Fortress Jiu Jitsu

This week we spoke about visualisation.

Learning to see the movement before it happens, exploring different paths and being creative with our jiujitsu. Growth comes from trying, adapting and believing in your ideas on the mats.

Congratulations to the team for all the hard work this weekend at UMAC Nottingham and All Stars BJJ Brighton

Amazing performances across the whole team, with great displays of skill, determination, and team spirit throughout the competitions. Everyone has worked incredibly hard over the past few weeks. For some, this was their first competition experience, while others continued building valuable mat time and confidence under pressure.

Competition is about creating realistic scenarios, testing ourselves, and understanding where we can continue improving our skills.

A special mention for achieving 3rd place 🥉 in the Adult No-Gi Academy division at UMAC with only 3 adults competing. After 2 years of Fortress, it’s great to see the team moving in the right direction through consistency, commitment, and hard work. The results are coming, but more importantly, the progress and development are clear to see.

BJJ All Stars Brighton

* Lillie — 🥇 Gi and 🥇 NoGi with 4 submissions
* Ryan — 🥈 Gi and 🥇 NoGi

UMAC Nottingham

Kids

* Ivy — 🥇 Gi and 🥇 NoGi
* Harry — 🥈 Gi and 🥈 NoGi
* Khaleesi — 🥈 Round Robin
* Maijka — Amazing performance and a great display of jiu-jitsu throughout the day 👏

Adults

* Abdel — 🥇 Gi division, 🥇Gi Absolute, and 🥈NoGi Absolute
* Jacob — 🥈 Gi and 🥇 NoGi Round Robin
* Kamil came up short this time but showed tremendous heart and determination. A few things to work on, but he can only continue to improve from here.

A huge thank you to all the parents, teammates, and supporters who came to help create such a great atmosphere throughout the weekend

Now it’s the start of a new week, and we’re ready to keep improving, keep learning, and getting better together. On to the next one.

Fortress Jiu Jitsu grading 02.05.26

Two new blue belts and a few stripes added. Everyone’s been putting the work in and it’s showing. Proper solid group to train with,good people, good progress, and everyone moving forward together.

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Thursday NoGi 👊

Putting in the work!

Great effort from the team yesterday at BJJ All Stars Leicester.

Kids results:
Ryan 🥇
Ivy – Gi 🥉 | NoGi 🥇
Lillie 🥇

Adults:
Lewis 🥇
Jack 🥈

Ryan, as always, brought nonstop fire and action, securing his favourite submission ,the armbar,to take gold 🥇

Ivy entered last minute for her very first competition. Gi didn’t quite go to plan, but she still secured bronze 🥉. She came back stronger in NoGi, adapted brilliantly, and took gold 🥇. Amazing resilience and mindset, proof that comebacks are stronger than setbacks 💪

Lillie delivered another strong performance, taking gold 🥇 and continuing to build her game ahead of the Euros next weekend. We’re all excited to see her perform!

On the adults side…

had a tough bracket with 3 matches,first two finished quickly by submission, then controlled the final to win on points. He hasn’t been training long, but the raw talent is clear and he’s improving every competition

performed brilliantly as always, securing a submission to reach the final. It didn’t go his way this time, but that’s part of the game. He’s becoming more composed, tactical, and technical every time he steps on the mats,always ready to compete

Amazing results and jiu-jitsu from everyone involved 🙌

Big thank you to Coach and Lillie for coaching all day, and to all the teammates for the support .