#knee bar

[averagehighlife]

I’m such a douche bag lol. One of my favorite things in climbing is a no hands knee bar!

Best V4 in the world Kobra Khan

[moniclimbs]

Fun little climb with a knee bar. Looks easy, but establishing took me a good 10 tries and the knee bar adjustment and compression to get the left foot up to the next chip was challenging. I sent this twice because my video stopped the first time haha oh technology...

I’ve also been realizing how subjective climbing grades are. I’ve been having more fun lately jumping on climbs that look enticing to work and not caring about the grades. Whether it be V3 or V7, I’ve been having a good time overall. What are your thoughts on indoor gradings at your gym?

[averagehighlife]

I usually joke that I’m a boulder bro but I do enjoy rope climbing almost as much. Getting back on sport climbs last week made me miss the climbing fitness I had when I was in sport climbing mode for most of last year. Still gonna be in bouldering mode as always but may shift over to ropes a bit sooner since it’ll be nicer on my shoulder

Basement 5.11c Flash

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[averagehighlife]

I’m the knee bar whisperer, if there is one in the gym, I will find it lol

[averagehighlife]

Double knee bar on Nightmare On Crude Street 5.10d! Red Rock is such a cool place to climb!! I’m in love

[z34l0t]

[bephf]

BJJ Class

Tuesday morning gi class with Keith. After warm-ups we got into a nice sequence of options against an opponent who stands up in your guard.

With an opponent who stands up in your closed guard, hook your right arm around their left ankle as you plant your left arm behind your head like you’re holding a pizza box up.

Push off your left hand as you bring your hips up and to the right to get the waiter sweep.

Open your guard as your opponent starts to go down and grab their collar to ride up into mount.

A variation if your opponent has a strong base and doesn’t go down:

Open your guard and slide your right knee down a bit, with your foot hooking on the outside of opp’s left hip.

Kick your left leg across opp’s body as you push with your left hand to roll yourself over your right shoulder in a turtle position behind opp.

Lean in with your right armpit (your right arm should still be wrapped around their shin) as you lift up to take them down.

And a more complex variation into a knee bar:

Open your guard and slide your right knee down a bit, with your foot hooking on the outside of opp’s left hip.

Kick your left leg across opp’s body and wrap it around the back of their left thigh as you push against your left hand and your right foot to get yourself high up.

Bring opponent down and roll to control their knee. 

Bring your elbow inside of opp’s leg to move it over to your right armpit to get the knee bar.

A bunch of positional and some live after all that. 

[hansdavidian]

Lots of leg lock attacks from this position

Lots of leg lock attacks from this position

Leg locks are both loved and hated in the BJJ community.

Hardcore purists consider leg locks as dirty submissions and people who use them are lacking in their guard passing skills and need something to compensate this weakness.

But then again, as the great Dean Lister once said; why would you ignore 50 percent of the human body?

I certainly wouldn’t.

Hell, if I am too tired to pass someone’s…

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