Combat skills lacking? Hire a Ninja

I just had to pass this along.  Apparently a local “ninja” is willing to hire himself for (among other things (spelling errors are from the original article)):

security work.
house or apartment cleaning.
moving help.
birthdays.
suprise parties.
basic repair jobs.
some self defense and other training.
House and apartment sitting.
demonstrations.
corperate parties.
trapping strayes.

A joke, you might think?  Oh no my misguided, ninja unbelieving [...]

Learning from bad positions

My Sensei in Judo got talking to me about a week ago about one of the best ways to learn when you’re doing Randori (that’s Judo-speak for “sparring”.)  Often times we try to win.  Even if we’re not going 100%, and are taking in gentle, we still tend to keep from putting ourselves into bad [...]

Striking and Throwing in Jiu-jitsu

This post is written by Sensei Mike Hermosillo:
BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU PHILOSOPHY FROM THE MASTERS
My BJJ instructors always told me that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was the most complete and effective martial art in the world. I believed that until I started seeing world class Jiu-Jitsu competitors loosing MMA fights. I started to rationalize with myself that maybe it was [...]

Ty’s brithday Belt

Yesterday was Ty’s 15th birthday.  It was also his advancement from a yellow to an orange belt.  It was really cool of Sensei to prepare a cake for the occasion.  Thanks to everyone in class.  Not only has it been great to learn Judo and Jiu Jitsu with all of you, but you’ve all become [...]

Master Sylvio Behring

I wanted to take a second and let you all know a couple fo things about Master Sylvio Behring:
Master Behring is a 7th dgree BJJ Red and Black belt, and Anderson Silva’s Brazilian Jiu Jitsu coach.  Master Behring will be conducting some classes in August that I want to bring to your attention, but first [...]

Test, please ignore

Test, please ignore