SW Portland Martial Arts teaches Mo Duk Pai (a style that emphasizes ethics, practicality and teaching) and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (a grappling and throwing art).
CrossFit Hillsdale teaches functional fitness with an emphasis on gradual progress and real world results.
Our mission is to provide students with quality instruction, love of learning, and open appreciation for all movement arts.
Finally, you can get our school logo or our monk mascot plastered on pretty much any kind of t-shirt you want. You can also get our awesome logo on a coffee mug, baby onesie, or computer case, and lots of other random objects.
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We now have a Friday kid’s class, which means we now have kid’s classes 7 days a week! On top of that, the new class is another BJJ class so those students who couldn’t make it to Monday now have another opportunity to hone their ground skills and those students who want more time on the mats rolling… Friday is another guaranteed wrestling day.
In addition, Tyme (the coach who is leading the Friday class) and I are hoping that having two classes a week in BJJ is going to inspire some of the kids to get a Gi and wear a belt so we can start giving out BJJ rank to the students.
We are excited to add a new piece to our adult martial arts program – boxing! The class will be held every Monday and Wednesday from 10am-11am. Since it is part of our martial arts program, students who are paying dues for martial arts are welcome to attend at no extra charge and for all those who sign up in the future – it is all part of our increasingly awesome programming.
The coach, Sasha Dadvar, has offered up the following summary of the class:
* Development of general fitness should be a priority for the beginner boxer, regardless of age and experience.
* In this particular stage, it is also important to develop coordination and speed.
* Each training session should be planned accordingly to teach and train both physical and technical elements
* Always start the teaching from simple tasks to complex tasks; the more complex the tasks, the easier it is to lose the attention and interest of the boxer.
* Should incorporate different games for training sessions to create an enjoyable training environment
So the way I read that description, it sounds like we are going to: sweat, develop the physical attributes of coordination and speed, be led through a carefully planned curriculum, be taught tasks appropriate to our skill level, and play some games that probably involve punching each other.
Awesome!
Train martial arts all summer long for only $30! If you are 13 years or older and a new student to our program, you can sign up today and train through August 31st, 2017 for only $30.
The sooner you sign up, the more training you can squeeze out of your summer. You are welcome to come to any/all of our martial arts classes: Boxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Mo Duk Pai.
This offer is for our adult martial arts program only. Not valid for kids program or CrossFit.
I was asked to teach a class titled “How to use BJJ to get out of bad situations” at MDP camp this year. What follows is my class outline that I handed to all the students.
Let’s start with some term definitions. Jiu-Jitsu means “gentle way” in this class a bad situation, means “on the ground, with someone on top of you”.
In this class we are going to: 1) Examine the general methodology of BJJ (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu). 2) Examine a specific technique (for getting out of bad situations. 3) Examine the relationship of the methodology of BJJ generally and the specific technique we learn in the class to how we practice MDP (Mo Duk Pai).
Let’s lay out the general methodology of BJJ fIRS. The general methodology is meant to give the student of BJJ tools that are most likely to work against a fully resisting opponent within the context of BJJ rules.
1) Learn a technique by yourself, without a partner.
2) Practice that technique against a non-resisting partner.
3) Practice the technique against a specific resistance from your partner.
4) Play a constrained game in which both partners have a definable way of winning.
5) Play an open game in which both partners have a definable way of winning.
Next, let’s lay out the specific methodology of the BJJ technique we will be doing. The technique will be “bridging”.
Learn to bridge by yourself. Bring your head off the ground. Grab your imaginary partner’s arm with both your arms. Grab (on the same side as the arm) your imaginary partner’s foot with one foot. Bring your free foot as close to your hips as possible. Lift your hips off the ground. Roll (toward the same side as the grabbed arm & leg) on to your hands and knees.
Have a partner put you in the mount position. Their knees are just outside your hips. Their hands are on your shoulders. Execute the technique.
Have your partner slowly but persistently try to march their knees up into your armpits (A.K.A. The Evil Baby ™April Henry). Try the technique against this specific kind of resistance. Have your partner slowly but persistently strike at your head and body with open handed strikes. Try the technique against this specific kind of resistance.
Have your partner sit on top of you in the mount. They try and hold you down. You try and get up. You may use the bridging technique, or some other technique.
Play the game of BJJ. See if you can submit your partner. Start from the mount position.
Finally, let’s look at how this relates to MDP by asking some questions and doing some MDP drills and games.
In MDP, what are the ways we test and see if our striking skills work against a resisting opponent?
In MDP, what are some things we do that are equivalent or similar to steps 1-5 in the BJJ methodology?
What are the limits of the BJJ methodology? What are the limits of the MDP methodology?
Do some slow speed full reps.
Do some street sparring.
Do some street sparring starting from the mount position.
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