I agree completely with RightDeve regarding the Metamoris fight. Ryron was playing his game (calm and playful) while waiting for his opponent to defeat himself. That was a part of his grandfather's strategy. He executed very well!
ryron is so good, so comfident, every match looks like sparring session to me, wow, he really represents gracie jiu jitsu at his purest!! helio would be proud if he see this..
Wow! Ryron only used techniques of the GMC blue belt program. I could recognize every single one of them.Thanks Ryron for demonstrating the effectiveness of these more or less basic techniques when applied correctly.
Watch both matches again. Here we see Ryron play bottom sidemount which threw off his opponent. In the Galvoa match, we see Ryron go for subs towards the end of the match and it was Galvao who resorted to stalling since he was gassed!
Well also factor in that in this video we see Ryron vs a very solid blackbelt yes but Galvao is one of the best pound for pound BJJ players today. It is hard to be aggresive against someone like Galvao and not gass yourself out.
Strategy. He was looking to conserve energy. When his opponent is less skilled it takes less energy to attack. When he's more skilled it takes more energy to attack. It's quite simple.
Again, you misunderstand my point. No one wanted to see Ryron go balls to the wall against Galvao and just blindly attack him & force subs that weren't there. At least for me, I wanted to see Ryron be a bit more engaged. If Ryon wanted to play guard, at least he should have made an effort to not allow Galvao to pass his guard so easily. He could have done that without expending much energy but he chose not to. He chose to allow Galvao to pass & repass while he just laid there defending his neck.
This camera man announcer should find another day job. He doesn't appreciate the art and is just a bad sport, go home and study this video. Maybe you can learn to submit a guy in your next tournament instead of just going off of points.
So when he goes against some lower tier black belt, no disrespect to the other guy, Ryron attacks, he's aggressive and engaging but when he goes against Andre Galvao, he defends the whole time then calls "Self Defense". Nice, eh?
BULLSHIT, stop being a Gracie apologist. Ryron was completely disengaged the great majority of his match with Galvao. He didn't even attempt to defend his guard when Galvao tried to pass. The fans wanted to see what kind of guard Ryron has, how his guard skills stack up against an aggressive world class attacking BJJ black belt like Galvao and they got shit for it instead. Yes, Ryron threatened a few leg locks at the very end but that was hardly putting Galvao in any serious danger.
Ryron and Renner root for self-defense BJJ not sports BJJ. In self defense, you have to survive against an overall better opponent. Ryron was very clear about that in the post fight interview.
