The NZ police force has a NZ champion judoka in their force throwing an attacker in Hamilton. Nice Story! "They picked the wrong cop. A Hamilton police officer who was attacked outside the Hamilton East drugs shop is a judo black belt. Witnesses said members of an unruly mob taunted him, calling him Jackie Chan. They did not know who they were dealing with. Constable Sean Choi was on the beat outside synthetic cannabis dealer U njoY on Grey St during a tense and violent Tuesday. Police said one of the shop's customers approached Choi and tried to pick a fight. He gave up on the first attempt yet returned minutes later and tried again. The man was arrested but another man allegedly joined the fray and jumped on Choi's back. Choi has been a member of the Metro Judo Club since he arrived in New Zealand from South Korea as a teenager. Head coach Terry Steenson said the alleged attacker was destined to take flight: "We move in ...

We did some guard pass drills for warm up. The topic of the day is Guard Submissions. Stu taught the trinity of the guard subs: arm bar, triangle bar, omoplata. It is most problably the most popular combination of subs from the guard. Training was concluded by a shark tank where fresh training partner will jump in every 2 minutes. It was great to see Jose back training after his injury. Stu is off to Wellington for the Judo National. Good Luck. PS: No gi on Tuesday from Now On. We also have an additional a Nogi training on Thursday 31 oct for our competitors getting ready for the competition on saturday 2 NOV. http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2013/09/bjj-nogi-competition-ibjjf-rules-sat-2.html

Another great video detailing the latest techniques from Miayo bro. This is why Jiu Jitsu is so amazing with new moves created every year. Another good videos to watch are bjj scout. http://bjjscout.com/

This is a controversial topic not only in New Zealand BJJ but all around the world People either hate it or love it. What is it? Basically, you walk down the line while your teamates whip you with their belts. In some club, you can run and some other would make you crawl on your fours. One thing for sure, it hurts. Does it make you a better person? Hell no. Is it fun if you are not the recipient? Hell yes. When I started training, I thought that was fun and different. But now after participating in the gaunlet for over 20 times, it is getting old and blase. Actually, I see people posting their whipping video in the facebook and it just makes think how silly it looks like from the outside. The bad new is that Stu still wants to maintain this tradition. Bad luck, boys!                

Levitation training Our usual warm up. Techniques of the day: Kouchi Gari (small inner reap) Turtle Attacks Clock choke, Bow and arrown from turtle Darce Choke 30 minutes sparring: usual 2 minutes stand up and 3 minutes ground That is all. Oh yeah, Asahi Beer for cool down. http://cdn2.judoinfo.com/images/animations/blue/kouchigari.htm    

In the good old days, Japanese Jiu Jitsu masters were also healers.So we decided to take the day off from strangling each other and trying to rip limbs from their joints and learn to be a healer or at least be able to attend to someone injuries while the ambulance is on its way.   As Martial artist and instructor, it is important to keep ourselves updated with our first aid skills. The second part of the program covered: Shock Heart Attack Stroke Asthma Seizures Diabetes Fractures and dislocations Sprains and Strains Burns Tip of the day: Sign of an heart attack = A feeling of impending doom may be present.  Security Medical Services (SMS) provided us with the training. They will come to your martial art club as well. They can provide NZQA assessors to train and certify your staff or club members in Workplace First Aid, or First Aid refresher courses.  Their instructors are trained by ProMed (Pro+Med) Medical Services (NZ) ...

Warm up. Topics of the day: double leg takedown, arm bar from guard and arm bar defence.  Rolling: 4 rounds of 5 minutes sparring: 2 minutes stand up, 2 minutes ground, 1 minute stand up.  Picture of the day was from the last competition. 

This would a good competition to enter. I expect lot of teams travelling to AUckland to participate. Steve told me that he is planning to use 6 areas of tatame mats. It also be hosted into a stadium. Where: The Trusts Stadium, Henderson, Auckland Link to register http://nzgrappler.co.nz/bjj-gi-tournament-registration/ Entry Fee: NZD 50. Weight Categories: Up to 55 KG Up to 60 KG Up to 66 KG Up to 74 KG Up to 84 KG Up to 96 KG Up to 120 KG Over 120KG I understand that weight in will be without the gi.

The first link will have to be the IBJJF website http://www.ibjjf.org/rules.htm Then you have list of videos to watch Then once you read the rules and watch the videos, there are 2 extra links. https://www.facebook.com/#!/AskTheReferee http://askthereferee.info/ Both sites are run by Shane Poppleton. The advantages with Facebook is that he would reply really quickly. Good luck.

Gaunlet A few students have been enquiring in the past so it is only fair that I have a write up about the carrots of Martial Arts (the belts). Each belt comes with a black tab, you will receive up to 4 stripes on each belt. BJJ is notorious for waiting for a long time between belt so it is nice to receive one stripe once in a while (Hint, it usually happens during graduation time every 6 months which are traditionally held in June and December). However, we do give stripes outside the graduation ceremony. To be honest, I would rather have one grading ceremony per year so we can just concentrate on training instead. It is not required to have the complete 4 stripes in order to move to the next belt. The complete 4 stripes does not guarantee you that you will be promoted automatically to the next belt as well. Your instructors will discuss and assess the students during training and will decide who is ready to do the exam for the next belt. It is mostly a...

 Sweep 101 Today topics: Hip throw also known as o goshi Side control and knee on belly. 3 submissions.  Guard pass for beginners.  30 minutes rolling.  Interesting logos in the back of the club  Team picture after training Rolling Clinch work to hip throw Training on the crash pad

We train our take down on crash mats. The topic of the day way turtle. Beginners was three ways to back take and subs. Advanced techniques was the dreaded Peruvian necktie, darce choke, anaconda. Training was concluded with rolling from stand up and grounds.  Welcome to our new member Igor from brazil.  Also congratulations to Gene and Luan on their academic achievements: Certificate in Freight Forwarding,   Well done!

Today we tested the new crash mat. So double leg takedowns was in order. Then turtle escape. Rolling from turtle known as situational rolling. Concluded with normal rolling

Listening to a Judoka lamenting about the state of Judo made me think about the current state of Brasilian Jiu Jitsu. The problem was that the IJF took away most of his favourite newaza in their competition. Of course, there is nothing new about the fact that most Judokas are against the new IJF rules. In F12 (a notorious grappling forum on sherdog.com, where we waste our time responding to trolls and bashing on nogi guys), judokas keep repeating similar information and even worse: "Do not let the IBJJF take your BJJ to the Olympic games and turn it into something useless for the sake of making the sport more spectacular to the public!". I think BJJ will never make it to Olympic level. The sport is too clannish and controlled by a few people. The grass seems always greener on the other side of the fence. I read about this problem but hearing about it face to face reminded me of my pet peeve with my cherished Jiu Jitsu: its lack of stand up. Is BJJ is going downhill...

You can now book your diary for the next BJJ competition (Auckland, New Zealand) I think saturday 17 august 2013 will be the adult day and sunday will be the kids day. The event is always well run, heaps of prices. IBJJF rules and points systems (no advantages rules for this one however). For more details: http://nzgrappler.co.nz/upcoming-tournaments/ for IBJJF rules link http://www.ibjjf.org/rules.htm