NTU Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Recap of Training #3: Video for Armbar revision

2012-02-05T12:25:00.000+08:00

Hi all

Here is the video for the Armbar!

Video credits to TrainFightWin.com

Recap of Training #3

2012-02-05T10:59:00.000+08:00

Hi all!

Here's the recap for the 3rd training (1st Feb 2012)

Basically for this training

We learn how to apply the ARMBAR submission

What are the different variations and how it can be defended

As usual

We started off with some warming up

There was the "shrimping" and "reverse shrimping" exercise

There was also the "back fall with tactical standup" exercise too

All of which helped in loosening the muscles and getting ready for the exercise

The ARMBAR can be broken down into 6 simple steps

First of all

We are doing the ARMBAR in the FULL MOUNT position

The 1st step would be to isolate the arms of the opponent

Isolating the arms include pressing down your arms in a CPR position

Straight and forcefully down onto your opponent's chest so that he/she

would feel uncomfortable

And that would be the 2nd step

The 3rd step would include positioning your attacking leg to

the side of your opponent's head

The attacking leg means the side you would actually do the ARMBAR on

Remember all this while you are still sitting onto your opponent

The 4th step would be the ''posting''

Same as how you would obtain your opponent's back

And how you would actually do the "scissors sweep"

"Posting'' for the ARMBAR means putting the non-attacking leg up

Make sure it is flat on the ground for maximum support

Check out the hands placement

It is actually placed high up in isolating the opponent's hands

5th step would be adjusting your positiong

Shifting your attacking leg towards the other side of your opponent's head

And you shift your butt accordingly

All the while still maintaining your grip on your opponent's hand

Making sure your whole weight is on him

Making him feel as uncomfortable as possible

The 6th and last step would of course be sitting down

Remember the 5th step is very important

As you have positioned yourself well enough

When you sit down for the last step

You can easily tap out your opponent if your positioning is correct

That is both feet are close to him

And your butt should be touching his shoulders

Then as you extend

You would just shift your opponent's hand into a "Good Hand" sign

Whereby the thumb is facing upwards

This means that the hand is fully extended

If your opponent doesn't tap

You just have to hip up and extend his hand fully

Remember to squeeze your knees and keep your legs as close to him as possible

The close up version of the ARMBAR

If you can see

The left leg is more important in this case

It's the leg which actually separates your opponent's arm

So that it would actually be locked

All the participants trying out the ARMBAR themselves

Hilmi correcting the participant's mistakes

After some fine-tuning later

Looks like everyone is getting the hang of it

After that

We moved on to how to defend the ARMBAR

First of all

Your opponent would anticipate the ARMBAR
So he may try to cross up himself

He would keep his hands as tightly to himself as possible

And remember last week on the REAR NAKED CHOKE?

The "knifing" hand action?

Use the "knifing" action to break open your opponent's grip

So that you can apply the ARMBAR successfully

Another way to defend the ARMBAR is to put your hand under

the legs of your opponent who is executing the submission

As the wrist is the weakest part of your arm

Your opponent would try to do the "knifing" action to break open

your own defensive grip

What you can do is to hide your wrist under your opponent's leg

So that he would have difficulties breaking open your defensive grip

Lastly

We saw some demonstration of the other variations of the ARMBAR

from our instructor Hilmi

And we ended off the lesson with an grueling 8 MINUTES roll!

NTU Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu!

We also have some pizzas and 100 Plus isotonic drinks after

the lesson to sort of celebrate the Chinese New Year!

Note:

The tutorial videos for the ARMBAR would be up soon!

Do check back for it!

Recap of Training #2

2012-02-01T10:57:00.000+08:00

Hi all

Here is a recap for training #2

Basically, last week we learned about how to escape from GUARD

And it's the advantage given to the top player

So for this week, we learned about how to obtain the BACK

of the opponent from GUARD position

Step 1

Firstly when in GUARD position

As the top player tries to put his hands on your hips for posture up

and break himself from your legs' grip

All you have to do is grab tightly onto his wrists first

While grabbing onto his wrists, you use your hips to push up

And then raise his hands and throw them to either side of your head

That would totally throw his whole body weight to one specific side

Step 2

After that

You use your favoured leg to feel for his hip

In this position

As seen in the photo

The area to put your leg would be on the hip bone area

Whereby it's just slightly below the hip and firmly on his

fleshy thigh muscles

Remember

The other leg is supposed to hold him down

While your hands are still grabbing onto his wrists to hold him down

(ignore the fact that Hilmi's right leg is not on his opponent hips)

Step 3

Using the leg that was placed on your opponent's hips

Get the leverage to shift your body out in a slanted position

Step 4

This is easily the most crucial step

This fourth step is also called "Posting"

Whereby you placed the leg that was used to stepped on your

opponent's hips firmly on the ground

The whole foot should be flat on the ground

Step 5

After you "posted'' your leg on the ground

Use it to propel yourself up towards your opponent's back

And it should be like in this picture above

Then after which

Use your right hand (in this case)

And lift up your opponent's arm from the biceps/triceps area

Your palm should be facing down

And your hand should be like in a palm-strike position

Whereby it's just using the back of your hand to lift up your

opponent's arm

This would throw him off balance

Step 6

As for the final step

You just have to use your momemtum

With your hand underneath your opponent's arm

Rock your body towards your opponent's back

And then roll yourself backwards

And tada!

You would have flipped him over!

But that's not the end!

Remember to put both "hooks" in

Which is your legs

Use both of your legs to grab onto him in a "hooking" position

As the name is derived from

From there

Basically your opponent is rendered sorta ''handicapped''

After getting the BACK position

We also learned about the REAR NAKED CHOKE (RNC in short)

It's a deadly submission which is also commonly known as the "Sleeper Hold"

(apologies on not having pictures for this submission, however this is

a video tutorial at the end of this post)

Some common mistakes pointed out

Do take note that if the opponent is of a considerable larger size

Do NOT let the opponent use his whole body weight and lean onto you

That would actually make you out of breath

and unable to execute anything that you are intending to do

So the correct position is the one whereby you still can maneuver yourself

It's a position whereby you are comfortable and sorta sitting up

After learning how to get the BACK position

We also learned about how to do a basic SCISSORS SWEEP

(people from the previous semester class should remember this)

The purpose of this SCISSORS SWEEP is to get from the GUARD position

And do a FULL MOUNT on your opponent

Same thing in GUARD position

As per getting your opponent's BACK

The only slight difference is that you pull your opponent's neck down

And use your favoured leg to step onto his hip area

Closed-up look

After which

You tilt your body to the side

Same thing

Using the leg that is stepping on your opponent's hip for leverage

Then you slide in your other knee

And using your shin area to press onto your opponent's stomach

While at the same time keeping your hand on your opponent's neck

This would cause him to be constricted

And you having as much control as possible on him

So that he doesn't make the escape

For people with longer legs

You can twist your leg slightly outwards

And fold your other knee in

If not you can shift back yourself

And make the opening bigger between you and your opponent

While in the same time maintaining control over him

Another view of this scenario

Remember about "posting"?

Here it plays a part again

Put the leg that was on your opponent's hip down onto the ground

Just right besides him

Around his knee or calf area

This act as the pivot point

With the pivot point and grabbing onto your opponent's neck

Use a rocking motion and your momemtum

Plus the knee in your opponent's stomach

Flip him over!

Immediately assume the FULL MOUNT position

And squeeze your knees as tightly as possible against his ribs

Hilmi correcting the girls on some of the techniques

This week

We had a ''rolling'' session in which we sparred with each other

Hilmi explaining the rules and stuff

While senior members while holding onto the boards to make sure

the participants don't get overly enthusiastic and injured themselves

Some photos of the people enjoying the ''rolling'' session

Overall it was quite an experience for most of the people

They got to feel it first-hand how exhausting it was

And how it actually doesnt pay to use brute strength

Because when using brute strength, a lot of energy is exhausted

And you forgot all about the techniques and grips and everything you learned

And then you placed yourself in all sorts of openings

With plenty of mistakes and stuff

And you land yourself in hot soup when someone managed to submit you

Here's some videos for revision purposes!

1. The Rear Naked Choke

This is a very detailed video on the RNC

It even shows a step-by-step tutorial on how to do it

With many mistakes being shown

And how to correct them

Video credits to Stephen Kesting from http://www.grapplehearts.com

The 2nd revision video on the SCISSORS SWEEP

Video credits to http://www.TrainFightWin.com

This is the 3rd and last video on getting the BACK position

Hope all the videos do help!

See you all for the next training then!

Training #3

2012-02-01T01:01:00.000+08:00

Hi all

The details of the 3RD training are as follow

Date: 1st of Feb 2012

Time: 7pm-9pm

Venue: SRC Activity Room 2

After the training, there will be a mini get-together with drinks

and refreshment provided

See you guys there!

