hooks like there is no tomorrow will land him in the same trouble Palhares was in, if not worse.

At EBI, Pat lost his quarter-final match against Andre Porfirio via fastest escape in overtime but showed he has more skills than leg locks, drawing Porfirio into some crazy scrambles which looked just as dangerous as his heel hook finishes.

NEW Brazilian Submission Grappling Sport: Tactical Unarmed Combat

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A new form of competitive grappling comes out of Brazil. Named Tactical Unarmed Combat, this new Brazilian submission grappling martial art oganzies events in which public safety officers compete in hand-to-hand combat for the somewhat unusual prize of a firearm.

Brazili surprised the entire world with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu so why stop there? In fact, there are many other grappling and no-holds-barred combat martial art forms coming out of Brazil, like Luta Livre and Shootbboxing, but non of them really caught on as BJJ. Will this latest form of braizlian submission grappling be able to replcate the global success of Jiu-Jitsu?

Tactical Unarmed Combat (Combate Tático Desarmado) mimics realistic conditions by having competitors fight in tactical gear and on a mud-covered surface.

The first competitive event in this new Brazilian submission grappling “sport” took place on October 23, 2021. The competitors faced off on a 10 x 10 meter mat space, which was covered in clay to bring an “element of reality” to it.

The Tactical Unarmed Combat competitors were public safety operators, who had to wear tactical gear (Rashguard or T-shirt, tactical cargo pants or jeans, boots or sneakers, etc). The format of the tournament is in grand-Prix style, fighting for the main prize which is not a gold medal – it is a firearm.

According to the official Tactical Unarmed Combat website, this Brazilian submission grappling form is:

“A Jiu-Jitsu competition that rewards the champions of each category with a firearm, a unique and realistic experience focused on police self-defense, which aims to train and test bravery. and will to win of the participants.”

Unlike regular Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or grappling tournaments, though, the focus here is on making public safety y operators more comfortable and efficient in grappling situations without the need to rely on their firearms:

“The public security operator needs to neutralize an aggressor in hand-to-hand combat.
And with this fact exposed, the Unarmed Tactical Combat event aims to show the level of training of public security operators and their unarmed combat techniques.”

Would you consider competing in such a setting?

Russian MMA Fighter Dies Of Alleged Food Poisoning

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Russian MMA Fighter dies of poisoning
c (33) a professional Russian MMA fighter, died suddenly from apparent food poisoning. The Moscow’s Tomahawk team member went to sleep after eating watermelon and ended up in a hospital where he died shortly after addition, leaving a lot of speculation as to the source of poisoning that caused his death.

A Russian MMA fighter died after being admitted to a hospital in the riverside city of Balashikha, about 12 miles from Moscow, on October 30. Alexander Pisarev and his wife were both admitted to a hospital, where the Russian MMA fighter almost immediately while his wife remains in the hospital still.

Igor Vladimirovich, Alexander’s father who lived with him and his wife, was the one that found Pisarev unconscious after returning from walking their dog

“I returned from a walk with the dog at about four o’clock and called my son to dinner. In response, silence. I went into the room – Alexander and his wife were sleeping. I came closer – and it turned out that my son was no longer breathing.” (Euro Weekly)

An official investigation has been launched to determine the cause of death of the fighter, with some citing watermelon poisoning as the reason, while others speculating that it was due to opioids.

The Tomahawks Moscow team confirmed the death of the Russian MMA fighter by issuing the following statement on VKontakte:

“My brother, my friend, my student! Words cannot express the extent of the loss. Alexander Pisarev is the standard of friendship, decency and courage of a Russian person, I and we will miss you!!! Rest in peace our brother.”

A teammate of Alexander told the Russian state news agency Tass.ru:

“Alexander Pisarev died in his sleep and did not have any chronic health problems. According to preliminary data, death was the result of food poisoning.”

The official statement of the Moscow Region Investigative Committee reads:

“Investigators, with the participation of a forensic specialist, are conducting an additional inspection of the scene, confiscating items relevant to the investigation, and planning a forensic chemical examination.”

