Berimbolo

Eddie,

We gotta work this into the system. Outside leg rolling. This is the shit Rafa will be using come ADCC.

Berimbolo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHikS...eature=related

Look at how much gi grips he's using... That might be a bitch to translate it to no gi...

That's what love handles are for. Gotta tiger claw grip the fat of their skin for that no gi stuff. :)

Rafa's Berimbolo works just fine no-gi.

That's not de la riva guard?

Looks like it could def work nogi but def not as effective as with the gi.

Spiral and de la riva guard is already being injected into the system as well as 50/50, thanks to Jason Eisner, Nathan Mechina and Eric Ramey. It's gonna take a little while tho for me to master those styles, but believe me, I'm working on them :)

Its just like getting to the truck from side control except your inverted. Dope.

that melts my mind

The Berimbolo is just one of many sweeps of of the De La Riva.

Here is Aryzinho using nothing but De La Riva and Spiral Guard to win at the highest levels of No-Gi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYH4sfCRiNM

You can hit this all over the place, any time you can go to the outside. Berimbolo!

I really enjoy a lot of the techniques and innovations that have come in nogi from the De La Riva and Reverse De La Riva positions. I think there are a lot of promising inversion/sweep/backtake options, as shown by Mendes/Cocco/Terra; however, I've never seen anyone hit that particular sweep Mendes is using nogi. I've seen him invert and come back on the single-leg, or invert and take the back going around the outside or up the middle (between the legs).

But, if anyone has video of that sweep being used successfully nogi, I'd love to see it.