Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhsdKOXE8rM
Video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Ly2Xtjj7A
shark tank - Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhsdKOXE8rM
Video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Ly2Xtjj7A
Video 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhsdKOXE8rM
Video 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Ly2Xtjj7A
good finds, thanks
Dope. 
Just had the pleasure of taking a private with Henry at Dynamix last week and it was really insightful. The funny thing is I had seen his videos before about "connection" and "invisible" JJ but feeling the pressure he generated from the top was a whole different thing, it has totally changed the way I approach the top game. He's the real deal and I look forward to training with him again. That and Maynard from Tool was in the class with us, priceless! 
Henry is the truth
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I feel there is much more about connection than shown in the videos.
For example when you watch video Nr. 1 The Connection from Moutn Escape. I would say it is pretty simplyfied.
The guy who is on the bottom when he pushes the question is his center of gravity in comparsion to the guy on top.
If the bottom guy just pushes with his shoulder, instead using the ground and pushing with his dantien he will create tension in the guy on top and will not be able in getting the escape.
The same is for the top guy. If the top guy lowers his center of gravity the bottom guy can push all night long and will not get the escape. If the top guy tense up in his shoulders he will be easily thrown over.
So connection has to happen in the body of oneself and than it will effect the other partner.
Your center of gravity has to be lower than the COG of your opponent. Otherwise your connection will be pretty useless......
Zero1 -I believe there are 3 types of connection. There is you to your opponent. Your body to its self. And your body to the ground.
I feel there is much more about connection than shown in the videos.
For example when you watch video Nr. 1 The Connection from Moutn Escape. I would say it is pretty simplyfied.
The guy who is on the bottom when he pushes the question is his center of gravity in comparsion to the guy on top.
If the bottom guy just pushes with his shoulder, instead using the ground and pushing with his dantien he will create tension in the guy on top and will not be able in getting the escape.
The same is for the top guy. If the top guy lowers his center of gravity the bottom guy can push all night long and will not get the escape. If the top guy tense up in his shoulders he will be easily thrown over.
So connection has to happen in the body of oneself and than it will effect the other partner.
Your center of gravity has to be lower than the COG of your opponent. Otherwise your connection will be pretty useless......
You of course can have all 3 at the same time as well.
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He is really bad at explaining things.
Instead of rambling about "connection" he should just say what he does in a bio-mechanical way.
He may be great at what he does but I can't help to think he puts too much bullshit around his "technique" he could explain by easier ways.
It works because a lot of guys are attracted to mystics ways but jiu-jitsu is all about non mystics. Not TMA bullshit and Akins is all mystical concepts when he could say in a more precise way what should be done.
Connection means nothing, structure and weight positioning means something and he never teaches that.
"what do you do"
"I take off some slack in mouvement, I'm all about connection"
"ok what do you do?"
"blablabla connection, blablabla slack"
waste of time.
ckaa - He is really bad at explaining things.I agree 100%. This seemed ridiculous to me.
Instead of rambling about "connection" he should just say what he does in a bio-mechanical way.
He may be great at what he does but I can't help to think he puts too much bullshit around his "technique" he could explain by easier ways.
It works because a lot of guys are attracted to mystics ways but jiu-jitsu is all about non mystics. Not TMA bullshit and Akins is all mystical concepts when he could say in a more precise way what should be done.
Connection means nothing, structure and weight positioning means something and he never teaches that.
"what do you do"
"I take off some slack in mouvement, I'm all about connection"
"ok what do you do?"
"blablabla connection, blablabla slack"
waste of time.
ckaa - He is really bad at explaining things.I agree. But it still opened up my eyes a bit. I've been trying to make my way to cali for a couple privates with him. One of these days i guess.
Instead of rambling about "connection" he should just say what he does in a bio-mechanical way.
He may be great at what he does but I can't help to think he puts too much bullshit around his "technique" he could explain by easier ways.
It works because a lot of guys are attracted to mystics ways but jiu-jitsu is all about non mystics. Not TMA bullshit and Akins is all mystical concepts when he could say in a more precise way what should be done.
Connection means nothing, structure and weight positioning means something and he never teaches that.
"what do you do"
"I take off some slack in mouvement, I'm all about connection"
"ok what do you do?"
"blablabla connection, blablabla slack"
waste of time.
I think trying to explain something in a video that is largely a physical sensation is not easy. Whatever words he uses are just an approximation to what is going on physically.
Also, the visual part is not much use because we can't really see the difference in most cases. For example, the guillotine looked pretty much identical both ways, but obviously the training partner felt the difference.
Perhaps if he substituted "kinetic chain from the ground to the opponent", it might have been more precise. But that's too wordy most of the time.
These concepts are legit, maybe Akins doesn't explain them incredibly well, but I believe he's doing his best considering the limitations of the medium.
just stop with the connection bs,first time i heard the word was 15 yrs after we starting doing bjj.now everyone and his mother uses the word.
i told the boys dont use it,you didnt before so dont start now
Neal Zumbro - Just had the pleasure of taking a private with Henry at Dynamix last week and it was really insightful. The funny thing is I had seen his videos before about "connection" and "invisible" JJ but feeling the pressure he generated from the top was a whole different thing, it has totally changed the way I approach the top game. He's the real deal and I look forward to training with him again. That and Maynard from Tool was in the class with us, priceless!What belt is Maynard these days?
When the vid of him choking the guy on stage came out years ago he was supposedly a purple belt if memory serves.
Glad other people picked up on how Henry describes stuff. I thought it was quite interesting that when demonstrating the cross choke, he kept talking about how he had connected to his partner, and then the other guy described it as "taking the slack out".
There's no mystery, just good technique, so it's frustrating when terms like "connection" or "invisible" are used, when it clearly comes down to definable adjustments in how a technique is applied. Yes, somethimes the adjustment has to be felt in person to be appreciated, but a good teacher should be able to express that verbally. Rickson showed that in the video with Budo Jake. We might not have felt the differnce, but he explained it perfectly well verbally.
James
Yeah, exactly what I'm thinking.
The funny thing is that Akins is always describing himself as the heir of pure invisible jiu-jitsu, downgrading what everyone else is doing (while nearly no one cite him as a good teacher, even Kron never talked about him).
And Akins feels he is the one to teach it, the heir of the ricksonian perfect technique, he always says he can explain it better (better than Rickson can or did)
Rickson is the mythical beast, he is the legend and while he always talks about the same concepts when he is teaching he goes to the point and is much more precise in his explanations.
I don't feel any bullshit speach when Rickson is showing something (even if it's "self defense").
I've seen a lot of great videos from the Mendes Bros or Galvao online site and they could have use connection or invisibles concepts but they didn't. Just good technique and real physical key adjustments like you said.
Akins is mostly marketing himself as a yoda-like sensei.
I have nothing against non competitor guys but you never hear the same pretentious talk about other guy's jiujitsu from someone like John Danaher or Shawn Williams.
With that said, Henry may very well be a very good one on one teacher but he is pretty bad in videos and spoken teachings.
We train Sambo with a guy who was an active competitor in the USSR during the 80's. Everything he does centers around a "connection" to his opponent.
I wonder if this is a theme in Sambo and Rickson picked this up while studying Sambo.