Hi Team! It’s time for our weekly blog post. This week at our Enoggera gym we pivoted for a palette cleanser into some take downs! Specifically, no gi wrestling. For grappling, it is my firm opinion that wrestling reigns supreme for the standing portion of the sport. Don’t get me …
Hi Team! It’s time for our weekly blog post. This week at our Enoggera gym we have been working on passing and retaining our guard in BJJ. That is to say, keeping our legs between us and our opponent. A seemingly simple concept, it turns rather more complex in practice …
Hi Team! It’s time for our weekly blog post. This week’s blog post is another exciting update! For those who don’t know, we have opened a new location in America under Professor Rob Austin. Rob is a very good friend of mine, and we have been talking about opening a …
Hi Team! It’s time for our weekly blog post. This week’s blog post is a quick reminder about the club rules, specifically around hygiene and training whilst sick. We are heading into the winter months, so common colds, head flus, viruses, and so on will be taking hold around the …
Hi Team! It’s time for our weekly blog post. This week in our Enoggera gym, we are taking a hard right turn from our control series to focus on guard play as a nice palette cleanser. I understand that drilling the same positions can get stale, and I also understand …
Hi Team! Disaster strikes this week at our Tasmanian gym! A thief, a scoundrel, a scallywag, a rapscallian broke into our gym and stole our work phone and eftpos machine! We are not sure when this happened, but this mysterious thief managed their theft in an even more mysterious way! …
Hi Team! It’s that time again for another blog post! This week we have been working on one of the most basic fundamentals of BJJ – the mount position. Mount is often overlooked as not flashy and somewhat difficult to control. These are both true statements. However, mount is in …
Hey Team! We have some exciting news – our sister academy down in Tasmania is now up and running! Located at 295 Cambridge Road, Mornington, 7018, we have been off to a great start with many new faces and a great budding community. Instructor Evan is doing a phenomenal job! …
Hey guys! Welcome back to the blog! Today, we are discussing gym hygeine and the appropriate etiquette therein. This one will be more self explanatory than not, but it is worth going over anyway, just to remove all doubt. When training a close contact sport, it is imperative that we …
Have you ever had a roll where you got absolutely mauled by your opponent and your ego got shattered? After that roll, did you want to save face but were too scared or shy to say “I wasn’t really trying.”? Boy do I have the phrase for you! If you’re …
