Saturdays 9 – 10:30am (startting 9/9/17)
BJJ + Stand Up: Int/Adv Adults & Adv Teens

This class taught by Sensei Mike will cover building stand up skills and kickboxing sparring and then transition to BJJ gi grappling.

BJJ is most strongly differentiated by its greater emphasis on groundwork than other martial arts. Commonly, striking-based styles spend almost no time on groundwork. Even other grappling martial arts tend to spend much more time on the standing phase. It is helpful to contrast its rules with judo’s greater emphasis on throws, due to both its radically different point-scoring system, and the absence of most of the judo rules that cause the competitors to have to recommence in a standing position. This has led to greater time dedicated to training on the ground, resulting in enhancement and new research of groundwork techniques by BJJ practitioners.