21x World Champion Megaton Dias: You Only Need 3 Moves
From Bernardo Faria BJJ Fanatics
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Megaton Dias holds the IBJJF record for World Master titles with 21, and he is the father of UFC champion Mackenzie Dern. He sits down with Bernardo Faria to explain how he plays guard, and why he never needed a hundred moves to win.
Megaton comes from judo and can take almost anyone down, so when does he pull guard? When the other guy's passing looks weak, or his guard looks too hard to pass. In a five minute match there is no time to wait: if the takedown is not coming in the first minute, he changes the plan. His rule for his students is simple. Never let somebody score from the middle of the match to the end, because in five minutes it is very hard to recover. Whoever scores first usually wins.
On the ground he pulls, closes the guard to set his grips, then opens to spider guard or de la Riva. Against bigger opponents he prefers the spider. And he goes for sweeps before submissions, because people fight harder not to get tapped, and very often the sweep attempt hands him the submission anyway.
He also talks about how he trains twice a day and competes almost every weekend, and about his ABC game: one takedown, one pass, one choke, one armbar. Knowing a lot of positions is fine, but what wins is having a few moves you trust and understanding how to play the rules.
Megaton's new instructionals, one on guard and one on takedowns and guard passing, are coming to BJJFanatics.com.
🕒 TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Meet Megaton Dias, 21x World Master Champion
0:31 When To Pull Guard
1:28 No Takedown? Change The Plan
2:28 Score First In A Five Minute Match
2:55 Pull, Then Close The Guard
3:50 Spider Guard Or De La Riva
4:09 Spider Guard Against Bigger Guys
5:01 Why He Sweeps Before He Submits
5:36 His Sweeps
6:36 Training Twice A Day, Competing All Year
9:03 You Only Need 3 Moves: The ABC Game
10:43 Wrap-Up
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Bernardo Faria is a 5x World Champion. Bernardo started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Juiz de Fora - MG, Brazil at the age of 14 in 2001. After receiving the Black Belt from his first instructor Ricardo Marques in 2008, He moved to Sao Paulo to join BJJ legend Fabio Gurgel and his Alliance team. After many years of training and winning many major titles, Bernardo moved to NYC in 2013 to train and teach at Marcelo Garcia Academy. In 2015 Bernardo achieved his dream of winning the IBJJF World Championship Open class title and his division, doing the double Gold and becoming the 1st in the IBJJF Ranking and also chosen as the best athlete of 2015.
Bernardo Faria has now taken on the mission to share some of the lessons, techniques, experiences and more that he has learned along in his 16 years and counting as a BJJ student, teacher and world class competitor.
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