Knee Playbook: The Straight Knee, the Curve Knee, and the Clinch Knee System

Mat Manual companion guide to "How to Throw a Knee That Scores." Print it. The article separates the spear from the swing and the range knee from the clinch knee. This book specifies both workhorse knees, maps the clinch grips that build clinch knees, doses the drills, and schedules six weeks from shadow to pads to controlled sparring.

Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Stance: ______________ Lead knee: ______________ Rear knee: ______________ Ruleset for next bout: ______________

SAFETY, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE ☐ Knees to the head in drilling are pulled, placed, or held on pads only, as the coach directs for the group. Full-power head knees are never thrown at a partner's unprotected head in practice. ☐ Age and division rules govern head knees in competition. Youth and novice divisions in many jurisdictions bar knees to the head entirely. The coach confirms the event rulebook before any head-knee work is trained as a scoring plan. ☐ Clinch drilling starts with grip position and balance before any knee is thrown. A partner who loses balance is released, never pulled down by the grip. ☐ Knee volume builds over weeks. Hip flexor, groin, and lower-back pain that lingers between sessions cuts volume before it cuts form. ☐ In catch-and-knee and sweep-adjacent drills, the falling partner's breakfall comes first. Nobody is dumped without warning at any stage in this book. ☐ Sparring applications in this book are controlled games with agreed contact. A knee thrown harder than the agreement ends the round, not the argument.

Part 1: The Knee Family, Specified