🥋 Illegal Move Destroys Knee

What up Flowrollers, it’s a great day to get some nice light warmup rounds against the 260lb linebacker training for his first white belt NAGA.

You all thought the cop’s armbar was (mostly) legit as it comes:

I completely agree. It’s easy to armchair quarterback, and sure I would not want to be in bottom position during a street encounter. But it’s hard to argue with results. The cop subdued the suspect beautifully with minimal injury to either party. Well put, Dayton:

Alright let’s get to it, slap-and-bump 👊🏻

THE MAIN EVENT 🚨

Over the weekend, there was a huge gi match between Mica Galvao and Kaynan Duarte at the BJJ Stars tournament. You can watch the full (short) match here.

Kaynan entered a highly illegal knee reaping position, where his outside leg crossed over Mica’s center line and then attacked his knee. Check out B Mac’s breakdown:

Look I get it, all of these tournaments have different rules and in the heat of the moment anything can happen. But Kaynan has soooo much experience competing in gi tournaments where reaping the knee is illegal.

It’s hard for me to believe he just had an epic brain fart where he intentionally pulls his legs across Mica and attacks the knee like this. Horrible outcome too, where Mica could be sidelined for competition for a while (granted, he’s already on the IBJJF’s naughty list for steroids). Let’s hear what you think…

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DEAL OF THE DAY 💰

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TECHNIQUE CORNER 🧠

Twisters are a very unkind sub to hit against friendly training partners. But it’s important to know how they work so you can defend them!

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