ISOHEALTH BJJ - ISOBJJ

Yesterday I had the incredible privilege and honour of awarding Nato with his 1st Degree on his BJJ Black Belt! 🥋

Nae is an incredible person. If you’ve met him, you likely already know that much. What you may not know is that for all the awesomeness of Nato that people see, there’s a whole lot more awesome stuff he does that very few people ever see.

Yeah, he can roll. Yeah, he can coach. Those are the obvious, visible things that anyone can see.

But what many don’t get to see is the incredible way he can build people up. And I mean people who never thought they would have a hope of doing half the things they end up doing once they’ve been around Nato for a good while.

Nae was only a relatively new White Belt when I could already see he had the God-given gift of being able to elevate people in a way that very few people can. That rare quality stood out so strongly that it’s the reason he became the first coach I ever trained up at ISO.

And there’s another part of this story that makes yesterday feel even more special to me: Nato was actually the person who first asked me to start teaching BJJ. ISO’s BJJ program may never have come to exist if Nato hadn’t asked for it.

I find it incredible to sit here and think about how awesome it is that, 20 years later, we are still on the mat together week in, week out, and it honestly feels even more exciting than ever before.

So much to do, so many people to help and so much joy to experience in the process. 🙏🏼

My good friend (and wildman of a Jiu-Jitsu student) Junji Takarabe is a super talented guy, and talent clearly runs in the family… because his daughter Mia just released a new song with Steve Aoki! Awesome work Takarabe family!

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Congratulations Blake. 🏆

A great day at Valley Muay Thai with Blake stepping into the ring for his first amateur Muay Thai fight, locking in the win with some clean clinch work and solid leg kicks.

Awesome work mate, congratulations!

A huge congratulations to my friend and student Bry Nguyen on his very well-earned and very well-deserved Blue Belt!

Bry’s evolution has been extremely impressive! And as a huge bonus for all of us, he brings a great energy to the training room.

It was a privilege to award him his Blue Belt. Congratulations, mate! 🙏🏼

Back tomorrow and keen to get the week started back at ISO 🙏🏼

Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a Women’s Self-Defence seminar for Morphettville Park Women’s Football Club.

Terrific club, great people and thought-provoking questions. The team also had excellent energy, not to mention some very nice clubrooms.

My primary focus in these seminars is mindset — not just in a “be aware, now off you go” kind of way, but through practical questions and mindset exercises that can serve people long after the seminar is finished.

Physical skills have tremendous value, but they are perishable, and they don’t amount to much without the mindset to activate them.

The goal is not paranoia, the goal is practical confidence and understanding that you are worth defending!

Thank you 🙏🏼 to Morphettville Park Women’s Football Club for having me, and for giving me permission to share these photos.

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Five new blue belts at ISOHEALTH-ISOBJJ today.

Proud of them. Happy for them.

Blue belt is a serious milestone, and each of these guys has earned it, and earned it well.

The best part is that they are not just students. They are mates, teammates, and I’m very glad to call each of them my friend.

Congratulations gents. Very well earned.

Grateful for this crew 🙏🏼