July 11th-13th Starts 8 pm friday night - Finish Sunday 1 pm. http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2014/01/nz-girls-grappling-winter-camp-2014.html Write up on last year event http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2013/07/new-zealang-girl-grappling-group-winter.html Join their facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/kiwigirls/

Rafael will be in Hamilton and Wellington for 2 seminars. See poster for more details.

This is an interesting video. The author mentions that the future of teaching BJJ should no longer be base on techniques (ie double leg takedown, guillotine, kimura, but on concepts instead (leverage, timing, movement, distance management, action-reaction etc..). I do not necessarily agree with what he says but I believe he is onto something interesting. I am intrigued to where this new concept will lead us to. I went on the youtube hoping to get more information and video but they only had videos of techniques. I really enjoyed the Gracie 101 techniques which seems to be self defence techniques. Oh well, just stay tune and subscribe to their account and see how far they take us. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj9-QA8g9Xj_iIEojgC0gAQ http://www.gracienepa.com/ Kit Dale is no a big fan of teaching techniques and prefer teaching by concept as well. He also not an advocate of drilling as well. "A big problem is awareness. is that too many of the top guys in th...

Congratulation to Igor and Jose on their medals that they won at the Wellington BJJ Competition run by NZ Grappler las weekend.

Allright, I just ticked off one more of my bucket list. Our first limited Gi design: "AZUL". Azul means "blue" in Portuguese. Blue is the colour of our Auckland rugby team. Why use Rangitoto Island design? Rangitoto Island is a volcanic island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland , New Zealand . The 5.5 km wide island is an iconic and widely visible landmark of Auckland with its distinctive symmetrical shield volcano cone rising 260 metres (850 ft) high over the Hauraki Gulf. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Rangitoto is the most recent and the largest (2311 hectares ) [ 3 ] of the approximately 50 volcanoes of the Auckland volcanic field . [ 2 ] It is separated from the mainland of Auckland's North Shore by the Rangitoto Channel . Since World War II it has been linked by a causeway to the much older, non-volcanic Motutapu Island . [ 4 ]   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangitoto_Island I used to "collect" shoroyroll gis and love their contrast stitc...

    Training Program for second semester 2014 Note 1: You can train Judo every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Note 2: You can train open mats BJJ every Saturday morning from 11 am at 111 Newton Road, Mount Eden Terrace, Auckland. June Thursday 19: Back / Spider Guard Saturday 21: GI Wellington Competition (Igor, Jose) Tuesday 24: Side Control / Spider Guard Thursday 26: Knee on the belly / De La Riva Guard / Berimbolo July Tuesday 1: North South / De La Riva Guard / Berimbolo Thursday 3: Guard subs / Reverse De La Riva / Beijao Tuesday 8: Guard passes / Reverse De La Riva / Beijao Thursday 10: Guard sweeps / Lasso Guard Tuesday 15: Top half guard / Lasso Guard Thursday 17: Bottom half guard / Sit-up guard Tuesday 22: Turtle / Sit-up guard Thursday 24: Questions and Answers / Kimura Trap Tuesday 29: Mount / Butterfly guard Thursday 31: Back / Butterfly guard August Tuesday 5: ...

It has been busy week so only one training report for both classes. We are coming at the end of the first semester with a few members graduating to a blue belt (3 for this semester). We are tuning up the training program for the second semester and the list should be up by next week. Tuesday was Mount / S-Mount Thursday was Back / Spider Guard. Congrats to Webber on his blue belt promotion. Joao received his 4th stripes yesterday, next stop...........blue belt. Igor and Jose are going to NZ BJJ comp on Saturday. Good Luck.  Next week topic: Tuesday: side control / spider guard Thursday: Knee of belly, de la riva / berimbolo. If you interested to train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, please drop in for a free class.    

Felipe Santos was promoted to black belt by Douglas Santos in Auckland. If you want to train with Douglas: http://www.douglasjiujitsu.co.nz/ Felipe Santos teach BJJ in Tauranga. If you want to train with Felipe, Contact Felipe 021 264 32 11 or 021 070 76 30 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/mountfitness Congratulations.

As we just completed another 6 months of running the club, it is time to look back, analyse and plan for the next 6 months. We have promoted 4 blue belts since last Dec 2013. The transition to our new location in Epsom has been successful and the number of club members have increased (especially since the last 2 months). The new Judoka from Judokong have been attending our classes as well. We have been consistent in following our training plan and introduced a new intermediate guard program as well for the blue belts. It lead to split the class into 2 groups to ensure that the rookies are getting good fundamentals and the more advanced students start learning new stuff such as berimbolo, deep half guard.. Also, for warm up, we introduced a drill to win system: 4 drills that are repeated for 20 minutes at warm up. The same drills are kept for 2 weeks. The take downs training has not been that great as we wanted but our members can always cross train at Judo classes which ...

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Last Thursday training was Questions and Answers. The usual drills to win for warm up. Stu took Jose. Webber and Marc to go over the blue belt syllabus. Meanwhile I took the rest of the class and went over some of their questions: Are you allowed to grab the fingers? Nope What is Vale Tudo? http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2014/06/what-is-vale-tudo.html     How to pass the guard? We will cover this topic in 2 weeks time   How to do a triangle? We covered the triangle.   Also, we had the visit of 2 Brazilians black belts that are visiting Auckland and New Zealand.    Mito Pontual (4th Degree BB) and Marco Valle (3th Degree BB). Marco demonstrated a nice choke from side control/kimura control Classe concluded with normal sparring.

At the last class (Questions and Answers), someone asked what was Vale Tudo. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale_tudo Vale tudo ( IPA: [ˈvali ˈtudu] ; English: anything goes) are full-contact unarmed combat events, with a limited number of rules, that became popular in Brazil during the 20th century. [1] Vale Tudo has been considered a combat sport by some observers. [2] Vale Tudo uses techniques from many martial art styles, making it similar to modern mixed martial arts . "Carlos Gracie issued what is now known as " The Gracie Challenge " in a newspaper, an open invitation to a Vale Tudo style match with a Gracie with a cash prize for the winner. Carlos and his brothers accepted many, many challenges over the next forty years. Boxers, professional wrestlers, Capoeira fighters, and generic tough men were common opponents. As the years wore on Carlos slowly receded form the leadership of the family and Helio stepped forward to bear the Gracie standard....