Training #2

2012-01-24T23:15:00.000+08:00

Hi all

Do be reminded that TRAINING IS STILL ON for tomorrow

Date: 25th Jan 2012

Time: 7pm-9pm

Venue: SRC Activity Room 2

We will see you there!

Don't worry if you didnt make it for the first session

You can still come and join tomorrow!

18th Jan First Training of Semester 2 for '11/12

2012-01-21T21:01:00.001+08:00

Hi all once again

The first training session of NTU BJJ has just passed recently!

First of all

We have a new instructor in Hilmi

And of course, a new class of BJJ enthusiasts!

Some of us are either trying out BJJ for the first time

or have actually been practising in this martial arts for a while

It was quite heartening to see quite a decent number of people turning up!

With a greater number of girls turning up as well!

We had a short round of introduction whereby we provide information

on our names, what courses we are doing in NTU, and which year we are in

I think most of us forgot who each other names were at the end of the day

But nonetheless, it was a nice ice-breaking session rather than jumping

straight into training

Definitely the remembering of the names would be better next training!

Now

Here are some of the photos that were taken during this training

Short ice-breaking session!

Hilmi then instructed the class to go for a few rounds of warm-up

The warm-ups consisted of some lateral and dynamic movements

All of which helped in loosening up the muscles and getting them ready

for some BJJ action!

The GUARD position was firstly taught to the class

The DOUBLE UNDERHOOK

The DOUBLE OVERHOOK

The SINGLE OVERHOOK plus the UNDERHOOK was also

demonstrated to the class

It was some basic stuff in BJJ to start off to

The SIDE-MOUNT position was also shown to the class

And after which

Hilmi taught the class on how to execute an ARM-TRIANGLE choke

The class practicing out the ARM-TRIANGLE choke

Seniors on hand to share some tips and know-hows

Some members actually encountered some difficulties in executing the move

Questions were asked and there were some queries

Thus Hilmi decided to demonstrate the choke again to the whole class

This time with some finer details

Like in how to switch sides to apply greater pressure to the neck

How to posture up with your legs

And how to move your legs to the sides to finish off the submission

Our instructor personally going down to almost every individual

to show and explain how the move can be carried out

As with more practice, it's clear to see that the class was

actually getting much better!

We didnt roll for the first training session

Instead, we did some passing of GUARD training

With some of the seniors and Hilmi himself teaching and sharing

with the class on how to escape from GUARD

And of course, how you as a BJJ player in the bottom position

Keep your opponent in GUARD position

The class was also allowed to try to gain the SIDE-MOUNT position

after escaping from GUARD

And allowed to execute the ARM-TRIANGLE choke when possible

Some of us were quite exhausted after this exercise

Probably due to trying out BJJ for the first time

Or just kinda rusty after been out of action for some time

But nonetheless, it was quite a good and refreshing training!

Doing the tradition "Whoosh" bow after each training session

to signify respect for the instructor and for each other who

have attended this training

It was also a symbol of bonding and forging brotherhood and sisterhood

among those who are doing BJJ!

After which

The training session ended with Hilmi conducting a short cool-down exercise

Feedback was asked and constructive suggestions were provided

Hilmi also proceeded to explain what is actually BJJ all about

What kind of submissions that the class would get to learn

throughout this 5 sessions

And what kind of BJJ player you can eventually develop yourself into

BJJ is actually a form of martial arts which work on leverage, locks, grips,

techniques, timing and positioning

It also benefit smaller-sized guys and ladies for self-defence

And statistically, almost all fights go to the ground

To end off this post

There's this famous quote being shared at the end of the lesson

" If the ground is an ocean, then I would be the shark! "

Remember to tune in to this NTU BJJ blog for more updates

And here's wishing all a Happy Chinese New Year!

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

See you all next week!

P.S
You can find very informative and helpful videos on YouTube
Here is one which is almost identical to what we have learnt for this session

Take a close look at the finer details on where the hands are placed
The head positioning
And the knee on belly

Credits to David Thomas, Austin Jiu-Jitsu Technique Catalog

First Training of Semester 2 for '11/12

2012-01-17T14:31:00.001+08:00

Hi all

Please do be reminded that the first NTU BJJ session would fall on

Date: 18th of Jan 2012

Time: 1900-2100

Venue: Activity Room 2 (Sports and Recreation Centre in NTU)

Don't worry if you have not sign up with us during the recruitment period last week

You can still come down and have fun together!

And please take note it is at SRC instead of Nanyang House!

Very important!

Do come down in light sports attire

No footwear is required

T-shirts would be recommended instead of singlets

Guys and girls of all ages are welcome!

And spread this message to your friends who are interested in this form

of martial arts!

We will see you there on Wednesday, 18th of Jan 2012

At 7pm!

Cheers!

*PS. The chatbox is currently down now. We are trying to fix it
Sorry for the inconvenience caused
Do drop us an email or a message on our Facebook wall
And don't hesitate to call if you got any issues at all!

Some important information

2011-12-20T20:35:00.002+08:00

Hi all!

NTU BJJ training would start on 2nd week of school in Semester 2

Training would be on every Wednesday

Time would be from 7-9pm

Venue is Activity Room 2 (AR2) at the Sports & Recreation Centre (SRC)

There would be a CCA recruitment drive from 10th Jan (Tues) to 12th Jan (Thur)

Do take note about this and spread this among your friends!

Check back this space for more announcement!

If there is any queries or you just want to ask anything about NTU BJJ

Be it with regards to joining or trainings or just anything at all

You can just email your questions to ntubjj@gmail.com

Alternatively

You can contact Alkhaff (9180 5164) or Wan En (85114774)

Remember to add NTU BJJ on Facebook too!

There would be announcement made there too!

See you guys when school resumes

And happy holidays!

Recap of The Last Training For Sem #1 2011/12

2011-11-03T22:48:00.002+08:00

Recap of The Last Training For Sem #1 2011/12

We had the last training for this first semester of the academic year 2011/12

Basically this session was more like a sharing session

Whereby in which we all practised our moves and techniques

And just learn some tips and tricks from the more experienced guys

The highlight of this last training session was

the epic " Royal Rumble " tournament!

For fans of the World Wresting Entertainment aka WWE

You all will be very familiar with this annual event " Royal Rumble "

Whereby there's this famous line of
"every single man or woman for himself/herself!"

Basically

The objective of this tournament

Or just simply to win this tournment

You have to submit every other opponent and remain
"The Last Man/Woman Standing!"

Our contestants gathering on the mat

All checking each other out first

You could sense that actually everyone was quite serious about it

Even though it was supposed to be a light-hearted affair!

The "ring bell" sound and the event got underway!

Immediately
Action broke out in all parts of the mat
You could see double-team and even triple-team!

(someone was hiding in one corner at the top of the picture....)

Basically everyone all wanted to get the bigger-sized guys out first!

Some alliances were formed and......broken

(due to opportunism and all)

So it was left to this "2 versus 1" situation

Whereby the 2 were aiming our more senior blue-belt guy

And so this was the winning formula - DOUBLE ARMBAR!

(this scene was re-enacted for photo-taking sake!)

And after our "Royal Rumble" tournament

Hansel our President presented the respective lady and guy winner

with some token of appreciation

Everyone was all smiles after the tournament

No one bear grudges

Neither were egos bruised

All were good and friendly just like before the tournament!

And right after that

We had some pizza and drinks to celebrate the end of training for

the first semester of this academic year

It's not just work and training at NTU BJJ here

We also know when to have some good fun!

Our NTU BJJ club tee is ready for sales now!

And this is the front of our club tee

Which cost only $12 bucks!

The front have our NTU BJJ club logo

Plus the Chinese characters “ 南大巴西柔术 ”

The logo on the front of the shirt

The back of the tee

With the 2 huge Chinese characters “ 柔术 ”

Awesome design by Vicky, our Financial Controller!

Great work there!

And to end off this first semester of training

Here is our group photo for the training!

We know everybody is busy with quizzes and projects and all

That's why some of you guys may not be able to come down even

though you have expressed interest in trying out

But hey, you still need to exercise and work out right?

Ultimately you want to be in good health and condition for your final lap

And exercising in the form of practicing BJJ is a good way to do it!

Not only are you learning a new craft, you also get to exercise

Plus increasing your body flexibility at the same time!

And it's just 2+ hours per week!

We're sure you can spare this time!

So do stay tune to this blog

Or add NTU BJJ as a friend on Facebook

And get updates from there!

If you have any questions, you can email ntubjj@gmail.com

Remember to study hard and work hard for the final exams!

And most importantly, carry on to come down for our BJJ training

once the new semester begin!

Cheers from NTU BJJ!

