Hands Down or Knee Grab
Mat mode
3:00
Tell the roomPut your hands anywhere on your partner to make their hands touch the mat, or grab behind their knees.
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BOTH PLAYERS
TOP PLAYER and BOTTOM PLAYER share these rules.
POSITION
Standing, facing your partner, hand fighting. Symmetric with the other player.
OBJECTIVE
Put your hands anywhere on your partner to make their hands touch the mat, or grab behind their knees.
CONSTRAINTS
Hand fight from standing. A partner's hand touching the mat scores 1. A grab behind the knee scores 1. Points can be any mix of the two. Start again after someone wins.
WIN CONDITION
First to three points (any combination of hands-to-mat and behind-the-knee grabs).
BOTTOM PLAYER
POSITION
Same standing hand-fighting start. Symmetric game.
OBJECTIVE
Same task: make your partner's hands touch the mat or grab behind their knees.
CONSTRAINTS
Same scoring and restart rules.
WIN CONDITION
First to three points (any combination of hands-to-mat and behind-the-knee grabs).
Reference video
Open video · Standard Jiu-Jitsu
Greg Souders (Standard Jiu-Jitsu), seminar at Game Theory, Cologne, hosted by Hilti BJJ — Standing Grappling CLA @ Game Theory/Hilti BJJ Seminar with Greg Souders (free video on the Standard Jiu-Jitsu YouTube channel).
Problem
Standing, facing your partner, hand fighting.
Tell the room
Put your hands anywhere on your partner to make their hands touch the mat, or grab behind their knees. Same task: make your partner's hands touch the mat or grab behind their knees.
Setup
Standing, facing your partner, hand fighting. Symmetric with the other player. Same standing hand-fighting start. Symmetric game.
Score
First to three points (any combination of hands-to-mat and behind-the-knee grabs).
Rules
- Hand fight from standing.
- A partner's hand touching the mat scores 1.
- A grab behind the knee scores 1.
- Points can be any mix of the two.
- Start again after someone wins.
- Same scoring and restart rules.
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