Don’t Fear the Reaper in BJJ (Protect Your Knee & Avoid DQ in IBJJF)

I’ve had a lot of request regarding the reap situation in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu competitions. Whether it’s to avoid being called for reaping if you use Single Leg X or if you want to defend against someone reaping your leg.

In this video I show some basics on keeping your knee safe, defending the knee reap and avoiding allowing your position to get you in trouble in an IBJJF BJJ tournament.

I also touch on how the knee reap wasn’t always a thing with a quick “Back in the day” story from Old Man Chew.

But seriously it wasn’t. As a White and Blue Belt I never heard of being called for reaping. However we would get called for Can Openers and Neck Cranks. Wrestlers used them all the time and they got banned. And the refs would call them super quick. And I feel like the reap position is similar. It’s not that hard to defend but since we’ve defined it as “bad” we stop using it, many newer students don’t know how to defend it and it probably won’t be a thing in a few years as education grows.

Hope the video is useful to you. Thanks for watching.

-Chewy

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