I am going to talk about belt testing and my experience with it! I personally have had 2 belt tests in the Yudansha fighting system, different schools and different martial arts have their own unique style of testing. I am going to go over Yudansha fighting system and my experiences I have had! Since the philosophy of Yudansha comes from three parts of a combative engagement first, the standing phase, next the clinch phase and last the ground phase! Yudansha philosophy is it is better to be good at all three than just be good in one. You have heard the term well rounded in the U.F.C. or MMA matches because they have to be good at all aspects of the game. Yudansha fighting systems first part of the belt test is going over techniques with a uke (or training partner) a good uke is ideal because you do not want the person resisting the techniques a good uke will have good break falls and not resist the throw to ensure good Kata or form. Judo is a big part of the test, here are a couple techniques, Seoi-nage or shoulder throw, O-Soto-Gari or major throw, these are from Gokyo or greenbelt here is one from yonkyo or blue belt Sukui-nage or scoop throw. In the yudansha system there is also wrestling techniques, your single leg and double leg take downs as well as firemans carry and so on. After going over techniques there is the Randori  part or live judo. then on to live sparing that has boxing, muay thai , and ground work( jiu-jitsu). This part will test you mentally as well as physically because the test is three 5 min. rounds in each, judo, stand up, and jiu-jitsu with fresh people alternating, I personally train my cardio and get a lot of mat time like I am training for a fight because 45 min. of live sparing is grueling! But also very rewarding when you complete!

Till Next Time!

Danny Howard

~Danny Howard is a Martial Arts enthusiast and a student at Tenbears Martial Arts Academy, If you are interested in … finding a fitness school, A kickboxing gym, Kickboxing training, Muay Thai kickboxing, Finding a judo or BJJ school… please consider signing up for the 30 day free offer. 

Also if you are into more of a stand up style of martial arts like karate, taekwondo or standard American boxing and would like to improve your ground game please consider our martial arts classes.  We are not that far from Kettering, Beavercreek, Fairborn, Xenia or Bellbrook either!

          Tenbears Martial Arts academy in Dayton Ohio is the only Southern Ohio Affiliate School of Marcello C.  Monteiro.  We are privileged to learn some great Techniques that come straight from the professor himself! We are going to start from half guard on this technique in Dayton Ohio, We are going to switch our base, so that my right arm is over hooking my opponents right arm I am going to be on my right hip, close to my opponent and scissoring my legs with my right knee up against my opponents hip. I am going to bait my opponent into thinking that I am going for the mount. To make my opponent think that I am stepping over for the mount I am going to grab his pants just above his knee. My opponent will try to push my hand off his knee when he does He just fell for the trap! When he goes to push my hand off I let go of his gi pants and grab his wrist, Next I pin his arm to the mat, I have two arms attacking his one, I already have the arm over hooked with my right arm and control of his wrist with my left so I am going to go for a straight armlock but my opponent defends well and bends his arm and grabs his own belt. That’s ok I am going to transition to the kimura by grabbing my own wrist. I am going to pull my opponent up on his side and step over his head to break the grip of my opponent grabbing his belt, but my opponent has a very good grip, instead of playing muscle jitsu I am going to transition to something else to conserve energy I am going to keep a hold of his arm and transition to the other side of my opponent. I am going to put my chest against his elbow and stay on my toes for leverage. Next I am going to let go of his wrist and hug his head with a over under going to palm to palm or a gable grip. Next I am going to switch my base again scissoring my legs this time my left knee against my opponents back making it very easy to transition to the mount. I hold on to the over under as I go to mount, now that I am in the mount I am going to attack again. This time I am going for a gi choke that is very easy from the grip I have, I am going to let go of the palm to palm and grab my opponents collar feeding it to my left hand as deep as I can get it! To finish I am going to just take my right arm and feed it behind the head cutting both carotid artery for the tap! If I do not have the choke, I go to another attack that is ripe for the taking. grab my own collar trapping the arm taking my left hand and pushing my opponents face the other way stepping over for the armbar always pinching knees together and opponents thumb up, raising the hips for the tap!

Till Next Time!

Danny Howard

~Danny Howard is a Martial Arts enthusiast and a student at Tenbears Martial Arts Academy, If you are interested in … finding a fitness school, A kickboxing gym, Kickboxing training, Muay Thai kickboxing, Finding a judo or BJJ school… please consider signing up for the 30 day free offer. 

