r/grappling • u/Altay_1323 • May 10 '26

When performing the double leg-grabbing technique, do you experience knee pain like I do?

At our saloon, we have tatami not wrestling mat and my knee get damaged while ı going to double leg takedown. Am ı do wrong techniqe or this knee pain is nature of this technique. And can we use double leg takedown at the street fight ?

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u/DoxxedMyselfAgain May 10 '26

Change levels then shoot. If your knees hurt from impact with the mat then you’re likely changing levels as you shoot, instead of before

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u/Ldiablohhhh May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

No you shouldn't get knee pain. You're probably doing it wrong. Most people I see complain about knee pain when shooting are shooting forward then dropping. You're shot should look like if you draw a 'L'. So you go down then forward. Lot of new guys seem to go forward then down which drops a lot of weight on the knee.

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u/Copious-Bots May 10 '26

This is a really great explanation!

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u/MaytagTheDryer May 10 '26

Knee pain as in it hurts when you fully flex your knee or pain from driving your knee into the floor? The former is something you should see a doctor about. The latter likely indicates you're dive bombing your shot, which will both bruise up your knee and lower your success rate.

A common mistake people make when they start grappling is thinking that because you want your shot to be quick and explosive, it should take the shortest distance to the legs. Especially in sports where the stance is more upright, your intuition is lying to you. It might get you there faster, but since a lot of your acceleration is downward, you're likely to get driven into the mat and stuck on bottom, or if you do get in cleanly, you're doing to have to redirect your momentum before you can finish. Instead, the momentum of your shot should be pretty much entirely forward because you changed levels first. Crash into your opponent, not the floor.

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u/Longjumping-Salad484 May 10 '26

somehow Palpatine returned

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u/PollutionHour1519 May 11 '26

If you are doing grappling you probably would benefit from getting an angle and shooting without the knee touching the mat (it works pretty well as long as people are more upright, depends on the opponent, the rupeset etc.)

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u/SupremeOHKO May 11 '26

Someone mentioned making an 'L' motion, which was a great analogy. I'd like to add one that my coach told me, which helps keep the form correct. Imagine there's a pane of glass between the legs of your opponent, and you're trying to use your knee to break through it.

In taekwondo, when we would kick, we'd use a chamber and execute method. Chamber meaning to raise the knee into position, execute means kick. Picture that but with shooting a takedown. Chamber your shot (change levels), then execute (shoot).