00:35 - Giancarlo is looking to free his foot from 3-4 mount. The defender is turning towards the trapped leg and Giancarlo takes a deep wrap around the neck before freeing his foot and transitioning into a seated katagatame. The defender turns away to alleviate pressure and Giancarlo use it to transition to the back.
00:55 - Giancarlo is working to take the back but the defender is able to prevent the bottom hook from coming in before turning into Giancarlo to escape towards closed guard. Giancarlo uses it to transition into a trap triangle.
01:18 - Giancarlo has a trap triangle from guard. As the defender stands to posture out of the triangle, Giancarlo takes a scoop grip on the leg to transition into K-Guard before quickly entering into back side 50-50. The defender frees their knee so Giancarlo controls the hips and wrestles up taking top position in turtle.
01:29 - Giancarlo is attacking from turtle against a defender who is in 4-point (quad pod.) He takes a thigh pry before using an inside trip to break the defender's near knee down to the mat. He inserts his near hook as the defender tries to roll over his far shoulder. Giancarlo follows looking to take the back. The defender denies the back take but accepts bottom position in 3-4 mount. Giancarlo ended up in that same position from 3-4 mount where he threatened a seated katagatame earlier in the round.
01:55 - From 3-4 mount, Giancarlo takes a head and arm grip. He locks an interesting figure 4 grip that he uses to finish the arm triangle or ruotolotine variation. It looks like this grip makes it hard for the defender to turn away and Giancarlo leans his weight forward towards his head to apply the finish.
03:14 - From RDLR, Giancarlo uses a kiss of the dragon inversion to enter DLR.
03:36 - The top player is inside camping from a split squat against Giancarlo's knee shield. Giancarlo takes a 2 on 1 grip on the near arm so the defender counters with an over back grip. Giancarlo then takes an overback grip of his own to enter octopus guard. He threatens a back roll but it fails and the defender takes top position in the front headlock.
03:56 - Giancarlo is defending from the front headlock with his foot up on the side of the control arm. The attacker goes into a cradle but Giancarlo breaks the grip and sits back to guard to escape. Immediatly, Giancarlo threatens a leg drag so the defender steps his foot up to prevent the back take, allowing Giancarlo to enter into the legs with SLX. Beautiful example of defense to offense and going from the upper body to the lower body.
04:28 - Giancarlo is working his high step passing. He posts on the far shoulder and the far leg before using a front pummel to free his foot and pass the guard.
05:26 - Giancarlo is working to pass from chest to chest half guard and the defender sits up looking for octopus guard. Giancarlo steps over the head to flatten them out to defend against octopus guard.
05:46 - Giancarlo is working to pass from chest to chest half guard with just a crossface. The defender is able to off balance him to recover his guard and enter outside ashi before passing the leg over to 50-50.
07:11 - Giancarlo is attacking from turtle with a seatbelt and a straight knee block. He throws in a kosoto hook and breaks the defender down to the mat before inserting his bottom hook and entering a cross body ride.
07:41 - Giancarlo is working to take the back from cross body ride. The defender frees his arm and turns away enough to bring his other arm across the hips of Giancarlo to escape the back.
07:52 - Giancarlo defends the body lock pass with an overhook and enters the clamp. He controls the passer's wrist before entering into a trap triangle.
08:11 - Giancarlo is working to finish the triangle from guard but the defender sits down and crosses his feet over the chest of Giancarlo to escape as he reaps to enter inside ashi with a scoop grip.
08:41 - Giancarlo is attacking from reverse x-guard. The defender tires to defend with a front step but Giancarlo gets ahold of the secondary leg as he switches to SLX to knock the defender down to his hips.
09:12 - The guard passer is working to loose pass but Giancarlo retains his guard right into a tripod sweep to off balance the guard passer to their hips.
09:32 - The passer is inside camping from a split squat against a knee shield. He drops his knee to the mat as he sprawls to smash the legs together. He then pummels in a butterfly hook before passing to the other side, using a reverse leg weave to keep the guard player's knees facing away as he settles into side control.
09:46 - The top player is in side control with chest to back connection and a figure 4 head and arm (gift wrap.) He throws in his top hook and uses a chair sit looking to take the back. Giancarlo prevents the top hook from coming in and turns to his knees to escape. The attacker then switches to a top lock from guard looking to attack an arm bar
10:09 - The attacking is working an arm bar from a top lock and Giancarlo is stacking to defend. Giancarlo is able to pin the torso leg down to escape.
10:23 - Giancarlo is working to pass from half guard. He clears the guard player's cross shoulder post before taking an overback grip (climb the body.) The defender turns in to their knees resulting in the front headlock.
10:28 - Giancarlo is attacking from the front headlock. The defender threatens to escape by going into a locked double leg but Giancarlo rolls to the side to maintain top position in the front headlock.
10:55 - From 1-4 guard, Giancarlo kani basami's into cross ashi with double trouble.
11:46 - From top cross ashi with double trouble, Giancarlo splits the legs with his head before getting heel exposure on the primary leg and finishing a belly down inside heel hook.