Last Training for Sem 1

2011-11-01T21:07:00.000+08:00

Hi all

Just a reminder that there will be training this week

Same time

Same place

Date: 2nd November 2011,Wednesday

Time: 6pm-8pm

Venue: Nanyang House, 2nd Floor, Seminar Room 1

Since it's the last training
There will be a mini-tournament at the end of the session
Do get all your friends down

See you guys there!

Recap of Training #3

2011-11-01T21:01:00.004+08:00

Recap of Training #3

Here's the update on the 3rd training!

For this training

We learn techniques in gaining advantageous position during rolling

1) First up

We learn this technique known as " Scissor Sweep "

It starts off when you are in the guard position

You grab your opponent's head

Pull it down towards you

While isolating or controlling his arm

(the one that you wanna flip him over to)

Then once you are in this position

Open up your guard

Turn onto your hip

One leg on the bottom floor

One leg out

And then prepare to put in this leg in between his body

*In this case

We are trying to flip him over to our LEFT HAND side

(Note that it is different from the 2 pictures above)

You quickly put in your leg

And use your knee to press onto your opponent's belly

(Not on the chest)

In the meantime, also note that you have to pull your opponent's arm

across your chest

Your other leg is hooking onto his thigh region

Or forming some sort of grip which can assist you in the flipping motion

which is about to happen once you get in this position

Next pull the arm

Knee and other leg use as pivot to flip him over

In one fluid motion

Once you flip him over

You can get into the mount position

And finish your opponent off

2) Next technique we learn was another variation of the " Armbar "

(you will be surprised at how many types of armbar that can be applied!)

For this variation of the " Armbar "

We will be doing it from the guard position

Same thing as the theory of all kinds of " Armbar "

You start off by isolating one arm that you wanna execute your submission on

Use your outer arm

(the arm further away from your opponent's isolated arm)

To secure and grip tightly onto his wrist

Position his hand at the top of your shoulders

And your inner arm to grab his triceps

Move your outer arm across over to his opposite shoulder

While on the way up

Use your outer arm to push his face away from you

Making him face the direction away from you

Now once you hold this position

Open up your guard

And get ready to use both of your legs to grip onto him

Shift your leg

(in this case the right leg)

Up to his middle portion of the body

This is the part whereby it's fleshy and you can grip onto him

Lastly

Shift your other leg

(in this case the left leg)

And press onto his face which was facing away from you

While shifting both your arms to lock onto your armbar

Remember to ensure his thumb is facing towards the sky

" The Good Hand " or aka " Thumbs Up " sign

This is how you do your " Armbar " from the guard position

Things to note:

Your opponent may try to stack onto you while you are doing this move

In MMA, if your opponent is strong, he may lift your whole body up and slam you down

So ensure that you quickly straighten out his isolated arm

Then do the "Bridge Up" or "Hip Up" to make him submit!

3) We learn a series of COUNTER-MOVES

All the counter-moves we learn were when the opponent is

standing above you while you are on the ground

And he may trying to get into a full-mount position

Or you may want to defend by going into a guard position

a) The first move is fondly called the " Donkey Kick "

This is a move whereby you kick out with a large force

Strong enough to knock your opponent down onto the ground

*Note that you should use your hands to grab onto both his legs

And assist you to flip him over and knock him over with the force from your "Donkey Kick"

b) The 2nd move is something of a " Cart Wheel "

When your opponent anticipate that you may knock him down with a "Donkey Kick"

Judging from the way you may grab his ankles

He may buckle down and twist his knees inwards to block your kick

So at this time

Grab onto his hands

Legs shift from the "Donkey Kick" position

And onto his hips

Then just lift him up in the air and use the momentum to "Cart Wheel" him over

*Note

Do take note that this is quite a dangerous move

A huge amount of space is needed

And break fall has to be done

So practice with precaution and do it slowly

c) The last move is a variation of " Scissor Toss "

It's used when your opponent knows you may try a "Donkey Kick"

Or you may even "Cart Wheel" him if his hands are stacked onto you

So he may prefer to keep his hands closer to himself

Somewhere at your belly area

His legs are also buckled and tightened

At this point

You can just grab his hands by the wrist

Cross them up

And then lower your legs towards his knee area

You then squeeze both your legs together

Making him buckled his knees even more inwards

So much so that his body balance is lost

At this point

You are basically in a kind of total control over him

Because he has defended too much

So just cross him up with your legs

Then use your hands to assist you in flipping him over

Tada!

You can proceed to side-control from here

Lastly

We ended off a session with a fight between Donovan and Teng Hon

With our in-house referee

That's it for this session

Remember on Wednesday, 2nd of November 2011

It is the last training

Same time from 6-8pm

At Nanyang House Seminar Room 1

See you guys there!

Cheers!

Training #3

2011-10-27T00:01:00.000+08:00

Hi all

Just a reminder that there will be training this week

Same time

Same place

Date: 27th October 2011, Thursday

Time: 6pm-8pm

Venue: Nanyang House, 2nd Floor, Seminar Room 1/2

Do get all your friends down

See you guys there!

Recap of Training #2

2011-10-26T23:54:00.004+08:00

Recap of Training #2

So what did we do for the 2nd BJJ training?

1) Firstly we did a revision of the ARMBAR

But this time, we added in some variations

Over time, as you practise and hone your BJJ skills

You may find that BJJ is like a chess-game

It's not all about using brute strength

But finding the correct way to break your opponent's defence

Get into the desired and advantageous position

Before controlling and submitting him

So for the ARMBAR we did

It was executed while in a full-mount position

And you first try to execute an AMERICANA on your opponent

Btw AMERICANA is also known as the

" FIGURE-4 ARMLOCK " or " KEYLOCK "

Wrist control and getting to execute the AMERICANA

As your opponent tries to defend the AMERICANA

You go in for the ARMBAR

Remember to try out both sides!

Even the ladies can do it too!

2) We learn a new technique called the " TRIANGLE CHOKE "

There are a couple of variations of the " TRIANGLE CHOKE "

For the training, we did the most commonly executed one

Which is when you are in full-guard position

Begin in full-guard position

Next pull your opponent head towards you by grabbing the neck

Convert to high-guard position

Ensure that you are isolating one of his arm

Next, extend your hip and "bridge-up"

While remembering to grab your opponent's hand

(the one you wanna isolate)

After which, pull his arm across your body

His arm should be in contact with his neck

And at the same time

Shift your body sideways

Get the angle that allows his arm to be positioned against his neck

While you also can manage to shift your leg perpendicular against his head

So that you can prepare to hook your other leg over your own leg

(remember you can use your other hand to aid you!)

Once you hook your own leg over each other

Press the leg down

Using the calf against the ankle

(in this photo case, the right leg)

And there you go

You have succesfully forrmed the "TRIANGLE"

To make your opponent submit

Not only do you have to just press your legs down against his head

You also have to squeeze your hips together

And in the meantime, ensure his own arm is choking himself at the neck area

This is how the " TRIANGLE CHOKE " works

Your legs and hips and body forming the "TRIANGLE"

And then his own arm is choking himself

Cutting off the air supply

So after practising the " TRIANGLE CHOKE "

We also learn how to defend against it

Which is by posturing up

(the typical escape move)

But similar to the ARMBAR

We learn how to variate our move

And transit to the ARMBAR

(yes ARMBAR from TRIANGLE CHOKE!)

As your opponent tries to posture up

Quickly switch your leg that is pressing the calf against the ankle

And hook it over his head

Pushing his head to the side

And executing the ARMBAR on the isolated hand

There you go!

Something new each session!

Remember to come down for training on

THURSDAY, 27th Oct 2011

6pm-830pm @ Nanyang House Seminar Room 1

It's on the 2nd floor btw

See you guys there!

Training #2

2011-10-18T19:25:00.001+08:00

Hi all

Sorry for the lack of updates

Hope you guys are coping well with your studies and training hard!

This is Yong Jun, your new NTU BJJ Publicity Manager!

There will be the 2nd training this week

Here are the information on this week training session

Date: 20th October 2011, Thursday

Time: 6pm-8pm

Venue: Nanyang House, 2nd Floor, Seminar Room 1/2

Do inform all your friends who are interested to come down

Be it of interest, learning a new martial arts skills, self-defense or part of your

MMA training
Newbies or veterans are all welcome!
Don't worry we don't bite (or choke in our case!)

And keep coming back to this blog for more updates

In addition, do join NTU BJJ Facebook group to get updates from there too!

See you guys on Thursday then!

First BJJ class of sem 2!

2011-02-09T23:33:00.003+08:00

Its nice to see some familiar faces. Ok back to business. Here are the things that we have learnt during the class.

1. Mount- It is the most important technique because it provides the most advantageous position. Try to get it if you can! That is the reason why it is taught over and over again for the classes.

