Monday & Tuesday Practice

Great practices on Monday (22 judoka) and Tuesday (12 judoka) - lots of pummeling, uchi komi, grip fighting, te guruma and randori.

Next Practice: Wednesday at UTC

Saturday Practice

Congratulations to Dave Henson on his promotion to blue belt (yonkyu)!

Small but fun class today focusing on grip fighting and te guruma. We finished with lots of randori. Dave ran the gauntlet, lost his lunch, and came right back for more - nice!

Thursday Practice

Fun workout tonight (16 judoka). The warm up was very short since almost everybody participated in the BJJ class. Lots of uchikomi, grip fighting and nage komi (kouchi, ouchi, seoinage, te guruma).

We also covered a couple of tricks/variations of te guruma and finished with some randori.

The picture above shows Sensei Pedro winning with te guruma at the 2008 World Masters Championships in Brussels, Belgium.

Next Practice: 1pm Saturday at UTC

Kyle Roberts Promoted to Danzan-Ryu Jujitsu Shodan

Congratulations to Kyle Roberts on his recent promotion to black belt in Danzan-Ryu Jujitsu.

Wednesday Practice

18 judoka tonight. The warm up included uchikomi, grip fighting, stretching and nage komi (kouchi gari, ouchi gari, uchi mata, and harai goshi). We also learned a couple variations of te guruma including transitions to ouchi gari.

Thanks to Sensei Pedro for finding some of the new competition rules that go into effect in 2009. I believe these new rules require dogs to wear blue a gi.

Next Practice: 7:30pm Thursday at Capital City BJJ

Monday Practice

20 judoka tonight... We started off with a tough warm up and lots of grip fighting. Tonight we started a new two-week series on Pedro's and Tauasa's favorite throw: te guruma

Next Practice is Tuesday at the new Capital City BJJ facility at 7:30pm!

New Sacramento Location!

Beginning November 18th our Tuesday and Thursday classes (7:30pm-8:30pm) will be held at the Capital City Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training facility.

This is a brand new training facility with world-class Cassio Werneck Jiu-Jitsu black belt Marcos Torregrosa and Terry Maxwell as instructors. Many thanks to Marcos, Terry, Jesse and Capital City BJJ for allowing us to train and teach at their new facility.

Capital City Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
6360 Belleau Wood Lane Suite 6
Sacramento CA, 95822

Contact Brent or Tauasa if you have any questions.

Saturday Practice

Small but intense practice today (17 judoka). A tough warmup followed by turnovers, randori, newaza, grip fighting review and cool down.

Next practice: Monday at UTC

Monday Practice

A great turn out tonight: 34 judoka. Lots of uchi komi, nage komi (practicing harai goshi) and some randori.

Next Practice this Saturday at UTC!

Palo Alto Invitational

Many thanks to the Palo Alto Judo Club for a tough (and very fun) tournament in Palo Alto today.

TSJ had only 11 competitors today, but everybody fought well. Jonel and Mychal fought through injuries, and Syria was exceptional in the senior brown belt division.

Lincoln (2-2) and Tony (1-1) fought in their first tournament today and both did very well.

Practice on Monday in Roseville.

Wednesday Practice

17 bodies practicing harai goshi tonight (instruction by Teixeira Sensei). We also welcomed three new students tonight: Justin, Austin, and Dave.

Saturday practice is canceled in lieu of the Palo Alto tournament this Sunday. However, for senior students that want to participate, we'll be having a light workout at UTC this Saturday from 1-2:30pm (lots of uchi komi and nage komi).

Reminder: No Thursday Practice Downtown (November 6th)

Tuesday Practice

Fun with harai goshi was the theme tonight (and for the for the next two weeks). Lots of nage komi and a little randori tonight (16 warm bodies).

Ira made an appearance tonight! Just as scary as he was 20 years ago but a little bit lighter... You just know he's gonna dish out some justice like it's 1989 next time (stay clear if you know what's good for you!)

Practice in Roseville Wednesday. No practice downtown Thursday.

Palo Alto tournament this Sunday - contact the coaches if you need a ride to the venue.

Monday Practice

Great class tonight: 27 bodies. Tonight marks the start of a two-week training cycle on harai goshi (Kavanaugh Sensei got us started on the first variation).

Congratulations to everybody that competed at the Bojuka Invitational yesterday. Please send pics and/or video of matches to Tauasa when you have a chance.

Here is a video of one of Dave Henson's submission grappling matches at Marinobles a few weeks ago. Great job Dave!

Bojuka Tournament

It was a very nice day in Monterey. We had fun at the Bojuka tournament. Looking forward to Palo Alto next weekend. Great job from everyone at Team Sacramento.

Complete tournament results will be available Monday evening.

Bojuka Invitational

Marlina Luz winning with a pancake

Saturday Practice

Short seniors workout today in lieu of tomorrow's tournament.