Latest BJJ Wins at Kombat Mississauga

 Congrats to the following for doing so well at the latest BJJ tournament.  If I have missed anyone, please shoot me an email; also I need piks!  Please email me. Congrats to Scott Lewis for putting together a very good team, Jd

Men – Gi – Blue Belt – FEATHER (PENA) Academy

1-Shyam Tanna

Men – Gi – Blue Belt – SUPER HEAVY (SUPER PESADO) Academy

1-Nick Michalak

Men – Gi – Blue Belt – ABSOLUTE Academy

1-Nick Michalak

2-Shyam Tanna

Junior – Gi – White Belt – MIDDLE (MEDIO) Academy

2-Nick Allen

3-Kyran Cameron

Junior – Gi – White Belt – HEAVY (PESADO ) Academy

2-Michael Gouge

Men – NoGi – White Belt – FEATHER (PENA) Academy

3-Greg Deschenes

Junior – NoGi – White Belt – MIDDLE (MEDIO) Academy

1-Kyran Cameron

Follow Me on Twitter

  Hey guys, you can see that we hooked up on Twitter, so if you want to get more propaghanda, please sign up and follow me on Twitter, thanks, Jd

Anime!

Ok so a couple of the guys, my better half Linda and myself made it out to the Anime North 2009.  It was a lot of fun!  I think next year we are all going to dress up.  Afterwards Linda and I went to the Digital Image show.  Check out the camera lenses!  Sorry for the poor quality of piks, was using my Blackberry.  Jd

9 Week Challenge is Coming Back!!!

Need a reason to get in shape or stay in shape?  Well if health and longevity isn’t a good enough reason, why not the sheer competition of it?  Linda is again starting the 9 week challenge.  In short it gives you an opportunity to better yourself, by competing against yourself.  I will find out when the starting / test date is.  For a teaser of the torture that is yet to come, go here-Jd

Learn top quality BJJ in Toronto and Mississauga

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Injuries Suck!

Injuries for sure do suck, but there are some strategies that you can use to alleviate the gravity of the situation.  I took these from Martin Rooney’s most excellent book: Training for Warriors.  This is a great addition to anyone’s library.   I discovered Martin and his teachings a long time ago (still have his original 1st edition) and in fact we use his dynamic warm up in our classes.  For myself I would also like to add that if you can, train around your injuries.  Having an injured elbow and shoulder, I still work legs, core, abs, flexibility and weapons.  No need to stop training! And make sure you do your rehab and spend quality time strengthening any weak areas-Jd

1. Accept that the injury has occured, and move foward.

2. Examine how the injury happened, so that it never happens again.

3. Find out all you can about the injury and it’s rehabilitation.

4. Use every method of rehabilitation you can get your hands on.

5. Be consistent and thorough with your rehab.

6. Find the outlets and determine what training you can do around your injury.

7. Focus on areas that you needed to improve pre-injury (nutrition, mental training, certain body regions, etc)

8. Don’t test the injury while healing and reirritate it.

9. Develop a list of the things that the injury is trying to tell you.

10. Don’t forget what you learned from the injury for the future.

Lyoto Machida

Congrats to an awesome win over Rashad Evans!!!  As a token of my appreciation for being different and upetting the same old same MMA stuff, I have dug up a vintage Karate Kid video   Jd

Purell Hand Sanitizers

As we keep expanding as a family we are always looking for changes and modifications, and besides the latest renovations, we have also now added Purell Hand Sanitizers around the gym.  This was a great idea of Hector’s.  Oh BTW Purell is for external use only   Jd

Professor Salem Makes His Return

Professor Salem Assli will be making his return to our academy for a 2 day seminar on Muay Thai, savate, kali and jeet kune do on the June 7th weekend.  For more information, please ask at the front desk-Jd

Xtreme Skills Development Demo

  This Saturday at 1230, XSD will be performing a demo of their art, right after our Muay Thai class.  Stick around to watch this great performance.  Sign up for XSD on that day and we will give you a free uniform shirt.  Check out the FIFA commercial that Team XSD worked on.  For more info please call us at 905.804.8158. Jd