Also if you are into more of a stand up style of martial arts like karate, taekwondo or standard American boxing and would like to improve your ground game please consider our martial arts classes.  We are not that far from Kettering, Beavercreek, Fairborn, Xenia or Bellbrook either!

Saturday’s Jiu Jitsu class at Tenbears MMA in Dayton, Ohio was a very technical class, focusing on standing submissions as well as ground submissions. To begin with, we warmed up the bodies with our front rolls and side rolls, then transitioned into front break falls and side break falls, finishing up with good old fashioned elbow knee escapes in Dayton, Ohio. Our first set of techniques we practiced were standing wrist locks, also known as "Yawara" in the Yudansha Jiu Jitsu system in Dayton, Ohio. These involve keeping control of the opponent’s wrist, especially gripping at the thumb, and twisting the wrist and applying pressure in various ways in order to control their body and to submit them, making them "tap out" when the pain is overwhelming. Techniques such as these are perfect for self-defense situations as they start with the opponent grabbing our gi top or shirt. After the Yawara techniques, we then worked on performing a triangle choke from a different angle by starting in a BJJ side control position in Dayton, Ohio. From there we take control of the opponent’s arm and transition to where we are over our opponent with our legs up by their head. Then we take our foot on the opposite side of the arm we have controlled and put it between the opponents other free arm and their torso, sitting back and baiting them to bring up their head from between our legs. Once they do that, we take the foot we just put down and bring it across the opponents chest and hook our foot underneath our other leg behind the knee, locking the triangle in place while maintaining control of the other arm we grabbed earlier. If the triangle choke does not cause them to "tap out" then we can take the arm we have controlled and apply an arm bar against it, causing them to "tap out" as well as maintaining control of the opponent and exposing their head, perfect for applying ground and pound techniques perfect for MMA and street fighting situations. After the technical part of class, we then did our "wiping the mat" session, sparring against opponents of various size and skill level to help practice our application of the Jiu Jitsu techniques we’ve learned in Dayton, Ohio. Once we’re good and tired from "wiping the mat" we did our abdominal workout session to strengthen our core and them cooled down our bodies with some Yoga For Fighters in Dayton, Ohio.

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In Sunday’s BJJ technical class at Tenbears MMA in Dayton, Ohio we worked on a basic BJJ control technique called the "De La Hiva Hook" In dayton ohio. This BJJ technique involves hooking your foot inside the opponents leg on the inside of their hamstring, then keeping control of their opposite arm while your other foot is placed on the opposite hip of the leg being hooked. A BJJ sweep in dayton ohio can be applied from this control position by sliding your hooked foot up past the opponent’s groin to their opposite hip, then controlling the ankle of the opponent’s hooked leg and their arm on that side as well. From there, you pull on that arm to get the opponent off-balance and push with your hooked foot, driving them to the ground and following them into a side-control position in Dayton, Ohio. Lastly in class we had our live BJJ sparring session in Dayton, Ohio where students practiced applying the "De La Hiva Hook" control position and sweep against a resisting opponent in order to help perfect the technique in dayton ohio.

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At Tenbears MMA in Dayton, Ohio it’s important to drill the proper BJJ techniques in order for them to be effective when they really count. In Saturday’s BJJ class in Dayton, Ohio our students drilled the different positions they would encounter in a BJJ match: the mount, side mount, back mount, and the guard. Working with these positions, our students are able to become comfortable when placed in BJJ situations like these in Dayton, Ohio and therefore able to perform submissions and counters more effectively. That way our students will always know what proper BJJ technique to perform in any situation in Dayton, Ohio. After drilling the positions, it was time for our live sparring session called "wiping the mat." Here we put our BJJ techniques to the test against resisting opponents and get a great workout in Dayton, Ohio.

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       The Introduction to Jiu Jitsu classes at Tenbears MMA in Dayton, Ohio are where every new fighter takes the first steps in learning proper Jiu Jitsu techniques in ohio. In Monday’s Introduction to Jiu Jitsu class, students warmed up by doing front and side rolls, followed by break falls in order to toughen the body up for Jiu Jitsu training in Dayton, Ohio. We then learned a basic Jiu Jitsu submission: the arm bar. When applying the arm bar from a standing position, it’s important to pull the opponent’s arm up to create space under their back and stick your foot underneath to keep the opponent on their side to create additional leverage against their arm. Then the other leg steps over the opponent’s head and you sit down against the opponents shoulder, hugging their arm in tight and creating leverage against their elbow until they "tap out". Our next Jiu Jitsu submission we learned was a basic side-control shoulder lock that can then be transitioned to another variation of the arm bar. The Introduction to Jiu Jitsu class was then finished up with the best abdominal workout in Dayton, Ohio then followed by yoga for fighters to help increase flexibility and prevent any future injuries.

