Polaris 7: Lachlan Giles vs Oliver Taza

This gruelling battle between Oliver Taza and Lachlan Giles has a non stop pace and at the highest of levels makes it a spectacular watch for any fan of grappling.
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[@pvlapa]

Taza, hailing from tristar gym, renzo gracie, danaher death squad. Giles, hailing from... His gym. Like a total bad ass solo-taking on an army.

[@FreekFreeksma]

Poor Lachlan had Craig under his wing but the prodigy left

[@WhtMike2006]

@@FreekFreeksma no doubt. But Craig didn’t train there nearly as much as a lot of people think he did. And Giles and Craig had a very peer/training partner relationship more than a teacher/student relationship. I’m glad they’re both still doing big things.

[@FreekFreeksma]

@@WhtMike2006 really? I thought Craig was his student and Craig learned most of his game from Lachlan until he moved to train under Danaher

[@WhtMike2006]

@@FreekFreeksma I think Craig was with Giles for about 4 years. Give or take a year. Giles promoted him to black so he could do an event that required it (and obviously Craig was good enough) and he got brown from Giles too. I’m not sure who promoted Craig to blue and purple, but he was performing pretty good at purple when he went to Giles. Craig joined and Giles said that Craig started catching up to him and passing his level pretty quickly. And I think Craig linked with DDS earlier than people realize. Probably at least 2 years ago. Check out the Sonny Brown podcast with Craig Jones from about a month ago. It’s informative and it’s a fun listen. Craig and Giles always have positive things to say about each other and I don’t imagine there’s any friction there.

[@FreekFreeksma]

@@WhtMike2006 thanks for the info, didn’t know all that. I will have a listen! 🤙🏼

[@alfymurillo-poohjitsu7062]

I love how this position (false reap) was considered an unorthodox position and has now made it's way to the forefront of jiu jitsu. I love how things in jiu jitsu works like that.

[@adriantakac2783]

Thought the same

[@ryanh5242]

Was gonna say that haha

[@mofal1703]

I can't wait to get back to jujitsu

[@petermuller161]

I hope my gym makes it through this shit

[@larrynorman1617]

mofal ME TOO BRUTHA!!!!!!!

[@IMPERATOR540]

I second that

[@andresviveros3994]

Hear hear

[@JiujitsuOverAddiction]

Cant come soon enough brother!

[@olivertaza6639]

Love it!!

[@MrStrikeforce1987]

Oliver Taza i’d love a breakdown on your channel. Particular how you dealt with that false reap

[@andresviveros3994]

That Canadian guy owned lachlan. Wonder why he didnt take him on in last year's adcc

[@olivertaza6639]

@@MrStrikeforce1987 we're doing it today on the Off Balance Podcast

[@MrStrikeforce1987]

Oliver Taza awesome! Can’t wait man

[@alexmoon3130]

Was this before or after you tore your acl?

[@phredbookley183]

That is THE MOST casual-looking ref I have ever seen. Interesting.

[@konstantinjaenicke]

Ed Ingamells is a legend

[@matthewreed2614]

No points....

[@FvckN0]

it was casual friday

[@BlockheadJiujitsu]

Incredible jits on display well beyond my level to dissect, thank you for sharing this with us as many can't afford PPVs and subscriptions etc.

[@EffectiveMartialArts]

Beautiful display of high-level wrestling, passing, and leg entanglements. Big fan of both these accomplished martial artists. Also love the coaching by Nicky Ryan, the squad are second to none in terms of their cornering skills; no hype, just useful, logical information for their athletes in real-time. Thanks for the upload! - Patrick

[@AdiSogi3]

Awesome match, thanks for uploading guys!

[@savagezen]

Damn, that was good. Going to have to watch that many more times. Lots to learn here!

[@kingcanable]

Great match can't wait to meet u guys on the mat

[@danieldelanoche2015]

I'd LOVE to see a rematch. I think they've both gotten much better since this.

