Key Takeaways
- A No-Gi BJJ insturctional offering different ways to turn the knee cut into your best pass.
- Includes concepts, principles, and technical details, focusing on both headquarters control and aggressive dynamic passing.
- Covers passing different guards using many variations, including unique ones, of the knee cut pass.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8.5 out of 10.
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There is no way to avoid the knee cut pass when you oll or compete in BJJ. Even if you’re all about body lock passing or never passing and going for leg locks, you need to be aware of what knee cutting is so that you can deal with it. Actually, even in those instances, the knee cut is going to be super helpful.
The How To Knee Cut Junny Ocasio BJJ DVD is a great example of how you can focus on knee cuts to achieve a lot more from top positions than simply passing a guard. After all, Junny knows exactly what works, after spending all his time training with the monsters over at Unity Jiu-Jitsu.
Pure Knee Cut Passing
Knee cut passing was introduced to me when I was a late white belt, but it was taught as ‘knee smash” passing at the time, and it didn’t involve shin pinning. Let’s just say it went through the middle, combining the worst of a knee to the groin and knee on belly pressure.
I have to say, that as effective as that passing direction is, it is hard to practice over and over again in the gym with realistic resistance. I have no idea where I saw the ‘purified’ knee cut version from, but I know it turned into one of my favorite passing positions for a long time.
I remember that I had enormous success switching knee cuts without even passing. The position was perfect for hinting Darce chokes, and later on, getting to Ashi Garami as well. I also found out that you can make the shin pin a lot more painful than the smash pass, but when you want to, and more importantly, exactly as much as you want to.
My point here is that there is a lot more to the knee cut pass than a simple way to slice through a guard. Since it works just as well with and without the Gi, it would be irresponsible to miss out on the How To Knee Cut Junny Ocasio BJJ DVD. It’s that good.
Edwin ‘Junny’ Ocasio
‘Junny’ is a character that seems to be the depiction of modern Jiu-Jitsu. He is to the point, precise, an odd joke here and there, but also highly knowledgeable and very good at transferring that knowledge, at least if we judge him on the martial presented in the How To Knee Cut Junny Ocasio BJJ DVD.
Edwin Ocasio, known as ‘Junny’ is a BJJ black belt under Murilo Santana and part of the legendary Unity Jiu-Jitsu Academy in NYC. A World champion, Pans champion, and European champion in No-Gi, and still very active as a competitor Junny has an exciting, aggressive style featuring lots of pressure.
With a wrestling background providing a strong base for his Jiu-Jitsu performances, Junny also takes up the role of teaching on a regular basis. Proudly holding the mantle of the first student in Unity Jiu-Jitsu, helping Santan since before he had the gym space. Junny received his black belt from Santant in 2019.
How To Knee Cut Junny Ocasio DVD Review
The How To Knee Cut Junny Ocasio BJJ DVD contains 2 hours of martial, spread in a very uneven way between three volumes. However, this structure makes a lot of sense when you watch the instructional, and the delivery of the material is exceptional:
Part 1 – Concepts and Control
There is an interesting structure to this How To Knee Cut Junny Ocasio BJJ DVD. In the opening volume, Junny only shares just over 10 minutes of material, setting up the stage for knee cuts by focusing on concepts and principles.
One thing most people find difficult when knee cutting is balance, and Junny spends a lot of time explaining how to control someone from the knee cut position, without losing it and falling over.
Toward the end he shows how to utilize the shin cut and smash pass starting from headquarters, which essentially sums up the aspects covered in extreme detail in the following volumes.
Part 2 – Knee Cut Variations vs Seated Guard
Part two of the How To Knee Cut Junny Ocasio BJJ DVD lasts considerably longer than the first volume, as Junny launches into a more in-depth explanation of knee cut techniques, based on the main concepts from volume one.
He kicks things off with the sit up guard, and the things you need to focus on when trying to pass it using knee cut passes. Grips get lots of attention in this section, with the collar tie and triceps combo taking center stage.
In terms of specific knee cut techniques, Junny shares the basic, controlled version from the collar and triceps grip, followed by blitz knee cutting, and my personal favorite, low-base passing.
Part 3 – Headquarters and Aggressive Knee Cutting
As we get to the final part of this instructional, the amount of material offered in this volume surpasses the two previous ones put together. In almost an hour of material, Junny continues to explore different knee cut variations, introducing even more problems in the form of different guards.
He sticks to a proven launching pad for the knee cut by exploring the headquarters position, popularized by Rafel Lovato Jr. in great detail. From there, he goes into his signature aggressive knee cuts, which range from the ‘standard’ HQ setup to unorthodox pass finishes using unusual angles and timing.
If I can point out one chapter in this last volume of the How To Knee Cut Junny Ocasio BJJ DVD, I’d opt for the highly effective, and equally as painful (for the person receiving it) solar plexus armpit cut. You’ll recognize it when you see it.
A Painful HQ Position
The headquarters position was all the jazz when Lovato started using it. I figured it out first from a very badly recorded instructional by what is now the first Estonian black belt, Martin Aedma where he connected it to the knee cut and surf-style smash passing, creating a mini system.
What I missed at the time (ah, blue belt days) was that Lovato’s idea of the headquarters extended a lot further than the specific position demonstrated by him in regard to passing. In fact, my own instructor had an idea of setting up a ‘position zero’ spot from closed guard that really did the same thing – provided a headquarters position.
Look at headquarters as a concept rather than just the position shown by Lovato, and you’ll see that it is a concept you can apply to any position in BJJ. Using the knee cut pass as a headquarters position for torturing and eventually passing is exactly what you get to learn from the How To Knee Cut BJJ DVD by Junny Ocasio.
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Cut ‘Em Up!
I guess you know what you need to do now if you want to improve your passing. Pick up the How To Knee Cut Junny Ocasio BJJ DVD and start thinking about the ability to stop your passing at any point after you begin, and chill out in a position that will cause misery to the guard player. After all, the biggest reward from passing isn’t getting past the guard – it’s the pressure you get to apply during the pass.
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