The seminar was held at Higher Jiu Jitsu, at Woolloomooloo PCYC in Sydney. The major problem most people have with breathing is that they tend to breathe using the top (clavicular) and middle (intercostal) chest muscles for the breath rather than breathing deep into the diaphragm. This comes about from sitting for extended durations and…
Author: Andrew Nerlich
Jiu Jitsu “Social Media” – A Cautionary Tale
I recently started a minor sensation on Facebook and other social media. Without any intention to do so whatsoever. I started a snowball rolling by accident and it picked up momentum rapidly, dragging in several “international Jiu Jitsu news sites”, and at least one Jiu Jitsu celebrity … so far. Fortunately, no one has been…
Steve Maxwell Jiu Jitsu for a Lifetime Seminar 4th Feb 2017
The seminar was held at Higher Jiu Jitsu, Woolloomooloo PCYC. Thanks to John Smallios for the opportunity to act as host for a day at his club. Steve reiterated the importance of training Jiu Jitsu as a “soft” art. Play, give up the hard rolls with full resistance, be especially careful of resisting the stack…
Refereeing off the Mat
I spent yesterday refereeing at the Events BJJ Initiator Crown, after a really interesting and fun day on Saturday getting together with Machado brown and black belts at Langes MMA, and doing some Jiu Jitsu training. The competition was held at Ryde Aquatic Centre. If you think it was humid where you were yesterday, consider…
Review – Flow Jitsu – Mike Bidwell
Digital download – $49 AUS. c. 62 minutes. Available from Jiu Jitsu Brotherhood Introduction Mike Bidwell runs the BJJ After 40 blog and Facebook page. He had an interesting journey to black belt, which you can read about on this bio. He regularly posts interesting and innovative techniques and drills on Facebook, exhibiting a nimble, agile and flowing…
Review – Beyond Technique 2 – Nic Gregoriades, Kit Dale
Beyond Technique 2; BJJ Concepts Evolved, by Kit Dale and Nic Gregoriades. 75 minutes approx. Available at The Jiu Jitsu Brotherhood. Beyond Technique 2 is a follow up to the Beyond Technique video, produced by the same two gentlemen in around the third quarter of 2014. Beyond Technique (called BT1 here) approached Jiu Jitsu from…
Another Milestone on an Endless Highway
7th December, 2016
Pedro Sauer seminar 24 Oct 2016
The seminar was held at Higher Jiu Jitsu, at the City of Sydney PCYC in Woolloomooloo. This will be a difficult write up. We did some techniques, certainly, but to just write them up would be a “finger pointing to the moon” type of mistake. This really was a “this will make you think about…
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Hmmm…
I’ve had an interest in martial arts since seeing a movie trailer for a film called “The Chinese Boxer” in my mid-teens. Shortly thereafter, I went to the cinema to see “Five Fingers of Death.” Serendipity took a couple of years to bring David Crook into my life, or mine into his. I trained Kung…
John Will seminar 9th Oct 2016 – Ashi Garami, footlocks
Ashi Garami is best translated as “leg entanglement” or “leg control”. In developing leg attacks, same as with most of Jiu Jitsu, we need to work on control, and control positions, before considering how to apply submissions. John’s strong belief is that one has no business playing around with footlocks until an understanding of ashi…