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Taking new students for Juniors Squad at Sandringham Location

We are now taking new students for term 3 (10 weeks) Age range is 10-17 years old. Fees are 10 dollars per week on automatic payment. If you have more than one kid, we have a special deal for families which is 30 dollars per week on automatic payment. All the kids can train and including Mum and Dad as well., Our kids classes are from 4-6 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays during the term. The classes are held at St Martins Church Hall   681 Sandringham Rd,  Sandringham,  Auckland 1025

Rolling Marathon (6 hours) for Variety Charity organised by Bucklands Beach BJJ

I have already shared the facebook event but I wanted to elaborate a bit more. This a good occasion to roll with different training partners and raise some funds for Variety (the children's charity). " Following the Covid 19 issues, Variety Children’s Charity have been continuing to support under privileged children and require as much support as they can during these difficult times. We have decided to continue with the fundraisers in the hope of helping this amazing cause. We are looking for grapplers from any club to come along and train free of charge with a donation they can afford. There will be a collection in the day for any donations at our Pakuranga Plaza academy" Andy Medalf is hosting the event at his new location. Saturday 4 July 2020. 10 Avlesbury Street Auckland 2012. It is located at the Pakuranga Plaza. The event is 6 hours long and you can choose how long you want to roll for and what time to attend. Andy mentioned that there are usually lot of of partic...

Rise from the ashes: Training report week 1

This week, we finally restarted our classes  after we closed on 15 March. It was nice to see that most our members were back on the mats. There are still a few members missing. Which brings to the following ideas: If you do not want to restart straight away and would like to postpone until further, please let us know and we will continue to pause your account. Also if any of members have financial difficulties, please let us the coaches know. We will like you to train for free. If you know any members that are difficulties and are too shy to ask for the free training, please us know and you will try to reach out to see if we can help. Sandringham is back to normal and we are taking new members. Epsom has some changes. Members cannot no longer park on the Woodhall road and need to park in other adjacent streets. Our Junior squads is back training and we are taking new kids to train. Also we are proud to be mentioned by the Auckland Police for our partnership between the Mangere East...

Re Opening Update

Sorry for the late notice but we are reopening all classes  (including Juniors) on the week beginning the 15th of June. Well done NZ we seem to have choked out Covid-19 I will credit everyone who kept paying during lockdown on the weekend, helloclub will allow us to track the money that you have been keeping supporting us. We will also expect everyone to manage their memberships through hello club going forward, please let us know if this doesn't work for you. We have changed the settings so that the club will pay transaction costs on all payments. Please register with our club management software https://aucklandbjj.helloclub.com/register However, we also acknowledge that times may be tough for a lot of us and Auckland BJJ is lucky enough to be able to extend discount memberships to existing members who may have changed circumstances. Please contact in confidence one of the club's coaches if you need to access this. Please be kind Aroha nui, Vinaka Vakalevu, Māuruuru roa Stu ...

UPDATE

Hi just to let you know that we have decided to shut the clubs down for two weeks as a precautionary measure because BJJ is a contact sport. We are doing our bit as a club to help flatten the curve of the virus in New Zealand. Flattening the curve means limiting the rapid spread of the virus by reducing physical contact with people, washing our hands regularly and avoiding large crowds. Like we have said before this is all a precautionary measure only. We have made this dec ision now because we can, many other clubs might follow a similar approach or might likely in the near future.  This is to the health of our people, and in fact of all New Zealanders forefront in our minds.  We feel that we must play our role and take a more proactive action in containing the spread of the virus in Aotearoa.  Our number one priority is to protect the health and wellbeing of our people and their families. How can you help? CLUB RULES: - If you have travelled self...

Update

Covid-19 and Aucklandbjj Hi at Auckland BJJ we have been keeping a close eye on this novel virus. We have increased mat cleaning to after every session and we will also do the following. 1) no new members or trial classes starting Monday the 15 March and probably continuing for at least a month. 2) all current members that are unwell are to stay away from training. Instructors will tell you to go back home if they see you sick and wanting to train, so don't make them do this. We all want to be a healthy as possible before covid 19 comes so please don't spread any other illness in the dojo. 3) any members who are self isolating or decide they don't want to come to training. Please email us to let us know. We support you, and because we have a no contract system feel free to stop payments. We will also hold your place in classes when we return to normal.

Interview with Jay (Coach of the Junior Squad)

Q: Hi Jay, Thank you for taking the time to do this interview.  Can you please elaborate a bit on your background? and what made you train BJJ? A: Kia Ora, well I started training BJJ when I was in my last year of university and working nights as a Bouncer. I started off just want to learn a few submissions for self-defiance, not long after finishing university I became a Corrections officer. By this time, I was really getting into BJJ and feel in love with the Art.  Last year I change jobs again and now work as a high school teacher. Q: We are lucky to you have stepping up as the coach for the Juniors Squad (Kids class at Sandringham).  It is not often that a club has a school teacher involved with the kid’s program.  Can you tell us what made you become a school teacher but also about other school you were involved in teaching and also developing BJJ? A: I feel blessed to have the opportunity to give back to the club and the art which has helped ...