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Tenbears MMA in Dayton, Ohio provides the best BJJ training in both stand-up fighting and ground fighting in Dayton, Ohio. In Saturday’s class, our students learned the importance of properly "shooting in" when applying a single-leg or a double-leg takedown on their opponent. It is important when performing the takedown that the hands are properly grabbing the opponent behind the knees where the legs bend and getting your weight underneath the opponent in order to have the proper leverage. The body must also be as close to the opponent’s body to prevent the opponent from "sprawling" in order to defend against the takedown. Without being able to properly apply a correct takedown, our students would not be able to apply the Jiu Jitsu ground techniques we learn in Dayton, Ohio. Class was then finished up with our "wiping the mat" session, where we apply our Jiu Jitsu techniques against a resisting opponent in order to make sure we understand how to perform the techniques correctly in a live situation. Without this kind of training in Dayton, ohio we wouldn’t be prepared for when it really counts in a competition or a self-defense incident.

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In Tuesday’s BJJ class at Tenbears MMA in Dayton, Ohio, we warmed up with break falls in order to prepare our bodies for being thrown. Next, we reviewed on our shoulder and hip throws, making sure our feet are properly place and our hips squared with our opponent’s hips. Then we lift with our legs in order to get our opponent off their feet in a process called "shelving" your opponent, which is then followed by rolling your opponent off your hips and onto the ground. After working the throws, we worked on our standing submissions; one such example is the "gooseneck" wrist submission in Dayton, Ohio. In order to do this, pressure must be properly placed against your opponents wrist in order to make them "tap out". Lastly, we finished up the BJJ class at Tenbears MMA in Dayton, Ohio with our "wiping the mat" session, which allowed us to apply the different Jiu Jitsu techniques in Dayton, Ohio we have learned against resisting opponents, as well as conditioning the body in order to receive the punishment it endures. After that we transitioned to our version of yoga for fighters in Dayton, Ohio. Don’t forget to take full advantage of our 30 day free training today! Call NOW (937) 361-0200

 We train in all aspects of fighting here at Tenbears mma in Dayton, ohio including stand up and ground fighting. Last night in class, we warmed our bodies up with some break falls and rolls as well as elbow knee escapes in or to prepare our bodies for our BJJ training in Dayton, Ohio and prevent injury. Next we worked on our single leg sweeps in Dayton, Ohio. It’s important to train how to properly get your opponent off balance and sweep the leg they have their balance on in order to take them to the ground so that we can apply our BJJ techniques in Dayton, Ohio. Our next technique was your basic shoulder throw, which can be a devastating throw when done correctly. Lastly, we did some standing wrist locks, which are perfect for self-defense in Dayton, Ohio. Situations in which you are facing a larger opponent. It’s amazing how you can control your opponent’s body by just twisting their wrist and keeping their arm extended as far as possible and pulling their body to keep them of balance. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Jiu Jitsu class in Dayton, Ohio without "wiping the mat." That is what we call our live training aspect of our BJJ class in Dayton, Ohio where we go round after round against different opponents of different sizes and skill levels in order to properly apply the techniques we’ve learned at Tenbears mma . After we’re done with "wiping the mat," we finished up with a killer ab workout in Dayton, Ohio. Your core is the most important muscle group in your body, especially when doing BJJ in Dayton, ohio, as most of your movement involves using your core muscles.

Here at Tenbears we take pride in the family atmosphere of our Dayton Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy.  We have a lot of families that train here in Dayton and take our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes. We have set up a lot of our kids Brazilian jiu jitsu classes in Dayton  and adult bjj classes in dayton so that the parents can train before and after the our kids self defense and Brazilian jiu jitsu classes in Dayton, Ohio. To find out more about our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes in Dayton, Ohio visit http://www.tenbearsmma.com/home/brazillian-jiu-jitsu.html. or call josh at (937) 361-0200 to get you 100 % FREE 30 day trial started NOW!!!!!