Innovative Competition Victory

My friend Leo Kirby showed me great support for the tournament I competed in this weekend, and I want to repay him by doing the same for Matt, his son. He also competed this weekend in the kids division at the Atlantic Cup down in South Florida. He won with a technique of his own creation, which he dubbed Donkey Sex.

I’ll leave it to Leo to explain this one:

That’s the name of my son’s no handed kneebar that he gets from sort of a reverse half guard set up. I asked him why “Donkey Sex” and he said “How many times do you get to name your own move?”

I don’t know if he is the first person to ever do it, but he came up with it on his own so I will give him the nod on “inventing it.” And even if he didn’t he is quite possibly the only person to get it in competition.

Here is a clip of him winning the teens division of the Atlantic cup with it Saturday. Not a great clip and you have to look close to know he has the kneebar. No one watching knew why the kid tapped either.

He is the kid with all the hair.

Edson Diniz was coaching him with me and didn’t know he had it. I saw him set it up and told Edson, who was screaming to take his back, that he had a kneebar. Edson looked and said “OH! That’s good.” as the kid was tapping.

Congratulations Matt! And good job Leo and Edson on their coaching and instruction, and to the rest of American Top Team Hollywood.

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5 Responses to “Innovative Competition Victory”

  1. Leo Kirby Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 12:22 pm

    Thanks, Matt.

    Now let’s see your matches.

  2. Dochter Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 3:18 pm

    It is hard to tell from this video, but is this a kneebar that you get by figure fouring their legs?

  3. Rogue Says:
    November 21st, 2006 at 9:12 am

    Is there any chance of a tutorial on the move?

  4. Leo Kirby Says:
    November 21st, 2006 at 9:49 pm

    We plan to do a tutorial this weekend on it and a couple of other things to pay Aesopian back for his generosity with all of the techniques.

  5. Mattkirby Says:
    August 18th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

    Alright, I don’t want to say it was a white lie as much as it was we messed up on the pictures. This was so logn ago. Sorry but I plan on getting a video done then upload it onto youtube under my account.

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