Savarese Jiu-Jitsu-uncoachable kids become unemployable adults

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Savarese Jiu-Jitsu-uncoachable kids become unemployable adults

Savarese Jiu-Jitsu-uncoachable kids become unemployable adults. That is our motto. So….Attn parents: Now that the stress of “back To School” has worn off, lets get our kids moving and into a fun activity while getting them in shape and learning how to defend themselves at the same time! The main goal at Savarese Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy is to boost the self-esteem of our students, especially in our kids martial arts program.
Statistics show that one out of four children are bullied in school or online. Many believe that fear of bullying may be the leading cause of low self-confidence in children. Worse, statistics suggest that only 36% of bullying is reported. At Savarese BJJ, we focus on the physical, emotional and mental well-being of our students. We call them “Life Skills”. We provide our young students with the most powerful defensive skills so they will be ready to stand up against bullies.
Additionally, we assist our students with the development of characteristics and skills they will need in order to live a happy and balanced life. Our students develop confidence, discipline, courage, responsibility, and leadership among other important values.
We promote non-violent resolutions to conflict. For many children learning to respect authority can be a difficult lesson to learn. Respecting authority is quite important in the teaching of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. We aim to develop life-improvement skills as well as building the child’s character in a positive way. Our belief is uncoachable kids become unemployable adults. We teach these skills in the most fun atmosphere possible.
Savarese Jiu-Jitsu is beneficial in many ways. Children who participate in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu classes quickly increase their physical fitness level. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu involves both large and small muscle groups in the body. Improvement of physical well-being is not the only goal. We want them to be confident in everything they do.
Our program can and will help your child increase their confidence, self-esteem, discipline, while teaching them life skills that will last them a lifetime.
Our award winning program, your child will be able to progress at their very own pace. We understand that everyone learns differently. No matter if your child can only train once a week or every day, we have the program that will fit your needs.
For more info visit www.njbjj.com

Lyndhurst Jiu-Jitsu team shines at JJWL

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Lyndhurst Jiu-Jitsu team shines at JJWL

Savarese Jiu-Jitsu, the Lyndhurst Jiu-Jitsu team shines at JJWL this weekend! Our competition team had 3 people enter and all team came home finishing on the medal stand. Congrats to Cheryl Yang on taking 2nd place in her bluebelt division at the Jiu-Jitsu World League tournament in Trenton today. I’m so proud of Cheryl not just for her performance today, but because of the commitment she made a month and a half ago and the progress she has made in the training room over that month. Sometimes it’s not about the outcome but the lead up to the tournament where the progress is made. Great job Cheryl! So proud of you! Jasmine enters her first tournament in a log time and did great, coming hone with the bronze medal in her division. Futhermore, major congrats to Juelz Hernandez on taking gold in his bluebelt no-gi division today at the Jiu-Jitsu World League tournament. Juelz also took 3rd in the gi going 4-1 on the day. I am so proud of this kid, he has the perfect attitude for Jiu-Jitsu, he is having fun and racking up title. He only training for a year and has been getting better literally every week. I cannot wait to see this kid at the upperbelts. He is gonna be a PROBLEM. Keep it up Juelz, don’t change a thing. If you are interested in joing out Lyndhurst Jiu-Jitsu team, leave your info at www.njbjj.com

Lyndhurst Jiu-Jitsu team shines at JJWL

Lyndhurst Jiu-Jitsu team shines at JJWL

 

Your Jiu-Jitsu set ups

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Your Jiu-Jitsu set ups

Your Jiu-Jitsu set ups are very important to your success. same with setting traps. You are engaged in a sport where your opponent knows most of the moves that you know and also knows the counters to most of those moves. When you reflect on this it can be disconcerting. If this is the case – how the hell does anyone ever win? Well there are many factors but one which is very important is that of setting traps. If opponents have a good sense of awareness of potential danger (they know the same moves you know) then often you have to give them a reason to take a risk. You can for example,
feign vulnerability and this will motivate an opponent to commit to an attack that he might not otherwise have tried. If you present too much danger to a knowledgeable opponent he will always back away and be very difficult to attack, but when you deliberately offer some kind of opportunity or opening – now he will commit in ways that you can exploit. Make sure your game isn’t always about aggressively chasing your opponent down. Add some subtlety to game. Learn to draw opponents in with subterfuge and suddenly opponents who always seemed so difficult to engage with become much easier to defeat

