Knees

Jiu-Jitsu can really take it out on your knees as the knee joint is forced to move in unnatural ways and in many different planes. Take the 2010 Mundial Medium Heavyweight Finals for instance where Rommulo Barral was forced to withdraw from his match with Tarsis Humphreys due to a knee injury. Also, many people in my club have had bad knees. Recently my knee has been making some strange sounds too.

As knees can be very weak as demonstrated above, this makes them obvious targets for some seriously painful submissions. Now most people have seen the standard knee bar but sometimes a knee bar can catch people unaware I like to call these "sneaky knee bars". Here Oli G finishes a match at Ground Control "Beat the Heat":



Now many people maybe wondering what happened so here to demonstrate is Comprido:



I do not want to encourage any knee reaping type behavior, so please remember knee bars can't be done until Brown Belt in BJJ. Also, it is illegal at all belt levels for your outside leg to cross the waist line when wrapping the leg. Go lightly on your partner when dilling this knee bar, believe me it comes on quickly, my knee made a loud click when my bro put it on me.