Shoshin Jiu Jitsu Erie, PA

🚨 Attention Shoshin Jiu Jitsu Advanced Team! 🚨

​Tonight (Wednesday, July 29th), we're shaking things up with a No Gi Q&A Session!

​This class is for all Advanced Team members (2 stripes and up). We'll be doing a dynamic mix of live sparring rounds and open Q&A. This is your chance to get on the mats, roll hard, and pick the brains of your coaches and teammates.

​Got a question about a complex sweep? Stuck in a particular position? Want some tactical advice for your next match? Come ready to roll and ready to learn!

​Here’s the schedule for tonight:

​🚪 5:30 PM: Doors open for Open Mat.

⏰ 6:30 PM: Advanced No Gi Q&A Class starts.

​Get on the mats, let's work, and let's get better together. See you tonight, team!

Just wanted to let you all know how much I appreciate all of you: students, instructors, mentors, families. You all make this whole thing possible. Thank you for your support and dedication!

🚨 Tonight's Lineup at Shoshin! 🚨

Ready to sharpen your ground game? We're starting our Shoshin JJ Core Class Ground Module tonight with some essential techniques from Closed Guard!

Our focus:
🥋 CLOSED GUARD 1: Cross Choke & Scissor Sweep.

These techniques are foundation builders for a reason—they work! 🧱 Come drill the fundamentals with us.

Here’s how the evening looks:

🕒 5:30 PM – Doors Open & Open Mat (Come warm up, stretch, or get some rounds in!)
🕒 6:30 PM – Core Class Ground Module (Instruction begins promptly)

See you on the mats! OSS!

🥳Leveling up! Huge congrats to Brian for his recent stripe promotion!!

At Blue belt and beyond, stripes get even harder to achieve. The criteria are more vague, the journey is more personalized, and promotions feel like they take forever.

It's worth the wait.

Brian puts in the effort every time he shows up. He's consistent, works hard, and it's always working to improve his game.

Congrats dude, you're crushing it! 👊🏼👊🏼

Congrats Alexis! Stripes in our Shoshin Cadet program don't come easy... They're the result of consistent attendance, a good attitude, excellent partnering, and of course hard work!

This game is built around creating asymmetry of opportunity: Good Jiu Jitsu is always about putting yourself in positions where your attacking opportunities greatly exceed those of your opponent. Any time you have a healthy choice of high percentage attacks available and your opponent has only a few low percentage attacks - things are going well for you. You can achieve asymmetry of opportunity in many ways - but position is the most reliable and the most available - so fight for it whenever you can.