2. Side control- Have to have control over the upper body, which will lead to transition.

3. Escape side M

4. Escape open guard- escape from a bad position.

5. Escape from mount- Important too, since the person will try to mount you all the time!!! This technique stresses on the leverage, where you have to find a pivot point and then you can flip, sweep to reverse. Like swinging a door open. You can also grip on his love handle like this guy here =) (Around the 2:20 mark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoJzRM0DgW8

Thats all for today! Next week there will be more exciting skills to learn!

New BJJ classes

2011-02-09T00:12:00.002+08:00

Hi all,

BJJ classes starting again! It is open to everyone, regardless of any past experiences or not. Join us for the learning journey and some fun times too!

Date: Every wednesday 9,16,23 (Feb) ,2,9 (Mar)
Location: SRC Activity Room 3 (same as before)
Time: 7pm-9pm

See you!

Last BJJ Lesson and Mini Tourny (king of hill)‏

2010-12-07T11:56:00.003+08:00

Hi all,

The last lesson of the semester is also a mini tournament for all. Glad that it had been fun! Enjoy!

We will be having lessons as well next semester. Be sure to look out for our booth! See you guys next semester!

Photos from Fight G

2010-11-12T23:00:00.004+08:00

Enjoy!

sorry i had to take the topless pic away... so unglam
kenneth

Tournament

2010-11-05T17:36:00.001+08:00

Hi all!

Here are the results for the last tournament. Congratulations to Darwn!

Score
1 2 3 4 5
Hafiz 0 1 1 1 1 2nd
Thomas 1 0 0 0 1
David 1 0 1 0 1 3rd
Charly Lo 0 0 0 0 0
Darwn 1 1 1 1 1 1st
Jonas Lindberg 0 1 0 0 0
2v4 4v5 1v6 1v4 5v6
1v5 1v2 2v3 2v5 3v4
3v6 4v6 1v3 2v6
3v5

Keep up the good work!

Continuation of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Lessons

2010-10-25T21:36:00.002+08:00

Dear all

13 October 2010 marks the end of the sessions and we would like to thank all of you for coming down and putting in effort to learn the techniques taught during the lessons. We hope you have enjoyed yourselves during lessons.

For those who are keen on learning more to broaden your knowledge of BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu), you are most welcome to continue; those who did not manage to join us for the first 5 lessons (newbies) are also included as we will be holding 2 different classes this time. Fees remain the same at $30 for 5 lessons.

The venue of our classes are as follows:
Location: Nanyang House (see attached file: location map)
Room: Seminar Room '1'
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Start date: 27-10-2010 Wednesday (non-newbies), 28-10-2010 Thursdays (newbies)
End date: 24-11-2010, 25-11-2010

To mark the beginning of the new classes, we would be holding a mini tournament (FRIENDLY) tentatively on 27 Oct 2010 (Wednesday), after which there will be a gathering for prize presentation and dinner. Those keen on joining the tournament, please send us your weight so we can group you guys accordingly. Even if you are not intending to join the tournament, you are also welcome to come down and take a look, as well as stay for the gathering.

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact Hansel at 93387166 or Yong Hwee at 81128082.

The Practice on 6 October 2010

2010-10-10T23:46:00.002+08:00

Hello everyone! Last practice had been quite informative and hope that you guys learned a lot from it. We had learned:

1) Rear Naked Choke

To apply this attack, start in Rear Mount, controlling your opponent with the over-under grip. It's important that your bottom hand grabs your top wrist, and not the other way around.

Then grip his opposite (right) shoulder with your top (left) hand. This step is called the “tiger claw,” because your fingers are in a claw shape as they grip the back of his right shoulder.

Now pull your bottom (right) arm out from under his armpit and clasp your hands together, palm-to-palm. Note how your right forearm is pointing downwards. This makes for a very strong position because your arm is braced against his back. Your opponent is still blocking the choke with his hands, which is why we go to Step number four.

With your left hand, regrip the shoulder (just like in step two). At the same time, shoot your right hand forward to knock his right hand off of my forearm, limiting his ability to block your choke. This is a quick motion, almost like a palm strike to his wrist. You won't want to push his hand slowly, or leave your hand dangling out there for him to grab.

Now return to the palm-to-palm grip from step three. Now the noose around his neck is much tighter, and his primary defense – his right hand – has been removed from your forearm. Note how your elbow is positioned directly in front of his nose. Ideally your forearm comes UNDER his jaw and not across his face or chin.

Shoot your right hand deep behind his neck and lock it into place using pressure from your own head. Your left hand is on your right bicep. Squeeze down, in and up in a hooking motion under his jaw. You also stretch him out by extending your legs and arching your back to make the choke even more powerful. Carefully monitor your training partner in case he passes out before he gets a chance to tap out. Following these six steps will turbo charge your Rear Naked Choke attack when you're training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and/or submission wrestling.

2) Break Dance

This is an exercise for you to train your agility. From the position of doing a push-up , try to go to his side in the fastest possible way and while stretching the leg closest to his body out. You can add some variations like stretching your hand out or do it with a smile. =)

3) Side Mount

Side control (often also called side mount or sometimes cross mount) is a dominant ground grappling position where the top combatant is lying perpendicularly over the face-up bottom combatant in such a way that the legs are free and he or she exerts considerable control over the combatant on the bottom. The top combatant is referred to as having side control, and is in a stable position, with the other combatant pinned beneath him or her. From there the top combatant can proceed with elbows, knees, various armlocks, or transition into a mounted position. It is high priority for the bottom combatant to sweep the top combatant or otherwise escape the position, for instance by entangling the opponent's free legs and trying to obtain the half guard or guard.

4) Grappling Session

This is the time where you can apply all of the skills that you have learned! Learning is by doing, so enjoy!

Till next week!

29 September 2010

2010-09-29T23:20:00.004+08:00

Hello! We did some interesting techniques today. Hope that you guys enjoyed it.

Remember to practice on your warm-up rolling!

1) Americano

Also known as Figure Four Arm-lock/Americana.
This lock is generally applied only from the mount or side control. The opponent's arm is pinned to the ground so that it is bent at the elbow, with the opponent's palm upwards. The wrist is grabbed with the opposite hand, and the arm on the same side is put under the opponents arm, gripping the attacker's wrist. This results in the necessary figure-four hold. While keeping the opponent's hand pinned to the ground, the attacker begins sliding his or her pinned arm down and parallel to his or her thigh while cranking the elbow upwards. This is referred to as 'painting'. The opponent will feel pressure on their elbow and/or shoulder. From some positions, it is possible to apply this technique with a leg instead of using two arms.

2) Kimura

Kimura (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu), chicken wing/double wristlock (wrestling), or reverse keylock are terms used to specify a medial keylock known in judo as gyaku ude-garami (reverse arm entanglement) or simply as ude-garami. The application is similar to the americana, except that it is reversed. It needs some space behind the opponent to be effective, and can be applied from the side control or guard. Contrary to the americana, the opponent's wrist is grabbed with the hand on the same side, and the opposite arm is put behind the opponent's arm, again grabbing the attacker's wrist and forming a figure-four. By controlling the opponent's body and cranking the arm away from the attacker, pressure is put on the shoulder joint, and depending on the angle, also the elbow joint (in some variations the opponent's arm is brought behind their back, resulting in a finishing position resembling that of the hammerlock outlined below).

3)Guillotine Choke

Start in a standing position. You have to first pull your opponent’s head down by placing your hand on his neck or by pulling down on his GI so he is facing the ground.

Now put your arm around his neck into a position similar to a headlock. Slide your forearm down under his chin and around his neck making sure that the blade of your forearm is against his neck.

Then grasp the wrist of your choking arm with your free hand. Keep this grip on his neck tightly so that his head is wedged under your arm.

Place one leg slightly forward, stand up straight and twist your hips in the direction of your forward leg whichever you are using to execute this choke.

4) Escape from the Guillotine choke

Do not panic and tighten up. If you find yourself in your opponent's guard, do not tighten up your body. The more relaxed your are the slower the choke will start to work on you.

Throw the arm that is on the opposite of your trapped head over the other fighter's shoulder. Try to get the arm as high as you can on their back.

Apply shoulder pressure to your opponent's face with your shoulder. This will help to reduce the pressure of the choke as they lean away from you slightly.

Bring the arm that is on the side of your trapped head up with your elbow bent, and dig it between your body and the other fighter's leg. This will open their guard. This is generally the most difficult part of the entire process.

Pull your leg over the opponent's leg that you were just digging your elbow into.

Free your other leg by sliding it through the same way you did the other one. This will look like you are going to a full mounted position.

Rotate your hips to the side of your opponent's body that is on the opposite side of your head. This will relieve all the pressure from the guillotine choke.

That's all for now. See you all next practice!

Learning Festival 2010

2010-09-29T23:06:00.003+08:00

Thank you for the support for us during the Learning Festival 2010! It was held at the NIE gym.

