Wednesday schedule: 6-7pm mix levels gi, 7-8pm open mat, 8-9pm Muay Thai Keep training hard guys!!!

Great training tonight!!! We worked on some fundamental techniques while inside our opponent’s closed guard. Remember, your ability to open up the closed guard comes down to your posture. If you can’t maintain good posture it’s going to be difficult to stay safe and avoid submissions and sweeps. We also had some great shark bait […]

Great kids class today and we had a few stripe promotions at open mat!!!

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is not just a martial art that consists of the fancy chokes, armbars, leglocks, and other various submission holds that you see in the UFC. It is also a martial art that contains many useful self-defense techniques that can literally save your life. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is regarded as one of the most, if […]

We worked some great triangle escapes tonight in our Gi classes as well as defending and escaping leg locks in No Gi class. We also drilled our single leg and single leg to knee pick in No Gi as well. I’m starting to see big improvements in everyones takedowns. Keep training hard guys!!!!!!

We are covering some great escapes this week, get in the gym and train!!!!!!

Congratulations to all of my students who competed at Grapplers Quest today in Asbury Park. We had a good team of guys from our gym as well as some of my students from LA Boxing Hoboken BJJ (great job Sisco) who still make the trip up to Wayne to train with us at NJ United […]

GREAT training tonight at NJ United Mixed Martial Arts!!! The mats were packed and everyone was training hard. We finished up working our back defense and escapes in the Gi classes and drilled our wrestling in No Gi class…… Keep training consistantly guys, the hard work is paying off big time!!!

It’s very important for every jiu jitsu practitioner to have a solid takedown game to go along with their ground skills. Whether you are practicing for self defense, jiu jitsu competition, or Mixed Martial Arts, takedowns are an extremely important part of grappling. Here is a knee pick takedown that works great for no gi jiu-jitsu/submission […]

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard……