Busted Knee

[Jeremy Gates]

curling your toes/foot upward helps relive the stress on your knee too

[FRANK BARCA]

no problems here.I use it all day!

[Sam Sales]

My knee popped out once, but it was from the anaconda/body triangle, NOT from any RG.
IMO the anaconda, and even a regular triangle can be much more strain/pressure on the knees than a well executed mission control/RG. Especially if your opponent/sparring partner is big, strong and moving a lot. :-)

[John Flores]

I've been stretching for ages when I first caught wind of 10 P. I'm a noob, but I can hit sorcerer (yay for flexibility), and never ONCE had knee problems doing RG, or any RG techniques..Idk what those people are doing that they're injuring themselves, you just have to follow each step exactly. I think maybe they just torque the hell out of their knee without ever stretching a single day of their lives when going for RG, that's the only thing I can think of when it comes to knee injuries from RG.

[Jay Chow]

I popped my knee in my first tournament as a white belt attempting it because I was pulling on my ankle rather than hugging the knee. I now have a slight knee injury and it doesn't affect my Rubber Guard at all, use yo' hips!

[John Wilcken]

Ham sandwich took my left lateral colateral. (freak accident) It's growing back slowly, so my rubber guard on my strong side has suffered. Working my weak side and slowly reintroducing strong sided rubber guard.

[Eddie Bravo]

I've never hurt my knees playing rubber guard, but I did tear miniscus while on someone's back. He stood up then collapsed on his side right on my leg hook

[Daniel Valdez]

I've never hurt my knee in rubber guard, but I did tear my ACL while in someones lockdown. It was weird.

[Brent Smith]

I've never hurt my knee in rubber guard, but I did tear my ACL while in someones lockdown. It was weird.

That was at sub leagues wasnt it?

[Daniel Valdez]

That was at sub leagues wasnt it?

Yes it was.