My journey into Jiujitsu

[Aikijiujitsu]

I was looking to train with an mma fighter Igor Zanovia he was the dude that got slammed by Frank Shamrock up until then he was whipping some ass in the cage, I saw he was fighting out of Brooklyn New York so me and my boy tried to find him. A friend of mine who was into martial arts told me he might of found this dude it was an Igor not the same one what he did was a style of traditional Jiujitsu called Shizen Ryu Aiki Jiujitsu. The emphasis was on combat effectiveness self defense against people who actually knew what they were doing in a fight. I fell inlove every week we added or discarded fine tuning our art cross training with bjj, boxing, judo, muay thai, wrestling, karate, and kungfu using what ever techniques were useful intergrating them into our arsenals at the same time getting rid of any traditional techniques that were obsolete or finding new ways to apply them practically. I learned discipline it helped to build character to fortify the spirit it saved my life. I developed a grudge against bjj practitioners who looked at my art of jiujitsu as something that didnt work i thought to myself this isnt aikido. We didnt train for competition it was for life or death situations I thought to myself pull guard on the concrete I'll make you pay for it. Eye pokes fish hooks head buts will change the whole dynamic of what these guys do they dont train to fight they trained for sport since in my programming it wasnt practical to go to the ground in a street fight. Then I read Eddie Bravos book and it was inspiring I realized my quarrel wasnt with bjj pracitioners who looked down at my style of jiujitsu it was with myself my insecurities towards my own ground game how i needed to improve it to make my jiujitsu complete. For that i will forever be grateful to Eddie Bravo for reminding me what i should of known in the first place keep an open mind.

[derrick ikwueme]

BJJ is to allow a much smaller person the defeat a much larger person and most prolonged fights that aren't broken up usually go to the ground at some point. No BJJ instructor will tell you to pull guard off the top in a street fight. you want to be deadly from every situation on the ground top or bottom. Your situation is why I never got into any other martial art, to much ego, to many death blows, not many proving what they say is true in the cage. that's what's great about MMA, you think your shit works, well now you have to prove it in the cage.

[Aikijiujitsu]

I'll be fighting my first amatuer fight in November at the warrior challenge in Lancaster pa i had to adjust my style of jiujitsu for mma so well see.

[Aikijiujitsu]

At 2 minutes Shinya Aoki performs a arm breaker we been using in Shizen ryu for years its a short version of shia-nage Aoki is the only one i seen in mma pull off something from traditional jiujitsu in mma.

[Aikijiujitsu]

tried to start a new thread and fucked up im new to this

[derrick ikwueme]

good luck !! and remember, MMA schools are good at making " Jacks of All Trades " & " Masters of None " learn your jit's at an jiu jitsu only school, your muy thai at a muy thai school, wrestling at a wrestling school. Even though I did muy thai in countless fights growing up. I'll never tell a perspective student that I can teach them jiu jitsu and muy thai just to " make money" . Unfortunately, this happens all the time with karate & muy thai schools trying to act like they can teach jiu jitsu and leaving many holes in unsuspecting students game. Example: a mma fighter told me he was a " Green Belt " in Jiu Jitsu, I laughed and told him there is no " Green Belt " in BJJ. He insisted I was wrong after 14 years of studying jits. Then his own instructor said he got his "Green belt" from a former kickboxing now MMA school. So that dude has the Pervervial " Mixed Messages Belt "

[Aikijiujitsu]

Your white belt turns black from blood sweat and tears theres no belt system in Shizen Ryu and the purpose is to learn as much as possible to make the style the art more practical more effective. Everynow and then my sensei would bring in a judo black belt or a muay thai fighter to come in work with us on techniques its not about belts but knowledge and understanding.

[Dustin C.]

I'll be fighting my first amatuer fight in November at the warrior challenge in Lancaster pa i had to adjust my style of jiujitsu for mma so well see.

Record it man i would like to see the fight

[Aikijiujitsu]

Yea most def ima post it win or lose