Your Jiu-Jitsu foundation

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Your Jiu-Jitsu foundation

Your Jiu-Jitsu foundation is everything. The great Rickson Gracie used to say “if you you don’t have the proper foundation, the house will fall down, same with your Jiu-Jitsu. ” If you’re going to bear an opponent’s weight, make sure your structure is sound. The fastest way to get exhausted in a match is to carry an opponent’s weight in a mechanically inefficient way. So whenever you have to carry weight, your first step is to get into a position or structure that enables you to carry it efficiently. This will vary according to the scenario. How you carry an opponent’s weight will vary greatly based on whether you’re working in a pin, a takedown, from bottom guard position etc. whichever scenario you’re in, there are efficient ways to carry weight and inefficient, make it your habit to quickly work your way into efficient physical structure so that you don’t exhaust yourself, and as always. Spend as little time as possible in a match carrying an opponents weight anywhere other than on your legs and hips. If you follow these methods, you will watch as your jiu-Jitsu grows, little by little, day by day. For more BJJ tips and techniques, follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/savaresebjj/

Lyndhurst Jiu-Jitsu Academy celebrates 18 years!

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Lyndhurst Jiu-Jitsu Academy celebrates 18 years!

Lyndhurst Jiu-Jitsu Academy celebrates 18 years! Congrats to Savarese Jiu-Jitsu, long considered one of the top Jiu-Jitsu Academies on the East Coast, on the milestone achievement!

Message from Professor Savarese

Today is the 18th Anniversary of the Savarese Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy. I always take the morning of this day every year to walk through the doors, drink in the atmosphere and reflect on the journey. I opened this school with nothing but guts. No money, no plan. My family didn’t have the means to help. Thinking about what I know now compared to what I knew then, looking back now, it’s amazing I didn’t go out of business in the first 2 years. I can only laugh at my ignorance. Over these 18 years, I have personally have grown so much as an instructor, a business owner, BJJ practitioner and most importantly, as a person. Opening this Academy (Thanks David Adiv for your constant pushing) was truly the best decision I ever made and I am so thankful for those who have supported me and helped me grow during this journey. And thankful to those who come on this journey every day with me. To know how much we as a team have made a difference in the lives of the people in the room and in our community for years and generations to come is the most rewarding feeling one can have. Lives are changed EVERY DAY here. People become better versions of themselves before our eyes. Many champions have been created on these mats, both on and off the mat. As a white and blue belt, doing something like this seemed like a pipe dream, a goal that seemed almost unattainable but I am proud that it was a goal and dream reached. I would like to thank all my students whose role play an important part in the success of our Academy. I am so proud of the way everyone treats each other and I can honestly say the atmosphere in our Academy is what I am most proud of. Just a group of people who stand by each other every day in pursuit of a bigger picture, leaving their problems and ego at the door and trying to become better martial artists and people every day. Boys have become men, little girls have become women. Families have started because of this place. New Academies to help other people and communities have started because of this place. I am even thankful for the bad times, the students who opted out of this journey with me, because the lessons I learned from those times made me stronger and better. Looking forward to helping others grow on and off the mats for as long as humanly possible. Thanks to all my students for their trust and dedication and to everyone on the ride w me. I truly am grateful. I can honestly say I love where we are right now as a TEAM, w everyone on the same page.
These 3 pics show our journey from the outside of the Original 900 sq ft Academy at 482 Stuyvesant Ave where it all started, a place w a drum set in the office, a door that was so short that in the winter winds of cold would blow through and a place where we constantly put holes in the walls. That is where I became a teacher, had lifelong friends in BJJ travel to start training me w me and holds a special place in my heart.
Next was 500 Stuyvesant w/ the poles, a 2nd floor Academy that was a microcosm for many of our journeys, because it was a place where a lot of us grew and ascended to new heights. It was a truly special and meaningful place for many of my upperbelts and where others got their start.
And lastly, our home, our 5500 sq ft facility at 40 Park Ave. The place I always dreamed we’d someday have.
Looking forward to what the future brings!

Seeing vs doing in Jiu-Jitsu

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Seeing vs doing in Jiu-Jitsu

There is a big difference between seeing vs doing in Jiu-jitsu. Your best learning probably won’t happen when someone shows you something. It’ll happen when you put whatever they show you into practice in a messy, blundering kind of way. The nature of jiu-jitsu is such that there’s always a gap between seeing what to do and then doing it. Furthermore, often that gap is wider than we initially think. We can’t really know that our understanding is wrong until we test it out and see whether it works. Unfortunately, at some point in this process, our fear of failure often kicks in. We forget that the temporary failure we experience when we’re learning is very different than a larger, global failure of our whole approach. Progress in jiu-jitsu works as a cycle where we make mistakes, get a little better, then make more mistakes. It’s possible to set it up so you rarely fail, but do you really want to do that? Playing it safe may mean less risk, but it also means fewer lessons. If you want to get good at BJJ, you have to ‘do’. For more tips, follow us on IG at https://www.instagram.com/savaresebjj/

