What We Learned from the 2nd ADCC North American Trials (East Coast)
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The North American West Coast trials just ended and we have 8 more people going to ADCC. It looks like we only have 1 more ADCC trial left, so most of the roster should be filled now. Let's take a look at what happened and who is going to ADCC.
Results
Men's
-66kg Deandre Corbe (2nd Keith Krakorian, 3rd Gavin Corbe)
-77kg Andrew Tackett(2nd Oliver Taza, 3rd Andy Varela)
-88kg William Tackett(2nd Jacob Rodriguez, 3rd Elder Cruz)
-99kg Michael Pixley (2nd Adam Bradley3rd Kyle Boehm)
+99kg Mike Perez( 2nd Michael Pezzuto , 3rd Brandon Reed)
Women's
-55kg Jasmine Rocha(2nd Alex Enriquez, 3rd Tammi Musumeci )
-65kg Helena Crevar(2nd Mo Black, 3rd Leilani Bernales)
+65kg Elizabeth Mitrovic(2nd Amanda Leve, 3rd Jennifer Case )
We got 13 point victories, 4 decisions and 1 injury. There were also 7 chokes and 3 leg locks. Surprisingly there were no armlocks, but I only covered the finals and semi finals here. There were definitely armlocks in the tournament, but of course I can't cover every match. There does seem to be a bias towards chokes and leg attacks at ADCC however and I feel this is due to the rules. We will see if that holds true for the actual event this summer though.
Stats
The RNC was very popular at this event. 5 finishes out of 9 attempts is an almost unheard of submission percentage. ADCC scoring often requires people to be flat on their back, so one way to avoid this is turtling, which opens up back attacks. The other things that scored were an aoki lock, a modified toe hold by William Tackett, a darce and an Ezekiel choke from the back. It was interesting seeing some of these less common subs being used here. The ankle lock was the most attempted, but it never finished anyone. I think many people were just using it to hold on during leg entanglements, or just show the judges they were working.
The single leg wrestle up and submission sweeps were the things that were working the best this weekend. Wrestling up has proven to be a great tactic in nogi grappling over the last 2-3 years and as of now the trend doesn't seem to be stopping. It can often catch people off guard or be used as a change up within your normal guard playing strategy.
There were 2 nice waiter sweeps as well. One by Adam Bradly in the finals that wasn't counted, but don't worry we counted it here at the grappling conjecture.
The half guard pass was the king here, followed by the knee slice. There were a lot of other passes too, but they only had one completion each. It seems there were a lot of attempts at the torreando was attempted a lot, but it was only able to be completed once. I thought more people would be using the bodylock or north-south passing, but they were only attempted a handful of times.
The single leg was the most attempted here, but the double leg actually had more completions. That was followed by the snapdown, which scored 3 times. We also had 2 slide bys, which I believe were by Michael Pixley and even a deashi barai, also by Pixley. There were some others that had success as well and perhaps people should try to branch out a little more and try other takedowns instead of just shots.
The back the the best place to finish from followed by 50/50 and side control. The back produced a finish half of the time it was reached, which shows just how powerful it is. This seems to be one area that all practitioners should focus on as it is powerful throughout every weightclass.
The action score here is a bit low which is disappointing. A few of the matches really dragged things down. Another problem is that people generally play extremely conservatively in the finals. If we compare it to last years average we get a 5.15 action score & 1.37 technique score compared to the yearly average of 6.5 per 5min and 1.68 techniques per 5 min. It is a bit down, which is disappointing, but overall I didn't feel the event was bad. The earlier round matches which I didn't cover had a bit more action, so check those out.
These trials were fun to watch and I was happy to see some new blood. There were a lot of vets there, but it was nice to see some new winners who haven't been to ADCC before. I was happy to see both Tackett brothers get into ADCC and Deandre Corbe's hard work finally paying off. I think these will be great additions to ADCC and we might have seen a future champ at this event. I never would have thought the last North American trials would produce future champs such as Amy Campo, Kade Ruotolo and Giancarlo Bodoni, but it happened. Perhaps history will repeat itself this August.
The new women's division was surprisingly deep and good. A lot of names showed up and I think it was actually deeper than the other women's divisions. Hopefully they keep the same momentum going into ADCC.
I'll be doing a breakdown of each division soon, so we can prepare for ADCC, but I'll also be doing stuff for the next big event in a couple of weeks. PGF Season 6 is coming, so I'll be doing a lot of stuff for that, so stay tuned.
I'd love to see a delineation of day 1 vs day 2 data. Or some way to filter out the first two rounds of the tournament, the mismatches seem like outliers to me and we shouldn't really consider them.
I'd love to see a delineation of day 1 vs day 2 data. Or some way to filter out the first two rounds of the tournament, the mismatches seem like outliers to me and we shouldn't really consider them.
ReplyDeleteI think this data is taken only from the finals and semi finals
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