Knee Cut Pass

Also called knee slice, knee through pass

Slice the knee across the trapped thigh with an underhook on the far side: the most-used pass in the modern game.

OfficialLachlan Giles — Absolute MMA — This is how to Knee Cut

Connected in the web

counterKnee Shield transitionSide Control

In these systems

Classical pressure (Alliance · Checkmat) Brazilian competition orthodoxy: position, pressure, patience.

13x black-belt world champion Marcus 'Buchecha' Almeida Pressure, pace and the double leg: the biggest engine the gi division ever saw.

GB1 · THE FUNDAMENTALS PROGRAM Gracie Barra Carlos Gracie Jr.'s school, taught the same way in every Gracie Barra room in the world: sixteen weeks, two classes a week, each class a self-defense strand and a sport strand, the situations rotating so a term covers the whole ground game once. This is GB1, the fundamentals term, whole: every numbered lesson, in the school's own words and order.

Situations, solved

no-gi · 37 clips, transcript-checked Passing butterfly guard One spine, six branches, a pin. gi · 41 clips, transcript-checked Passing butterfly guard in the gi The over-under, from the pin to side control. 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 · 20 clips, transcript-checked Taking the back when they turn away from the pass, in the gi Chest to his back the moment he turns away, the seatbelt locked low, drive and wait for him to try to come up, the foot through the gap, roll, the second hook, hold.

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Framework: Ribeiro & Howell, Jiu-Jitsu University · the shipped learn-graph