Sparring with a purpose in BJJ

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Sparring with a purpose in BJJ

This is what I mean when I say sparring with a purpose in BJJ. The vast majority of jiu-jitsu athletes enter every sparring session with a let’s see what happens attitude. Let me tell you something, whenever you enter sparring with a let’s see what happens attitude, you will 100% end up doing the same things you did in all your other previous training sessions you had over the last day, month, year or years. Left to their own devices, BJJ practitioners will always go back to their habits. The idea of progressive training is to create NEW habits, not simply repeat old ones. Change within yourself has to be FORCED, it won’t happen by itself. The best way to make this happen is to have a clear goal(s) when you spar. Usually the goals are very modest – a new grip, a new set up for a favorite move, perhaps a new move you think has potential. Only by bringing in new material and improving old material will you make progress. This is best done by having a notion of what you want to accomplish before you slap hands and commence sparring. Of course there are days where you just want to spar with an open and relaxed mind and have fun seeing what happens – that is fine and healthy. However, make sure a healthy percentage of your sparring sessions involve clear prior goals to prevent them degenerating into more of the same sessions where you walk out the same the same as you walked in the door.

 

Don’t force moves in Jiu-Jitsu

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Don’t force moves in Jiu-Jitsu

Don’t force moves in Jiu-Jitsu! Sometimes, we get tunnel vision in trying to get the move we are looking for. Do you ever latch onto a particular strategy or technique and insist on making it work at any cost? While you can sometimes pull it off, you often end up working more with what you think is going on and less with the actual circumstances before you. Theoretically what you’re doing should work, but suddenly your partner moves out of position, the range or angle is wrong and you wanted isn’t there. You’re working in the past, not the present, rather than change with the moment, you’ve held on too long and are now left to scramble. We have to look at things as they are, as they’re happening, and check up to make sure we are where we think we are. This process, freeing ourselves from the overriding obsessions that block the creative flow, on the mat or anywhere else – is difficult to master but is a big part of the total experience of the training. for more BJJ tips, follow us at https://www.instagram.com/savaresebjj/

Working skills vs flashy skills in Jiu-Jitsu

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Working skills vs flashy skills in Jiu-Jitsu

There is a big difference between working skills vs flashy skills in Jiu-Jitsu. I think it’s fair to say we all have an innate preference for the flashy moves in the art of Jiu Jitsu. Moves that wow a crowd and a spectacular flair to them. The birth of social media made these type of moves and the demand for them even more in the public eye. It seems everyone wants to be the next Joe D’arce. the Renzo Gracie blackbelt who has a widely known move named after him. Certainly these are fun to learn and can occasionally bring great results, but the simple truth is that the vast majority of both your time and your success on the mat will be the result of foundational skills. These are the skills that make the application of the glamor moves possible. You’ll never see guard retention in a highlight reel, but all those spectacular arm bars and triangles and sweeps from guard that do feature on highlight reels would be impossible if you couldn’t hold guard long enough to actually apply them. Think about it in terms of numbers. For every minute of glamor moves you apply you’ll spend twenty minutes in the set up phase. Your training must reflect this. Ask yourself if a given skill “what skills underlie this skill?” Once you figure that out spend much more time on those underlying skills than the surface skill. This is how you build a game with a solid foundation that will work against tough opponents

Scrambling in Jiu-Jitsu

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Scrambling in Jiu-Jitsu

Scrambling in Jiu-Jitsu can be good or bad. It’s a conundrum. Any time you enter into a scramble with an opponent and neither of you has definitive control over the other and one has the threat of gaining advantageous position – you’re going to have to raise your energy expenditure to cope with the situation regardless of whether your the attacker or the defender. As the attacker it’s worth the extra energy expense because of the chance of a score. As the defender it’s worth the energy expenditure because you don’t want to concede a score. The question becomes – at what point do you stop the scramble because it’s costing you too much energy and the probability of a favorable outcome has diminished to a point where it makes more sense to stop scrambling? Its never easy to answer these questions. There are too many variables so each has to be answered on a case by case basis, but one thing can be said in every case – the athlete who can PROLONG A SCRAMBLE while keeping energy expenditure within acceptable limits has a huge advantage in a competitive match. Anyone can pace themselves in a controlled situation, but only the best can do so in a chaotic situation