Get started with BJJ at Kingston BJJ, read on for the big picture. Getting started with BJJ is often the hard part. You haven’t been to your first of three free trial lessons at Kingston BJJ https://kingstonbjj.com/free-class-offer/, therefore you have nothing to lose yet, nothing to keep going. Some worry about the warm up. In addition, some think that the … Read More
Am I Too Old To Start BJJ?
Am I too old to start BJJ? Absolutely not and here’s why.. AGE IS A FACTOR WITH ANY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BUT WE LEARN TO TRAIN WISELY – YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD TO START BJJ Our self defence lessons focus on individual progression. Consistency brings results. The objective is to make slow steady improvements and you are not competing with … Read More
BJJ Lessons For Beginners In Kingston
Introduction for BJJ beginners in Kingston and Surbiton Our BJJ lessons for beginners in Kingston are all about having a nice training evening in a relaxed environment with a focus on learning and not fighting. Worried about your physical fitness or think the training (sparring) we do at the end of our lesson is going to be too much for … Read More
Gracie Jiu Jitsu Seminar
Jiu Jitsu Global Federation Black Belt 4th Degree, Eddie Kone – https://www.instagram.com/ekbjj/, recently conducted a two hour Gracie Jiu Jitsu seminar at Kingston BJJ. The seminar started with a focus on finding a safe position when caught in Side Control. We focused on physical protection and body alignment. Teaching alongside Eddie, Diccon Lynes – https://jjgf.com/academy-member/diccon-lynes, Head Instructor at Kingston BJJ. … Read More
Gi and No-Gi Training
All of the Gracie Jiu Jitsu self defence techniques we teach can be performed with or without the Gi. Training without the Gi brings speed and nothing for someone defending to hold onto. The Gi provides friction making it more difficult to escape and demands that your technique for escaping is really sharp. The Gi also teaches you to apply … Read More
Developing Our Standing Self Defence Techniques
Dealing with a deep Guillotine is difficult – we have a number of defences for early Guillotine attempts but when a Guillotine is deep, you need a well worked plan to survive and escape. We practice Gracie Jiu Jitsu self defence and spend a lot of time dealing with submission attempts in common scenarios – the deep Guillotine being one … Read More
Control and Submit
Recent lessons have focused strongly on Mount escapes and Mount retention – however, we are also looking at armbars. It’s so important to control someone’s posture before attempting to finish a submission. The Mount escape techniques we are majoring on are the elbow escape and a modified version of the classic trap and roll. There are so many steps and … Read More
Training Without the Gi in August
Enjoying training without the Gi at BJJ Lifestyle Team in Long Ditton, near Kingston. All of the Jiu Jitsu we learn, develop and practice can be done with or without the Gi – recently, we have been looking at side control. Our exclusive interest is Gracie Jiu Jitsu self defence. We focus on clinching and takedowns every training session, spend … Read More
Emphasising Submission Defence
Enjoyable training sessions with BJJ beginners and advanced students training together. We’ve started looking at common submission defences – with training sessions starting to take on a submission then defence, format. Our takedowns are still featuring every team training session. People with absolutely no experience are joining every week and loving the team’s atmosphere. There’s a good positive buzz on … Read More
Strong Team Spirit at BJJ Lifestyle Team in Kingston
Nice shot of some of the team rolling – lots of new faces and the experienced white, blue, purple and brown belts – all training in the same session, helping the beginners along. We all want the team to grow and be successful. Monday’s session saw us looking at a couple more half guard sweeps – great to see everyone’s … Read More
