Knee On Belly Escapes Flashcards
What is the first action you should take toward escaping knee on belly, based on your opponents posture/base? And what are the steps?
We need to get our opponent’s hands to the mat:
•put your inside knee (closest to opp) on your opponent’s hip/glute
•perform a bumping single leg bridge
(BRIDGE WITH OUTSIDE LEG, BUMP WITH INSIDE LEG)
to bump opponent forward, forcing his hands to the mat
What are the steps to the ‘single-leg’ variation of the Knee-on-belly Escape?
From the bottom of knee on belly:
•block the opponent’s knee from getting mount with your elbow on the outside of his knee, keeping your forearm close to your body
•perform a bridge&bump to get the opponents hands to the mat- BRIDGE WITH OUTSIDE LEG ON FLOOR + SIMULTANEOUSLY BUMP FORWARD WITH YOUR INSIDE KNEE ON THE OPP’S HIP/GLUTE
• Wrap your outside arm/elbow around the back of your opponent’s ‘knee-on’ knee
•perform a good shrimp out to put the opp’s knee in front of your sternum with your wrap around grip in place
•back heist (scissor up) to your knees, basing tall under your Opp with your free hand
•perform a CUT-BACK motion by taking your ear to your opponent’s far hip and ‘turning the corner’ using your head to drive him backwards and around to the mat
•as you are cutting back if you can pull the heel of your opponent’s ‘trapped’ leg through, you can pull
It to help finish the cut back
KEEP HOLD OF THE LEG AND GO INTO OVER-UNDER PASS TO PREVENT OPPONENT REGUARDING
What are the steps to the Ankle-trap variation of knee on belly?
From the bottom of knee on belly:
•block the opponent’s knee from getting mount with your elbow on the outside of his knee, keeping your forearm close to your body
•Take your inside hand and grab the sole of your Opp’s foot (the ‘knee-on-belly’ foot)
•perform a small bridge&bump forward to get opp’s hands to the mat and move him forward
• with your legs, Lock a figure4 around the foot your holding ( if opp is on your right, your holding his foot with your right hand, bring your right leg over his ankle, then your left leg over your right ankle to triangle/figure4)
•turn your knees outside towards the floor, knees pointing to the ground, feet pointing upwards (invert your knees)
• you should now be on your side
• with your bottom arm get a scoop grip behind your opponent’s second leg behind his knee/hamstring.
ALSO USE THIS SAME ELBOW TO BLOCK IN FRONT OF THE GROUNDED KNEE
(Get scoop grip if knee is close, PANT GRIP IF KNEE IS FAR AWAY)
• with your top hand reach around Opp’s back and gets rear belt grip
•now switch the triangle on the opponents trapped ankle (left leg over Opp’s ankle, right leg over your left ankle)
•perform a reverse shrimp with your bottom leg to bring his 2 knees together
• shrimp normally to bring your opponent on top of you as you realign on your back
• the quickly perform a normal shrimp to tilt your opponent over to his back
What is the first thing you should do when an opponent gets knee on belly?
Block his knee from sliding straight into mount, use your elbow on the outside of the knee, keeping your forearm/hand close to your body
What do we do if the opponent gets 3/4 mount after we initially figure4 his ankle when attempting the ankle-trap escape from knee on belly? (Gets his knee to the floor over you, after we first trap his ankle)
When the opponent first gets knee-on-belly:
- we always frame with our elbow on the outside of the knee, our forearm tucked into our body to prevent underhooks
- if opponents knee still slides over to the floor
- keep inside position of his knee with your elbow
- shift your hips from on your side to facing more upwards while keeping the grip on the ankle with your legs
- this elevates his knee back off the floor
- use the elbow to frame on the knee
- capture the knee (elbow escape)
- use serpentine motion to elbow escape Op’s other leg
- put opponent in guard
