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Half guard · WHITE
Knee Shield
Also called z guard frame, 93 guard
A knee across the chest that keeps the pressure passer at arm's length: the frame modern half guard is built on.

OfficialBJJ Fanatics — Dealing with the Z Guard by Henry Akins
In these systems
Classical pressure (Alliance · Checkmat)
Brazilian competition orthodoxy: position, pressure, patience.
Situations, solved
gi · 15 clips, transcript-checked
Retaining guard against the knee cut in the gi
Knee above the arm, frame both shoulders, foot over your own arm to his shoulder, push, leg out and up; he cannot knee cut.
gi · 20 clips, transcript-checked
Passing the knee shield half guard in the gi
The cuff of his bottom leg and his collar, tripod, shin over his shin, head on the shoulder, flat, pin.
gi · 29 clips, transcript-checked
Escaping side control in the gi
Near knee up, two forearm frames, hip escape sideways, knee through to block the hip, hips out again, closed guard.
gi · 20 clips, transcript-checked
Recovering guard from flattened half guard, in the gi
Pull his shoulder down, the lockdown and push, the fist under his jaw, the arm back under, lift him with the knees, turn to your side.
gi · 16 clips, transcript-checked
Sweeping from underhook half guard when they whizzer, in the gi
Come up with the knee out and his leg hooked and squeezed, the underhook hand on his hip, the free hand to his far knee, twist his trapped leg back with your head in his chest and your hip forward, land with the hook and the hip, step the leg out, the collar, side control.
gi · 38 clips, transcript-checked
Sweeping from established deep half guard, in the gi
Under his leg with your head on his lap and his hand already on your knee, take his cuff with the scoop hand, keep it with the other over the top, hook under his arm, kick the leg free of his grip, walk to the side and pull his arm down, take him over when he leans, land on your side and come up on your knees on top.
Framework: Ribeiro & Howell, Jiu-Jitsu University · the shipped learn-graph