I love Keenan!!! "Don't be afraid of heelhooks." 14:50 in the vid "If someone gets your heel, just tap, don't even let go to tap just say tap!!!" Keenan You literally just made me afraid of heelhooks!!!
Hi Keenan. Thank you for the excellent video. I have a question: what if instead of the triangle lock-up in the saddle position, your opponent puts his feet together and pinches the knees? (Like a foot prayer position) A lot of the guys in my gym prefer to do that when they are doing the saddle. It seems like that would great impede the 2nd escape you are teaching.
You are asking a real good question dear sir. While second escape is probably the best one for this type of situation, this is one weak ass ashi in the demonstration. If opponents knees are high and tight you will have a lot of trouble passing that leg across. That doesn’t take anything away from this technique. You should do your best to try to set yourself up for the escape, having in mind this is your last ditch as said in the vid. Thing that seemed to work for me was turning so that opponents outside knee falls down below your own knee line.
What if you push his leg with the foot you lifefted over the leg while pushing with your hand. When you break those connected legs does anything open up.
What when you close the figure 4 in the fifty and the opponent attack you the straight ankle to your "free" leg?. you can't roll, you can't open the figure 4, and its a strong position. ???
Now if Toquinho gets you n any of those positions, just tap automatically cause he's gonna take your leg home with him. That's one man you should fear with his leg/ankle locks
@Kennan I am just wondering if this would be considered reaping the knee...? I saw one of your matches where you were in a similar situation and you got DQ'd with a puzzled look on your face.
Inside sankaku/saddle is a reap, not to be used in IBJJF rulesets. Leg can't go from behind and outside opponent's leg past the midpoint of the body "When one of the athletes places his thigh behind the leg of his opponent and passes his calf on top of the opponent's body above the knee, placing his foot beyond the vertical midline of the opponent's body and applying pressure on his opponent's knee from the outside"
I've never seen anyone be able to generate enough force on that leg because it's hard to get it close enough to the body to get a tap on someone decent. That being said the leg lace is right there and then you can and they are really stuck
