Berimbolo

6/10 - Downtown

Berimbolo! Tee hee.

Antone was teaching today, and he asked us what we wanted to go over. I figured since he was the berimbolo expert that I would finally get a chance to learn what all of the fuss was about with the bolo. I've watched vids online and Antone does it to people all the time, but I wasn't sure what portion of it was the berimbolo. I didn't make many friends today, because the class was otherwise comprised of stocky guys that are not fans of going inverted. Sad for them. We did compromise and do a half guard sweep for a portion of class.

1. Double-Guard Pull: Get your R leg between their legs and L leg DLR on their R leg. L hand through your L leg and gripping their R ankle. R hand reaches over and grabs the back of your belt as you invert. If you want to maintain the position for a bit, let go of the grip with your L hand and feed over the top of the back of their near leg and grip their far side pants.

• Roll your head toward their feet to take the back
• Roll your head toward their head to get to mount or at least top half guard

2. Opponent has Combat Stance: With your R hand, grip their R collar and pull them down to your L (their R) as you get the DLR hook and proceed as above.

3. Standing step-in to knee slide: You're in seated guard and opponent is stepping in to pass by gripping the back of your head with their R hand and holding down your knee with their L hand. As they go to sit on their hip on your L side, get the DLR hook and back of belt grip.

4. Half guard sweep (reverse kesa gatame): If opponent has reverse kesa gatame on your L side, grip their L sleeve at the tricep and the back of their L leg with your R hand. Straight-arm both hands and scoot to the L to dump them onto their L shoulder. As soon as their shoulder touches the ground, back roll and you'll end up on top. Maintain grip with your L hand on their L shoulder to keep them from coming up.

Three rolls starting from in someone's guard: Corey, Antone, Julio. Two rolls starting in my guard: Antone and Julio. I might have gotten close to passing Antone's and Julio's guard once. And by close, I mean it took them longer than 30seconds to sweep. :p

One "flow roll" with Dennis. I want to flow roll but unless I'm with a much higher belt it's hard to keep it flowing.