Yes, we are still taking entries When:  April 16th 13:00 - 18:00 Where: 8 Woodhall rd Epsom Age divisions  30 - 35 35 - 40 40 - 50 50+ Belt Divisions : WHITE and BLUE only Gi competition with IBJJF rules. Weight divisions: To be decided based on the entered competitors Cost $30 Limited to 40 Competitors ONLY Auckland BJJ is pleased to announce The most exclusive masters competition in NZ BJJ. Given our success last year we have decided to allow another 10 people to compete. All Competitors will be guaranteed at least 2 fights. To register, please email centraloutlaws@gmail.com. Please email me: Name, surname, age, weight (with gi), belt level and name of academy. I will confirm we still have a space and email you our bank account for payment. We will only take the first 40 payments and then we are close for this competition. Thanks for your support http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2016/03/auckland-bjj-2nd-annual-masters-comp.html

Last week, we started adding new drills of mount escape and turtle reversal. We have been drilling the half guard drills for over a month for warm up and it is time to move on to something. The topic of the week was the mount. Tuesday was mount escape (upa) and the high mount escape. While Thursday was arm bar from the mount. Situation rolling and tachi waza and then newaza. .

From a post of sherdog grappling Forum written Uchi Mata. With some minor variations, I think you can reduce almost all passing motions down to these 5: Knee slide Leg weave Leg redirection, e.g. torreando or leg drag Long step/back step Stack Knee slide Leg Drag Long Step Pass The Stack Leg Weave

The mangōpare aka hammerhead shark is the mascot for our 4th Anniversary T shirt (Limited Edition). We need to make a minimum order of 20 t shirts.  I would prefer payment before I pick up the t shirts. $20 per t shirt.  Cheers.

Don't forget that we are now training gi on Thursdays. See you on the mats.

From Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1123293077694313/ Full Force Fight Co. presents the inaugural Nogi Submission-Only Nationals - 30th April 2016. Belt Divisions: White, Blue, Purple, Brown, Black Weight Divisions: u70, u80, u90, u100, 100+ (In cases where there are not enough entries for a particular division, we will merge them together or run the belt division as an open weight bracket). Event Details: Saturday 30th April 2016 79 Killarney Road, Frankton, Hamilton Cost: $40 Online Event Registration:   https://www.strongvon.com/ ffsubonlynationals2016/ Online payment: Full Force Fight Co. - 01-0137-0088525-02 Open to 16yrs and older Rules: http://fullforce.nz/files/ file/6/ submission_only_rules.pdf Weighin will take place from 12:00-12:30pm and the competition will start immediately after. We're planning on running at least 1 womens division... Ladies please get in there so you have some competition :) Entry fee payment needs to be made in advance of the competit

Just a few notes after an exciting day at the NZ grappler event. Dom is a National Champion.  He won bronze medal at his first competition. Then he won silver medal at his second competition. Finally got his gold medal at his third competition. At a young age of 14 years, Dom has a great future in Jiu Jitsu competition. We are contemplating at promoting to orange belt soon! Laurance won silver in his division and Webber won a bronze medal as well. Patrick won his first match but lost his second match. However, He did well for his first competition in NZ. He is considering losing weight and enter a lower weight category for the next event of the NZ grappler Regional GI competition on 14 May 2016. So 3 medals out of 4 competitors. Great result and no one got injured (which is more important than the medals). We will be also hosting our Master competition on Saturday 16 April. https://www.facebook.com/events/767249986739792/ http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2016/03/aucklan

NZ Grappler’s 2015 NO GI NATIONALS Tournament will be held Saturday 19th March 2016 at the ASB Stadium, 237 Kohimarama Rd, Kohimarama, Auckland, New Zealand 1071.  http://nzgrappler.co.nz/2016-no-gi-nationals/ Tonight is the last chance for early bird at $60 then it is full price of $70. For the competitors, you need to wear a rash guard with at least $10 of your color belt and wear black shorts (no zip, button or pockets). Register under Aucklandbjj.com. If you want to come watch and support our competitors. Adults are competing in the afternoon. Kids are in the morning. They are a fee of $10 at the door to pay.  However they usually only charge $5.  But no eftpos, so bring cash.  If you need a lift, let me know as I am picking John in the morning Mt Eden Terrace but I will be going in the morning to coach Dom. The club will refund 1/2 of the entry of our competitors including our Judokongs. We will go to my local pub for after competition party. Zoo Keeper&

