Establish a strong De La Riva hook with sleeve and belt/pant grips, off-balancing the opponent backward.
Invert underneath, rotating toward their hips as you switch hooks and control the far leg.
Come up on the back-take, chase the second hook, and finish to back control.
The berimbolo was built by flexible, explosive young athletes and taught as a gift of the body. Mikey Musumeci rebuilt it as a machine — a sequence of stable checkpoints from both De la Riva and reverse De la Riva that a stiff, slow, or small grappler can still ride to the back. This is how the sport's most acrobatic sweep became its most teachable.
The berimbolo existed before Rafael and Guilherme Mendes. What the brothers did, under Ramon Lemos and later inside their own Costa Mesa academy, was turn a scramble into a system — a de la Riva-fed, back-taking loop reliable enough to decide featherweight World finals against opponents who knew exactly what was coming.