It’s wonderful to be able to finally attend jiu jitsu seminars again, in this time of Covid-19 insanity. It’s been almost a year since I attended my last seminar. “Unprecedented times” is now a cliche, but it’s true. Sonny Brown is a Lange’s MMA Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt first degree and MMA titleholder. He…
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Machado NSW Brown and Black Belt Day 9 Feb 2020
The day was held at Lange’s MMA at North Manly. There were extremely wild storms in the Sydney region that day, and I was the only attendee that didn’t live on the Northern Beaches. As it was, I had to contend with multiple road closures and traffic jams going to and from the seminar, and…
Pedro Sauer Seminar 30 Oct 2019
The seminar was held at Higher Jiu Jitsu in Woolloomooloo PCYC, hosted by Head Coach and new black belt, John Smallios. Thanks to John and the HJJ crew for their hospitality. Thanks also to Michael Hoffman for graciously sharing with me some videos he took of the seminar, without which I would have been seriously…
John Will seminar 20 October 2019 – de la Riva Guard
The seminar was held at Rick’s Spain’s Red Boat Wing Chun Academy in Redfern. Congratulations to March D’altilia for his promotion to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt today. The belt presented to March by John himself. Why de la Riva guard? In a nutshell – as a counter to a knee cut pass. You are…
John Will Seminar in England; blog by Meerkatsu
The Jiu Jitsu black belt and fabulous artist Seymour Yang, known online as Meerkatsu, wrote up a seminar by John he attended in Leicester, U.K. A number of comprehensive videos are included. It is interesting to see how first time seminar attendees find John, considering he was the person who introduced me to Jiu Jitsu…
Phil Grapsas Seminar 18 May 2019
Phil Grapsas is a first degree black belt, who runs Leverage Jiu Jitsu in Melbourne. He was Pedro Sauer’s second Australian black belt. The seminar was held at Higher Jiu Jitsu, in the City of Sydney Police/Citizens’ Youth Centre (PCYC). Hosted by the excellent John Smallios. Grips, Base and a Simple Takedown We start from…
John Will Seminar 27 April 2019 – Front Headlock
Front Headlock – guillotine, Darce, Anaconda, Kata Game The seminar was held at a training centre belonging to the awesome Felipe Grez, in St Peters. Winning the tie up He goes for a R collar tie. We do not want to let him get it, and only then lock up our own R collar tie….
John Will Seminar 3 March 2019 – Escapes from Mount and Side Control
The seminar was held at Rick Spain’s gym, in Redfern. I was unable to attend as I was refereeing at a Machado kid’s Jiu Jitsu competition at the Northern Beaches PCYC at Dee Why. These notes were compiled by Matt Klein, with assistance from Pete McKay, and March d’Atalia. Excellent job. I can tell you…
Felipe Grez Seminar 21 Feb 2019
Felipe Grez is a first degree black belt. He is the owner and head instructor at Jiu Jitsu Kingdom. He has been training, competing and coaching for over two decades, here and overseas, including living and training in Brazil. He has an interesting Youtube channel, and is also on Facebook. (And maybe elsewhere on social…
Machado NSW Brown and Black Belt Day 3 Feb 2019
The day was hosted by Machado Jiu Jitsu NSW State Head, Anthony Lange and his wife Nikki, at Lange’s MMA, North Manly. Anthony unveiled his plans for a new competition format which should not require the same cost overheads and logistical activities that IBJJF format competitions with six simultaneous mats running do. Anthony’s format should…