This week is the opportunity for the students to ask questions and we answer them. As well on the side, the competitors got to drill their moves for the nogi competitors under Igor supervision. Some of the questions were what to do when the person goes on their side to avoid the pin, guillotine. I am adding a video of triangle defense as well. On Thursday, we taught IBJJF competition to the whole class. Next week, we will be doing competition training, single leg takedown and arm drag. See you on the mats

This saturday, I will be attending bjj open mats at city bjj from 10 am. You can also attends ben class at the epsom dojo. His judo beginner class starts at 10.30 am. Have a good weekend.

1 stripe for 6 competition wins. Minimum ibjjf time as usual. To be confirmed

A win is a win. Winning by points is as good as a submission. However, to spice things up for the nogi nationals, you will go in draw to win $100 everytime you get a submission. Of course, it only applies to our Auckland Bjj club members.

For the competitors: you can wear nogi uniform for Tuesday (even if it is tradionaly a gi class). We will cover ibjjf competition rules, game plan and lot of drilling. We will have our usual 1 hour of sparring. For the beginners and non competitors: questions and answers. It is your opportunity to ask a questions. We will answer by explaning the concept and drill the techniques. We plan to cover 3-4 questions per class. It is also a good way to get a feedback on what we have not taught for the last 12 week program. See you on the mats.

I want to learn Judo and will alternate between attending the beginner Judo class on Saturday that are taught by Judo black belt Ben Uy and BJJ open mats held at city bjj. Ben has 15 week program to introduce students to Judo.  Each topic will be repeated 3 times per year and I will blog about this unique blue print later on. It consisted of throws and ground techniques. We did a couple of rounds of newaza and the rest was tachiwaza. I gassed out on the Tachiwaza which means I need more takedown sparring. Facts of the day: not wearing a rash under the gi is weird and the higher belts have to face the road when bowing before sparring (maybe a tradition we could start at AKLBJJ. Overall, I really enjoyed getting thrown around by sparring partners that were smaller than me. Check out  http://www.judokong.com/  for more details. Some of the techniques that Ben taught today: 

When:  April 16th 13:00 - 18:00 Where: 8 Woodhall rd Epsom Age divisions  30 - 35 35 - 40 40 - 50 50+ Belt Divisions : WHITE and BLUE only Gi competition with IBJJF rules. Weight divisions: To be decided based on the entered competitors Cost $30 Limited to 40 Competitors ONLY Auckland BJJ is pleased to announce The most exclusive masters competition in NZ BJJ. Given our success last year we have decided to allow another 10 people to compete. All Competitors will be guaranteed at least 2 fights. To register, please email centraloutlaws@gmail.com. Please email me: Name, surname, age, weight (with gi), belt level and name of academy. I will confirm we still have a space and email you our bank account for payment. We will only take the first 40 payments and then we are close for this competition. Thanks for your support

Date and details to follow this weekend.

I will start alternating training at open mats at city BJJ and attend the Judo beginner class at Epsom which are both available on Saturday for Auckland BJJ students. Ben Uy teach the Judo class on Saturdays and it starts at 10.30 am. See you on the mats. Auckland University Judo club in Epsom http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2016/02/topic-for-this-saturday-judo-beginner.html http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2016/02/judo-beginner-classes-on-saturday.html City BJJ open mats. http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2016/01/open-mats-at-city-bjj_29.html http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2015/11/open-mats-at-city-kick-boxing.html

This week, we cover the topic of the turtle position. The warm up drills were technical stand up, half guard pass and half guard sweep. As Stu is in Japan for one month, Igor and Serge shared the teaching responsibilities. Throw of the month is hip throw. Some of the techniques taught for the week topic were reversal from turtle, clock choke, bow and arrow choke from turtle, hell choke, back take from turtle. We had over 20 students during the class so we had to to only 12 people rolling at once. Next week the topic is Questions and Answers.  We will also cover competitions rules for the NZ grappler competition. Also, we closed our new intake of new students as we currently are full and need to concentrate on the existing students and ensure safety on the mats as well. Thanks you for the support

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