In order to maintain and advance your position from Knee on belly you can do the following, based on what your opponent is doing:

- If your opponent vampires their hands across their chest and tries to protect from the choke, then pull their lapel and their knee up as you move your head over your hips and posture. Think bow and arrow. Also when you do this, move your knee up a bit so that it is right above their sternum. This is not where you necessarily want you knee when you are “riding” knee on belly, but it is a great place to put it when you want to be aggressive and make your opponent react. This is uncomfortable for them and will make them shift, allowing you to capitalize.

- If your opponent tries to hip escape, or roll away from you, apply pressure with your knee on their trailing hip. This will stop them from rolling which every way they are trying to roll. If they successfully hip escape, react quickly and take the back.

- If your opponent tries to push your knee down into half guard, then drop your knee as you cross face hard. Drive your cross-facing shoulder into the top of your opponents neck as you drive into them. As they roll back onto their back, windsheild wiper / riverdance across their body and establish the mount. *If they push your knee down from the mount, go back to knee on belly.