This week was exciting as we opened our second location in Sandringham. We are still open for new members (beginners welcome) at our new additional site (681 Sangringham Road). We covered the topic of the mount which is one of the most devastating position which is rewarded by four points under IBJJF rules. Next week, we will cover the topic of the back position. Our coaching staff (Stu, Laurance and Luiz are gone to the Clark Gracie seminar). I would expect them to come back with with some new techniques and/or new details of techniques. The club paid for the cost of the seminar for all the coaches. it is one way to invest back into our instructors and give them motivation and inspiration by training under Clark Gracie. Also we are having our first inaugural Auckland BJJ Invitational GI competition on Saturday 07 July from 10-12 am. AUCKLAND BJJ INVITATIONAL GI COMPETITION SATURDAY 07 JULY 10-11.55 AM 681 SANDRINGHAM ROAD, SANDRINGHAM, AUCKLAND BELT CATEGORIES...

First training at Sandringham. Beginners welcome. Limited numbers available.  Please come down for a free class.  For more information, please email us on info@aucklandbjj.com.  First in for serve.  Address is 681 Sandringham road.  Classes are Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 to 8 pm.  Adults only.

Week 1  starts Monday 18 June Mount Spider guard Week 2 starts Monday 25 June Back De La Riva Week 3 starts Monday 02 Jul Side Control Reverse de la riva Week 4 starts Monday 09 July Knee on the belly Lasso gaurd Gi Inter-club held at Sandringham on Saturday 07 July TBC Week 5 starts Monday 16 July North South Kimura Trap Week 6 starts Monday 23 July Guard subs Sit up guard Week 7 starts Monday 30 July Guard pass 50/50 Week 8 starts Monday 06 August Guard sweep Competition training GI Regional on Saturday 11 August Week 9 starts Monday 13 August Top 1/2 guard Kimura Trap Week 10 starts Monday 20 August Bottom 1/2 guard Reverse De La Riva Week 11 starts Monday 27 August Turtle Butterfly guard Week 12 starts Monday 03 September Question and Answers for Fundamental and advanced Week 13 starts Monday 10 September Mount Competition training No -Gi Inter-club held at Sandringham on Saturday 15 SeptemberTBC Week 14 ...

We are now taking a list of new students for our new location in Sandringham for semester 2. The program taught at this new location will be based on the fundamental program which is more suitable to beginners. If you are more advanced BJJ player, you might want to try out at our other club in Epsom as Sandringham will be focusing on beginners to start with. The starting date will be Monday 18 June 2018. Classes will be on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 pm to 8 pm. Cost is $20 per week on automatic payment. We expect to reach maximum capacity really quickly as we are have a limited intake for new students. The reasons are for quality of teaching (to maintain a good ration of teacher and student) and safety on the mats during training. Once we reach capacity, we will create a waiting list for the rest of semester if a spot opens up. If you are interested, please send us an email and we will write down your name for your first free class on Monday 18 June or Wednesday 20 J...

I will just write down some of the information instead of repeating myself and missing some people and information. We prefer to recruit internally first within our current students. This is an unique chance to start running a club, teach and getting paid but not having to spend your own cash for start up. The role will be to teach 2 classes per week (Monday & Wednesday) at a new location in Sandringham. Each classes will consist of 2 hours. We understand that at the beginning, the classes might just be for 90 minutes due to low number of students sparring. We will replicate the fundamental classes format and will create a number of new intake through the semester. Basically, you will have to follow our 12 weeks program and our class structure. We will expect to create similar club culture as Epsom. We do not really want to offer the option for people to "walk-in" as it can disturb the class. The white belts from Epsom will be allowed to train at Sandring...

This position is often under utilized as it is not rewarded like other dominant positions such a knee on the belly (2 points), mount (4 points) etc.. However, it is still a dominant position that you can achieve in order to establish a guard pass (3 points) just like a side control. Quiet often, people misunderstand the complex rules of the points system and make the mistake to think that you receive the 3 points for side control but it is actually for passing the guard. As people are getting more skilled on how to defend the bottom side control, learning how to defend or utilize the north south position become vital. People have develop specific techniques such as the north south choke which was made popular by Marcelo Garcia. For more info, please the link of an old blog http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2014/03/training-report-north-south-choke.html Otherwise, training has been good. The new intake of students for year 2018 have settle in. We made some new gis and patches...

Ben went to Rio to catch up with Brazilian team mate Igor who went back to his native city for 3 months holidays. Ben got to train at the famous De La Riva school and was taught by Professor De La Riva himself. It seems he runs several hourly classes through the evening and only one topic for all the classes. It was a mount escapes topic for that particular. It is ironic because all the other gyms Ben visited were actually drilling the De La Riva guard. Funny that. Back in Auckland yesterday. we discussed in more details the style and structure of each gym he visited as I am curious on how they manage their gyms in Rio. Igor also took Ben to his current favorite gym which is affiliated a new team called Ares Jiu Jitsu. Ben teaches the Judo beginner class on Saturdays at Auckland University Judo club. Please check out  http://www.judokong.com/  for more information