Here's a highlight vid of some of our guys in their tournament last weekend. It was a submissions only tournament with no time limits and no points. The only way to win was by submission. Heinrich, the guy in the olive drab rash guard won his division in a finals match that lasted over 50 minutes. The strategy was to continually break his opponent down physically, mentally and emotionally until he finally caved in. This was accomplished by continually preventing his takedown. Occasionally scoring a takedown. Riding from top position and forcing him to work as hard as possible to get out of underneath and up to the feet.

That was a tough match.  Your opponent seemed to have some decent wrestling skills.  In my oppinion, the criticisms are pretty much the same.  Don't let him have head position and head angle.  This is how he was able to set up both of his takedown attempts (first one was unsuccessful but close).

Whenever anyone gets their head in your neck like that you've got to either snap them down, use your hand to push their face away and comepletely disengage and reset, or use some of the head pummeling stuff we've got up in the members area to take dominant head position.

This will force your opponent to overcommit on a out of position shot or takedown and allow you to put them on the defense from the get go (you seem to be fond of guillotines and this will only help you set these up more often) or catch them out right.

It's these small things that add up.  If you watch the highlight vid, that's more or less how our guys were putting guys on the defense and always on the bottom (well, most of the time).  They'd force the other guy to take a bad shot, snap them down, sprawl or obtain a half haltch or guillotine and grind them until something stuck out and they could break it off.

For what it's worth that's my .02 pence.  Man I wish we lived closer so we could hit the mats some time.

Naturalbornfighter1 and anyone else out there, we live to see our friend's videos.  It's kind of how the DCMMA Team keeps in touch, so by all means please put up more of your vids!

If you guys are members let's put them up in the members only area so any potential opponents won't be able to scout your vids and check your game out.

Nice rounds there.  I think both hands were a little low to be honest.  I couldn't tell if you are a Southpaw or an Orthodox fighter.  You switched leads a lot.  The only other criticism I have for the stand up is that you led with a lot of kicks.  I prefer not to do this, because if you miss, (which happens to a lot of people when they lead with a kick), you're vulnerable to a host of counters.

If you counter a punch with a kick, that's different.  But you've got to have your timing down.  Otherwise I advise my students to set up the kick with a punching flurry.

There was one turn in there during the clinch where she put you back on the fence.  This wouldn't have happened with head position.

On the other side, your guillotine is a serious threat and I loved how everytime she shot in, you kept her honest with that threat.  Loved your double leg.  That was clean… pretty.  I also loved the O.O.P. Kimura sweep. Yeah…  Also liked how you used the control to establish a back mount attack.  My friend Joe Wiggins would have arm barred from there.  Not that you should of, in fact with any body other than Joe I tell them not to.  Better to keep back mount position and dominate from there.  The only other thing you might want to consider IMHO would be incorporating a cross face.  This will make it that much more difficult and miserable for your opponents when they shoot in on you.

Thanks so much for sharing.  I really enjoyed watching.  Can't wait to see more.  That was a very tough gal.

No criticism regarding your lead.  Just wanted to know which you generally use to determine if you were using the outside lead foot well when you and your opponent were not in matched leads.

I can't wait to see if some of these small adjustments make any significant difference for you.  I believe they will, I hope they will.  I've seen it happen for others and experienced it myself.