Title: Double-Under Pass: Steps, Key Details & Mistakes | DARCE

Canonical: https://darce.app/techniques/bjj/double-under-pass

> Double-Under Pass. Scoop both legs with your arms, stack the opponent onto their shoulders and walk around to side control.

# Double-Under Pass

- BJJ
- Guard Passing
- intermediate
- Open guard
- 3 steps

Scoop both legs with your arms, stack the opponent onto their shoulders and walk around to side control. Also known as the Double unders or the Stack pass (double under). Here is the exact breakdown from the DARCE app: 3 steps, the details that make it work, and the mistakes to avoid.

## When to use it

Use the double under when the opponent opens their guard and keeps their legs high, or when they try to pull you in close. Scoop both legs under your arms and lock your hands before they can frame. It works well against flexible guard players who attack from their back.

## Step by step

1. 01

   ### Posture in their guard

   Get in tight with your hips forward, ready to scoop.

2. 02

   ### Scoop & stack

   Drive both arms under their thighs, lift and stack them onto their shoulders so their hips come off the mat.

3. 03

   ### Settle into side control

   Clear the legs, drop your chest onto theirs and lock side control with a cross-face and underhook.

## Key details

- Get both arms deep under the thighs and lock your hands.
- Stack their weight onto their own shoulders to pin them.
- Walk your hips around toward their head as you come down into side control.

## Common mistakes

- Stacking without controlling the head, letting them turn.
- Keeping the hips back so the stack has no pressure.
- Coming down before fully clearing the legs.

## Common counters

Opponents turn to their side to escape the stack, frame on your head and push it away, or catch an arm for a triangle as you scoop. Without head control they turn out. Stack them onto their shoulders and walk around toward the head.

## How to drill it

From open guard, scoop both legs, stack your partner and pass to side control, then switch roles, ten reps on each side. Then work three rounds of one minute against light resistance.

## Related techniques

- [Knee Slice Pass BJJ Slice a knee across the thigh to the mat while controlling the upper body, clearing the legs to side control.](https://darce.app/techniques/bjj/knee-slice)
- [Toreando Pass BJJ Pin both legs to one side and circle around them like a bullfighter into side control.](https://darce.app/techniques/bjj/toreando-pass)
- [Stack Pass BJJ Stand and drive the opponent’s knees toward their face, then slide around the stacked legs to pass.](https://darce.app/techniques/bjj/stack-pass)

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