[@jononipinchbeck2531]

Great to post and keep the fires burning. Heated exchange. Taza had more tentatives and aggression than Lachlan. Both are high level and could tap each other at any moment. Neither blinked or choked so it went the distance. Love seeing it.

[@hansmuller7507]

Great match and sportsmanship👍

[@matiasmunoz6915]

I think Giles won, at first Taza really look more agressive and explosive, but after the 3-4 minute he was just escaping from the k guard entries, not really making an attack himself, i give this match to latch, anyways this was a close and incredible match to watch!!

[@amirkazemi2517]

intense - excellent matchup!

[@Vscustomprinting]

fighting evolving in front of your eyes

[@aforce2]

Can you upload Olivers match with Ross Nichols please!

[@phoenixamaranth]

Gotta say it looked more a draw to me. Good match and showing from both.

[@WhtMike2006]

Interesting. I thought Taza looked more dominant in more facets of the game. I don’t think it was a blow out but I didn’t think it was a draw either.

[@damianperovich6424]

Genios .. los dos .!!!

[@KosRoss]

Taza is younger, very explosive, have very solid passing game and have superior takedown game, but he disengaged pretty much every time Lachlan had a good grip on him (sure, great tactics if you want to win by points/decision). Yes, he pushed the pace all the match, but based on his look at the end he nearly gassed out. I’m almost sure that in a longer match Lachlan would submit him (probably even during his last entry). I also really liked that Lachlan actually was escaping rather then disengaging/increasing distance. No time limit submission-only match is the best format for the guys like Lachlan. Great match and understandable decision by judges. In the current rule set Taza is a winner for sure.

[@zachsnyder5442]

What was the date of this?

[@FvckN0]

Love how Lachlan already hit False Reap entries before someone even named it that way

[@brysonz]

Great match.Taza kept an insane pace.

[@tamerkobba7368]

Is that nicky ryan yelling instructions to taza

[@sketchsyrup]

Seems like he's coaching him.

[@roo4051]

Yea

[@TylerTheUke]

That counter where Taza stepped across whenever lachlan entered into DOA was interesting... need to slow it down to pick out how it works

[@anonymousreviewer169]

I agree with you. It seems to be a product of Danaher teachings. Let me know if you ever come across a video of that technique please.

[@koalaofdeath2045]

I don't know why but Lachlan's face at 11:18 reminded me of Gollum. The back position is his precious I guess

[@papersamurai]

Good full guard work, I approve. Haha.

[@qhajajsshsks6107]

Is this from the band??

[@bigmonster682001]

What a great match. BJJ rules!

[@alistairhenshall9204]

nice to see the ref dress up for the occasion

[@letmegooglethatforyou7020]

sick

[@noverdelapena40]

Wow cool boys Love you

[@Fusion_Submission]

very good, put but fights

[@CYBERDECIMAL]

Fuck yeah

[@ramirospinelli6453]

Interesting how different Lach's style was. No K guard of any kind in 20 min.

[@WhtMike2006]

There's a bit of K-guard. Check around 18:00. He's trying to go from K to 50/50 heel hook (the same entry he did on Kaynan) but Taza falls back and throws his left leg over the top to possibly go for an inside heel hook of his own on Giles' right leg. Around 3:20 and 12:15 Giles also is going pretty hard for the false reap to inside heel hook entry that he attempted on Lucas Lepri at ADCC. He's definitely evolved his style and it's cool to see it at this point.

[@nosho409]

@@berdbeliever Kaynan, Gaudio and Aly might disagree.

[@WhtMike2006]

Will Hartfield sorry. I was talking to Ramiro. That’s fine you think that. You aren’t wrong. Everything is context dependent. K guard wasn’t developed to work in an mma context. Now it’s been used in a fight here or there by leg entanglement specialists, but no one using K guard is claiming it’s for mma. I’m just here to watch submission grappling. I enjoy mma too but these days in terms of sports I only have so much time, and I’m more interested in bjj and sub grappling. Thanks for your take though and Stay safe out there in these crazy times!

