knee on belly escapes Flashcards
how do we perfrom the knee-on-belly single leg escspe?
-we frame agasint his knee (the one on our torso) so he cant just slide over into mount
- we place one knee on his buttocks hips and the other leg is planted on the floor
- we then perform a bridging action with our planted foot while we perform a bumping/kneeing action with out other leg on his hips
- this will bump him forward over our head and get his hands on the mat
- now we capture his knee-on-belly leg with our top hand, overhooking it as we either shrimp onto our side or pendulum onto our side
- we back heist up to our knees with a wrap around grip around the back of his near side leg, cupping the insdie of his knee
- our head comes up , we’re not looking down or keeping poor posture so we get collapsed of he sprawls
- from here our outside hand (the one not hooking his near side leg at the knee) reaches through to grab his near side foot (see pic)
- we then pull his heel through from under him and he will fall back to the mat
- we will end up in a sort of over-under passing postiion
what key movements do we use to make the single-leg escape work from knee on belly?
first we use a combination of a bridge off of one foot, while simultaneously using our other leg to bump him froward, using our knee on the otter part of the opponents hip (see image in question card)
then once this bridge/bump action has bumped him forward and got his hand on the mat, we must then turn on our side (using a shrimp or pendulum legs) and bring his knee in front of our sternum then we :
back heist to our knees, where we scissor our legs to help us get from off our side and onto our knees (see image on this card)
now we are in good position to use our head posture to circle our opponent down to the mat
What are the steps to the ankle-trap escape from knee-on-belly?
firstly we block our opponent’s knee-on knee with our elbow,preventting him from sliding over to mount, then we:
- grap our partner’s foot with our inside hand (the other hand, not the one of the arm we’re using to block their knee
- then we use our bridge-bump action where our outside leg (the leg on the side of the elbow we’re using to block his knee) plants on the floor to bridge up, and our other knee comes to the buttocks/hips of our opponent and simultaneously bumps him forward strongly to get him to base over our head and get his hands on the mat above us
- now our leg that we used to bump him can overhook his ankle that we’re grippin above the achilles tendon
- now we traingle our legs bringing our outside leg (the one that bridged) over our leg thats overhooking the ankle
- now we turn our legs and everything inwards, onto our side, facing the opponent
- now our outside hand (the knee-blocking hand) reaches around our opponent’s waist and gets a tigh-waist grip, on the belt if in gi.
- we switch our grip with our legs on his ankle so our top leg is now overhooking his ankle and our bottom leg is free to plant and be used to reverse shrimp
- our bottomand now becomes a scoop-grip under the hamstring of his basing leg
- we perfrom a reverse shrimp with our bottom leg to bring his two knees together, narrowing his base of support
- now we shrimp to take him with us as we go flat to our back with his weight over us, and shrimp again to take him over
when perfroming the ankle-trap escape from knee on belly, what do we do if we can’t get a scoop grip on our opponent’s leg, as he is basing too far out with the leg?
in this circumstance (if in the gi) we can grip the gi pants on the inside of his knee to allow us to stil complete the move
- now we still perfrom a reverse shrimp to bring his knees together, narrowin his base of support
- then perfrom a normal shrimp to take him over our centreline as we go flat on our back, then shrimp again to take him over while keeping the grip on his gi pants and the original tight waist grip to steer him over as you shrimp him over to the mat
why is the detail of blocking his knee with our elbow so important, when an opponent has us in knee-on-belly?
this is imprtant to prevent our opponent from driving his knee over to the mat and taking mount on us, while we capture the ankle.
now once we have captured his ankle, even if his knee now gets to the mat it doesnt matter as we can now perfrom an elbow escape, because we prevented the knee getting to the mat before we ran out of time to capture the ankle
