Training report: Back Position and last call to order the rash guard and nogi shorts

This week, we covered the back position which rewards you with 4 points for establishing it.

Also, this is the last week to place your order for the rash gaurd and shorts with Laurance.

We would like to place the order asap.

Also, the registration for the NZ grappler NOGI regionals is already open.
Early bird finishing on 30 Sept
Last registration is 08 Ocotober.

https://sjjfnz.smoothcomp.com/en/event/1007


Same deal as usual, the club will refund half of your entry fees, $100 prize for most subs, beer and pizzas at our local pub after.

We are still taking new members at both sites (all level welcome). Twenty dollars per week and no contract. Come down for a free class and/or send us an email.

Thanks for the support.

Training report: Mount position and Inter Club competition

This week, we covered the topic of the mount position.

It is the first position that we teach in the program as it scores the most points: 4 points.

Next week, we will be covering the back position which also scores 4 points.

On Thursday, Stu also covered the competition rules in order to prepare for the inter club which was held at Sandringham.

Buckland Beach BJJ and ETK HQ came and supported our invitational event.

Prior to a NZ grappler competition, we like to prepare ourselves by hosting a little competition 4 weeks before.

it get students in the moods. test some techniques and many of them it was their first opportunity to test their skills.

We made 5 groups of 4 and everyone has a guaranteed 2 matches.

The inter-club competition concluded with an open mats where everyone got to to roll with another 30 minutes.

Thank you for the support.

Please note that we are still taking new members at our Epsom and Sandringham locations.

Congratulations to Andy Medcalf on his black belt promotion

We would like to congratulate Andy on his promotion to black belt by his Professor Raphael Dos
Santos.

Andy is the head coach and owner of Buckland Beach BJJ.

he also runs  fun raising events For Variety The children 's charity.

Well done.


For more information to train at Buckland Beach BJJ, please check out his website.

https://bucklandsbeachbjj.co.nz/

Training report: Questions and Answers

I always love to run the topic of the questions and answers as it concludes the 12 weeks program and

provide me with feedback on how we are doing.

I usually ask the new students to ask questions and attempt to answers them.

Often the questions are related to a week that a student would have missed and we easily cover that again.

It means that it is an opportunity to catch up with information due to a busy schedule.

But also, the questions covers some techniques that are not in our fundamentals.

Which is great because we acknowledge that it is impossible to offer the perfect program.

Maxwell asked about spider guard passes

Jordan asked about side control and knee on the belly escapes.

Davey asked about omoplata sweep and triangle.

We also had the visit from Marcelo on Thursday.

No gi season has started

NZ grappler has confirmed the date of Saturday 13 October for the nogi regional therefore we have
started our nogi season accordingly.

Also we have added our inter club invitational competition to prepare for the regionals on Saturday 15 September.

The invitational event is not to replace or compete with the NZ grappler competition.

It is for our students and a couple of clubs to get together and offer an opportunity to test our skills in a friendly environment.

I think it is ideal for beginners to try out before they can enter the regionals.

We also will have some of our coaches Laurance and Luis to start referring as well.

It is a short 2 hours event from 10 am to 12 am.

We will just create group of 4 people of the nearest weight with a double elimination system with guarantee 2 matches.

We will also seed the matches so you will be matched up with same belt level in your first match.

The event will be hosted at our Sandringham because of the space in terms of 160 sqm of mats but also the car parks and seating arrangement for the spectators.

We are doing nogi on Wednesdays in Sandringham and Tuesdays at Epsom.

We are also organising a pre order for rash guard...more information to follow.