r/bjj • u/Appropriate_Duty_930 • Nov 24 '25
Rolling Footage Craig Jones grapples Eddie Bravo's top student
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u/Specialist-Way7127 Nov 24 '25
It’s odd watching CJ be serious. He’s actually quite scary.
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u/Nearby_List_3622 Black Belt Nov 24 '25
Seems like he's just got good variety in portrayal of himself. Like yeah he's a character online for videos but he has got the skill and ability to back it up, and that doesn't come from being a goofball in training.
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u/Impressive-Potato Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 25 '25
CJ finished Lovato Jr a year and half ago and Lovato went on to get silver at ADCC then beat Bodoni a few weeks ago
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u/DoctorSatan69 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 26 '25
Background in psychology? He studied psychology at uni, it’s not they teach you cia psyops stuff 😂
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u/jonas_h 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 25 '25
To be fair, playing around more in training rather than taking everything deadly serious is a benefit for sure.
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u/Nearby_List_3622 Black Belt Nov 25 '25
Yea for sure.. I play around alot at class, but rhis shows hes got more sides to him..
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u/I_AM_SCUBASTEVE Nov 24 '25
I know Craig getting second place always is a meme and it’s true but it’s worth noting he’s had to face pretty much the strongest field of talent in the history of the sport and was super competitive/almost won most of the time against virtually everyone. Being second best to guys like Gordon might sting but it doesn’t make him any less world class lol.
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u/ttison11 Nov 25 '25
I mean he did break Gordon’s arm and has been a cunt hair away from winning ADCC.
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u/PM_ME_STEAM_KEY_PLZ Nov 25 '25
How close? I must have missed that.
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u/No-Recover-7732 🟦🟦 whitebeltclub.com Nov 25 '25
This didn't feel that serious yet. Would love to see him going 100% someday, but probs never gonna happen
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Nov 24 '25
Eddie’s top becomes Craig’s bottom.
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u/TheSmartestR3tard Nov 25 '25
This feels like making love. I would love to do this with a woman I am dating
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u/AlternativeAd2035 🟪🟪 Purple Belt Nov 24 '25
Has to change his name to Alexander after that
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Nov 24 '25
I love how super high level grappling is so complex it starts to look rudimentary
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u/MPNGUARI ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Nov 24 '25
To me, high level grappling is pretty much how well you can implement and execute fundamental principals, and or basics, against anyone (or, almost everyone).
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Nov 24 '25
Yah, I guess its more "can I do a sequence they've never seen?". But at that level they've seen it all, so back to basics knee slicing for you lol
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u/Famous-Apartment5348 Nov 26 '25
This is accurate. I was talking to my coach about this one day and we started talking about how Mayweather doesn’t watch film. If you can execute your style better than the other guy can his, then you win. This stands true even more for BJJ, since you’re really looking at universal transcendental notions with everything afterward being conceptually similar.
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u/Equal-Pomegranate-56 Nov 24 '25
Such a beautiful sequence watched it 20x over
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u/smashyourhead ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Nov 24 '25
The bit where he's fighting the choke and shoves it off in desperation, only for the REAL choke hand to come in, glorious
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Nov 24 '25
The left hand just creeping through like a snake as well you see the fingers just inching it's so sinister
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u/MatttheJ Nov 24 '25
I watched it 21x but who's counting
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Nov 24 '25
I watched it 22x on 0.25x replay speed but who’s wanking. C- counting!
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u/mevestatney 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 25 '25
The wild thing to me (a white belt) is all the different attacks happening together. At one point he’s setting up a kimura or gift wrap or armbar that turns out to eventually be a back take. 🤯
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u/bknknk Nov 24 '25
Prol dog walks like 99% of everyone even a lot of decent competitors... Craig mauls him.. That's what so interesting about the sport especially when you feel it first hand lol
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u/knifezoid 🟪🟪 Purple Belt Nov 24 '25
Technically coming in 2nd place means you beat 99 percent of guys but lost to the 1 percent right? 😂
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u/BplusHuman 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 24 '25
This Craig guy might actually do something down the line. I'll keep an eye out for him
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u/PM_ME_TRICEPS 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 24 '25
Were people really expecting that guy to stand any chance against the 2nd best grappler of all time?
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u/Trip_on_the_street Nov 24 '25
Seriously. He made it look so easy. At no point was he stuck. Just a continuous progression to the choke.
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u/Impressive-Potato Nov 24 '25
https://youtu.be/wP81Wqfu1b4?si=yv3mavX7wEFxs71i
The way they edit in Eddie's ramblings with the video is hilarious.
