Key Takeaways
- A 4-part BJJ instructional offering a wrestling staple to deal with super defensive players.
- It features a counter-attacking game based on controlling and attacking from the crab ride.
- Offers a new take on attacking the back through the lower back chasing concept.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8 out of 10.
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A bit of wrestling spices any grappling sport up, and nothing can bring a bit of mayhem into a roll as attaching to someone and riding out the craziness. While wrestling offers many different rides to get and stay on the mats, the crab ride is the one that fits BJJ perfectly.
The idea behind crab rides is not too complicated, but figuring out how to use them live, especially as counterattacks does take some time. The Countering with Crab Ride Anthony Budion DVD offers a sensible alternative, providing you with the chewed up and organized information you need to introduce this wrestling classic into your Jiu-Jitsu game.
How to Beat Modern BJJ Defense
If you ever rolled against one of the folks using modern defensive BJJ systems, particularly the turtle, you know how annoying Jiu-Jitsu can get. The BJJ world needed something like that to wake it up from the idea that any type of attack would work against the turtle by default.
That said, the modern turtle is far from unbeatable, it just takes work, and you might mess it up. It’s what grappling is all about anyway. So if you want to beat a really good turtle player, turn to the source that helped provide the turtle information in the first place – wrestling.
Rides, and in particular, ankle rides remain my favorite way of breaking down even the most stubborn turtle player, but you’re definitely not limited only to them. The Countering with Crab Ride Anthony Budion DVD offers what is arguably the safest and most offense-rich method to beat the turtle and a bunch of other defensive BJJ puzzles.
Iron Horse Head Coach Anthony Budion
I must say, I am slightly confused by Anthony Budion’s credentials, as I’ve never seen someone e a black belt under two different people. Don’t get me wrong; I am not disputing them; I am just curious.
Budion is a legit black belt in BJJ, proven by his record as a coach and competitor. He is a black belt under Romaro ‘Jacare’ Calvalcanti and a black belt under Sean Applegate. Antony has been representing Alliance BJJ, even though Applegate is one of the best 10th Planet Jiu-JItsu representatives. I’m a bit confused, and I don’t like linens anyway, so let’s just say Budion is a black belt who knows what he’s talking about.
With a rich history of service (Air Force, FDNY, NYPD) Budion is now the head coach of Iron Horse BJJ, an academy operating out of Alpharetta, Georgia. Holding a rank of 3rd-degree black belt at the moment, he offers a practical, efficiency-focused syle of grappling. The Countering with Crab Ride Anthony Budion DVD is the perfect representation of what’ he’s about.
Countering with Crab Ride Anthony Budion DVD Review
In the Countering with Crab Ride Anthony Budion DVD you get No-Gi material divided into four volumes, each with a different length. The total running time of the instructional is around the two-hour mark, and it is applicable to people of all belt ranks:
Part 1 – Half & Full Crab Rides
Crab rides can be deceptively difficult to master, just like most super-basic-looking wrestling moves. Having had to figure them out myself, I think that the Countering with Crab Ride Anthony Budion DVD offers a great way to approach them in a systematic manner.
In the first volume, Budion goes over the basics, starting at the half crab position, which you’ll find yourself into a lot more often than the full crab. It also offers plenty more transitions, such as stacking, twister hooks, and ankle stomps, all of which feature in the DVD.
The full crab position is all about attaching yourself to the opponent’s hips, with your arms playing several different roles, depending on the requirements. Anthony does an excellent job at deconstructing crab ride positioning, end goals, and common issues, including the most fundamental aspect of the position – rolling with the opponent.
He introduces a concept not many people consciously use in BJJ, which is chasing the lower back. It was a first for me as well, to hear it pretend like that and it definitely changed the way I approach attacking the back and turtle.
Part 2 – Riding Out of Leg Locks
Part two of the Countering with Crab Ride Anthony Budion DVD is particularly useful in modern BJJ as it provides a way to deal with leg locks that not many people use. What you might have seen from some B-team members and looks a lot like scrambling is very intentional crab riding.
Anthony goes over a bunch of different Ashi positions, explaining how you can use leg levers to enter half and full crab rides and use his system from there. You can expect to see lots of Bolos, inversions, leg hooks, and spins in this part of the instructional.
Budion also offers a few interesting finishes, sticking to leg locks such as the Junny lock and Aoki lock. Towards the end of the volume, he brings common inversion guards into the mix suc has the K-guard and RDLR.
Part 3 – Crab X-Guard & Back Takes
Back attacks, featuring both the standard version and Anthony’s lower back chasing are the primary focus in this part of the Anthony Budion Crab Ride DVD. Sticking to the idea of using guards to set up crab rides from the previous volume, Budion builds by going over how the X-guard is the best position to get easy crab rides from.
The attention here is on guards that place you underneath your opponent’s hips, so the 50/50 also makes an appearance, allowing for even more inversions to the back. Finally, Budion connects heel exposure from these guards to opportunities for crab rides, bringing everything together.
Part 4 – Diving Through
The last part of the Countering with Crab Ride Anthony Budion DVD looks at a fundamental movement that is crucial for crab rides to work. Given the dynamic nature of the move, your ability to stay attached and adapt to situations in rolling depends a lot on your ability to perform the dive through.
It’s easier than it appears, and Budion does a stellar job at explaining it, as well as how it relates to everything already covered in the instructional, from leg locks to Berimbolos and the Hammerdown.
Wrestling For BJJ
You already know you need to include more wrestling in your BJJ. In the past couple of ADCCs and of course, the CJI, wrestling was the determining factor between winning and losing among the best grapplers in the world. And it’s not just the standing exchanges I am talking about.
Craig Jones and the B-team have been very open to including mat returns, rides, and wrestling-inspired scrambles into their game. Danhaer’s New Wave has been using wrestling from the knees for who knows how long now, and Eddie Bravo has built his entire system drawing on inspiration from wrestling’s ground exchanges.
Some of the moves that are staples in wrestling offer really great ways of improving control over otherwise difficult-to-hold positions. Nelsons, shoulder pins, cowcatchers, and lately, crab rides, all have a huge role to play in modern BJJ. The countering with Crab Ride Anthony Budion DVD shed more light on one of these key wrestling tactics.
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Ride it Out!
When you can’t get back in BJJ terms, you can still stay behind your opponent and control them, arguably even better than using the hooks/harness combo. The best part is that you can actually use the crab ride even in situations when the back is not exposed, just like the Countering with Crab Ride Anthony Budion DVD demonstrates. If you’ve never done this type of grappling, you’ll definitely benefit a lot from this instruction.
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