We went through some basic standing-up throws and learned the mechanics of the throw. It was quite a fun and hope you guys learned some moves during the event.

Second Session on 22 September 2010

2010-09-28T23:59:00.009+08:00

Hi all! Good to see that everyone still comes back and didn't "pon" classes! What we did on 22 September was a recap on the previous session and a few new "moves". Hope you guys still remember what you all learned.

1) Breaking Guard

The person got caught in the guard will press the enemy's ribcage initially, before putting his/her knees below the enemy's back. With that, push the enemy's legs (of the same side where you put your knee) down by focusing on the knee. Then push it away from the body. Use your knee to pin the enemy's leg down, while you scramble up to mount on the enemy.

2) Hip-Bump-Sweep

Here a sweep is technique used to transition from a neutral or inferior position to a dominant position, such as moving from under guard to full mount, hence the alternative term 'reversal' as the dominance of positions have been reversed. Lift up your hip and place it as if like sitting on your enemy's lap. Using one hand, try to reach for the sky of the different direction, then grab your enemy's arm swiftly. Sweep according to the direction.

3) Scissor Sweep

The Brazilian Jiu-jitsu guard is not only a defensive position. Through studying the guard positions many sweeps, reversals and submissions have been developed. In Brazilian jiu jitsu the sweep or reversal will enable you to move from the bottom position to the top position. The International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation describes the sweep in its rules, in Section 4 under points: “The sweep- the athlete underneath has the opponent in his guard (between his legs) or in half guard (having one of his adversary’s legs between his) and is able to get on top of his adversary by inverting his position, 2 points.” Sweeps occur when the bottom player uses his legs to gain the top position. One example is the scissor sweep. In the scissor sweep you will shrimp out, slide your shin across your opponents belt line as your other leg’s calf is on his knee or thigh. Then sit up to grab arm to take away his base while the other hand wraps the neck, under hooks the arm or wraps the body. Then as you fall back using your weight as momentum with a kicking motion scissor your feet to turn your opponent to his back. That is what we did the previous session, courtesy of Kel.

Recap on First Practice on 15th September

2010-09-16T15:13:00.006+08:00

Hello everyone! Great seeing all of you at the practice! Hope you guys can check the blog regularly to recap what you have learned at the practice every week.

Skills learned:

1) Knee-on-stomach.

This skill requires you to pin down your opponent while he/she is still on the ground. It is a dominant ground grappling position where the top combatant places a knee on the bottom combatants torso, and usually extends the other leg to the side for balance. This position is typically obtained from side control, simply by rising up slightly and putting a knee on the opponent's stomach or chest.Tip to remember: Keep close to the ground.
More on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee-on-stomach

2) Mounting.

Do not let your opponent get away!

The mount, or mounted position, is a dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head. This is very favourable for the top combatant in several ways. The top combatant can generate considerable momentum for strikes such as punches or elbows to the head of the opponent, while the bottom combatant is restricted by the ground and by the combatant on top. Another advantage are various chokeholds and joint locks which can be applied from the top, while such holds are not feasible from the bottom. The top priority for the bottom combatant is to sweep the opponent or transition into a better position such as the guard.
(exerpt from wiki)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_%28grappling%29

3) Bridge. (also called the upa escape; escaping by thrusting the hips upwards and to the side)

The bridge is a grappling move performed from a supine position, lying down face-up. It involves lifting the pelvis off the ground so that the body weight is supported on the shoulders (or head) at one end and on the feet at the other. This move is used in wrestling and other grappling and groundfighting sports, often combined with a twisting motion, to dislodge or flip an opponent who has established a position on top. The bridge is also a common exercise position.

In Brazilian jiu-jitsu, this move is referred to as an upa, and is commonly used in attempting to dislodge an opponent in mounted position.

4) Armbar.

An armbar (sometimes called a straight armbar) is a joint lock that hyperextends the elbow joint. It is typically applied by placing the opponent's extended arm at the elbow over a fulcrum such as an arm, leg or hip, and controlling the opponent's body while leveraging the arm over the fulcrum. It is used in various grappling martial arts, including Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Catch wrestling, Judo, Jujutsu and is one of the most common ways to win a match in mixed martial arts competition[1]. The technique has several variations, with the best known and most effective in competition being the juji-gatame. The juji-gatame is so common, that "armbar" is often used synonymously with juji-gatame.

Further readings at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armlock

So that's all for now! Glad to see some passionate ones staying back after the practice to grapple. Burn on! Till next week =)

To the new members

2010-09-10T00:02:00.005+08:00

Congratulations to you guys who had signed up for the classes! I'm sure that you guys will have a good time learning some useful defense techniques and at the same time, getting to know more about yourself. After all, martial arts are about self discipline and control.

For those who don't already know, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu emphasizes taking an opponent to the ground and utilizing ground fighting techniques and submission holds involving joint-locks and chokeholds also found in numerous other arts with or without ground fighting emphasis. The premise is that most of the advantage of a larger, stronger opponent comes from superior reach and more powerful strikes, both of which are somewhat negated when grappling on the ground.

So, who knows that you have the talent in JiuJitsu and may want to take it further in the future. This class is a stepping stone for that. Discover yourself! See you guys at SRC AR3 this coming Wednesday 15 September!

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2010-09-02T23:55:00.000+08:00

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New Classes for Sem 1, 2010

2010-09-02T23:41:00.004+08:00

Hi all,

We are pleased to inform all of you that we have a new class for those who are interested to learn BJJ! This class is a basic class which will have you starting to learn and understand more of the sport and art. Classes will start from 15 September onwards and there will be 5 sessions. It will be help every Wednesday, 6-8pm at Sports Recreation Centre, Activity Room 3, all at an affordable price of $30! Join us for an exciting way to learn self-defense! And make new friends too! =)

Contact Hansel at 93387166 or Yong Hwee at 81128082 for more details.

What is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu? The Concept Behind the Martial Art.

2010-04-01T22:02:00.000+08:00

The Grappling Dummy

2010-03-15T23:14:00.002+08:00

Grappling Dummies 2.0 BJJ in Japan from martial farts on Vimeo.

this comes from a website of guy from uk that went to japan to teach English to young kids and learning bjj too.... dun u wanna do that too... and the kids look cute too... passion leh...

credits to http://www.thegrapplingdummy.com/

2009-11-19T10:51:00.003+08:00

Hi everyone, It's been a long time since I've contributed to our blogspot. The links we've provided are from http://www.richmondselfdefense.com/classes/bjj.

I have to clarify, it is just a rough guidance, knowing them by name doesn't mean your a 4 striper or blue belt. Please do study hard for your exams and train hard for BJJ.

If anyone able to get more 1 stripe to 4 stripes white belt requirements, please do link them here or email it to anyone of the admin guys.

Thank you everyone for keeping this family together.

NTUBJJ
Cheers

White Belt 4 Stripes

2009-11-19T10:48:00.001+08:00

White Belt 4 Stripes

20 additional Techniques:

Takedowns:
1 – Ko-Soto-Gari (Minor Outer Reaping Throw – Foot Sweep)

Closed Guard Position:
2 – Reverse Arm Lock
3 – “Triple Attack” (Shoulder Lock, Arm Lock, Reverse Arm Lock)

Open Guard (Spider Guard) Position:
4 – Basic Triangle
5 – Reversal Over Head Into Mount (feet on the hips)
6 – Elevator Sweep

Half-Guard Position:
7 – Placing your Opponent Back into your Guard
8 – Taking the Back (Rear Mount)
9 – Calf Crush

Passing The Guard:
10 – Butterfly Guard Pass (grabbing the ankles, head to one side of the hips, jump to other side)
11 – Spider Guard Pass

Side Mount Position:
12 – “Paper Cutter” Cross Choke

Mount Position:
13 – “Triple Attack” Chokes (from the Mount/Rear Mount Position), and Arm lock off the “Triple Attack” Chokes

Knee On The Belly Position:
14 – “Baseball” Choke (finishing in a north-south position)

Turtle Position:
15 – Clock Choke (at least two variations)

Defenses and Escapes:
16 – Mount Escape: Hands on opponents’ hips, bridge, bring your knee in between your opponents’ legs, finish with an ankle lock
17 – Escaping the Rear Mount (ending in 100 Kilograms side control)
18 – Ankle Lock Defense (with, and without the gi)
19 – Knee on the Belly Escape with Gi: hand on outside knee, other hand on center of belt
20 – Knee on the Belly Escape without the Gi: Upa, knee up, scissor legs and grab leg, finish with single or double leg

White Belt 3 Stripes

2009-11-19T10:48:00.000+08:00

White Belt 3 Stripes

26 additional Techniques:

Self-Defense Techniques:
1 – Headlock Escape from standing position (two variations)
2 – Headlock Escape from on the ground (two variations)

