Class 139...

Today was an intermediate BJJ class working on guard-passing fundamentals. We worked on three drills. These were: 

i) The opponent is on his back with his knees up defending his front; the standing man grabs the knees of the opponent's gi pants; he moves the knees to one side, then quickly throws them to the other side and steps through to the opposite side where the opponent's legs have been thrown. The standing man has gone from directly facing the opponent with his hips, to cross-stepping through so his nearest leg blocks the hips of the opponent and the outside leg is at the side. Hands grips on knees are maintained throughout.

ii) The opponent is on his back with his knees up defending his front; the standing man grabs the knee of the opponent's gi pants on one side and pushes the opponent's hip to the floor on the other side; the standing man has now stepped in between the opponent's legs so the hip hand and the standing man's knee on the same side must connect and protect; with the knee grip, the standing man flattens the knee to the floor and pins it there; slide the nearest knee over the flattened knee of the opponent with the knee connecting to the floor and the foot hooking the back of the leg; the hand flattening the knee is now redundant so cure head control on opponent; retain hand on hip and kick other leg out to pass; then drive opponent onto opposite side.

iii) This was a variation of the first pass but the opponent frames out as you attempt to pass, so you spin through to take his back. I lost mots of the details on this pass.

Things to remember: Connect elbow and knee to protect.