Smoove Grappler

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Genki Sudo is one smoove grappler. Here he is, lightly rolling with a Pancrase fighter — to Prince playing in the background:

One of my personal favorites is the video of Genki at Chris Brennan’s submission tournament a few years back. I’m still kicking myself that I was out of tournament shape that weekend and didn’t bother to go “just to watch”:

The first guy he fights goes for a takedown, and Genki seems to deflect him effortlessly with his ki energy. That guy, Bao Quatch, regularly taught takedowns at Brennan’s school, and he was a grappling machine — if “only” a blue-belt at the time.

Make sure to watch Genki jump over one guy’s guard into a triangle from the top. Unreal.

If you don’t want to watch him pick on poor li’l blue-belts, you can watch him fight against Royler Gracie — in an event that allows knees to the head on the ground:

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