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The New Wellington Location is coming soon and I’m going to need your help.

The new place needs bit of a tidy up and ‘many hands make light work’ so I’ll be calling on EVERYONE to help with a couple of working bees in the not too distant future.

But more than that is the need for mats!

Jamie Smith has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to make this all happen. Apart from single-handedly organising the location and landlord he has also been in contact with mat suppliers overseas and secured super cheap mats for us.

Now I say super cheap but that’s relative! The mats will cost somewhere around $15000!! On top of the new lease and cost of getting the new place ready I’m going to be stretched beyond my means. So I’m going to do something I hate, but what several of you have suggested, and ask for help.

The main thing that everyone has said is they would be prepared to buy one mat. So if you are able and willing to donate to the fund or buy a mat then please feel free.

If you want you can donate online you can click the donate button below or talk to me at class. Or you can buy one of our new GSW Rash Vests or the new BJJ Gis. Or just tell me to piss off!!

Or even better, if you run a company or work for a company that wants to sponsor New Zealand’s Biggest BJJ school, then I can offer some incentives. Pages or Banners on my sites, signs up at the schools, Patches on the Gis and many more ways of getting your companies name out there!

Think about it.. every little bit helps!

Thanks

Shihan Geoff

Target 200 square mtrs
Total @ 4th August 2010

John Will returned to GSW in Lower Hutt for another round of BJJ Seminars. Once again due to numbers the seminars were split into two sessions.
White Belts and Coloured Belts.

The White Belt session was attended by 40 BJJ Students from GSW and Submission Martial Arts in Whitby. John covered a bunch of Immediate Action techniques in a seminar that he called a Vaccination Seminar.

Basically John covered answers to several of the problem areas that he sees beginners getting caught in during their first months of BJJ training. Things that John covered were, Crossover Guard defence, Side Control Escape (Hip in Pocket), Switchbase escape, Elbow Escape from Mount, Side Mount Escape, 1/2 Guard pass, Head to Head (Sit-out) and Front Choke Escape.

At the end of the White Belts session 4 New Blues were Presented 1 from Glen’s Submission Martial Arts and 3 from GSW. Conrats to Melvin, Kym and Kelvin

The Coloured Belts session covered getting the back and was attended by 30 of GSW’s Blue and Purple Belts. John had given us some great chokes at the last seminar and this time he went into several ways of gaining and controlling the back using several vital principals involving leverage and weight placement.

As always Johns seminar left everyone with something to take away and think about, as well as many things that instantly fitted into peoples grappling. Johns next session will be November 24th..

Our next seminar at GSW is with Richard Norton one of John Will’s training partners and multiple Black Belt, including his BJJ Black Belt from Jean Jacques Machado. Richard has starred in dozens of movies, with many top Martial Arts Movie Stars. Richard has also travelled the world as personal protection to performance artists. Richard bio can be found at his site www.richardnorton.net/blog

Richard will be running BJJ Seminars at GSW Lower Hutt on the 3rd of July 2010. Each seminar will be $50 and last 2 hours. Jump onto the GSW facebook page to register your interest as places are strictly limited and filling fast.
Wellington Saturday 3rd July 2010
BJJ Seminar White Belts 1pm – 3pm $50
BJJ Seminar coloured Belts 3.30pm-5.30pm $50

Wellington Sunday 4th July 2010
MMA / Street Defence Seminar (for Zen Do Kai Students)
Sunday 4th July
9am – 11am
$50

Purple Belt Darren Brown took class tonight as Geoff was away. With almost 40 on the mat it was a challenging class.

Class Mon 19 Apr

2 types of kneeride – first grab behind their head while other grabs far knee, then pull up to align your knee, hip and shoulder turning your opponent into the letter U. This sucks their energy. The other kneeride is low and hunting for the opportunity for a submission. Your shin is across their belly with little to no weight on your foot, the other leg floats out for support. Your right hand is outside your knee, acting as both a post and to block their hip while they go spastic, like in side control, again without too much weight. Your left hand is controlling behind their head.

Near armbar – grab behind their tricep of the near arm (thumb down). Straighten your body and pull up on their arm. Step your left foot over their head with control – you’ll know your doing this if you can step back and forth to reset and your upper body doesn’t move and you don’t kick your opponent in the head. Slide down the back of their arm, so you get good hip penetration and use your right arm to wrap their arm close to your body. Weld their little finger to your chest, thumb up and break the arm.

Far arm bar – from the low hunting kneeride, fake an attack on the near arm. They don’t need to put their hand on your knee. Reach under their far arm, grab their tricep, and up and crush by putting your elbow through their solar plexus. They make a funny noise, change colour and turn towards you. Spin on the ball of your right foot and kick them in the belt with your left foot, staying low while you spin. Get good hip penetration, squeeze your knees, attach their pinky to your chest and break their arm.

The more you fake for an armbar on either side, the more the attack their arms, exposing their neck. Put your left hand behind their head. Put 4 fingers low inside their lapel and zipper them up to make the baseball grip (your hands don’t have to touch). Bring your top elbow down to your bottom elbow, this will turn you towards their head, they may try to defend by putting their near arm in the way, kill this by driving your knee over the top of it and get it out the way by ’sliding fir home’. Put your head on the side you just came from and shoulder on their belly. Tripod up and pull your elbows to your back.

Finish

This will be John’s final seminar at the MVD in Wellington.

Next year we’ll likely have to restrict numbers due to the downsizing of the MVD and it’ll likely be run in the Hutt next year.

So take this final opportunity to train with John Will in numbers.

What: John Will Seminar
Where: MVD Wellington
When: Wednesday November 18th
Time: 8.00 – 10pm
Cost: $60

Hey all. Here are the 2 clips I mentioned in class that cover the Triangle stuff we did last week.

Both clips are by Rigan Machado and it’s the stuff he taught in Australia in 2008.

So here they are, visuals from the master!

Clip 1

Clip 2

Thanks to all that came along to Rigan’s session last night. It was a blast and Rigan enjoyed himself immensely. Here are some pics from the session:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25573780@N02/sets/72157622287729481/

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I have a new toy. John showed me his new “Flip Video” and I just had to get one. I tested it on Thursday at the fundamentals class and love it. Straight to youtube in mp4 format. Look out for some clips from classes in the near future. Hopefully this will expand the news site by adding a bit of sound and movement. Stay tuned.

For now here are a couple of small test clips from the class.

Closed Guard Skills

Warming up.

Cock faced wanker..

Fat talentless white belt taps out one of NZ top BJJ practitioners? What a lair…

Get on the mat.. come on.. just step on the mat… we know you’re shit.. let us prove it to you

With unprecedented interest in the new location I have decided to bring the club opening day forward a few weeks.
On Monday we will open the doors for classes at the new GSW location:

GSW Martial Arts Lower Hutt
223 High St
Lower Hutt

Monday and Wednesday
Fundamentals 7pm – 8pm
Rolling 8pm – 9pm

Look forward to seeing you there.