Takedowns:
3 – O-Uchi-Gari (Major Inner Reaping Throw)

Closed Guard Position:
4 – Punch Defense (controlling opponents’ head and arm)
5 – Pedalada (controlling wrist with both hands, your feet on the hips, kick)

Open Guard (Spider Guard) Position:
6 – Show Different Grips (both sleeves, one sleeve and one lapel grip) and Foot Placements (biceps,triceps, hips, behind the knees, combinations of those placements)
7 – Show Grips and Foot Placements with opponent walking from side to side

Butterfly Guard Position:
8 – Basic Side Sweep
9 – Counter Sweep to Opponents’ basing on foot (push ankle out with your foot)

Half-Guard Position:
10 – Three Points of Position (block the cross face, be on your side, have the outside under hook)
11 – Two ways to get the Outside Under Hook:
(1) Make a Frame, and Swim Arm Under
(2) Bridge and Swim Arm Under

Passing The Guard:
12 – Standing Closed Guard Pass (controlling sleeve at the wrist and opponents’ lapels)
13 – Half-Guard Pass (you can use the Knee Drive Pass, ending in Side Control)

Side Mount Position:
14 – Head and Arm Choke (Kata Gatame)
15 - Mount by grabbing your foot from Reverse Kesa Gatame and feed it across the stomach

Mount Position:
16 – Opponent’s Arm Around His Head Control

Knee On The Belly Position:
17 – Spinning Arm lock (when opponent pushes on your knee)
18 – Cross Choke (ending with your knees on the mat)

Rear Mount Position:
19 – Arm Lock

Turtle Position:
20 – Taking the Back
21 – Leg Arm Lock (triangle the arm with your legs and push your hips down)

Leg Locks (from inside the opponents’ guard):
22 – Knee Bar
23 – Figure-Four Foot Lock (a.k.a. Toehold)

Defenses and Escapes:
24 – Kimura Lock (from inside the guard) Defense
25 – Triangle Choke (from inside the guard) Escape
26 – Cross Choke (from inside the guard) Defense

White Belt 2 Stripes

2009-11-19T10:42:00.003+08:00

White Belt 2 Stripes

30 additional Techniques:

Self-Defense:
1 – Standing Rear Choke Counter (Seoi-Nage [Shoulder Throw], O-Soto-Gari [Major Outer Reaping Throw])

Takedowns:
2 – Single Leg
3 – O-Soto-Gari (Major Outer Reaping Throw)
4 – O-Goshi (Major Hip Throw)

Closed Guard Position:
5 – Cross Choke (Two Variations – Palm up, Palm Down)
6 – Triangle Choke
7 – Scissor Sweep

Passing The Guard:
8 – Knee Drive Pass (ending in Kesa-Gatame side control)
9 – Knee Drive Pass (ending in the Mount Position)

Side Mount Position:
10 – Reverse Kesa Gatame Control Hold
11 – North-South Control Hold
12 – Strikes From the Control Techniques (punches, forearms, elbows, head butts, knees)
13 – Kimura Shoulder Lock (From Side Control)
14 – Kimura Shoulder Lock (From North-South Position)

Mount Position:
15 – Spinning Arm lock (when opponent pushes up on your chest)
16 – Cross Choke (Two Variations – Palm down, and Palm up)

Knee On The Belly Position:
17 – Switching Sides (when opponent pushes on your knee)
18 – Switching to High Chest (when opponent pushes on your knee)
19 – Straight Arm Lock (showing proper grips with the gi)

Rear Mount Position:
20 – Collar and Lapel Gi Choke
21 – Collar and Hand Behind the Neck Gi Choke
22 – Collar and Hand Behind Your Head Gi Choke

Turtle Position:
23 – Proper Control and Positioning
24 – Punching

Leg Locks (from inside the opponents’ Guard):
25 – Ankle Lock
26 – Heel Hook

Defenses and Escapes:
27 – Arm Lock (from inside the guard) Defense
28 – Guillotine Choke Defense (from standing position, and from inside your opponents’ guard)
29 – Side Control Escape: getting to your knees
30 – Mount Escape: Upa Escape

White Belt 1 Stripe

2009-11-19T10:42:00.001+08:00

White Belt 1 Stripe
30 Techniques:
Self-Defense:
1 – Break Falls (Forward over both shoulders, Falling to both sides, Falling backwards)
2 – Standing Up In Base (from both sides)
3 – Rear Bear Hug Escape

Takedowns:
4 – Closing the distance by using punches, and by crashing your opponent’s punches
5 – Pummeling for Double Under Hooks, into Upper Body Lock Takedown
6 – Double Leg

Strikes:
7 – Jab Punch
8 – Cross Punch
9 – Foot Jab
10 – Right Kick

Guard Position:
11 – Arm lock
12 – Kimura Lock
13 – Hip Heist Sweep
14 – Guillotine Choke

Passing The Guard:
15 – Diving Arms Under Legs and Stacking Opponent

Side Mount Position:
16 – Head and Arm Control
17 – Kesa Gatame Control
18 – 100 Kilograms Control
19 – Strikes From the Control Techniques (punches, forearms, elbows, head butts, knees)
20 – Americana Shoulder Lock
21 – Knee Drive Mount (from Head and Arm Control Position)

Mount Position:
22 – Proper Control and Base
23 – Punches
24 – Americana Shoulder Lock

Knee On The Belly Position:
25 – Achieving the Knee on the Belly Position (starting in side control: with the gi grips, and without)
26 – Punching (with good balance)

Rear Mount Position:
27 – Proper Control and Position
28 – Mata Leao (“Kill the Lion”) Choke (a.k.a. Rear Naked Choke)

Defenses and Escapes:
29 – Side Control Escape: recovering your guard
30 – Mount Escape: Shrimp Escape

taken from http://www.richmondselfdefense.com/classes/bjj/white-belt-1-stripe/

ATAMA Gear is Here

2009-11-11T18:43:00.002+08:00

muahahahahahahah more atama gear is here ..... photo shoot time!!!

update

2009-10-19T00:16:00.001+08:00

Hers's is an update on the timing of the upcoming saturday session:
Venue : Fight G Academy (walking distance from Clarke Quay MRT station)
Date : Every saturday
Time : Morning 10am
First session : 24 Oct 2009
Fee : SGD60 for 10 sessions

fight quest BJJ

2009-10-18T22:56:00.001+08:00

Kimura

2009-10-04T10:43:00.001+08:00

face book page

2009-09-15T00:42:00.001+08:00

go go go...
FACE BOOK

BJJ Babe......

2009-09-09T22:52:00.000+08:00

Something random again.....
KYRA GRACIE
Female black belt....

BJJ mundials 2009

2009-09-06T21:57:00.001+08:00

was bored and saw this on the web

CCA week Flyer

2009-08-16T21:47:00.001+08:00

NTU BJJ on newspaper!

2009-08-15T00:06:00.004+08:00

NTU BJJ is on Lian He Zao Bao 12/8/09, zbNOW pg 4. Yeah~~~

Notice

For those interested in BJJ or wanted to have a peek on what BJJ is all about, you are welcome to our booth located between LT 6 and LT 7, North Spine. It will be on from 17 Aug to 19 Aug, 9am to 5pm. For guys that are new to NTU, below is a map for our location of our booth(purple in colour). So come down and support us!!

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

2009-03-20T20:14:00.006+08:00

"BJJ? What is tat? Ground fighting har? Is there grading like belt system?" I am sure we guys often encounter this kinda of qns. Therefore I thought mayb it is a gd idea to do a brief write up on the history of BJJ and the grading system so that ppl will haf a better understanding of this sport.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ/Gracie Jiu-Jitsu) is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting. It is a derivative of early 20th century Kodokan Judo which was itself then a recently-developed system (founded in 1882), based on multiple schools of Japanese jujutsu.
Like judo, it promotes the principle that smaller, weaker person can successfully defend themselves against a bigger, stronger assailant using leverage and proper technique; applying joint-locks and chokeholds to defeat them. BJJ can be trained for self defense, sport grappling tournaments (gi and no-gi) and Mixed Martial Art (MMA) competition. Sparring (commonly referred to as 'rolling') and live drilling play a major role in training, and a premium is placed on performance, especially in competition.

Prominence
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu came to international prominence in the martial arts community in the 1990s, when Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu expert Royce Gracie won the first, second and fourth Ultimate Fighting Championships, which at the time were single elimination martial arts tournaments. Royce fought against often much-larger opponents who were practicing other styles, including boxing, shoot-fighting, karate, judo, tae kwon do and wrestling. It has since become a staple art for many MMA fighters and is largely credited for bringing widespread attention to the importance of ground fighting. Sport BJJ tournaments continue to grow in popularity worldwide and have given rise to no-gi submission grappling tournaments, such as the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship.

