Understanding the Crab Ride ( w Nick Salles)

For the last week I have had my buddy Nick Salles visiting from Marcelo Garcia training with me here in Gothenburg, Sweden. Nick has a really deep understanding of the Crab Ride and Berimbolo backtake systems and I felt this was a great opportunity to share some really key details and concepts from the Crab Ride position with you guys.
After the video we started discussing training methods and ways to better develop understanding in the position and just some training philosophy in general.
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[@phobowl]

Nice. I’ve been playing crab ride for about a year. Thx for rounding out my knowledge. Btw old school bjj guys having a seizure watching this. Haha

[@MortoBJJ]

Such an awesome details about the crab ride and reactions!!! Would be so awesome if you posted a video about entries to crab ride (de la riva, bolo,foot wipe counter etc etc )

[@J0EJ0E11]

YES plz!!

[@diabolic42090]

i usually lose the crab ride even against less skilled partners so this is super helpful

[@JonThomasBJJ]

foulfortune Yeah it’s really frustrating because the level of effort to defend it is so much lower than to attack it, but once you figure out the technical changes then it’s super effective.

[@lylaster]

Nick has beautiful Jiujitsu. Got to roll with him once. What I remember from that roll is that if he feels you have a "weak side" with your guard, he's going to exploit it!

[@ericabrom]

Hey, it's Nick and Danny! These guys are awesome! They came down with Gianni to train with us at Odyssey Bjj in Atlanta, GA. OSS!

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Eric Abrom Super Technical and also super nice guys.

[@fordguyfordguy]

Jon - extremely helpful, thank you.

[@stantoncochran536]

Came back to this today and it did not disappoint 👍🏼

[@ShoMilanello]

Incredible. This is exactly what I wanted.

[@g8eo3]

Thanks for the valuable insights on the Crab Ride AND on how to train in order to help become familiar with a position!

[@jg1000c]

Very good, motivated to learn this.

[@swoopingeagle3942]

I'd love to see more finishes!

[@hassanesdaile]

3 of my favorite ❤💪🏽✊🏽💯🙏🏽

[@karwengloo361]

Thank u guys so much for this! Much appreciated

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Kar Weng Loo No problem thank you for watching!

[@jucalabria8806]

Great video, and super explained! Thanks, it will increase my game 🦀 🙏 oss

[@martinandreasson8409]

Great video 👍 Thanks!

[@JotnarBJJ]

thanks to Nick Salles for the masterclass really well put together ;)

[@robertshin]

Excellent use of vocabulary my man!

[@efromme]

This is great ! Always wondered these black and white details about the crab

[@JonThomasBJJ]

efromme Yeah it’s great having some really knowledgeable people on this topic who can actually break it all down into a digestible overview. Has been great working with Nick and Daniel the last week.

[@roothchildstgermain5221]

Nick is 🤯🤯

[@Xl3th4lxv3nomx]

nice details!

[@MrSinusu]

There are too many stuff to learn in Jiujitsu. Man, I've never heard of this thing. Still, if I meet a guy using this skill, I definitely would have tosurrender my back to him without knowing what's happening to me. Darn it.

[@phobowl]

시늬수 crab ride is pretty modern so don’t stress if you’ve never heard of it. It’s the next step after being comfortable w berimbolo

[@bekondikku5363]

Literally everything I want

[@JonThomasBJJ]

愛B ē k o n d i k k u Happy to deliver!

[@chunyinchu4810]

Thanks for posting a vid with a lot of sweet details. Would be great if you could make a vid on how to get into the crab ride position.

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Chun Yin Chu This will be coming soon with Daniel Maira next!!

[@triggeredmediaco]

I’ve watched this like 20 times this week, great stuff! Any tips for maintaining the bottom crab ride hook?

[@kirklandfoodwrap]

This is incredible stuff Jon! I would love to see a good breakdown of the “x position” that you see guys make with their legs in the crab ride too. There seems to be different options depending on which leg is on top of the other in this “x position.” I’ve never seen a systematized breakdown on all the various options so that’d be amazing.

[@AbsolutoRomania]

As far as I understand it, let's say you put the x on his right leg. If your left leg is on top of your right leg (right foot and shin connected to his inner part of the knee), than you create a torque on his knee to the outside which is easier than to go for the twister hook. If right leg is on top of the leg (left foot and shin connected to his inner part of the knee) than it's easier to go for the leg drag (on his left side). Hope it makes sense...

[@user-uk9er5vw4c]

this brown belt has a very good communication and bjj vision. He might be a great teacher

[@MarkLee-bb1gs]

thank you for this video, i just subscribed to Nick Salles's youtube channel!

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Mark Lee Nick is the man so much knowledge!!

[@JuanBot]

I have a problem right now where the person pushes my shoulders and they try to boot scoot away at the same time,even if i have the pant grip, creating a big separation from my hips to their hips. Anyway to remedy this? I'm pretty short so when they seperate so much I can't get the lapel grip or the shoulder grip. I usually just come up for the leg drag. Thanks for the video btw!

[@sammal953]

Can you please make a video on crab ride entries?

[@alintampa]

seems like there might be a way to grab this position from top turtle or when someone inverts on you

[@lawrencefenton2075]

Dude in the back casually sitting like Mikey Musumeci

[@mexicanachulax3]

Still feel like my pea brain cannot comprehend lol found myself being the crab and getting ridden in comp lol. Trying to figure out what the heck was going on

[@supern0is349]

whats interesting is that the position doesnt require a huge amount of flexibility as most people think

[@aarondomsky8203]

Crazy amount of mobility isn't required; however the more flexible you are the more efficient the berimbolo becomes.

[@groundkarate]

wow thanks for long video 😄

[@JonThomasBJJ]

권혁일 Thanks for watching, was gonna make it shorter but decided if people don’t want to watch it then they can turn it off I would rather over deliver to the people who really want a lot of content.

[@groundkarate]

@@JonThomasBJJ I always want more infomation so long video is better ! thanks Jon

[@jorginhonelson2402]

6:05- Musumeci ali no canto

[@cedobn5198]

But HOW do you get in this position is my true question ahahah Anyway thanks for all the details, perfect as always !!

[@JonThomasBJJ]

El Matador Gonna do a video soon on a bunch of different set ups form guard, then also a video on a bunch of different set ups from the top position.

[@bradbettis9210]

Is danny just doing the mikey squat back there as an easter egg. or does he just also do the mikey squat naturally?

[@JonThomasBJJ]

Hahaha yeah those dudes are always in the Mikey squat lol!

[@brasilgangstha]

portugues subtitles pls!!!

[@TheGrapplingNinja]

Why would u ever invert> pivot and dive