The Russian MMA fighter fought in various Russian promotions (RCC and Fight Nights) and was the Russian Central Federal District MMA champion as well as a Moscow hand-to-hand combat champion. His record was 3-2.

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Marcus Buchecha: Real Fighters Train Gi, No-Gi And MMA

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Marcus Buchecha Almeida: Real Fighters Train In Gi and No-Gi
Marcus Buchecha Almeida, one of the most prolific and popular heavyweight BJJ world champions recently shared the opinion that in order to call yourself a fighter you need to be good at both Gi and No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu.

Marcus Buchecha Almeida, who has 13 BJJ World Titles to his name (with the Gi), 2 World Titles in No-Gi and 2 ADCC titles (No-Gi) claims that you need to train both with the Gi and without, and even dabble in MMA, not necessarily as professional, if you want to call yourself a real fighter and have the skills of one.

According to Marcus Buchecha:

“I think that a real fighter needs to fight in the gi and no-gi. And you can, you need to test yourself in MMA, right? To see how your Jiu-Jitsu is going to be in a real situation. I mean, that’s how I see it.

Of course, MMA is not for everyone, a lot of people don’t like it. But I think the gi and no-gi should be, like… You should fight in both, period. And that’s my opinion.”

 

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The extraordinary grappler has been fighting professionally in MMA since 2020, and has
a 4-0 record in ONE FC.

His statement is correct and helps settle the needless debate about whether Gi or No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu is better/more efficient.

Many big names from the BJJ community reacted to Marcus Buchecha Almeida’s statement. Garry Tonon, for example, had this to say about Buchecha’s claim through his Instagram account, responding in his usual style:

“Why stop there? A real fighter must compete in k1, judo, sambo, wrestling, Muay Thai, ping pong, combat jiu jitsu, catch wrestling, pancration, karate, hopscotch, kravmaga, taekwondo, boxing, aikido, tai chi, synchronized swimming, sumo,wing chun, lethwei, badminton…..

It’s really cool for people to successfully compete in multiple martial arts, but I don’t really see a need to suggest someone isn’t a “real” anything just because they choose to specialize in one martial art.

There are a ton of boxers I could heel hook in 15 seconds that never did MMA or grappling. But for God sakes, they are still “real” fighters and I would never try to suggest they aren’t just because they only choose to compete in a specific ruleset.”

What do you think?

ROLLBOT: The AI Robot BJJ Dummy Of The Future

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Rollbot: AI Powered grappling dummy
The Rollbot is a  grappling dummy, designed to mimic the movements of a real training partner as a result of a built-in AI.  The scary-looking high-tech dummy is currently still not available, but indications show that it will be released to the public soon.

The next generation of grappling dummies is here, and it is somewhat scary, even though it is a very good alternative to the usual grappling dummies. The Rollbot is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu dummy that contains artificial intelligence (AI) which has it mimics the moves of a partner while you are rolling.

A highly impressive characteristic of the Robot is that its joints “break” when you apply submissions and you can also put it to sleep with chokes. You can easily put it back together once you’re done taking submissions all the way.

The idea for the Rollbot comes from Joe Rogan, who more or less asked for one on his podcast, wondering about the idea grappling dummy. Rollbot inventor Sam Hon took Rogan’s word to heart and built his version of the ideal grappling dummy training partner.

The Rollbot grappling dummy has sensors in the neck that allow it to gauge the amount of pressure someone is applying with chokes. A speaker placed in the head plays sounds according to the pressure exerted on the robot’s neck.

invention Hon also states that you can feel when you’ve been successful with “elbow, knee, and ankle submissions”.

What everyone is wondering is whether or not the robot can fight back, mimicking an actual live training partner. According to Sam Hon:

“It stays defensively responsible. I put a ballast inside its hips so it’s always trying to sit up and roll to a side. Its spine is also curved down so it can’t lay flat on its own. Feel like it’s almost trying to shrimp away. You will have to roll with it to really experience it.”

On the official Rollbot Instagram account, a post from a week ago states that the website for the dummy will be launching soon.

During the test phase, a Machado black belt named Samson Sausser took eh Roll bot for a roll, and it seems fun:

 

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