Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has been in the United States since the late 1970’s and early part of the 1980’s in very small circles in California. It wasn’t until the 1990’s that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu became popular as a fighting style worldwide because of its success in Mixed Martial Arts events held on Pay-Per-View television. So what has […]
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At Elite Training Center (Redondo Beach, CA), we stress the importance of being a good training partner, but what does that specifically entail? How do we ensure that we are not “that guy” or “that girl” with whom no one wants to train? The basics for all classes, from Muay Thai kickboxing to Kali Silat,
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Everyone has something to teach. This is such a great, understated truth; understanding it and embracing it can improve your skills so much faster than when you allow your ego to hold you back. Unfortunately ego is something we all eventually have to learn to rein in! No competitive person likes to lose, but if
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I realize I have not been able to attend classes as of late. This is due to changing life situation & work schedules combined with out of town travel, pet sickness and my own healing. But, this is not to say that I have been out of training mentally and away from the Elite Training
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There are many ways to train alone: Running, hitting a bag, shadowboxing…all of these aspects of training are important and necessary to become proficient in martial arts. However, there is one type of training that is both essential and impossible to simulate alone. That necessary piece of education must involve a training partner. There is
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Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week’s classes in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program saw us practicing techniques in combatives and self-defense focusing using the guard to influence and control the distance against punches, elbows and headbutt strikes by the top fighter. After this instruction, we moved on to additional submission attacks from the bottom position
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Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week’s classes in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program saw us practicing techniques in combatives and self-defense focusing mostly on ground work. The two main concepts explored this week were escaping headlocks on the ground and how to use basic submission attacks from your closed guard. We started this off with
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Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week’s classes in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program saw us practicing techniques in stand up combatives and self-defense in how to pull guard from the clinch and also how to finalize the basic drop-knee style double leg takedown. On the mats, we explored how to pass the guard from the knees
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Techniques include LOTAR and Krav Maga (intuitive self-defense independent of strength or size), Muay Thai kickboxing, Adult Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) as sport, Kids and Youth MMA that emphasizes our founding principles, and Kali/Silat/Eskrima (Filipino open hand and stick/weapon fighting). Elite Training Center instructors are experienced both in teaching and in application of defense techniques in actual street or combat situations.
