Bookworm

After last weeks lesson I picked up this book on BJJ written by Renzo and Royler Gracie, its really well put together and a very informative read. Plenty of pictures to go with the techniques and descriptions, I figure this is a pretty good start for any BJJ beginner.

On a totally unrelated toipic I was [...]

Jiu Jitsu, Brazilian style!

So, I had my first Brazilian Jiu Jitsu lesson last week and it was kinda like having your nuts slapped with a wet towel: painful yet somewhat refreshing!
It was fantastic in fact, the BJJ instructor Arlans Siqueira is a really nice chilled out guy. We started with some light stretches then pretty much [...]

The THUMBS!

Monday nights class was great, after a two week break from training mainly due to work commitments, I returned to a new training schedule and a revamped gym! fantastic. The cool part is that we now have a Brazillian Jiu Jitsu class on Thursday nights! This will be a great addition to training as Golan [...]

P1 Prep

Lately we’ve been doing a lot of preperation for our P1 grading coming up at the end of this month…next week in fact. Its kind of a big deal for the school as a prominant guy from IKMF (International Krav Maga Federation) Tamir Gilad as well as several students from other schools are coming to [...]

Super Pump up video

So I’ve been getting back into Pride and UFC again thanks to my buddy Matt who is, lets face it more than a little obsessed with mixed martial arts stuff in general He writes a great blog on MMA and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, well worth checking out over at mmabjj.wordpress.com and contributes articles [...]