[@erukun3055]

@@WhtMike2006 did you get to play some K guard yourself? I just bought his instructional wich is incredibly good, but i cant try his stuff because of the quarantine, i believe my money is well spent just for the 50/50 infos, though k guard is a bit sketchy to me, it only has one option..., what do you think?

[@WhtMike2006]

Eru Kun Eru Kun hey so I’ve played a bit on and off for a while but never as a main guard. I remember Eddie cummings used a K sweep on nate orchard I believe. To me I sort of think K is less of a guard and more of a quick sweeping position or quick way to shoot for the 50 or backside 50. It doesn’t full like a full fledged guard to me. I don’t have a guard game that’s very conducive to using it but I’ll still play with it some more because I think it’s interesting and it feels powerful. It sounds like you’ve got a good idea on how to spend your money. And for what it’s worth only 1 of the 8 volumes of Giles’ instructional focuses on the K stuff if I recall correctly.

[@adamabbas1487]

I don't think leg lock set ups from the top was a good strategy against Giles. He sees it coming and starts the defense before taza hits the floor. But Taza was excellent at shutting down Giles favourite positions so he couldn't set up his leg lock game.

[@jakarimfight9167]

😍

[@daniel_in_the_world]

Lachlan Giles is the KING of the HELLHOOK jejejejeje, good raptor

[@andrewcarson5567]

Lachlan working the false reap before it was cool. Commentators don’t even know what it is… 😂

[@huston345]

I wish this was no time limit...

[@hailao463]

Enter With Jurassic Park Music .......

[@silviorodriguez2254]

30 more seconds and I think Lachlan would have finished it!

[@volplay1]

It's that kind of thinking that got Goose killed...

[@oldeenglish64]

You gotta call that a draw. come on.

[@phoenixamaranth]

Agree, I don't know how they were scoring this but I didn't see either have an advantage over the other. Looked like a draw to me as well.

[@lisheltonanderson8645]

Agreed

[@josesoto3594]

NOOOO Lachlan finally had him >:( . Also that guy Oliver is crazy explosive what a champ

[@johnnyvegas3979]

false reap before it was cool!

[@aplus1080]

Sweep at 5:40 wooooooooo weeeeeeeee!

[@iamian711]

Thats what I said

[@aplus1080]

I want to f'ing puke because 1) I've never seen that before and 2) I can't even wrap my brain around it.

[@candylord5363]

Taza DEC Giles

[@VectorStrikerGM]

Shit I was wondering why the fuck is a girl coaching taza turns out it’s just Nicky Ryan lmao

[@heidikoleszar9173]

So how is this legal with Corona going on?

[@ApocalypticMerc]

They're uploading old events, Polaris 12 was in December and this is from 7

[@olivertaza6639]

@@ApocalypticMerc This was over two years ago! God knows when events like that will go down again

[@XxTheMetalistxX]

@douche your mangina That is not true. Old people are just at higher risk for obvious reasons. People in their mid 20's who was previusly perfectly healthy have already died from this.

[@tokinabo]

@douche your mangina dangerous for everybody with respiratory issues/weakness or hart condition. not necessarily need to be old for that.

[@WhtMike2006]

@douche your mangina A friend died yesterday and was in his 30's GTFO with this stupid misinformation.

[@cheemsthegamer2803]

Wait i searched polaris for the my hero academia opening how did i ended up here...

[@Xenumiscagive]

Lachlan Giles needs to watch a Lachlan Giles video and roll with Lachlan Giles to get better

[@db2360]

Dude Nicky could kill me any day but He Sounds Like a 12 year old Girl in steroids. Cant stand the Sound of His voice 😂 But nice Coaching 🤔😂

[@hdcomputerkeith]

BS judges go Giles

[@tekal85]

The commentators suck.

[@VectorStrikerGM]

Shit I was wondering why the fuck is a girl coaching taza turns out it’s just Nicky Ryan lmao