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This weekend I had the luck to go to a seminar with Danaher BB and DDS member Eddie Cummings (assisted by Ottavia Busia, formerly Bourdain). As you might expect, the seminar was mostly focused on leg locks. We covered:
After the main portion of the seminar, we did an hour long Q&A that was totally open. Eddie answered a ton of questions about a wide variety of positions. I picked up a huge amount of useful info, it was one of the best seminars I've been to.
One reason I wanted to write a review was that I've heard in the past that the DDS guys were more or less told not to talk about the details of the system at seminars, and while it's certainly true that Eddie might have been holding something back and I wouldn't have known that very much did not seem to be the case. On the contrary, as someone who's studies his game a great deal I had a list of very specific questions to ask and he answered them all in depth. We had some 10th Planet guys there who were asking him very specific questions about things he did vs. Geo Martinez, and while Eddie made a few jokes about how he shouldn't really show them what he was working on he did anyway, again going into pretty mind blowing depth on counters and recounters from a specific inside sankaku position he got into against Geo. Overall I was incredibly impressed not only with his openness but also the clinical, incredibly detailed approach he clearly took to BJJ as well as his encyclopedic knowledge of things that occurred in even relatively obscure matches. Seriously, I'm a big BJJ nerd with a pretty damn good memory and he amazed me with his ability to recall specific small details of positions that occurred in things like ADCC trials matches from 2009. I'd highly recommend training with him any time you get the chance, I was so impressed that I'm seriously thinking about trying to arrange a training trip to NYC. What those guys are doing really is pretty far beyond anything else I've seen.
- Basic entry to ashi garami (single leg X)
- Inside and outside heel hook breaking mechanics
- Entry to inside sankaku/ashi garami from to DLR
- Entry to inside sankaku/ashi garami from bottom butterfly
- Entry to inside sankakut/ashi garami from the feet as a defense to a single leg
After the main portion of the seminar, we did an hour long Q&A that was totally open. Eddie answered a ton of questions about a wide variety of positions. I picked up a huge amount of useful info, it was one of the best seminars I've been to.
One reason I wanted to write a review was that I've heard in the past that the DDS guys were more or less told not to talk about the details of the system at seminars, and while it's certainly true that Eddie might have been holding something back and I wouldn't have known that very much did not seem to be the case. On the contrary, as someone who's studies his game a great deal I had a list of very specific questions to ask and he answered them all in depth. We had some 10th Planet guys there who were asking him very specific questions about things he did vs. Geo Martinez, and while Eddie made a few jokes about how he shouldn't really show them what he was working on he did anyway, again going into pretty mind blowing depth on counters and recounters from a specific inside sankaku position he got into against Geo. Overall I was incredibly impressed not only with his openness but also the clinical, incredibly detailed approach he clearly took to BJJ as well as his encyclopedic knowledge of things that occurred in even relatively obscure matches. Seriously, I'm a big BJJ nerd with a pretty damn good memory and he amazed me with his ability to recall specific small details of positions that occurred in things like ADCC trials matches from 2009. I'd highly recommend training with him any time you get the chance, I was so impressed that I'm seriously thinking about trying to arrange a training trip to NYC. What those guys are doing really is pretty far beyond anything else I've seen.