Style of fighting
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu emphasizes ground fighting techniques and submission holds involving joint-locks and chokeholds also found in numerous other arts with or without ground fighting emphasis. The premise is that most of the advantage of a larger, stronger opponent comes from superior reach and more powerful strikes, both of which are somewhat negated when grappling on the ground.
BJJ permits a wide variety of techniques to take the fight to the ground after taking a grip. Once the opponent is on the ground, a number of maneuvers (and counter-maneuvers) are available to manipulate the opponent into a suitable position for the application of a submission technique. Achieving a dominant position on the ground is one of the hallmarks of the BJJ style, and includes effective use of the guard position to defend oneself from bottom, and passing the guard to dominate from top position with side control, mount, and back mount positions. This system of maneuvering and manipulation can be likened to a form of kinetic chess when utilized by two experienced practitioners. A submission hold is the equivalent of checkmate in the sport. However, it is possible for a combat situation to continue even after a proper submission is performed.

Grading
There are minimum age requirements for belt promotions. Blue belts are never awarded to anyone under the age of 16. For promotion to black belt the minimum age is 19 years old according to the main regulating body of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation.
Stripes may be awarded to any rank below black belt, but like the belts themselves, they tend to be given at the instructor's discretion, and may be in recognition of accomplishments like noticeable improvement or tournament victories. However, not all schools award stripes, or award them consistently, so the number of stripes a person has is not necessarily a good measure of their accomplishments or time in training. When they are used, it is standard for a student to receive four stripes before being promoted to the next rank.
Black belts can receive degrees, up to 9th degree, for as long as they train or teach the art. At 7th degree, the black belt is replaced by an alternately red and black belt. At 9th and 10th degree, the belt becomes solid red. Only the founding Gracie Brothers Helio, Carlos, and their brothers will ever have the 10th degree red belt.[18] The Gracie family members who are 9th degrees belt holders are Carlson Gracie, Reylson Gracie, Relson Gracie, Reyson Gracie, and Rorion Gracie.

The grading system goes like this:

Junior belt colours (15 and under) : White-> Yellow-> Orange-> Green

Adult belt colours ( 16 and above) : White-> Blue-> Purple-> Brown-> Black-> Red

Video showing the "flexibility" of BJJ techniques : Triangle choke from Armbar

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Jiu-Jitsu

CaiPing's 21st bday

2009-02-03T23:09:00.005+08:00

What is BJJ @NTU without all the fun? Besides training hard ( watch out for our next post… impressive training pics by our new members), we also play just as hard!! This time… It's our dear welfare com- CaiPing's 21st Bday!! And of coz , we wun miss out the fun! ( n the free drinks n food hahaha!!!

Cai Ping n BJJ hunks

Our BJJ babes

"Family Photo"

*PS:
Cai Ping would also like to say a BIG "Thank you" for coming to the party and for giving her all the lovely presents!! *

PS (again) : we are nt advertising for Starhub :P

1st club "table tennis" training -080109

2009-01-08T23:11:00.009+08:00

It's the First CLUB training for seniors!!!

So what did we do?

First, we do warm-ups. A very special warm up indeed! Transporting the mats from Gym (B1) to Sports Room (lvl2). Yes, 'transport', cos we don't 'carry'. We use trolleys! And lifts! But it wasn't easy at all! Those who were present should know what I mean. It's a pity I forgot to take photographs of the whole process. Why don't u all repeat everything next training so that i can take photo? Haha!

Next, what's BJJ without Grappling? Here's a video of Daniel and Shah Kiat.

Grappling aside, we BJJ ppl sure know how to have fun! FUN! We made full use of NIE's resources! Haha!

Table tennis!
First, it was doubles! ( the way we played was really cartoon)

Cai Ping and Eric

Kenneth and Hark Keat

Fizh too!

Then somehow Cai Ping and Fizh were eliminated.

Ivan played too!

BJJ is so fun! Table tennis! What's next? Let's play squash!

GUess wat i found in my email

2009-01-06T23:33:00.001+08:00

Testing 123

2009-01-06T21:03:00.001+08:00

just testing how this new scheme post!!!!! ER.....TESTING 123!!!!

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Sketch

2008-12-31T00:03:00.004+08:00

haha i realize i didn't post anything since 10/12/08.....smt to help pass ur time..lol... if u guys feel offended wif this one let me noe i will take it down...

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Sketch

and BTW its not GAY!!!!!!

Steamboat

2008-12-14T01:24:00.004+08:00

Sorry guys to keep u all waiting. Recently had been bz with sum personal matters n lack of ideas to blog abt. N this is my 1st time to manage a blog heee... Hmm.. let start off with our last steamboat outing.

Venue: Tian tian Steamboat

Jia Min. Joy, Xiao Shan, Alfred and Cai Ping

Our "Silat" Boy - Kenneth

Starting frm the left: JiaMin. Joy, XiaoShan.Alfred, CaiPing, Me. Yuhau, Eric,Ace,Jonathan, and lastly, Shah Kiat

Grappling tournament

2008-11-20T09:01:00.001+08:00

latest news from fight works asia.
there will be a MMA/Grappling tournament in december.
currently projected to be on the 15th of december.

will keep you guys updated as the data come in.

ahem...

2008-11-15T10:15:00.000+08:00

GOOD LUCK FOR EXAMS!!!!!!

=D

We came, We saw and We conquered...

2008-10-12T19:28:00.002+08:00

we raise the flag of victory as we conquered the troops of the bamboo skewers at HANABI...haha

Rickson and Royler Gracie BJJ Demonstration

2008-10-02T21:22:00.002+08:00

masters at work...

BJJ students are invincible !!!Muahaha

2008-09-28T01:09:00.001+08:00

Muahaha... we have nothing to fear now...not even death touch..

Jiu-Jitsu is like tight jeans???

2008-09-28T01:03:00.000+08:00

Wat a weird way of describing??Hmmm...

Layout changed

2008-09-26T23:59:00.003+08:00

i realized that some different browsers cant display properly the format of the blog... so i decided to change the layout to suit most browsers.. let me know if u cant display the blog properly

Pretty girls must protect themselves

2008-09-23T12:19:00.002+08:00

some techniques used for self defense; bridge and roll, and sweeps

3 Step Sparring game

2008-09-23T01:14:00.002+08:00

the aim is just move 3 steps and the opponent moves 3 steps too..
the aim of this is to have fluidity in movement of body position.E.g. mount and side control..

Food for Thought

2008-09-21T15:42:00.001+08:00

Jan 21, 2006, TKD black belt raped and murdered
PDF Article
wat are ur tots on this..

BLUE BELT DEMOs

2008-09-21T13:38:00.002+08:00

okay now guys to make BJJ blue belt ur life goal now LOL!!!!!

BJJ fight science

2008-09-18T22:13:00.001+08:00

BJJ commercials

2008-09-18T10:38:00.000+08:00

GUESS !

2008-09-09T13:39:00.005+08:00

Q: Look at the following pictures and choose the correct answer.

A) Cai Ping was arm-barred.

B) Cai Ping arm-barred somebody.

bjj warms up again

2008-09-06T16:38:00.002+08:00

warms up are the most important thing before any sports..so ppl pls take care of urshelf.. we have so little time each lesson so we usually spent little time on tat.. u all are grownups now u know wat to do...

my first fight with a bjj black belt

2008-09-05T19:02:00.001+08:00

gone in 20 seconds...

MOVIE POPCORN READY Liao!!!

2008-09-03T23:14:00.001+08:00

wheres the female movie clips man!!!! i wanna watch a good show!!! my popcorn is ready!!

Random post

2008-09-03T13:03:00.003+08:00

OK, the tribe has spoken.... I want FEMALE GRAPPLING VIDEOS =D

Especially the battle between XS and JM. It's great, both shown excellent BJJ techniques and ~~sportsmanship~~ sportswomanship.

Come come XS, post it here ^^

guess what i got?

2008-08-31T17:22:00.002+08:00

BJJ Combinations go try it on ur Pillow

2008-08-25T23:19:00.000+08:00

go try these moves and have a match with ur beloved pillow

BJJ for Kids

2008-08-24T19:03:00.002+08:00

this is funny leh..... kids just having fun

RE: Gi personalisation

2008-08-23T13:31:00.004+08:00

results of a bored afternoon

Gi personalisation

2008-08-23T02:25:00.002+08:00

hey guys, this is farhan.
i was talking to a few ppl about this idea.
i was thinking if aybe we'd want to sorta print our names or nicknames and sew onto our gi. example would be like in the picture. then we can put like 'dasboi' or 'fizh' or 'small mt' those kinda things. what do you think?

