Enter ‘The Rocking Chair’ – Counter for one of the most common passes in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu 

 

Are you a half guard player? Does your guard often get passed with the knee cut?
Do this adjustment and turn the situation to your advantage!

The knee cut, knee slice, knee slide, cut through pass,… however you call it, it’s a guard pass every half guard player will have to learn how to deal with. It’s one of the most common passes in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at every level.
The regular way to play deep half guard, is to fight for the underhook and reach for an undergrip on the far leg.

Once the opponent starts to cut his knee through, there is a gap behind his leg. This allows you to let the far leg go and instead weave your bottom arm behind the cutting leg. Congratulations! You just entered “The Rocking chair” 🙂 Not only did you counter the knee cut guard pass, from here you can also transition to a modified Dogfight.

From Dogfight you have a lot of options, which I will explain the next few weeks in my “The Rocking Chair”-series.

Stay tuned! 🙂 

Check out part 1 Wim Deputter‘s next series: Enter “The Rocking Chair”