Grappling Curriculum

• Dynamic throws and takedowns trained safely from a variety of angles, positions, from the clinch and off the shoot.
• Submission assisted takedowns, come-alongs, pain compliance controls & time holds
• Education to all the positions on the ground from the top and bottom.  How to control, transition, escape, reverse, sweep & promote scrambles from all the positions in ground grappling.
• You will become an encyclopedia of submissions, wrenches, strangulations and joint manipulations both from the ground and stand up positions. Learn how set them up, flow between them and counter them all.

We have a competition team put together for those who enjoy participating in all of the popular grappling and Jiu Jitsu tournament circuits!! If you’re serious about grappling arts, then this class is for you!!

Wrestling (Catch-as-Catch-Can / Submission / Freestyle / Greco)

Wrestling is perhaps one of the oldest forms of combat involving grappling type techniques such as throws, takedowns, joint locks, strangulation’s and pins.   It is found in most ancient civilizations in it’s early forms and has evolved in different parts of the world. It has branched out in many forms of sport wrestling.   Catch-As-Catch-Can Wrestling is more of a complete form of wrestling utilizing all forms of throws and takedowns and submissions.  Folk Style wrestling is any traditional style of wrestling which may or may not be recognized as a modern sport.

Freestyle and Greco Roman Wrestling are both long standing olympic sports.  The differences between the two is that Greco does not allow below waist takedowns, trips & throws and generally found from clinch positions.  Freestyle like it’s name, is a more open form of wrestling allowing both above and below waist throws, takedowns and trips.  Both achieve victory from pinning opponents shoulders to the mat.

Shooto

Shooto is a more modern mixed martial art, combat sport system established by Satoru Sayama from Japan in the mid eighties.  The idea of Shooto was to create a sport with no predetermined results and contested in real combat.  It initially had it’s roots in the Japanese Pro/Catch wrestling circuits but branched into it’s own full contact sport implementing kickboxing and Muay Thai striking skills along with the grappling.  The Grappling aspect has very little restrictions in throws, takedowns and submissions making it a all rounded grappling system on it’s own.  Shooto brought to our Combative Grapplers class excellent submission knowledge and wrestling abilities as well as all forms of takedowns.  The chaining of submissions are quite extensive into long flows and this ability is created from all standup and ground positions.

Shooto gained it’s popularity in North America through Yorinaga Nakamura out of the Inosanto Academy in Los Angeles, California. From there he helped produce a number of excellent fighters who competed professionally in the U.S.A and Japan. One of those fighters, Eric Paulson became the first American to win the world Light Heavyweight Championship in Japan and is now known as one of the top M.M.A. coaches in the world.

Dumog – Filipino Wrestling

Dumog is the Filipino style of wrestling which is utilized with and without weapons.  It concentrates on quick explosive motions and movements with a lot of pushes, pulls and weight shifts for off balancing.  It also implements  joint locks geared for wrenching, moving and taking down bodies.  Joint locks, wrenches and strangulations are also chained together in devastating flows.  Dumog is taught in our Combative Grappling Class, Jeet Kune Do and Combative Weapons/Filipino Martial Arts classes.