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……

We had a great open mat training session Friday. We ended up training for over 3 hours!!! Saturday, 11/27 we have the kids class from 11:00-11:45am, and the open mat for adults from 12:00-2:00pm.  Come in and train!!!!  Grapplers Quest is right around the corner.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!! Now it’s time to get back on the mat and train.  We will be having open mat Friday from 1-3pm.

We are working some great defenses and escapes from the back this week. The foundation of good jiu jitsu is having good escapes. Keep training hard guys!!!!

NJ United Mixed Martial Arts will be closed on Thursday, November 25 for Thanksgiving.  We will be running all other adult classes as scheduled this week.  Please note, we will be teaching our KIDS CLASS this Wednesday (11/24) from 5:15-6pm instead of Thursday (11/25) because of the holiday.  This change is ONLY FOR THIS WEEK because of Thanksgiving.

Congratulations to everyone who competed at NAGA on Saturday, November 20th in Newark, NJ.  Ron Suayan won 1st place in the men’s masters white belt division as well as taking 2nd place in the men’s masters no gi beginner division.   Chris Magnani also took 2nd place in the men’s blue belt division.  Great job guys!!!!!!

Great classes all night!!!! The kids program is really picking up, instructor Derek Havran runs a great class!!! We did some great drills in the fundamentals Gi class and the mix levels Gi class. We finished off the night with some shark bait wrestling drills followed by great jiu jitsu training.

Here is a nice takedown that you can use in submission grappling or no gi jiu jitsu. The single leg takedown is high percentage and also keeps you relatively safe against submissions…

Here is a short clip of the guys training Tuesday night.