>>754015>How am I supposed to take knees? You're supposed to create enough distance so you don't get hit. Or you parry it with the outside of the arms, just like you would do against a punch to the ribs.
If you really get hit, it's much better to get it either in the belly or at the outside (latissimus dorsi, right behind your arm defense), since there you have big muscles. Ribs are bad because they can break and you have almost no muscles there.