Nick Rodriguez!!! From Blackbelt Slayer to Rodylock🔒 Master🔥🤯🤓

Of all the B Team's members Nick Rodriguez has made the most drastic improvements since the teams inception. With a spectacular ADCC performance, winning the EBI Absolute title, and giving us the most competitive match against Gordon to date, its very easy too forget the start of his career as the Blackbelt Slayer. An incredible combination of wrestling pedigree and unparalleled athleticism, focused on locking a rear naked choke anywhere below an opponents eyebrows.
Upstaging much more experienced grapplers in the process, his climb up the ladder would have him stumble against much more savvy grapplers like Kaynan Duarte, Hulk Barbosa🙄, etc. I remember one of my criticisms of Nicky Rod, was the lack of diversity in his attacks. The addition of the Rodylock, truly facilitated the evolution of Nick Rodriguez as a much more sophisticated and fully realized grappler. Bodylock passing helped Nick control the pace and present his opponents with a dangerously difficult dilemma. The Bodylock by design pins a grapplers hips, in the same way an underhook and crossface pin the shoulders. If grapplers fail to react, Nick will hit a knee switch, gracefully hopping into the mount. Opponents who attempt to frame him off, can be passed in either direction into side control. Nick will also keep a forearm wedged beneath his opponents waist in side control. Not only immobilizing his opponents, but also giving himself a checkpoint to return to, should his opponents begin to recover.(a concept we've seen Gordon execute on a myriad of grapplers) The wedge allows Nick to easily lock his hands and return to the Rodylock, cycling his passes over again. Having an effective passing system, put Nick in position to diversify his (bonds lol) attacks, with multiple armbar and triangle finishes at EBI. In terms of whats next for the B Team beast, My pick would be a WNO match against Meregali.🤷‍♂️ but thats just me. Hope you enjoy the video, lots more coming soon🙏😁 #bteamjj #nickyrod #blackbeltslayer #rodylock #adcc #EBI #banditobreakdown

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