Caio Terra Academy Irving

Martial Arts Irving

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We’ll be Hip-Switching from Half Guard to start our week and close out September!  When we are able to secure chest connection from Half Guard, it is common for our opponent to try and escape their hips in an attempt to recover Guard.  To counter this movement, we’ll redirect our pressure and make our legs easier to escape from this new “Hip Switch” position.

Click here to view the Switching the Hips to Pass the Guard Lesson Plan

If our passing attempts lead us into the Side Control position, then our opponent’s frames may be causing us our next problem.  By sitting through to the Kazure Kesagatame Gatame position.  This allows us to prevent Guard recovery attempts, provide lots of pressure, and even attack a Submission!

Click here to view the Switching Base and Attacking the Arm Lesson Plan

Competition Classes resume this week in preparation for our next Jiu-Jitsu World League tournament and we’ll also have Professor Gabriel Marangoni in to teach a Competition Strategies Seminar, so reach out to RSVP ASAP!

Recently I had the opportunity to visit my friends and teammates while on vacation in the amazing state of Oregon!  I made some incredible childhood memories there 30 years ago, so while reliving them with my family I had to make a little time for Jiu-Jitsu of course.

The Caio Terra Academy in Hillsboro, Oregon was CTA’s first affiliate location and Professor Shawn Chandler and his group there in Hillsboro were so welcoming from the moment we arrived.  Being able to also share the mat with Professor Ryan Cunningham from Performance Martial Arts/CTA-Roseburg, OR was truly icing on the cake.

Thank you again to everyone who showed up for an awesome day of Jiu-Jitsu – it was so nice to see old friends and make lots of new ones! Hope to be back soon!!

This next week is lined up to be a truly exciting one for all of our students!  Before an action-packed weekend, our Lesson Plans will focus on the Closed Guard position.  Once we’ve recovered Guard, that means we’ve established control and it’s time to improve our position with some a sweep attempt.  Our focus will begin on our opponent’s posture before executing a Sit-Up Sweep to advance to Mount!

Click here to view the Sweeping from Closed Guard Lesson Plan

A common submission that is used in cooperation with the Sit-Up Sweep is the Kimura.  We will continue to use the battle of posture to help us isolate an arm and then go on the attack!

Click here to view the Kimura Lesson Plan

Our week will finish with showing The Goonies at the academy for the CT Kids Movie Night on Friday, a few Adult promotions Saturday at Noon, then followed by Professor Caio returning to teach a seminar that night and Kevin Rose’s promotion to Black Belt to wrap things up! See Professor Collin for details!

Next Monday, October 10th we’ll have Mason Fowler in our Academy for a No-Gi Seminar!  Mason has won EVERY major title in the Gi (Worlds, Pans, Europeans & Brazilian Nationals) and has been crushing the competition without it, winning ADCC Trials and defending his Submission Underground title multiple times – racking up wins over some of the top names in our sport the past couple of years.

In addition to being an incredible competitor, Mason has a great personality that really shines through when teaching.  His last event here in 2019 was so much fun and every attendant walked away with new techniques, friends and memories that will still talk about to this day.

To attend, please contact us ASAP – Mason will kick things off Monday, Oct 10th @ 7:00pm and for only $60!

It was an honor to have Professor Caio in town and on our mats, as he taught an amazing Guard Passing Seminar this past Saturday. We had nearly 50 practitioners of every belt level in attendance, all excited to learn the techniques that made Professor a 12-time World Champion.

He discussed some simple principles of hip control that unlocked the high-level techniques. Once he covered the basic concepts that connected the different passing options available, everyone in attendance was executing the moves without a problem. He referenced his match at F2W 146 and also our Fundamental Curriculum where he applied the same techniques he was teaching to us.

The Seminar concluded as we celebrated a big day for our teammates at Sloth BJJ in Euless as well, as Professor Nathan Hallford promoted his first Black Belt, Mr Chris Gray! Congrats, gentlemen!

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to visit my friend PJ Talavera and his students at The Blackbelt Academy in Uvalde, Texas.

While vacationing with family in the Hill Country the past couple of years, Mr. Talavera has been gracious enough to host a couple of seminars at his academy and it gets more fun each time I visit.  It was so great to catch up with old friends and make some new ones, as I shared some techniques from Half Guard and then answered some questions on various topics at the end.

Thank you again to PJ and his students for their time, attentiveness, but most of all, their friendship!  Look forward to seeing you all again soon! OSS!

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