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In Kempo that move with the knee was one of the “mongol locks” we werent really allowed to practice it because its so easy to hurt the other guy. In our dojo it was basically a carpeted solid floor so it was a VERY hard surface, the idea was to develop a REAL breakfall unlike if your on mats.

I guess in the cage its got some padding so its not as bad if he lightly pinned the guy using his knee. But even so, if he was right on where the mandible connects to the upper jaw it would be very easy to break/dislocate. Like if he did a little hop and dropped that knee on him daaaam! or if the other guy bucked and ended up eating that knee again blaaaam! lol.

You dont even need to make space to create the necessary pressure, you can drop all your weight on his jaw while still touching the jaw.. hard to explain but you know what i mean.. Its just a really dangerous move.

About defending those 2 moves. For the knee, it kinda puts you off balance and you can be swept pretty easily, if your in that spot your better off staying in the crucifix position. Deciding to use the knee like that is more like a finishing move than a pinning move.

Defending the superman, like everyone knows the best defense to any strike is to not be there as per bruce lee hehe. To counter the superman, i think the most effective move would be a kick, front kick, hick kick, etc.. Superman is great, but you also have ZERO balance at the time and if you get hit you probably go down.

The thing about ANY counters is that you have to predict what the guys gonna do, almost any strike is too fast to react to and the superman is VERY quick. Like countering a straight with a hook, you gotta know its coming and time it right

so true about the “mongol lock” and the way you could crush down without lifting your self up, its something you do in skateboarding during grinds and slides, i call it un-weighting yourself. and your also bang on with the front kick counter, i dont know why i never thought of that lol. next time i spar im gonna use that. the hard part of countering a superman punch is that it starts off looking like there gonna kick and you zone in a bit on the leg, then bam you get hit with a punch. i guess because of the whole jumping part of the punch a good quick foot sweep would work well to and it would be so much more effective then a regular foot sweep due to the lack of friction from the feet touching the ground.