Knee Bar

course by

Ivan Vasylchuk

Skills and abilities you will gain from these 10 video lessons:

• 9 techniques regarding the knee from all positions.
• An understanding of the 2 points of fixation for the Knee Bar and how to properly control an opponent’s leg.
• An understanding of how to catch an attacking opponent’s leg.
• Confidence and strategies to handle an opponent who has taken your back.
• Specialised exercises that will burn the Knee Bar into your muscle memory.
• An understanding of the best defence against Knee Bars and how to bypass them.
• The ability to control an engagement with an opponent to the point that your opponent will only be able to think about defending.

What you will learn in each of the 10 lessons:



1. How to properly control the leg to achieve submission by Knee Bar.

2. Entering Knee Bar from Half-Guard by throwing your leg over your head.

3. Entering Knee Bar from Half-Guard by throwing your leg over your opponent’s leg.

4. Defence against Knee Bars and how to bypass this defence when you are attacking.

5. Somersault/roll into Knee Bar from the Turtle position when your opponent is in the standing position.

6. Somersault/roll into Knee Bar from the Turtle position when your opponent is on the ground.

7. Knee Bar from Turtle position that will make an opponent fall backwards.

8. How to perform the Knee Bar against an opponent in the Turtle position.

9. How to perform the Knee Bar from Guard with the Helicopter turn technique.

10. I. VASYLCHUK’S SPECIAL SUBMISSION: The «Vasylchuk-Bar» Knee Bar variant.