Three Knee Pits, Then Lock Your Hands vs Butt Down or Wrestle Up
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Tell the roomGet inside their feet to the knee pits three times, then lock your hands. Connect to the top player with your hands and feet and put them down, or come up.
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TOP PLAYER
POSITION
Standing. Your partner is belly up in open guard.
OBJECTIVE
Get inside their feet to the knee pits three times, then lock your hands.
CONSTRAINTS
You can't go for the win until you've met the condition. The condition: step one leg between their feet and touch either knee pit. Then do the same with your other leg. Then go back to the first leg. Three touches, alternating legs. Change top and bottom every time somebody wins.
WIN CONDITION
After the three knee pit touches, lock your hands anywhere from the waist to the shoulders, chest to chest or chest to back.
BOTTOM PLAYER
POSITION
On your back in open guard, your partner standing.
OBJECTIVE
Connect to the top player with your hands and feet and put them down, or come up.
CONSTRAINTS
Change top and bottom every time somebody wins.
WIN CONDITION
Make the top player's butt touch the mat, or get off your back and wrestle up to a closed hand connection.
Greg Souders (Standard Jiu-Jitsu), teaching at B-Team, Standard Goes to B-Team: Day 1 (free video on the Standard Jiu-Jitsu YouTube channel, 1 May 2025).
Problem
Standing.
Setup
Standing. Your partner is belly up in open guard. On your back in open guard, your partner standing.
Score
After the three knee pit touches, lock your hands anywhere from the waist to the shoulders, chest to chest or chest to back. Make the top player's butt touch the mat, or get off your back and wrestle up to a closed hand connection.
Rules
- You can't go for the win until you've met the condition.
- The condition: step one leg between their feet and touch either knee pit.
- Then do the same with your other leg.
- Then go back to the first leg.
- Three touches, alternating legs.
- Change top and bottom every time somebody wins.
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Three Knee Pits, Then Lock Your Hands vs Butt Down or Wrestle Up
Developing
TOP PLAYER
Position
Standing. Your partner is belly up in open guard.
Win condition
After the three knee pit touches, lock your hands anywhere from the waist to the shoulders, chest to chest or chest to back.
Constraints
You can't go for the win until you've met the condition. The condition: step one leg between their feet and touch either knee pit. Then do the same with your other leg. Then go back to the first leg. Three touches, alternating legs. Change top and bottom every time somebody wins.
BOTTOM PLAYER
Position
On your back in open guard, your partner standing.
Win condition
Make the top player's butt touch the mat, or get off your back and wrestle up to a closed hand connection.
Constraints
Change top and bottom every time somebody wins.
