Jiu-Jitsu Academy Zuerich

Some focused sparring in our advanced class. 😎

Carlos and I have both been working on our respective positions; first in the gi 🥋, now without 🤼‍♂️. His goal is to pass my open guard and get a submission. Mine is to gain control of him in butterfly guard, then sweep and/or submit him.

While I got some sweeps to submissions in the end, he managed very well to prevent me from gaining upper body control from butterfly guard. Back to the drawing board on that one. ☝️

This is clearly a grappling only contest to train a specific position. If strikes were involved, my aim from bottom would have had to be to get up and on top, or if impossible, to get my opponent into closed guard with his posture broken (to avoid getting hit).

In jiujitsu, context matters. In our fundamentals we teach only techniques that work in a self defense/fight situation against striking attackers. There, simplicity is the aim. Once students are more advanced, we can then play with other concepts. It increases our grappling understanding, and it’s great fun. However, we are always aware which „game“ we’re playing.

When old friends return to the mats it’s a party 🥳.

Someone said it’s been 16 years, but that can’t be 🙈😂. Thanks for coming by!

Our Fundamentals program is 💯 % self defense jiu-jitsu.

All techniques have to work in a gi or without. Whether our attacker wears a jacket or a T-shirt shouldn’t matter.

Also, we have to know how to defend and handle strikes, not just a grabbing attack.

This is our kind of jiu-jitsu. The fancy stuff is fun but must wait until the advanced classes. 😉

Before you can attack you should have some escapes ready… 🥋😉

Saturday mornings are the best 🙂

„Our“ jiujitsu is made to handle striking opponents. To be really proficient, however, we believe we should know some fundamental striking ourselves. Therefore, it is part of our curriculum.

It’s also great cross training and a lot of fun. Just keep it light 💡😉.

Congratulations to our coach Donal for his brown belt! 😃🤗🥋