Ostap Manastyrski – Guard Retention 101: Defending the Knee Cut Pass Part 3 (OpenMat MMA)

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by OpenMat MMA | Jun 17, 2013 | Uncategorized | 11 comments

Guard Retention 101Ostap Manastyrski (2013 Purple Belt European Champion and 2X Purple Belt World Medalist) shows how to defend the knee cut pass in a 3 part video series.

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jeiteki

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Ostap, your guard retention series is brilliant. Your comment that instructors tend to focus on offense is absolutely correct. I think this is the best and most systemic explanation of the fundamentals of modern open guard defense — and I’ve seen a lot of them (Mginaction, Mendes brothers online, countless DVD’s). Every competing blue belt should be taught a solid, basic defense against the most common sport BJJ passes, but for someone reason many instructors don’t teach that way. They either concentrate on attacks, or they only teach defenses to passes that aren’t as practical in the modern sport BJJ… Read more »

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And one final comment. Obviously most competitors learn some strategy to defend each major family of passes by the time they are a purple belt or brown belt. But as you said, it's mostly by experience, intuition, picking up bits and pieces here and there, etc — at most schools, it just isn't systemically taught the way you do it here.For me I personally wish I had seen your videos earlier, because it would have saved me so much time.

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james doolan

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Great videos, details and coaching style. ï»¿

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Matthew Davis