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This is my go-to knee on belly counter. It worked for me from white to brown belts. I learned it from watching one of your videos where you sparred with all of the attendees of a seminar. Oss 🤙
I'm new to this channel, but I gotta say Keenan (not sure if Keenan is actually gonna see this), but I appreciate watching the student examples after your instruction. So many instructional videos only show the concept in its ideal form and not the different variations that can happen in a scramble of a real scenario.
I just came to say I was impressed by how well this worked. I always had trouble getting out of this particular pin. I just watched the video today, and managed to do it twice during practice, didn't even drill! Thanks man!
Is that guy for real? Blonde man bun, handle-bar stashe, and gold chain. I think he is also wearing a red wrestling singlet under his gi? To each his own, but that's hilarious.
This technique works ridiculously well. I learned it before seeing this video but what a great reminder with tons of little details to add in. Depending on how they land you can even enter into the legs for a heel hook.
At first I was concerned about the darce choke , but then you showed using the opposite arm to push the knee. Will definitely try to incorporate this technique. Thanks!!!
New to the channel but I love your instructional videos. I have no training and have used this move on someone who is over 60lbs heavier then me and knows a lot about jiu jitsu. Caught him right off guardlol. He didn't believe I've never done any training before lol.
Get this twice on Monday! I didn't push the far knee, so perhaps that means I didn't use the best of technique because I kind of just did the second part of the technique but I'm sure it would be more effective for my position and exertion of strength perspective. Thanks so much for this one! I looked super smart ;-)
Definitely subscribed. I tried escaping a Knee on Belly and ended up with my ribs bent and torn rib cartilage. I weigh 170 and my opponent weighed 225. I tried shrimping out on the opposite side where his knee was planted and I didn't complete the shrimp or the Hip Escape. My opponent ended up digging his knee in my rib cavity and bending my ribs and tearing the cartilage around them.
@@bigchief4052 I'm not sure why you had chest pains if the knee was on your stomach. Funny I had the same feeling regarding chest pains, but I was rolling with a heavy weight and had his shoulder on my chest on side control. Anyways, thanks for your comment my Jiu Jitsu Brother!........... OSS 👊😎👍
@@mike8984ify I finally submitted him. I just learned his ways and avoided the knee on belly with my life. I love grappling with heavier guys, although I know it comes with a price.
Oh- My God! I tried this today and sweeped e v e r y b o d y (just high hitebelts and low bluebelts i was rollin with) with it... Im a totally new whitebelt and it worked like a charm. God that was such a great feel. Ty for it
This was a great refresher for me. Haven't looked for this type of move in a few years. Is seems like the move Keenan is showing is essentially a transition from KOB to smashed saddle, and then a roll from smashed saddle into either (a standing open guard pass Or any desired leg lock position [like securing the saddle/ 4-11/ honey hole, or whatever y'all call that leg entanglement position]. Can anyone confirm or refute?
Question - was trying to use this on and my opponent switched from putting pressure on me to using his hands to base wide and high, preventing me from flipping him over even though I had momentum. What did I likely do wrong?
So i ended up on this video, cuz i was looking for way to escape, if someone got both their knees on top of my shoulders, its happened to me and i felt like i couldnt do anything untill they let me up, does anyone have any kind of advice?
The only problem I see with this is you have to be careful reaching with the top arm because of the straight arm lock with their armpit on your elbow, but I guess there is a defense to everything it just depends on who is on top of their game in that particular match.
Not impossible, but the knee he's holding is the critical one uke would need to move over his shoulder to arm bar. So it would be a serious, low percentage struggle.
If this is executed without the posturing there doesn't seem to be an issue but, when you need to posture up onto your elbow for that tuck and roll, are you not susceptible to a crucifix since technically their leg is already wrapped on the close side arm?
@@rockguytiger2703 For sure. Definitely looks solid when Keenan hits it. Obviously that's with the mileage he has behind it. I was just trying to go through the different scenarios to prepare for some counters.
Any time I get caught in knee on belly I can't get out until they decide to switch positions/submit me. Been doing jiu-jitsu for about 5-6 months, and I got out of it today with absolute ease on my first attempt today. I cant believe it lol
Sick move. Question though...when I neon belly guys and they even move that outside arm away from their side....I dive for a kimura grip like my life depends on it spin around to north south and proceed to rip their arm off. Is that not a danger doing this move?
I think that since you're framing on the far leg, that prevents the saddle/411. Also you trap their leg so they can't pull it out easily until you let go of your own knee
Technically you can rotate your body(by walking it)way in the beginning and then bring the leg behind, or your arm through, and do the funk roll. Lolol
This is all predicated on the fact that the opponent's KOB isn't pinning you so hard that you can't actually turn in, isn't it? What if the pinning pressure is keeping you completely flat?
In that case you would probably try something else to get them to move (i.e. grabbing a limb/collar, fainting an explosive movement, etc.) Once they move, even an inch, that's your chance to adjust yourself and setup your escape.
If the opponent's is on your right side, post your left arm (stiff-arm) on their stomach or belt (below their sternum; too high and you expose yourself to armbars), grab their right tricep and bridge to your right to loosen the position up. The two grips need to be set up simultaneously with the bridge, not slowly one-by-one. Against people who have never seen this before, you will end up on top. More experienced opponents will immediately take their weight off and shift it to their other leg, giving you room to recover with some other technique (shrimp, Keenan's move, turtle, etc). Marcelo Garcia was *very* good at this, although you never saw it in comp because I don't think anyone ever put him in knee on belly. Remember, knee-on-belly is probably the hardest of all positions to establish for 3 seconds (assuming two experts of equal size, equal skill, etc). Even a blue belt can learn to reliably escape a black belt's KOB within 3 seconds (same size, etc) with maybe a month or two of focused drilling. The same cannot be said of mount, side control, back control, etc. KOB is simply not mechanically good for pinning; it's good for forcing the bottom guy to move and open up, and it's good for scoring advantages under IBJJF rules, but you can't realistically expect to hold people there unless you're way bigger than them, or they're exhausted, or they don't know how to escape. It's also why you almost never see KOB established in black belt competition (when it happens, it's usually because of exhaustion, strength difference, etc), and why it's also very rare in MMA unless it's against the cage.
I like this. My arms are short though and everyone at my gym is bigger than me. So pushing the far knee might prove hard. Then again getting my knee under the butt might be easier too.
