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If you haven't seen Choke clear your schedule and have a seat.  Watch a huge comercial for Rickson, some of the best unintentional comedy put on film, and Yuki Nakai defines balls.

Make sure you register as "Ribeiro Lovato NW" for the Oregon Open.

If you registered as something like "Ribeiro/Lovato NW" or "Ribeiro/Lovato Northwest" or "Jubeiro Livato NW" you will NOT BE COUNTED AS PART OF THE TEAM. Notice that I'm writing in caps.

The tournament organizers are being very picky about this. As of today there are 33 fighters who are incorrectly registered. 

Here is how you change your registration:

It's funny how important tidbits of pop up in your head. Chris Williams once told us in a CU class about his concept of successful training being in 1/3rds... For every 30 grapples you should have a proper balance of 10 victories, 10 losses, and 10 draws.

A few folks have asked. I was first introduced to the word down at Saulo's place.

Here is what I found on a Sherdog string:

Todays Video Dissection: Marcelo Garcia vs Xande Ribeiro in the 2005 ADCC's, absolute division.

Timeline:

0:32 Garcia pulls guard

0:45 Garcia goes half guard

1:00-1:04 Xande does a great job of controlling top and taking mount

1:10 Garcia escapes via knee-elbow

1:12 Garcia sits up and sweeps Xande

1:46 Xande almost gets the sweep, but settles for a leg attack

2:00 Garcia escapes, is on top again

2:24 another attempted leg attack

2:59 De la Riva

I saw a discussion about this on another site and thought I would get your opinions.  One of the best BJJ matches I have ever seen is 2004 championship between Jacare and Roger Gracie.  should Roger have won because he broke Jacare's arm and without being under the limmitations of round times would have probably finished him?  Did Jacare only win because he could run away and let the time run out as he was up on points?  What say you?

1:30: I love the De La Riva guard , and Kron refuses to be swept. He falls on his butt but hops back up again.

2:40 Anyone have any idea what's going on at 2:40? Some kind of collapsed De La Riva?

3:27 talk about a tenacious and toothy guard, good lord.

3:35 .. and then comes this beautiful beautfil sweep.

5:25 Fear the X-Pass! (That one is for you, Coach Eric! ;)

5:40 But Kron too has a tenacious and toothy guard.

What are your top five take-aways from the Xande Seminar?

For me:

1. Reiteration of the importance of knee-elbow in all positions
2. Gripping the collar is a Good Thing
3. The sick guard recovery from the smash pass
4. The sweet sweep from deep half guard
5. Pushing the hips down from guard top and focusing your weight on them.

This is a call out to the crew.