Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Clubs and blog located in Auckland / Sandringham and Epsom / New Zealand contact us on info@aucklandbjj.com.
Run by IBJJF Black belts (1 degree) Stuart Mitchell and Serge Morel.
Our classes are on Mondays and Wednesday from 6-8 pm at 681 Sandringham Road (Sandringham) and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-8 pm at 6 Woodhall Road (Epsom) Auckland, New Zealand.
This week, we taught the topic of the turtle. It is the last position of our twelve program. We taught the fundamentals of the position, back take from turtle and three reversals and/or guard retention techniques. For the submissions, we also taught the clock choke and the rolling crucifix. James is back from New York where he trained intensily Renzo Gracie Academy. He was attending the advanced classes on a daily basis under the tutelage of John Danaher. James has absorbed a vast amount of knowledge during his stay (about 4 months) and we are looking to learn them. On his first week back, James taught a couple of side control escapes. James concentrated on nogi training. Therefore, I would expect him to be teaching nogi in Sandringham on Wednesday and Nogi in Epsom on Thursday.
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Serge received his second degree from the IBJJF.
Another big milestone for the club as we now have 2 IBJJF certified second degrees black belts.
If you are interested to join our club, please come down for a free class or email us if you have any questions.
Come down and join us before the New Year rush as you might miss out as you can close new members if we reach our limits.
Also, we are still taking enrollment for the Junior Squad for term 1 at Sandringham.
On Friday 22 November, we had our first graduation at the De La Salle College.
Jay has been teaching wrestling and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at his old college for this year.
Jay will be moving on to teach at Marcellin College next year and will also start a BJJ program at his new work location where he will working at as school teacher.
Marcio will take over the role of coaching the BJJ program at De La Salle next year.
It is great to see our students volunteering by teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in our local schools.
Jay will also be running our Junior classes at Sandringham next year.
We are now taking enrollment for the Junior Squad at our Sandringham location (age group: 10-17)
This week, James visited the Junior Squad at the De La Salle College.
