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Big Nog v Couture was a thing of beauty.
Watch almost any Big Nog fight
Sweeps against:
Herring(fight two had a really good one)
Barnett- tripod sweep when barnett stood(fight 1), half guard sweep(fight two)
Werdum- half guard sweeps
Sylvia- half guard sweep again that he lands all the time
Couture- flower sweep
Also good were Forrest Griffin's elevator sweep on Tito, Rocha sweeping Mccray in a recent UFC, Wilson Reis on a ton of people
"Reversal does not equal a sweep. "
Commentators make this mistake all the time.
"Hopefully we starting seeing more De La Riva and X Guard techniques make their way into MMA"
Not sure about De La Riva, i've heard a De La Riva black belt say he doesn't really consider it viable for MMA- and it is much more common in gi. But X guard does happen in MMA. Hasn't Jacare used it a bit?
Although fighters don't always form an X necessarily, quite a few have started to underhook the leg and split the legs in a deep half position- which is the same principle. Rocha did this, as did Alves to Fitch( in their recent fight(from memory, maybe a gif of that sweep would be good?). A lot of people say X guard is no good for MMA, but they are reciting information like parrots and probably just think it sounds too fancy. It's the same basic principle as deep half- it might look like your opponent can hit you but they are so offbalanced you don't sit in the position long. The most Brilz could manage against Lil Nog in deep half was some weak hamerfists.
The big Nog vs Barnett reversals were even better due to the caliber of the man who got reversed.
wilson reis in the 2nd season of bellator hit this sick deep half guard sweep in his first match. love the deep half
ttt
The Loge - X guard does show up occasionally like you said I agree it does get overlooked a lot in MMA because of the argument that it leaves you open for strikes. I think that De La Riva could be used more effectively if people were actually training it specifically for use in MMA. IMO most BJJ techniques (of course there are going to be exceptions) can be applied to MMA if A. The fighter tranes it enough in practice to effectively integrate into their MMA game and B. the right opportunity to apply the technique presents it self during a fight. <img src="/images/phone/post_tag.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>
yeah, I agree. It's just that a lot of people lazily recite arguments that sport BJJ doesn't work in MMA, so anything that isn't closed guard is too fancy. If you can execute a sweep on top level black belts at a very quick rate, then i'm sure it is possible to do it in MMA with some adaptation. X guards etc aren't somewhere you sit and "play", someone is already half way swept when they are in that position and is far too unbalanced to strike if it is being executed properly. If someone is really good at doing De La Riva no-gi, then they could probably do it in MMA.
Jack Skellington -Yeah that was a fun one! Very well executed against a guy with underrated grappling (Tim was never in trouble against Monson and almost got him in a triangle). Also, I was very worried Nog was gonna lose and he went right from that sweep to a fight winning guillotine!!!eliwoo - Nog's halfgaurd sweep seems to work pretty constantly.
I remember it being perfect against Tim Sylvia.
TTT brother for the thread, nothing I like more in fights than a sweep, I got caposa to gif the two lil nog deep half sweeps from the brilz fight recently, so they should be in the last few pages of the gif requests thread (props to him for his awesomeness), blue namers appreciate the gifs embedded
Its been funny reading through this thinking of all the ones that I would suggest and then seeing that gif come up on the next page esp the moussasi x guard sweep and GSP mayflower sweep :)
The Loge - X guard does show up occasionally like you said I agree it does get overlooked a lot in MMA because of the argument that it leaves you open for strikes. I think that De La Riva could be used more effectively if people were actually training it specifically for use in MMA. IMO most BJJ techniques (of course there are going to be exceptions) can be applied to MMA if A. The fighter tranes it enough in practice to effectively integrate into their MMA game and B. the right opportunity to apply the technique presents it self during a fight. <img src="/images/phone/post_tag.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>
de la riva leaves u very very vulnerable to big big bombs while the opponent is standing.
I love those deep half guard sweeps the nogueiras always use, like everyone is saying. 
Thiago Alves hit a great x-guard sweep on Fitch in their second fight. He used the classic butterfly guard set-up as an entry into x-guard. There was a gif of it in caposa's thread, but it seems to have disappeared.
Also, I seem to recall Rory MacDonald using x-guard a lot in his fight with Condit.
cough Struve vs Mckorckle*cough*
pbody - Thiago Alves hit a great x-guard sweep on Fitch in their second fight. He used the classic butterfly guard set-up as an entry into x-guard. There was a gif of it in caposa's thread, but it seems to have disappeared.
Also, I seem to recall Rory MacDonald using x-guard a lot in his fight with Condit.
Yeah, the Alves one is what I was getting at.On Jon Fitch too- one of the best wrestlers in the division and a black belt. I only saw it once but I remember him splitting the legs and sweeping. I'd like to see it again.
victorchensky -The Loge - X guard does show up occasionally like you said I agree it does get overlooked a lot in MMA because of the argument that it leaves you open for strikes. I think that De La Riva could be used more effectively if people were actually training it specifically for use in MMA. IMO most BJJ techniques (of course there are going to be exceptions) can be applied to MMA if A. The fighter tranes it enough in practice to effectively integrate into their MMA game and B. the right opportunity to apply the technique presents it self during a fight. <img src="/images/phone/post_tag.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>
de la riva leaves u very very vulnerable to big big bombs while the opponent is standing.
Not really, not if you are controlling the wrist as you should be. The problem, is its damned hard to control the wrist without a gi unles you have C clamps for hands.
stlnl2 -victorchensky -The Loge - X guard does show up occasionally like you said I agree it does get overlooked a lot in MMA because of the argument that it leaves you open for strikes. I think that De La Riva could be used more effectively if people were actually training it specifically for use in MMA. IMO most BJJ techniques (of course there are going to be exceptions) can be applied to MMA if A. The fighter tranes it enough in practice to effectively integrate into their MMA game and B. the right opportunity to apply the technique presents it self during a fight. <img src="/images/phone/post_tag.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>
de la riva leaves u very very vulnerable to big big bombs while the opponent is standing.
Not really, not if you are controlling the wrist as you should be. The problem, is its damned hard to control the wrist without a gi unles you have C clamps for hands.
I'm pretty sure Aoki used DLR in one of his fights with JZ. I don't think he used it to sweep, but he used his non-hook leg to strike.
In half guard i look for oldschool first but if he posts i go for the towtruck or electric chair