Reflex Jiu Jitsu is the only place in Bloomsburg, PA where individuals are not only going to learn how to defend himself or herself physically, but orally as well. There are many other invaluable benefits to learning self defense at Reflex Jiu Jitsu in Bloomsburg, PA as well. Reflex Jiu Jitsu is happy to teach train anyone in the art of Gracie Brazalian Jiu Jitsu regardless of if it is being used for self defense, to fend off a bully, sport, or just to get into shape.

When most people think about the benefits of learning self defense, the first thing that comes to mind is the safety benefits. Nothing feels more rewarding than knowing that you can protect yourself if you are placed in a dangerous situation. What most people do not realize is there are also a lot of health benefits to learning self defense as well.

Training in the art of self defense is going to improve the amount of agility a person has, improve their balance, and improve their coordination. It is also going to increase their mobility, flexibility, and muscle strength. Furthermore, it will improve a person’s reflexes as well as improving their posture. There are also some psychological and intellectual benefits to self defense training as well. For example, it has been proven to improve an individual’s ability to focus and concentrate. It has also been proven to increase an individual’s self-confidence, self-awareness, self-control, and self-respect. Self defense can also be used as an outlet for expression and creativity.

Anyone in the Bloomsburg, PA area who wants to explore the benefits of self defense can sign up for classes at Reflex Jiu Jitsu. Extensive classes are offered seven days for your convenience. Reflex Jiu Jitsu also offers a safe, clean, and professional environment in order for individuals to reap as many benefits from learning self defense as possible.

If you look anywhere in the MMA or in the martial arts world in general, you cannot help but notice the influence of the Gracie family and how their style called Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or Gracie Jiu JItsu as it is also known, changed the path of fighting for sport and everything people knew about competition and martial arts tournaments. Their sport emphasizes speed and agility over size and strength and ground fighting over the more traditional standing fighting styles seen in many martial arts tournaments. Without the Gracie family and their sport, both worlds would look vastly different today.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu arose from Carlos and Helio Gracie’s adaptation of the Judo knowledge they had learned and mastered from Mitsuyo Maeda. Since Helio was slightly frailer than his brothers, he developed many of the principles of the sport to emphasize leverage and speed rather than the strength which was needed to counter an opponent’s moves in the traditional Judo martial art. Their goal in developing the martial art was to create a sport, one that was crowd friendly and placed particular emphasis on competition. Since their sport requires little striking moves, combatants can practice at full speed and without restraint which prepares them for competition. This is where the sport differs from almost every martial art which typically requires repetition and slower paced simulation to master techniques. The Gracie’s influence on ground attack and competition based learning as served notice to the martial arts community and many have improved their training and techniques due to this.

Their influence on the MMA world is without question. As the Gracie family moved their academies to America, the sport of mixed martial arts was budding. The Gracies saw an opportunity to advance their sport and took it. Many of MMA’s early champions and participants were either Gracie family members or students from their academies. Since their sport was already crowd friendly, it gave the MMA world a whole new look over the traditional “stand up” boxing or martial arts styles fighters and spectators were accustomed to. As almost every fight always ends up on the ground, the grappling and ground fighting techniques are crucial to today’s MMA fighter and considered almost impossible to fight without them.

How do we pick what it is that we do in our spare time? With the hectic lives that most of us live these days, it’s very hard to find much time for ourselves and the things that we love to do recreationally. Most of us will start by putting together a mental list of the things that are important to us by order of priority. For example, I personally try to choose activities that will stimulate me mentally, physically, and also provide a certain level of stress relief as well. Many others choose there past times based solely on the physical benefits or by the level of overall entertainment they will experience. Whatever your personal reasons may be are entirely dictated by you and your personality. Everyday an increasingly large number of people are turning to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to fill the need for a new hobby or activity in there lives. This is really no surprise to me, as I made the decision to practice, learn, and tech Brazilian Jiu Jitsu almost seven years ago and I have never looked back. Reflex Jiu Jitsu in Bloomsburg is direct evidence of this choice I made. Now I spend most of my time giving others the opportunity to fill there lives with all of the benefits of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

The discovery of Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu usually starts with a desire to learn martial arts. This fact is a very good thing considering Jiu Jitsu is a martial art, and the most effective and practical martial art you could ever hope to find. Many times those seeking martial arts are doing so for the very reason we talked about earlier, to find a new hobby. Other times it is the obvious benefit of self defense. After you make the decision to study martial arts and add Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as a great past time and hobby for you, Reflex Jiu Jitsu will get you started the right way at our great Jiu Jitsu, MMA, and fitness academy.

