I'm pretty confident that the uke isn't a BJJ guy. I didn't recognize any of that as sound BJJ technique for passing guard. I'd be willing to guess that he's not well trained in sambo either, as Emin exposes his ankles and there's no attempt to work knee or ankle submissions.
The first part of that video was essentially open guard. Emin is working open guard against someone trying to dive around his legs. Open guard is simply a label for the position. Emin's legs are in between himself and the opponent. A BJJ guy wouldn't pass guard without controlling the ankles or if grips were available, using pants to control the knees. Slapping and swatting the legs in an attempt to bull rush isn't a controlled guard pass.
Here's one version of an open guard pass. JJ Machado does two things that I think are important and relevant to this discussion. He controls the opponent's legs and he maintains strong base throughout the pass.
The difference between the above technique and the attempts to pass guard by the uke in Emin's video is significant. If I can't control the legs, I'm not going to get around them. What I would never do, however, is surrender my base so easily by attempting to dive through my opponent's legs. Slapping his foot doesn't count.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtchJFlXeRo&feature=related
The above video demonstrates control of the knees. Where in the first video, JJ Machado controls first the ankles, in the second, because there are grips available, he effectively pins the legs down to control them in order to move around them.
I would invite anyone to do a search on the internet or any instructional anywhere for open guard pass in BJJ. I would be very surprised if you find one that doesn't involve first controlling the opponent's legs.
What's interesting to me is that Emin's demonstrations have more in common with BJJ than the "grappler" uking for him. He uses all of his limbs, until he is in control he keeps his legs in between himself and his opponent, and he works first for positional dominance. Position before submission. The chain punching is all WC, but the grappling he does before that is just grappling.
As I said elsewhere, I think the keys to success with that grappling are in how it's trained. I am not saying that the techniques demonstrated by Emin wouldn't work. What I am saying is that it's hard to tell from the video because I don't know how the average WC guy trains the techniques, and I haven't seen them demonstrated against sound grappling.
The only thing I can really disagree with in this post is that somehow BJJ is easy to learn. Considering that it takes on average 10 years to acheive black belt, it's up there among the more difficult. If it were easy to learn, there'd be a lot less bad BJJ out there being taught in McDojos trying to jump on the MMA gravy train.
