Petition to allow leg reaping in IBJJF

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[Scott Yockel]

looks like i'll do a ibjjf event when i get my brown belt then!

[David Rosado]

I have a question. Did the IBJJF always forbid knee reaping? Or was this the result of a bunch of injuries? Like, were guys out there reaping knees and injuring everyone? Or did they just ban it from the beginning?

[Kurzy]

looks like i'll do a ibjjf event when i get my brown belt then!

Looking forward to watching that video!!

[Timmy Eisenbraun]

Where did it say only for brown and black belts? All I saw was this: "Leg reaping should AT A MINIMUM should not be an automatic disqualification against the person performing the reap from Blue Belt to Black Belt."

[Richard Mattke]

Done, although I'd take it a step further and allow heel hooks.

[Aaron Gustaveson]

I have a question. Did the IBJJF always forbid knee reaping? Or was this the result of a bunch of injuries? Like, were guys out there reaping knees and injuring everyone? Or did they just ban it from the beginning?

That's an interesting question. They reap non-stop in judo and standing too! A reap as a take down doesn't really stress the knee like reaping for a sweep but it sure does help you slam the shit out of someone. (especially the outside reap)

[Chris Herzog]

That's an interesting question. They reap non-stop in judo and standing too! A reap as a take down doesn't really stress the knee like reaping for a sweep but it sure does help you slam the shit out of someone. (especially the outside reap)

Reaping in Judo is not the same as reaping the knee in Jiu Jitsu.

[Aaron Gustaveson]

Reaping in Judo is not the same as reaping the knee in Jiu Jitsu.

I wrote that in the post you quoted,

reap as a take down doesn't really stress the knee like reaping for a sweep but it sure does help you slam the shit out of someone. (especially the outside reap)

I was just saying, a slightly similar technique with the same name in another sport that can potentially caused serious damage and its allowed. I know, like I already wrote above, they're pretty diffident techniques but realistically, compare the potential for damage between reaping the knee in BJJ and Osoto gari. I''m pretty sure people have died from being thrown on their neck.

That throw your doing in your avatar looks like it was possibly a reap. Personally I'd rather have someone reap my knee than that.

[Chris Herzog]

I'm not sure why you made the compairson at all, they aren't even remotely similar. They have nothing in common other than the term "reap". As to date Judo has zero recorded deaths in competiton, the potential for someone to hit their head is defiantly there, however thats why ukemi waza (break falls) are taught the first day of practice. It is ironic the reaping from bjj is actually in the Judo kata Katame-no-kata which was my first exposure to reaping the knee and when I started playing with it back in 1993.

The photo is harai-goshi (sweeping hip throw), and yes, you don't want to take that throw