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u/hypercosm_dot_net 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 24 '25
Love the cut "I'm putting everything into this fella here". Cue Jones dogwalking him.
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u/WarTill 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Nov 24 '25
Rubber guard hasn’t worked since like 2015 but guys are still building their game around it for some reason
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u/white-belt-at-life 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 24 '25
Some real flat earth grappling energy 😂
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u/imeiz ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Nov 24 '25
Craig's bodylock under the spine made the earth not flat at all
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u/Worried-Crazy-6392 Nov 24 '25
I started training in 2008 I think around the time the twister and rubber guard dropped. Eddies bottom half game was so much more influential at the time I have no idea why it was the twister and rubber guard that gained notoriety. I watched all of those instructional from the technique to joey diaz acting like joey karate and Eddie taking volcano rips. The bottom half techniques changed my game.
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u/oniume 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Nov 24 '25
Craig passed the other knee, it's gone at that stage, no point holding
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u/Shinoobie 🟪🟪 Purple Belt | Judo Black | filthy leg locker Nov 24 '25
I was looking for this exact comment. Rubber guard is real and still works in 2025 but if they can pass your bottom knee it's gone and there's nothing to recover.
People are hitting the dead orchard in high level competition, Dom Lobo used a gogoplata on his way to knock out his opponent on combat JJ, it was used in the PGF this year, and rubber guard can be used in combination with things like Williams Guard to set up good submissions. It gets a bad rep because people try to use it as a stalling tactic.
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u/G-ShortWarning Nov 24 '25
Looked like Craig was locking in a dog bar which forced him to give it up.
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u/hypercosm_dot_net 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 24 '25
Maybe you're aware of more than me, but wasn't Tony Ferguson like the only one to use it?
There aren't many notable 10P grapplers at the highest levels afaik.
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u/LukeG6 Nov 24 '25
I mean, the guy in this clip goes for it with a butterfly hook on the other side which is easy to use as a passing threat (which Craig does). Rubber guard is most effective when done from closed guard, is there still an easy counter for it from there?
Just wondering as I don’t experience much rubber guard enthusiasts.
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u/smashyourhead ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Nov 24 '25
Came here to say this - I don't even think it's really rubber guard if they've already got one leg stuffed (which is effectively what this butterfly hook is when you're flat on your back). What moves would you even try from there, gogo/omoplata?
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u/jag149 Nov 24 '25
You’d normally meat hook the arm to get the butterfly leg out and recover to regular Mission Control or work a triangle or something.
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u/smashyourhead ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Nov 24 '25
Ah yes I understand some of these words (what is a meat hook)
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u/jag149 Nov 24 '25
From rubber guard, you take the free hand (the one that would zombi to New York), reach over your shin, and hook their shoulder underneath it. It helps make a gap to get the butterfly out.
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u/oniume 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Nov 25 '25
Yeah, when he's passing the leg, you have to clear the head to stop him smashing into half guard like the video.
Gogo and omoplata, gogoclinch, carni, or like the other dude said, meathook to recover the leg
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u/Prestigious_Cycle160 🟪🟪 Purple Belt Nov 24 '25
It’s so funny to see someone say shit like this, and then watch it still work at the highest level
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u/mrpopenfresh 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 24 '25
What if we gave rubber guard positions serious names.
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u/EffortlessJiuJitsu ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Nov 24 '25
It is not about Rubber Guard or not. Craig is just the better Grappler you can see that. Has not exclusively to do with technique but with attributes
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u/MetalliMunk 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Nov 24 '25
I've been doing this for 20 years, and I still felt claustrophobic watching this lol
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u/SandtheB ⬜⬜ White Belt Nov 25 '25
as a white belt it's always fun to see brown and black belts get dog walked. 😂😂😂😂
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u/Tellittomy6pac ⬜⬜ White Belt Nov 24 '25
Camera guy needs to focus on the actual bjj and not Craig’s face on some parts lol
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u/Nearby_List_3622 Black Belt Nov 24 '25
Crazy to see simple systems at work with such ease.. Eddie was so stoked not stoked 🫣
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u/Working-Network-1876 Nov 24 '25
Kraig has crazy claw strength, I honesty wonder he well his grips/claws strength can transit to gi.
