Knee Cut Counters: Wrestle Up to Single Leg With Hook

Counter the knee cut pass by transitioning to a single leg takedown:

1. Start in the knee shield position and shoot your other leg to control your opponent's knee, losing your knee shield in the process.
2. As your opponent steps up and drives their knee into you, flatten out and place your foot behind their butt, hooking their leg.
3. Prevent their knee from cutting across to the other side by keeping it down with your hook.
4. If you're flattened out and unable to push their knee down, use the hooking leg to create an opportunity to wrestle up.
5. Drive off the floor with your free foot and extend the hooking leg to force your opponent to post their hands on the mat.
6. Immediately sit up, come to your knees, and find yourself in a wrestling position ready to execute a takedown.
7. For a variation, sit up first as if attempting to come up, which will cause your opponent to drive forward, then fall back and use the momentum to wrestle up to your knees.
8. Once up, grab the single leg, stand, and finish the takedown.