Posts Tagged ‘oli geddes’

Too Much Awesome – Oli Geddes update

by Matt - Scramble ~ posted August 7th, 2012

OK, I come into the office this morning and I see a new instructional video from Oli Geddes. 

He’s been churning them out on his YouTube channel (which you should subscribe to) as he travels North America. 

I watch it and it’s pretty good – he’s using the sitting / hook guard thing that I have been using lately, but turning it into overhook X guard / Lagarto guard, and then going for a footlock. I often get stuck trying to sweep from there so I decide to try it next time I train.

Then I checked out facebook to see Oli had shared a link to Graciemag, where he got great coverage of his fights from the Toronoto open. He got beaten by a guy in the weight finals, then beat him in the open weight.

So I watch the match, and he busts out the exact move I’d just seen him instructionalising. Superb.

Here’s the instructional:

Here’s the fight:

Pic courtesy IBJJF

[VIDEO] Oli Geddes: International Grappling Competitor…?

by Matt - Scramble ~ posted July 27th, 2012

We are ultimo-pumped about this vid!

Shot and edited by our friend Daniel Willmott, a name to watch out for on the BJJ video scene, it’s a great introduction to Oli Geddes, a household name in the UK BJJ scene and soon to be worldwide. Oli delivers one of the funniest intros I’ve ever heard in a BJJ video, too.

He’s heading off to North America for THE GREAT NORTH AMERICAN COMPETITION TOUR OF AWESOMENESS and I highly recommend you keep up with his progress at his blog, here.

Please like, share, enjoy! Turn it up and make sure HD is on.

 

Pan Americans 2012 were awesome.

by Matt - Scramble ~ posted April 2nd, 2012

Scramble sponsored the Budo Videos broadcast of the 2012 Pan Ams. You may have noticed our logo plastered all over mat number 3.

We watched quite a few of the matches and they were excellent.

Unfortunately being a family man, almost all of the matches I wanted to watch coincided with a small child of some sort needing some kind of attention. But still!

Our man Oli Geddes looked very at home in the black belt division, narrowly losing his first fight but nailing a sweet sweep and generally looking like a real black belt.

Except for that Koral gi, dammit. Luckily he has a special Scramble gi on the way that is 100% competition legal, unlike the 1chiban.

The Miyao brothers took first and second place in their division too, proudly rocking the Scramble patches on their lapels.

We can’t wait for the worlds!