I know lots of people here know Sheila and might find this interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDij_R8Kgc
Sheila Bird (5' 5", 145lb, BJJ Black Belt) Vrs Gabrielle Garcia (6' 5", 280lb, BJJ Black Belt).
This is Sheila's semi final match in the Absolute Division of the 2009 No-Gi Worlds. Knowing she would be fighting this girl (and having seen her squish every girl she had fought so far) her strategy was to try and tire her out as much as she could standing (wrestling) and then when it hit the mat, (with the assumption she would be on the bottom) to push with everything she could (hands, elbows, feet, knees) to make sure Gabrielle could not anchor her weight, and then try to switch to her feet and take top when she could. Sheila pulls this off once but unfortunately Gabrielle flees the mat and when they restart she drives back to her feet.
Sheila loses this match on points from 2 takedowns but was able to stop Gabreille from controlling her once it was on the ground. Something no other girl accomplished against her that day!
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should've dq her for delib. fleeing the mat.
It is hard to see at this camera angle but Sheila had both hooks but they would not give her the points. Sucked!
Saw her at the worlds in 2007. An absolute amazon....I would be suprised if Rorion hasn't pegged her for his next crop of kids.....
Mit - Saw her at the worlds in 2007. An absolute amazon....I would be suprised if Rorion hasn't pegged her for his next crop of kids.....
Eugenics FTW.
Great heart shown by Sheila ! The "duck under" was there all day though. Doubles do not work well when your opponent has 100+lbs on ya.
guardbr8kr - Great heart shown by Sheila ! The "duck under" was there all day though. Doubles do not work well when your opponent has 100+lbs on ya.
Ya, she has been kicking herself after watching the video. She tried the duck under once and it worked and knows she should have tried it more. As for the doubles, she knew it was a bad idea but said it was just hard to resist because it was so open.
She has only been training wrestling off and on for about 2 years so some good lessons learned.
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Zaba the Zulu - I know lots of people here know Sheila and might find this interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDij_R8Kgc
Sheila Bird (5' 5", 145lb, BJJ Black Belt) Vrs Gabrielle Garcia (6' 5", 280lb, BJJ Black Belt).
This is Sheila's semi final match in the Absolute Division of the 2009 No-Gi Worlds. Knowing she would be fighting this girl (and having seen her squish every girl she had fought so far) her strategy was to try and tire her out as much as she could standing (wrestling) and then when it hit the mat, (with the assumption she would be on the bottom) to push with everything she could (hands, elbows, feet, knees) to make sure Gabrielle could not anchor her weight, and then try to switch to her feet and take top when she could. Sheila pulls this off once but unfortunately Gabrielle flees the mat and when they restart she drives back to her feet.
Sheila loses this match on points from 2 takedowns but was able to stop Gabreille from controlling her once it was on the ground. Something no other girl accomplished against her that day!
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Thanx Zaba.
and great match Sheila!
Something I thought was funny was at the beginning of the day I saw Gabrielle in a group of people that were dwarfed by her and I pointed her out to Sheila, and Sheila said "she doesn't look that big to me".
I was like "What?!?!"
After the match sheila came up to me and begrudgingly said "Ok, she's pretty big".
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Oh my god, that woman is monstrously huge. Props for doing do well. Surprised the giantess couldn't get a submission: smothered.
Garcia is scary big.
She is almost as big as NCAA92.
Already In Use - Ah girls trying to act like men.
...... wtf
Lol at the Brock Lesnar sized broad. Sheesh.
i will impregnate her. i will squirt to the left.
CJJScout - Garcia is scary big.
She is almost as big as NCAA92.
Now that was uncalled for. I am sure I could take her down though :) Wide open for a sweep with all that bull rushing
Sheila has some truck size kehones' ! I'm very impressed watching her competitive spirit.
that's ah huge bitch.
wow