{"id":571,"date":"2014-01-15T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.art-of-bjj.com\/en\/?p=571"},"modified":"2016-09-04T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T13:58:10","slug":"brazilian-jiu-jitsu-hobart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.art-of-bjj.com\/en\/brazilian-jiu-jitsu-hobart\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian jiu-jitsu in Hobart"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last stop in Tasmania, let\u2019s go to Hobart to meet the team Maromba South<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n

Team Maromba South<\/h2>\n

The academy is directed by Adam Newton, the Brazilian jiu-jitsu pioneer in Tasmania<\/strong>. Already expert in Muay Tha\u00ef and judo, he discovered BJJ in 1996 by attending a John Will<\/strong>\u2019s seminar (1st Australian BJJ black belt) and from then on he quickly improved his technique. He will be the first Tasmanian to receive a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam also managed to bring together an enthusiastic group of students of whom Gerry Young<\/strong> (brown belt), Peter Rogers<\/strong> (purple belt) and Deb Cameron<\/strong> (blue belt and an experienced female competitor). They have become instructors and mainstays of the academy<\/strong>. Experts in other martial arts, they are now passionate for Brazilian jiu-jitsu and daily contribute to the academy\u2019s life and development.<\/p>\n

Thanks to them a good atmosphere reigns in this group, especially with Gerry who always has the right word to make you laugh! For me it\u2019s also a good mean to reach one of his goals: the more fun you have, the more you will love jiu-jitsu<\/strong>. Once you feel at ease on the mat, you just have to embrace Brazilian jiu-jitsu and its techniques.<\/p>\n

\"Brazilian<\/p>\n

Personal development through Brazilian jiu-jitsu<\/h2>\n

Beyond Brazilian jiu-jitsu\u2019s sports, self-defence or MMA aspects, Gerry has also found in BJJ a mean to challenge himself and to grow as a person<\/strong>. A vision you can feel in the way he teaches. He shows in a very educational way a technique and over the following classes its numerous variants (we studied sweep from the butterfly guard with Adam and Gerry during the two weeks I spent in Hobart). I find interesting to see how to go from one technique to the other. You have to understand the concepts to evolve through the techniques. From then on everybody is free to develop his own game!<\/p>\n

As a big supporter of the Straight Blast Gym<\/strong> (SBG)\u2019s teaching, Peter shares this approach. To a classical master-student way of teaching, SBG highlights the group\u2019s strength in the martial arts\u2019 learning process<\/strong>. SBG focuses its vision on the \u201ccatch as catch can submission\u201d and encourages its members to exchange, experiment and innovate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concretely students at Maromba South Hobart<\/strong> are invited to question on techniques of their choice during the \u201cQuestions & Answers\u201d session<\/strong> at the end of the training. During this exchange, the instructors preferably give answers based on concepts rather than on details<\/strong>, with a constant efficiency and realism goal.<\/p>\n

\"Brazilian<\/p>\n

The different sequences are also an interesting aspect of the class: warm up, rolls then techniques<\/strong> (and even some more rolls after that, for fun). I appreciated this rhythm because it obliges to be more lucid during the technical work<\/strong> and thus you do not cool down before rolling. Demonstration with the technique he shows us after two hours of an intense training!<\/p>\n