SLOW MO BJJ

2008-08-14T21:11:00.001+08:00

VVEEEEERRRRYYYY SLOOOOOWWWWW

Gentle reminder

2008-08-12T21:12:00.001+08:00

just a gentle reminder

Activity Room 4 @ 6 – 7pm for Monday and Wednesday starting 18 aug 08

Jiu-Jitsu Flow Drill

2008-08-10T12:03:00.001+08:00

can we try this next time...

Kiai Master

2008-08-08T20:42:00.001+08:00

HAIZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

my body aches!!!

2008-08-04T23:02:00.002+08:00

i guess everyones bodies will aches tomorrow morning.. great fun today thanks to Jason for coming down..and i'm not the silat guy..argggggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone!!:)

2008-08-02T16:10:00.005+08:00

Hey everyone!!:)

Sch's starting real soon and i believe we're all itching to grapple. We managed to book
the room 2 on Mon (4/8) and wed (6/8) from 6-8/pm ( so even if u are working, try to come too ok:) ).

We would greatly appreciate if you guys could come (with GIs !!) esp on wed cos we will be bringing some interested hunks and babes:) and maybe our proposed bjj club staff advisor down to see us have fun ! I am sure they would want to see the hunks in BJJ:) And to our dear pres yuhao, we will be relying on u to ensure that the guys will come ok! ( pls pass this msg to yuhao if u see him around)

cheers,
cai ping and xiao shan

Time Table for the New BJJ classes

2008-07-22T17:58:00.005+08:00

the following are the details received email from the NTU SRC

(Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)

Dear Representatives,

I have reserved Activity Room 4 @ 6 – 7pm for Monday and Wednesday (10 sessions in 5 weeks)

* Please be remind that Semester recess period is from 20 to 28 Sep 08.

Please take note and also help to inform/remind the instructor that :-

1) We will set up a booth to recruit participants on 12-14 Aug 08 along the North Spine walkway.

6) S&RCtr staff will mend the registration booth. Each student will be paying in cash a registration fee of $20/10 sessions per course. Receipt will be issued.

For your action :-

1) We can help you print brochures, please approach us 1 week or earlier (with your softcopy or sample), before the date of the recruitments.

2) You are encourage to be present at the booth and PROMOTE your course.

Hope to hear your reply soon.

Thank you.

BJJ in movies

2008-07-20T18:48:00.002+08:00

Don't try these moves at home!!!
Donnie Yen vs Collin Chou Flash Point End Fight

Donnie Yen Vs Sammo Hung

2 man crash course on BJJ

2008-07-18T17:00:00.002+08:00

this is a TV program shown on discovery channel called fight quest where two ppl have crash course on traditional martial arts..this is for those who haven't seen it before enjoy...

7th July 2008 - Activity Room 2

2008-07-11T19:49:00.013+08:00

Here are some of the photos and videos as promised, thanks for the patient wait!

Videos of girls grappling won't be posted here, cos we need to protect our image :) One day, when we can grapple with er, 'grace', we will post it up here!

Doan in blue with Caiping on her left

Farhan confident of the grapple with Doan..

Tired Farhan AFTER grappling with Doan ..

Other grapples to learn from :)

Farhan (White) vs Kenneth (Black)

For those who missed the last session, do some self-learning.. haha

Ok, i don't know the name of this one...

This too...

and this is "Yuhau's Style" (just like there's a Doan's Choke )

(some videos exceed the max upload size, so i cant post it here)

Feed Back on Monday pract...

2008-07-04T19:41:00.000+08:00

just wanna know who can come on Monday and wat is the earliest time that u guys can come... so we can bk the suitable timing...

Cam Whoring

2008-06-27T22:23:00.000+08:00

As promised, these are the photos we took during training on 26/06/08.

Just some random pictures that we've took.

"sigh", I thought I'm liked by all of them. Apparantly not =[

After the long hours of training, everyone just throw their Gi's on the floor. The powerpuff girls are so nice to help us fold back our Gi's. Love them =D

(Thanks to all the girls of BJJ@NTU, every little things you girls did for us, which we took it for granted, we really wanna say, THANK YOU)

Haha, we requested Jason to put on a White Belt for photo taking, its all good, his very sporting and goes along with our request. Introducing our lady champ, Doan from vietnam ^^

Bahhhh, Me and Yu Hau cam whoring, nothing much to say =D

Kenneth, posing with his beloved black Gi. And yes, his doing BJJ, not Silat ^^

Our powerpuff girls, the rest of the girls wasn't around. (Shan, CP, CL and etc, faster come back from holiday, we need you girls!)

And Farhan, same as me, thought we were liked by them =[

YES, our family photo, all GI photo. No worries for those who were not able to make it, we will meet up next week for another photo taking ^^

I suggested doing a Dojo photo where everyone has to kneel formally. But I just can't sit properly and yeah, a candid shot from me =P

Me, Faizal and Yu Hau. Faizal came over to our school for some lessons, he wanted to see my training. So why wait? I called upon him and ta-da, here he is =D

The red rangers. Jonathan, me and Hark Keat. 3 of us decided to get the Red Gi. Think we looked really good in red, skill wise...who cares? hehe.

The Whitessssss, omg, ladies Gi look so damm good.

Sorry for the random sequence, Im having a splitting headache and still trying to recover from it. I hope you guys had fun during the training which I did.

Great grappling

2008-06-27T00:07:00.001+08:00

Great grappling with everyone tonight, will be updating photos as soon as I knock off from work =D

SMT TO EASE THE ITCH

2008-06-23T22:13:00.000+08:00

as the title suggest here's smt for my BJJ ppl, hope this cures the BJJ poison...
Mundials 2008 Black belt open division
Roberto Abreu "Cyborg" vs. Andre Galvao

2008 Mundials womans match

Choking on the World's Biggest Stage... Literally!

from the match above i have learned one thing "i will rem to tap next time" :(

Guess who's taking the back?

2008-06-21T19:59:00.000+08:00

guess what i found on the net....

Top 10 Signs That You've Grappled Too Much

2008-06-09T23:25:00.000+08:00

got this when surfing other sites...
Top 10 Signs That You've Grappled Too Much

10) You know who Mitsuyo Maeda is.

9) You understand that a "Kimura" is not a traditional Japanese women's dress.

8) You have been involved in a "Gi vs. No-Gi" argument at some point.

7) Your animal impressions suck, as they always involve a turtle and you on all fours, not moving.

6) In bed, you refer to missionary as "Guard."

5) When someone says "Triangle," you think "Choke."

4) You correct people on the internet who spell out BJJ as "Brazilian Jujitsu."

3) Every time you give somebody a hug, you make sure you have the double underhooks.

2) You know that "SAMBO" isn't a Latin dance.

1) You "Say Gracie" before every meal.

okay okay i know not all we understand but i love no 7.... LOL

The Arrival

2008-06-09T17:35:00.000+08:00

Let me thank everyone that had participated in this Mass Order. It's you people that made this possible. And of course many thanks to www.atama-kimonos.com for delivering it to us so quickly, really nice to work with them. Great services =D

Anyway, cut the story short, you people know whats this is,

BEHOLD, HERES OUR GEAR

Now, lets take a look at all the pictures

Firstly, I'll introduce the 5 pretty ladies whom ordered the Gears....
Cai Ping, Xiao Shan, JiaMin, Luan Yin who bought the Gold Weave Ladies White and lastly our champ, Doan who bought the Gold Weave Ladies Blue along with Yee Chok's Summer Blue.

Next will be our Mundial Black, Kenneth and Kusuma. ( Most expensive of all )
Black and Gold wording, You can't be wrong with this 2 colour combination =D

Up next will be our Mundial Whites, Anil and Farhan. Both seniors of our BJJ@NTU team, great selection and choice of Gi's. Presenting to you, the BigBoyzToyz

Lastly, the WannaBe's, Mundial Red, Hark Keat, Jonathan and myself. I present to everyone, The MeanMachines

Now, for the posing, at least for the belts =D. On the left, obviously longest, Hark Keat, Myself, Jonathan, Farhan, Kenneth, Yee Chok, Kusuma, Anil, Doan, Xiao Shan, Cai Ping, Jia Min and lastly, Luan Yin ( Happy birthday Luan Yin ).

This is how it looks like when it first arrived. And seconds after =D

For those whose interested in training with Gi, and wish to purchase the same ones, can always contact me, you guys know how to reach me =D

I'll be most willing to do the mass order again. But meanwhile, those who already ordered from me, its time to have fun.

I'll like to thank the 13 ppl who trusted me in this mass order. And everyone who helped me in this mass order.

PS: Hark Keat, thanks for helping me lots, together with the rest.
PS again : Jonathan, thanks for helping with the accounting when we were short of $$
PS again : Xiao Shan, thanks for coordinating with your sisters
PS again : Doan, thanks for giving me the $$ in USD, erm....well its an experience I guess? Never ever hold a 100usd note in my hands be4, hehe