Celebrating a Victory

After a recent post on http://www.graciemag.com/, I've decided to analyze a few different ways people celebrate just for fun, nothing too serious. It's funny to me how emotions can take over and you just do what feels natural or maybe you planned something out that you think looks cool, but in reality, planned celebrations tend to be pretty lame or come off as arrogant. Either way, do what you want to do, it's your win.

The Fail

Let's kick the post off with the celebration I saw on GracieMag. Back flips are cool, right? Well, as long as you land them. Things didn't quite go as planned for this Japanese fighter. He may have gotten the win, but that's not what his friends will be talking about when he gets home:


The D-Bag

This particular celebration comes about when one gets the victory and still decides to act like an ass towards his opponent after; it's called humility, you don't get in someones face and prove how much of a tough guy you are after you just beat him. This particular example comes from the 2010 World Championships in the brown belt feather weight division, in a long awaited match between Ary Farias of Atos and Michel Langhi from Alliance. This usually comes from people who are just all around punks and after some research it seems that way, a quick read at http://www.bjjheroes.com/bjj-fighters/ari-farias-bjj-wiki, tells us at the age of 16, the young Farias had a falling out with his instructor, Henrique Machado. Tell me, where does a teeneager get the nerve to argue with his fully grown mentor? What makes people this way? Who knows? Maybe he wasn't loved as a child, but enough with the babble, sorry, I don't like arrogance if you couldn't tell, here is the match, skip to 8:15 if you don't want to watch a boring match:



Dancing

This is either reserved for the ultimate jerk or when you're a big enough name to have your nick name thunderously chanted throughout the stadium, in which case, it is acceptable. Fernando Augusto, better known as "Terere", was one of these few exceptions. Groups cheered his name, and why not? He was a crowd-pleaser, fast-paced and always looking for the submission. He was a man among boys and when you have the legend that surrounds a guy like "Terere" does, you can pretty much celebrate however you feel is necessary. So, here is a highlight of Fernando "Terere" Augusto where he starts dancing to the crowd about 10 seconds in, it's actually pretty cool hearing all the people that are behind him, celebrating his victory along with him:



The Emotionless Killer

Only the toughest guys on the planet are allowed to use this one, the guy who goes on a streak for years and is feared by everyone in his division, i.e. Fedor or Roger. (Note: They have both reached the point of only single name necessity, such as Maddona or Sting. Yes, I compared two of the toughest dudes on Earth to Madonna and Sting, what of it?) This is when you just complete one of the most amazing feats known to man and just walk off like you just got done cleaning your room. Here's a pretty good example of Roger becoming a World Champ and acting like it was another day at the office:

Roger Gracie Mount

Lately in training we've been going over a lot of mount work that is based off of Roger Gracie, due to the fact that no one really seems to compare to him in this aspect of the game. If you watch the video below, you can see basically every detail of Roger's entry to mount, from shoulder pressure to leg placement. My favorite part about this move is the little trick for the shoulder pressure, it almost turns side control into a choke itself and really makes your opponent want to give up the mount as to be more comfortable. My coach, Gustavo Dantas, told me about the video I am posting, he has really been studying this guy's videos a lot. It is basically a series of this guy who breaks down Roger's game and puts it into an instructional. He does all aspect's of the world champions game, but this is my personal favorite. He has other videos too, but I would just stick to the ones that say they are Roger moves. You can check out the rest of the videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/TrumpetDanBJJ.