Should heel hooks be legal in jujitsu comps?
To my knowledge all the Jujitsu comps I have been in, Heelhooks are allowed but not an Novice level. You have to be interemediate or advanced. Mind you if this is a new change I am unaware of it, but normally below blue belt heelhooks aren’t allowed but above it they are. At least to the best of my knowledge. I agree very much with that sort of ruleset, heelhooks are probably one of the most damaging submissions there are. Mainly because you don’t really feel the pressure like you do with armbars and other joint locks. So obviously not only do you want a more experienced person applying them, (as to not do damage by putting it on harder than necessary) but also an experienced person on the receiving end to realize that they are caught and tap. Many inexperienced persons wouldn’t know that they are caught in the heel hook until things started popping. It’s one of the reasons we don’t want our inexperienced guys trying heel hooks out on each other and we generally discourage teaching the
