Good post. Just from a scoring standpoint I’d think fighters would utilize the knees to the body more.

You can knee anywhere as long as it’s not to the head…and other obvious illegal places like the groin.

Yeah…I often wonder why fighters don’t do this.

I understand the leverage factor and not wanting to lose focus and/or position at times but it’s almost as if the fighters wait for their corners to yell KNEES KNEES

Good writeup, man!

Look at the GSP gif. If Serra wasn’t already tired out, he could have easily stood up when GSP was loading up those knees. I wonder if that’s also the case when the top fighter is in side control; it might be that loading up the knees takes some pressure off the bottom fighter for a second, thus causing a scramble.

I’m basically thinking out loud, feel free to correct me.

do not forget knees to the body when both fighters are standing. Fighters frequently send their knee to the head. The body knee is much easier to hit and fighters do not protect against it as much. Machida sent Tito to the ground with one.

Lesnar delivered a couple of nasty knees to Heath Herring that resulted in me cringing.

I like this Thread. Because in my last fight I hit the guy with two knees from the side. Both of which hurt him. The second one hurt him bad. So I agree they should be used more.

I think knees to the body are under used. Because it doas sacrafice control alil. that knee that you are throwing from side control is usually supposed to be glued to you opponents hip, because any space is enough for you apponent to try and get his knees back through to gaurd.

For example. . .if your guy is on the bottom doing all the right things. like if they are digging for underhooks. Then you wont beable to pull it off. Beacuse you are feeling squerlly from the top anyway, BUT. . .If you are dominating the guy or he just isnt going for the proper escapes then you can do this. if you are dominating the underkooks from the top, knees to the body should be easy to throw.

Shameless self plug. To show ya’ll the knees.

tried to post a video from youtube, are we not able to do that on this site??

of what I was talking about. I was watching the first Nog/Barnett fight, and about 5 minutes in, Nog’s got Barnett in side control. Nog throws a knee, and Barnett uses the momentum of the knee to sorta toss Nog to get him back in half guard. The fight can be found using google video.

Check it out