It will only be after you start your training at Reflex that you will soon discover the other side of Gracie Jiu Jitsu. What I am talking about now is the big world of sport Jiu Jitsu. Competition has been a huge part of Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu since the very first days of its creation. Today many practitioners that started there training as a mere self defense class or two have made the transition into sport Jiu Jitsu. Many Jiu Jitsu fighters even dedicate all of there training to competition in grappling tournaments or MMA competitions.

So as you can see, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu can very easily be fit into any one or even all of the categories that we have mentioned in this article. What matters the most is why you train and what you make of your training. Any way you look at it, Jiu Jitsu will fill your needs. Whether you use it as a hobby, sport, or martial art for self defense, Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is for you.

5. BJJ Promotion System – The ranking system in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is unlike any other belt system in martial arts today. Much like Karate, Kung Fu, Taekwondo, and most other forms of martial arts, there is still a colored ranking system that signifies the rank and ability level of each student. That is where the similarities end though. In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, achieving those individual ranks can be much much harder and demanding. The average time for an individual to receive there black belt in BJJ is somewhere between 10 and 15 years. In fact most students will practice this art for well over a year and a half to be awarded the first rank of blue belt. Because of this ranking system and its long intervals, the instructor is able to evaluate each individual student and assure that they are absorbing all of the required techniques and theories to be efficient and practical with there knowledge in the art of Gracie Jiu Jitsu.

4. Jiu Jitsu is True, Tried, and Tested – Its no secret that Gracie Jiu Jitsu is responsible for what we see today as the UFC and any other mixed martial arts promotion. Back in the early days of UFC, it was created for one reason and one reason only… to showcase the brilliant and wonderful techniques of Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I would say that there was an overwhelming success in there motives. Even today as we watch The Ultimate Fighter, Pride Fighting Championships, Strikeforce or any other promotion in MMA we continually hear the term Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The days of other traditional martial arts being relevant in MMA are long gone. The Gracie family did a good job of overwhelming all other said masters of arts like Karate and Tang so do and quickly removing them from the vocabulary’s of commentators across the globe.

3. Real Live 100% Sparring – While practicing your techniques in martial arts it is not common to ever really train with your partners at 100%. This in in big part because of the fear of injury and in some cases even death. One of the most beautiful things about BJJ is the fact that this is not the case at all. In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes all across the globe students are able to engage in full contact sparring every single day. Jiu Jitsu literally translates to the “gentle art”. Practicing the “gentle art” makes it possible to practice what you are learning with out the worry of injuring any of your training partners. Not that there are never any injury’s or accidents in Jiu Jitsu but they are definitely far less common allowing you to maximize your training and your practice

 2. Leverage and gravity – When you were in elementary school you learned about simple machines. One of those simple machines was a lever. You also learned about the elements and characteristics of our planet Earth. Remember Issac Newton and the infamous apple incident? That’s right, gravity. Now you put those two things that you learned about while in grade school and you have the two of the most simple but effective and proven concepts known to man. Guess what? Both of them are used and mastered in Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. How can you go wrong with that? No other martial art uses these two concepts with the accuracy and theory that BJJ does. Need I really say more about this subject?

1.Uses Only the Most Effective Techniques – Over a period of time some of the techniques that we learn in all types of martial arts become a bit of a mystery, or moves that we just end up assuming work. In other situations the moves we learn are just that, moves. These moves or techniques never take into account any variables that may happen during an altercation with an aggressive attacker. Plain and simple, things don’t always go as planned. Unlike martial arts such as Karate, Taekwondo, Tang so do, etc, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu addresses these variables. You never just learn a move and a move alone in BJJ, you learn the technique, how to use the technique in a large number of situations, you learn how to counter the technique, and you learn counters for the counters and so on. In many cases the moves that don’t have a very high percentage of effectiveness have been omitted from the lessons that you will receive in a typical Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class or Gracie Jiu Jitsu class.