In the video that follows, he teaches a pendulum sweep that begins in the closed guard.

Enjoy and add it to your game.

After the 2014 Worlds, Marcus Buchecha talked with GRACIEMAG about his career.

The interview ended up on the pages of issue #208.

To celebrate Buchecha’s 25th birthday, we went back to the footage and came up with 10 bullet points that made him one of the greatest of all times.

Rodolfo catches Buchecha’s arm in 2011

It was the first time they were face to face with each other.

The black belt open class semifinal at the 2011 Worlds put Rodolfo Vieira and Marcus Buchecha to clash for a place in the final.

Rodolfo was in a better moment at that time, once Buchecha had had problems with his camp for that tournament.

In an exclusive interview for GRACIEMAG #208, Buchecha told us what happened to him the months before that Worlds.

“After I got my black belt at the end of 2010, I moved to Florida to teach and ended up without the proper training partners. I tried to correct that with a month and a half of training before the Worlds, but that didn’t work out and I ended up being submitted by Rodolfo and losing to Leo Nogueira in my weight class”.

Buchecha also talked about what the match taught him in terms of technique and strategy to face Rodolfo after 2011.

“That match taught me that half guard does not work against him. He will pass. I learned that even with the half guard being my strongest position on the bottom. From that moment on, I knew that I had to try a different game against him and that’s what I did.”

Rodolfo works the armlock at teh 2011 Worlds

Also on that topic, Buchecha revealed that losing to Rodolfo that day, made him sincerely consider changing careers.

“After the 2011 Worlds, I seriously thought of stop competing. For two months after that, i would only teach classes and hardly roll or train. I even went after a college course to apply to. Weeks before I was supposed to start classes, a competition in Brasília came up and I was able to win the open class and see that my drive to compete was still there. ”

Rodolfo also remembers a lot about that match.

First of all, he was glad that the video was finally made available: “I just saw it. Thanks God, before we only had the ones he beat me!”

“I remember I was very nervous and despite being slightly more experienced than him, I knew he was a very tough guy that was arriving in the black belt division. The match was very tough and I could only get my points at the very end, what led to the armbar.”

Rodolfo also talked about the meaning of that victory: “It was very important because it was so hard to achieve. I remember that at one point he landed me hard on my head and my right side was completely numb. So bad that I thought of stoping the fight, but once it was a open class semifinal, I decided to press on and was alble to win.”

Looking back and thinking ahead, Rodolfo talks about what he can get from that match to defeat Buchecha again: “Almost all our matches are being decided by details. I think that today, which one that goes on top has more chances to win. He is great on top and so am I, so I think that’s the way to win. In the last match, at the 2014 Worlds, I think I lacked training in the stand up game. I was not training judo as much as i was supposed to and I mean to correct that.”

After reading what the protagonists had to say about that match, take a look on the fight again.

Rickson’s son submitted Leandro Lo at the Worlds in 2011. Photo by John Lamonica/GRACIEMAG

Is it possible to win in competition Jiu-Jitsu today without intertwined legs, cutting-edge techniques and other modernities? What do you think?

Kron Gracie, vice world champion in 2011, has proven so.

Watch the video and leave a comment telling us your opinion on it.

Anderson Silva, author of the submission of the year 2010, against Chael Sonnen / Photo: UFC

Year end is an appropriate time to review one’s mistakes, get on the right path, look back on the moments that marked you and that you would like to experience again.

Or as the Brazilian poet Drummond once wrote:

“Whoever it was that came up with the idea of cutting time into slices, giving the year a name, was one brilliant individual.

He industrialized hope, making it work to the brink of exhaustion.

Twelve months are enough to cause any human being to tire and give in.

Enter the miracle of renewal and it all starts up again, with a different number.

And a new urge to believe that from here on things will be different.”

It is also a period for revisiting the past. That’s why GRACIEMAG.com, who loves a good reader poll, is asking the following:

Which, to you, was the submission of the year 2011—with or without the gi? Dig through your memory, as they all count—from the IBJJF Worlds to the UFC. And let us know what the submission was that most impressed you.

Happy holidays and take care, on January 2 there’ll be training to do!