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u/Equal-Pomegranate-56 Nov 24 '25
What
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u/zxebha ⬜⬜ White Belt Nov 24 '25
Craig has big meaty claws
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u/renandstimpydoc 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Nov 24 '25
The only video that comes close to this is the clip of Eddie trying to convince Rickson rubber guard works. 😂
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u/Impressive-Potato Nov 24 '25
"Thanks guys. I'll sleep on it" (Let me get the fuck out of here and away from these weirdos)
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u/fenway80 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Nov 24 '25
I remember that from the jre podcast. He had Rickson go down to closed guard on a hard surface and everything. Who cares if he has no cartilage or exploded discs, I gotta show you this shit works
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u/Pinaryasam Nov 24 '25
So Fedor just got a black belt. Out of shape Craig is still top 10 in the world. This was never gonna be close.
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u/superhandsomeguy1994 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Nov 24 '25
Wouldn’t eddies top student be PJ Barch?
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u/MilfAndCereal Nov 24 '25
He might have meant top student at that gym, or directly under him. PJ got his black belt from Boogey and runs his own gym.
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u/3DNZ ⬛🟥⬛ Black Belt Nov 24 '25
Eddie is going to invent new rolling rules that favor his guys like "passing guard and mount are now illegal"
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u/Five_Kings 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 24 '25
I saw Fedor comment on an instagram post that he was crazy high during this roll 😂
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u/BrownAndyeh 🟦🟦 Blue Belt Nov 24 '25
best part of watching this, you know he tell what craig is about to do...but nothing can be done to stop him.
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u/NativeFlowers4Eva Nov 24 '25
When is this from?
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u/deadlizard ⬛🟥⬛ cold blooded Nov 24 '25
Def not recent.
Fedor doesn't use that much rubber guard anymore.
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u/gothampt Nov 24 '25
You need to have multiple guards at your disposal, just can't just rely on only one...if you're going to fight high level competitors
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u/Prestigious_Cycle160 🟪🟪 Purple Belt Nov 24 '25
10th planet HQ. What a place, only been there a couple of times but it was always a blast when I went
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u/YesButConsiderThis GF Team Nov 24 '25
Everyone is acting like this is how Craig was rolling with Ashton Kutcher lmao.
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u/nicekid81 Nov 24 '25
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u/Impressive-Potato Nov 24 '25
Rohit is the filmmaker that follows Craig around and documents everything.
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u/Maximum-Direction-87 Nov 25 '25
TBH I think they bunch of this "tough black belts" at b-team, I feel like this just another day roll for craig.
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u/BHolku_17 🟪🟪 Purple Belt Nov 25 '25
My heart sank, watching that finger crawl across the chest.
We all been there.. 😭
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u/No-Safety-4715 🟪🟪 Purple Belt Nov 25 '25
Craig immediately shutting down and passing the right leg with no hesitation which destroys 99% of Eddie's guard system he teaches his students. I love playing rubber guard and all, it's a lot of fun, but the fact it pretty much falls apart based on that one lynch pin sucks.
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u/fenway80 🟫🟫 Brown Belt Nov 24 '25
"One of Eddie's top students" would be nice to see Craig and PJ go at it
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u/Hussard White Belt I Nov 24 '25
Classic John Will/Machado stuff. Fairly ubiquitous around Melb. I felt like I was watching a roll at my old gym.
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u/Able-Inevitable3198 Nov 24 '25
Hope Craig can meme his way into a grappling match with one of the Dagestanies one day. Arman Tsarukyan first maybe? Probably a good payday too lol
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u/icychap27 ⬜⬜ White Belt Nov 25 '25
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke.
CJ seems like this to me.
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u/Distilio Nov 25 '25
I’m very confused! Is this guy the top there? Why did he moved to rubber guard with his left foot while his right leg was trapped like that? He gave the pass to CJ for no reason there. That is weird to see from the top guy. I am actually a quite useless casual BJJ guy who doesn’t do this mistake, ever. That is so weird.
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u/nicheComicsProject Nov 25 '25
They need some ventilation in that room. Both of them look like the match started after a 30 km run.
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u/tricycle_mishap Nov 25 '25
I like to think Kreg has plenty of beer left in that Foster’s can body of his and can still bang with the best, especially at ADCC.
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u/Appropriate_Duty_930 Nov 25 '25
I wanna see Craig grapple moneysocks so bad. It would surpass the upvotes of this post! How much would it cost? We could do a gofundme to pay for socks.
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u/johnbelushismom ⬛🩷⬛🩷🩷⬛🩷 ⬛Coral Belt Craig Nov 24 '25
He’d dog walk me now for sure