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I appreciate watching Meregali compete, since in some ways he is actually something like a throw-back, to times before certain malodorous memes became endemic in the popular consciousness of bjj, as a way for certain people to try and signal that they were distinguished from anyone else at the time (such as 'leg locks give up position').
This match gives a good example of how the threat of a leg attack on top can open up the rest of the passing game, where here he used the toe hold to counter his opponents transition to saddle from SLX. Even though he did not finish it (and perhaps was not a fully serious attempt to start with), what it did do was let him extricate his opponents superior entanglement, and put himself in position to come up into a superior passing setup. That leg ride to pass/attack the back was really clean too; made it look simple and effortless.
Also a nice arm triangle/ezekiel to pass outside ashi in the final of the same tourny.
This match gives a good example of how the threat of a leg attack on top can open up the rest of the passing game, where here he used the toe hold to counter his opponents transition to saddle from SLX. Even though he did not finish it (and perhaps was not a fully serious attempt to start with), what it did do was let him extricate his opponents superior entanglement, and put himself in position to come up into a superior passing setup. That leg ride to pass/attack the back was really clean too; made it look simple and effortless.
Also a nice arm triangle/ezekiel to pass outside ashi in the final of the same tourny.
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