Monday, March 11, 2019

Doederlein Video Replay Heartbreak at Abu Dhabi Grand Slam London & King of the Mats

Heartbreaking weekend for Doederlein as he was awarded sweep points and led by advantages on Saturday then video review withdrew his 2 points and he lost. He attacked with more submissions accruing the advantage lead with 2 very solid looking kneebar attempts from a position infinitely more possible for use than 50/50. Sunday Paulo had none of it, evened the score, then shut down any real guard passing with no real sweeping attempts either and both guys let it ride to a ref's decision after accruing 3 penalties apiece and still playing a game of chicken as to a DQ on that 4th double guard pull situation. It's a win, but damn if it's not the most anticlimactic thing to see.

Gi JiuJitsu in the finals continues to look a lot like "who can time the sweep with the last minute on the clock after stalemating one another for most of the match" than anything else. I watched all of Doederlein's matches and a confirmed change in his game is attacking submissions along the way to where he's going and improvements in his passing. He finished Tiago Bravo with an ankle lock on Saturday and beat him again Sunday with both a solid armbar attack from spinning underneath on his way to digging out the leg, and another ankle lock attack that must've given Bravo heated deja vu. He attacked the aforementioned kneebars on Paulo. He utilized passing with more authority than I've seen him do previously. Sawada looked outclassed in most of his matches and think Tomoyuki would have done better despite being on the smaller side as well. Wardzinkski got underhook passed as Duarte did a good job sitting him up vertically onto his butt to step through/forward to pass rather than battle the legs at a distance or play low and give Wardzinski his over the back belt grip butterfly game. These matches were a good bit more entertaining than the Spyder Invitational Championship Qualifier I suffered through recently with at least Doederlein hunting for submissions along the way.  

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