🌀🎊 Tournaments, competition training, and conceptual jiu-jitsu
Join us for our competition training every Sunday!
Hi everyone! Greetings from 2020. Kogaion Academy kicked off the new year with some good work.
Tournament results
Five competitors went to Grappling Industries and brought home 9 medals. We are proud of everyone's performance, especially those who competed for the first time. Thank you for everyone who supported us near and far.
Beatrice: 🥇🥇🥈 gi and nogi (open class), gi
Rios: 🥇🥈 gi and nogi
John: 🥈 gi
Heba: 🥉gi
Cat: 🥉🥉gi and nogi
Events and updates
🌀Competition training
Every Sunday, we will now be running competition training from 9:30-11AM. This is open to ALL students of any affiliation or academy, so please share widely! Our last comp training had all five color belts represented, and we got a lot of reps and situational in that morning. Please come even if you don't plan to compete -- there's something to learn from helping prepare your teammates as well.
🌀Double leg clinic with John
This Saturday (Jan 11) Johnny will be running a double-leg takedown clinic for Kogaion students. Come workshop your angles with him and other students! Even if you don't use takedowns in live situations, this is a good opportunity to learn proper defense against a great grappler.
🌀Kids and teens class
The kids and teens program has grown in the past three months. As instructors we have been impressed with students' willingness to take care of each other and enthusiasm for the sport. They have all improved in situational awareness and technique too. Thank you to the parents for your support!
🌀Jiujitsu and judo on a conceptual level
Our head instructor, Victor, has been working on breaking down high level concepts of jiu-jitsu on Spiral Mentality Jiu Jitsu. If you want to understand why certain movements and mindsets work, this is a good place to start. The first topic that applies to anything in BJJ is asymmetry and leverage, which you can read about here.
Reply (shirlingtonbjj@gmail.com) to tell us what you want to see more here, or if you have any questions about joining us here at Kogaion.
That’s all for now. Happy hunting. 🐺