On the 17th of January we had our second Police training session at Auckland BJJ. Several of our members are police officers and they had asked if they can use the Dojo to do some training and practice off duty. We were happy to help and Stu and Jora helped out organizing the training.  We covered a few techniques that we thought would help these officers, and then we did some sparing sessions where they could apply these techniques. Below is a video of one of our arrest the black belt sessions :-) Auckland BJJ is happy to help the NZ police. Here is a gratuitous shot of my daughter and a police car.

  Please send an email to enroll your kids for the term 3 which starts on Tuesday 27 July 2021. We have 2 classes available per week depending on age and maturity. The kids classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 03.45 pm to 4.30 pm.  The age range starts from 5 years old.  The Junior classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 04.30 pm to 06.00 pm.  The age range starts from 10 years old.  As usual, we will have limited spots to ensure a good ration of teacher/students. Please email at info@aucklandbjj.com Thank you.

It was a busy week which concluded by the graduations for the kids and Juniors classes. The week started with a seminar with Rob Sensei on Tuesday. Rob is a 6th Judoka and is the head coach at the Auckland University Judo Club. Lawrence also brought his gold medal from the inaugural ADCC NZ competition. On Thursdays we had graduations for the kids and juniors classes which conclude this school term. They will have a break during the school holidays. Some of the Juniors Squad students will be attending the adult classes during the school holidays. We are taking new members for the classes (kids, Juniors and adults). Please email us to book a space for free classes. This is important for all the classes as we have limited spaces.  

  We have the pleasure to host a seminar with Rob Levy (6th Dan Judo). Rob is the president of the Auckland University Judo Club and their head Sensei. The seminar will be on Tuesday 06/07/21 and will be free to our members. " Rob   Levy   represented New Zealand as a top level international competitor for over ten years. As well as being a New Zealand weight division and open weight champion, he has medalled at Oceania, US Open, Maccabi Games and Commonwealth Championships.   Rob   represented New Zealand at three World Championships and has spent a substantial amount of time living, competing and training in Asia, the UK and Europe.   Rob   has also been a New Zealand Masters Champion (that's the "old bastards"), a New Zealand Kata Champion (and judge) and medalled for New Zealand in the first Asian Masters Open in 2010. Rob  was also Judo New Zealand's Senior Men's Coach from 2011-2016 and holds coaching qualifications from the British Judo Association and

The next couple of months are loaded with competitions of different rules and format. 26 June 2021. Auckland will host the inaugural ADDC event in August. It will held during the New Zealand Combat Expo at the EventFinda Stadium, Silverfield , Nortshore, If you like Nogi, this is the place to compete or watch as a spectactor. The deadline to register is 22/06. Link to sign up or for more info https://adcc-new-zealand.smoothcomp.com/en/event/4860 17 July 2021 BOP Open Gi Tournament This Gi event will be held in the heart of Rotorua. It will be good reason to do a bit of local tourism as well. The deadline to sign up is 14/07 The rules are SJJIF. https://sjjif.com/rule-book/ To sign up or for more info https://smoothcomp.com/en/event/4881 09 August 2021 The combat Centre Jiu-Jitsu will be hosting the TCC Jiu-Jitsu Gi Open . The event will be GI and will be using the IBJJF rules. https://ibjjf.com/books-videos It is probably the first competition to use the IBJJF rules, after NZ grappler

The first week of semester 2 was a busy seven days of activities. Monday was a public holidays but Laurance decided to run a class instead of an open mats. Tuesdays to Friday were the normal classes schedule with James taking the usual nogi Friday night class. We had our usual open mats on Saturday where our students come down to drill and rolls. To conclude this week, we also had a open mats from 12-2 pm on Sunday as well. Our kids and adults programs are striving and we are still taking new members. Our kids classes are taught by 1 brown belt and 3 blue belts instructors. Our adults classes are taught by 4 black belts and 1 brown belt. Please send an email or message for more information and book in your free class.