People’s annoying guards giving you trouble during rolls? It is time to up your passing game and start creating problems for them! Achieving this starts with understanding the most powerful passing direction in the sport, and building a passing game that always leads to it.
Since there’s hardly anyone better then knee cutting than Ffion Davies, her Basic Bitch Knee Cuts BJJ DVD makes sense as your resource of choice. To be honest, Ffion is one of the rare competitors who are as great at teaching as they are at breaking limbs. So, fan of the knee cut or not, the information in this Ffion Davies Knee Cut DVD is going to make you better at BJJ for sure. You want that, right?
Key Takeaways
- Gi DVD instructional, containing around two and a half hours of knee cut passes.
- Organized to start from inside the closed guard, all the way to pass combos.
- A Ffion Davies masterclass on pinning opponents even before you pass them.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 9 out of 10.
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The Art of Guard Passing in BJJ
One of the absolute most difficult things to do in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is deal with the guard. There are so many different guards available to bottom players, and so many different types of attachments that trying to make sense of it all is just overwhelming.
The thing that I find perplexes grapplers more than anything else is how to approach the bottom person’s guard. Do you stand, kneel, half kneel, move freely, or pressure closely? All these are valid questions, but the answers to each and all of them are, unfortunately, constantly changing.
Apart from the chaos of standing and takedowns, passing a guard in Jiu-Jitsu is truly an art form, as you have to adapt to the environment and what the bottom person is doing and find creative ways to remove their legs from the equation. to that extent, passing offers several distinct directions in which you can move:
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- Through the legs
- Around the legs
- Under the legs, and
- Over the legs.
Each of these methods of passing has its strong sides and drawbacks. However, if I had to choose only one direction to use for the rest of my grappling days, I’d go for passing through the legs. Understandably, I was very excited to take an in-depth look at the BFFion Davies’ DVD dubbed “Basic Bitch Knee Cuts”.
It’s Ffion, not Fiona
There is nothing much I can do to portray Ffion Davies to someone who has not seen her grapple, although I doubt many of those are reading this particular review. One of the top European grappling competitors of all time, the best female UK competitor, and Welsh Judo Champion Ffion is a black belt under the now legendary Darragh O’Conaill, one of the best coaches in the UK.
Ffion only got her black belt a few years ago in 2018, and has since conquered the ADCC, the IBJJF Worlds in Gi and No-Gi, as well as the European and Brazilian Nationals. Quite the pedigree in a very short time at black belt, and I haven’t even mentioned all the superfights she’s won recently.
The one thing missing from Ffion’s rising grappling legacy, at least until recently, were BJJ DVD instructionals covering some of the best aspects of her game (like guard passing). While busy competing constantly, and with CJI in her sights come August 20204, she still managed to issue a few recent Ffion Davies DVD instructional that are as high-quality as her performances on the mats.
Detailed Basic Bitch Knee Cuts Ffion Davies Review
The Basic Bitch Knee Cuts Ffion Davies DVD is a four-part BJJ instructional that lasts over two and a half hours. Davies demonstrates the techniques in the Gi, but almost everything is directly transferrable to No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu as well:
Part 1 – Opening the Closed Guard
Unlike most other BJJ instructionals out there, Ffion does not care for skipping over the hardest parts. In fact, she starts her DVD in one of the toughest sports in BJJ – the closed guard.
Before the Basic Bitch Knee Cuts DVD goes into actual knee cuts, Davies addresses different ways to deal with the closed guard by focusing on opening it up. She covers how opponents tend to react, and how you can use those reactions to immediately set up a knee cut pass position.
The best part of the first volume? Ffion’s chapter on how to avoid getting trapped in the closed guard in the first place.
Part 2 – Flying Knee Cuts
Yes, you read it right. While not immediately, this part of the Ffion Davies DVD does contain flying versions of the knee cut pass. Before getting airborne, though, Ffion talks about setting up the knee cut as you raise from a kneeling/half-kneeling position.
The flying portions of the DVD appear as part of combos, with either a back take or armbar, and involve spinning motions. Davies does a great job of making them seem simple enough, though, and they’re not risky at all, given that they are flying moves.
She warps this part of the DVD up with a section covering how to render the underhook half guard useless using knee cuts.
Part 3 – Switch Knee Cuts
Past the halfway of this Ffion Davies Knee Cut instructional, FfiFfi from the Bronx goes into the art of switching your knee cuts side-to-side, which was a fairly recent revelation of mine. The cross knee cut has never been my forte, but it is a very powerful pass, especially when you combine it with the straight knee cut.
I really enjoyed the part about beating the lasso guard using a knee cut to fortify your base and put tons of tension on the bottom person’s grips. Ffion shares a lot of smash pass variations and follow-ups all resulting from a strong starting knee cut position.
Part 4 – Combo Passes
As the Basic Bitch Knee Cuts comes to a close, Davies goes over some more advanced passing sequences, putting together not just different knee cuts, but blending different passing directions into one as well.
Even more lasso passing options appear here, as well as interesting integrations of Lovato’s headquarters passing system. Finally, Ffion shows how she frustrates leg lockers by showing a very effective way of destroying the Single-leg X guard by using a knee cut.
Passing Through the Legs
The one skill you absolutely have to master as a grappler, Gi or No-Gi is the passing direction that goes through the opponent’s legs. Slicing the legs open is a great way of immediately cutting the guard dangers in half, which allows for more time and options to get past the knees and into effective pins.
Personally, I prefer this manner of passing because it creates a problem that the bottom person has to address if they want to be dangerous with sweeps and submissions – the existence of a bottom leg.
Pinning one leg to the mats, in any manner that appeals to you is a great way of reducing the entire guard arsenal the boot player has to a handful of guards. Now, you won’t be overwhelmed by the potential threats and passing options, as you know that the opponents can’t sweep or submit you without being able to get their leg off the mats.
The knee cut pass achieves exactly this, and in the most effective, and often painful, way possible. As you can see throughout this Ffion Davies DVD the knee cut is not just a speedy way past an opponent’s guard, but rather a pressure position that can break even the most stubborn grapplers.
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Cut Your Way Through Any Guard!
The Basic Bitch Knee Cuts Ffion Davies DVD is a goldmine of information on introducing and using the knee cut as your main option for breaking down the guard game of opponents much bigger and more skilled than yourself.
Davies made this instructional the perfect resource for beginners who struggle to make sense of the closed guard, to advanced competitors who are looking for ways to chain different passes together.
Since you need one of each passing direction in your game to be creating you can deal with BJJ guards, why not make this Ffion Davies Knee Cut instructional the centerpiece of your ‘through the legs’ game?
