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Which leads to the next question (again, from someone who only knows the berimbolo from videos); given the number of excellent BJJ competitors who also do MMA, you'd expect them to be eager to try in MMA a technique which, from what I've read in this thread, is so successful in BJJ that the rules had to be changed to discourage it.
That they haven't been trying it in the cage suggests they haven't had success with it in MMA training. Your point that they're capable of other techniques (and so presumably using them) suggests those other techniques are more useful for MMA; what is it about the berimbolo that diminishes it from extremely effective in BJJ to marginally effective in MMA?
Is the ability to grip pants (as opposed to cup/grabbing the leg) that important in the technique?
Ironically enough, this thread has interested me in the technique; next time I'm teaching (obviously throws/takedowns not groundwork) at the BJJ club I'll ask the instructor for a bit of a lesson in it.
I was more talking about DLR sweeping in reality, as I was responding to the guy who suggests he'd just stomp on your torso. I think the berimbolo can work, but is not as suitable a replace in MMA as coming up for a single leg in that situation, for example.
The issue in MMA with it's effectiveness relies on the grips. If you can grab the belt you can forcefully pull someone down to the mat, without that grip you're relying on using a wrist grab and the strength of your DLR hook pulling him down as well as your free leg stamping on the mat.