congratulations Gu @gustavo_ogawa_ juvenil 1 light weight champion 3 fights 3 submissions

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parabéns Gu campeão no juvenil 1 leve 3 lutas e 3 finalizações

congratulations @shelbyaoj juvenile 2 champion great performance

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parabéns shelby campea no juvenil 2 excelente performance @shelbyaoj

juvenile 1 feather weight champion @coleabatejj amazing performance. proud of you

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campeão da categoria juvenil 1 peso pena @coleabatejj parabéns Cole, lutando muito

@jessakhan winning her first brown belt competition

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training with my daughter Lexi (4 years old) at home

treinando com minha filha Lexi (4 anos) em casa

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training with Tainan @tainandalpra yesterday. It used to be an easy training for me when he was a blue belt ? now it is an easy training for him haha during this round we are doing specific sparring training. his goal is to focus on guard retention and stay calm and reacting to every attack. my goal is to manage the distance and try to attack his guard to increase the difficult in the guard retention. watch the full round and more on artofjiujitsu.com/sign-up

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treinando com o Tainan @tainandalpra ontem. era bem mais fácil treinar com ele a uns dois anos atras hahah o que era fácil pra mim agora é fácil pra ele ? neste video estamos fazendo treino especifico. ele ficando em controle de guarda e reposição, limitando os ataques, enquanto eu trabalho o controle de distancia e ataques por cima. quando ele raspa ou encaixa alguma raspagem voltamos na posição inicial. objetivo da pessoa por cima é aumentar a intensidade da luta e dificultar o encaixe de ataques. assista o round completo e mais: artofjiujitsu.com/sign-up

fun rounds this morning. check them out on artofjiujitsu.com/sign-up

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opening the closed guard details
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always fun rounds of sparring with Hiryu @hiryuniwa – finished the year doing what I love the most, training and teaching

in 2020 do more of what you love, worry less about what others think and what they will say, give yourself the chance to live the life of your dreams, and.. throw away your bag of excuses

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sempre bons rounds com Hiryu @hiryuniwa – finalizando o ano fazendo o que mais gosto, treinando e ensinando

para 2020 faça mais do que te faz bem, se preocupe menos com o que os outros dizem ou pensam, se de a chance de viver a vida dos seus sonhos, e acima de tudo… elimine todas as desculpas.

video do meu aluno @coleabatejj de 15 anos ensinando uma técnica que ele gosta de fazer em português. quando morávamos no Brasil sempre tentávamos assistir videos de atletas que ja falavam ingles mostrando técnicas para tentarmos aprender um pouco, nunca fizemos curso ou tivemos professores de inglês, e o jiu jitsu e a necessidade do aprendizado para os objetivos que tínhamos na nossa carreira nos fez buscar essa evolução. Cole nunca fez aulas também, mas esta sempre me perguntando se o que ele diz esta certo, errado, ou se existe maneiras diferentes de falar. A constante busca pela evolução, não somente no tatame, é o que nos motiva. Nunca se contente com a zona de conforto, nada de extraordinário acontece lá.

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video of my student @coleabatejj 15 years old teaching a technique in Portuguese. When we were teenagers leaving in Brazil we would watch videos of athletes that speak english and try to recognize words and learn them. We never had an english professor and we’ve never been to english classes. Jiu Jitsu and the desire to improve an area that would effect the amount of opportunities that we would have in our careers were the main factors that pushed us to learn it, just like others. Like we did when we first moved to US, Cole is always asking me if his Portuguese is right, what is wrong and what he can improve. the constant search for improvements on and off the mat is what will always give us opportunities in our careers. Don’t stay in the comfort zone, nothing great happens there.

AOJ female competitors Iasmim and Shelby drilling techniques.

@iasmimcasser won Pan Ams and double gold at Worlds 2019 and has been winning every competition she joins.

@shelbyaoj started training at our kids programs and in her first year as juvenile she won double gold at Europeans 2019

drills:

1. sit up guard to the back
2. power knee slide to armbar
3. long step to leg weave to the back
4. back attack using the lapel
5. kiss of the dragon to leg drag + back attack switching sides
6. double pull back attack using x guard hooks

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practicing leg work and distance control in sparring. watch sparring sessions and techniques on artofjiujitsu.com/sign-up

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sparring with @nickthetooth this morning at @artofjiujitsu haha
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