Hey Cadubon,
Nice matches! I like your patience, you do a lot of the same kind of passes that I do.
Here are some things I noticed:
Video 1:
:28 You let your opponent break your posture and get his hand in your collar pretty easily. I like to break the collar grip immediately if possible because the longer you wait to break the grip, the more time he has to set up collar chokes. Also, if you are doing that Sao Paolo pass, make sure the hand isn't in your collar if you turn that way. If his left hand is in your collar and you turn to your left, you are giving him the perfect angle for a x choke.
1:06 I think it would be useful to be quicker trying to push his ankle down and try to step over and begin pushing the knee to pass to half guard.
1:40 it seems like you have a tendency to reach back to grab his ankle with your left hand while leaving your torso remaining face down. This allows people to time your reach and jump right into a triangle.
2:59 there was an opportunity for a clock choke, if you like that choke (I'm a big fan of it, so I like to jump right into it in those kinds of situations)
4:50 if you switch your hips so you are facing right, you could rip your foot free before he pulls you to half guard. You can use your top foot to kick his right knee to free your trapped ankle if you need to.
Video 2:
:48 watch your right arm, there is danger of omo platas if you keep your elbow out side of his shin like that.
1:00 It looks like you pulled his leg right into the triangle position.
2:00 you seem to stay too low with broken posture in the guard and you put your right hand on the mat and you also seem to let your opponent get his hand in your collar without fighting it again.That right arm is vulnerable to omo platas and kimuras as well as arm wraps.
2:15 when they mount with their legs like that, try flattening your legs all the way to the mat hard, then you can start using your right foot to free your legs like you do. If you don't flatten his legs out, he can keep his heels raised enough to make it hard for you to bust his legs open.
3:00 nice sweep!
3:05 you seem to end up in this spot alot. I would suggest starting to push his left knee down faster and starting to pass to half guard. Watch some footage of how GSP does it and you will get a good sense of the pressure, timing and explosiveness that will help you.
3:40 need to break that collar grip!
4:02 I think it might help to be more active with your legs (especially your left leg) to get inside of his legs to go to x guard or sweep faster. Also, in this position, it looks like your right arm is too loose most of the time you are there, which allows him to step his leg out of the position later on.
4:51 It might help to worry more about either sitting up in your butterfly guard, or working to shrimp and free your legs to reclaim closed guard (or half if you prefer that) rather than messing with his gi.
4:55 I think it would help to get your left arm under his chin to frame or threaten chokes. This would open up the chance to attack, or go to closed guard or play half guard. It's an issue of creating space.
5:09 your bridge is what gave him the mount. I think before that you could have worked to establish the underhook (and defend your neck/head against his left arm) more to go into your waiter sweeps that you seem to like rather than bridging.
5:37 you could grab his wrist here and shrimp diagonally away from him to either get your closed guard back or possibly attack a triangle choke (he was a bit high up to threaten the triangle, but closed guard might have been possible). Or maybe even getting your left butterfly hook in and using it to elevator sweep him with that wrist grip.
5:47 there is a good half guard sweep from there if you were to grab his belt here, watch Roger Gracie vs Bruno Bastos (I believe that was the match). I think the kimura was an unlikely bet here, especially this late in the match. You might have been able to use it to force him to move to create space, or flip him over, but finishing the kimura with him keeping his elbow in tight like that is difficult and time consuming. X choke attacks might have been possible here too as a way to maybe get a submission or gain space to reclaim a stronger type of guard to attack a different way. He looked like he was okay burning the clock here, so creating space might have been a good option.
6:36 at this point, it wouldn't matter (too late in the match), but here I like to try to work my left butterfly hook in and use it to gain distance and off balance/threaten sweeps.
Nice matches all in all. I hope this helps a bit, this is just some stuff I noticed that might help.
