Leo Vieira- no gi notes

I am going to watch as much Leo Vieira as possible in order to get a good understanding of his game.

Started with ADCC 2005.

standing-
-his main tendency- neck tie to armdrag/single leg. he'll hand fight with them and keep re-establishing the neck tie once they break away. he'll look for the right time to shoot the arm drag, and move to either try to take the back or single leg, depending what they do. he'll either look to take the back or begin to pass guard, depending how they react.

-defense- he has ridiculous balance and takedown defense. he likes to free the single leg by pushing them away with his hands and then kicking away from them to free the leg.

back control
-he rolls around and switches between choking arms, depending on their defense. he uses hooks and body triangles to stay on the back. from double underhook grip, he'll begin shooting an arm over for the rnc. the rnc begins with the palm to palm grip.

-once he gets around to double underhook control (body lock), he'll jump up in the back of their knees to break them down. if they roll backwards, he keeps rolling with them.

-to break them down, he'll switch the lower arm on harness to go around their leg and re-grip the top arm, in effect breaking them down with a cradle hold.

guard passing
-from what i recall, double underhooks is his game. need to watch more footage.

-he uses the guillotine to pass from standing sometimes. gotta rewatch to figure out.

side control
-need to watch more footage

-he does set up the n/s guillotine nicely.