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Aaron Milam - head Instructor

The only other shot of Hannah's match I have is fr

The only other shot of Hannah's match I have is from @eddie_jams story of the event.

Congratulations again on your super fight vicrory Hannah @grouse_armstrong

Congratulations to Hannah Sharp @grouse_armstrong

Congratulations to Hannah Sharp @grouse_armstrong on her super fight victory last night @submissionsontheshore
You showed great skill and tenacity executing your game in a very physical match.

We all look forward to having you back on the mats tomorrow morning.
@rga_pdx_women

Photo: @blanca_marisa_garcia

Our older kiddos appreciating the nuance of @eddie

Our older kiddos appreciating the nuance of @eddie_jams humor and back control strategies.

Roast Mutton " 'And please don't cook me, kind sir

Roast Mutton " 'And please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean. I'll cook beautifully for you, a perfectly beautiful breakfast for you, if only you won't have me for supper.' "
Bilbo Baggins - The Hobbit

I like to lovingly call the 10am class the "dad" c

I like to lovingly call the 10am class the "dad" class. Every now and then some of the dads get a good night of sleep and come in doing backflips and breakdancing. You looked sharp today @twistedfilipino

It's quickly becoming people's favorite/hated posi

It's quickly becoming people's favorite/hated position.

Bottom work is coming along. The team is showing

Bottom work is coming along.

The team is showing a lot more comfort and composure in bad positioms, displaying better elbow discipline and movement, and recovering directly to offensive paths.

Still getting stick on bottom? Come to class with questions, let's fix it.

Do you spend as much time on your defensive skills

Do you spend as much time on your defensive skills as you do on your submissions?
We'll be putting in some work this week.

A few weeks ago I was presented my Judo black belt

A few weeks ago I was presented my Judo black belt by my friend and teacher Roy Kawaji.

It was an occasion I have tried to not just let pass by without appreciating.

It's been about 32 years since I began practicing Judo.

This has been a practice that has given me a structure, challenge, and community for really my entire life and has taught more lessons than I can list.

As a kid, it gave me long term goals of skill development, role models, and dreams of being a black belt some day. It provided healthy competition through my teens and twenties and the ability to travel the world as a competitor, now as an instructor.

Judo and Jiu jitsu have provided me a sense of self confidence and safety that I probably take for granted.

It has given me community and friendships around the world that have a disarming honesty that I do not find elsewhere.

It has provided a never ending field of challenges and puzzles and become a thing to satisfy my creativity.

I am fortunate to have a life where I can now share all these experiences with many, many people.

Over the last few weeks I have spent quite a bit of time thinking and writing about everything my practice has been to me.

What stands out to me now, and what I am choosing to share as my lesson from all this is what I have learned from Roy.

Roy serves as an example to me of what an authentic practice can create and of how a person blessed with such a practice should share it with others. He teaches with a smile, with passion, and joy. He is thankful and humble and inspires those qualities in those around him. Roy reminds me to trust that everyone is doing their best to learn, and also that people are here for so many different reasons. Some days the gifts of practice are in skill perfection, others in competition. Some days practice gives the lesson of humility, others the gift of friendship.

Roy reminds me that the practice is far more than the art and that the best way to share it is to live it and to build a community that can give these gifts to everyone. It's greatest gifts are those you can take with you off the mat.

You have been a great example and teacher for me Roy. Thank you again.

Congratulations to coach Eddie Jamrog on your comp

Congratulations to coach Eddie Jamrog on your competition this weekend. It was a great run to first place. We are all looking forward to your return.

Reposted from @eddie_jams (@get_regrann) - Yesterday I won the brown belt master 1 (age 30+) lightweight division at the IBJJF No Gi World Championships. I went 4-0, winning via kneebar in my first match, a 16-0 points victory in the quarterfinals. a kimura in the semifinals, and a kneebar in the finals.

I think it is important to say that although I am somewhat proud of what I accomplished, I am not a “brown belt world champion.” I reserve the phrase “world champion” for those who win in the adult (18+) division, and never for those who win in the masters divisions. In my opinion, it is extremely lame to misrepresent your or your student’s accomplishments by calling your or their master’s world championship titles “world championship” titles.
Adult world champions compete in divisions (with some exceptions, mostly at black belt), that are filled with far more full-time and professional athletes that, in general, dedicate more amounts of time and effort to the sport, often training out of world class points-style gyms, and sometimes pumping themselves full of PEDs. It is far more difficult to win an adult world title in most cases. Take for example that Andy Murasaki placed 2nd in what would have been my adult division... Thanks Silver Fox for signing my papers, Hannah @grouse_armstrong for everything you bring to that which is important to me in my life, @rgapdx for teaching me kneebars and being the impetus for my attempt at trying to understand this sport, my training partners, and everyone who takes lessons with me or comes to my classes. Without your patronage I couldn’t travel around doing stuff like this. I very selfishly want to make you all the best that I can.

Finally, I strongly dislike IBJJF rules and I hate points. Something needs to be done about the amount of stalling and fleeing-the-mat people get away with in this ruleset. Long live heel hooks and reaping.

#rgapdx #workshopbjj #workshoppdx #teamrenzogracie #renzogracieportland #bjj #IBJJF #submissiongrappling #leglocker - #regrann

Thrilling drilling before a pretty great day of ro

Thrilling drilling before a pretty great day of rounds.

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Thanks for making it a great day guys.

Thanks for making it a great day guys.

Burgers & Beatdowns today. Nonstop rolls noon-1:30

Burgers & Beatdowns today.
Nonstop rolls noon-1:30pm
Food and drink at Bar Bar afterwards.

See everybody soon.

It's Friday. What were your big jiu jitsu developm

It's Friday.
What were your big jiu jitsu developments this week?

Congratulations again to Hannah Sharp on achieving

Congratulations again to Hannah Sharp on achieving her black belt this weekend.

I am excited to see everything you will achieve in this new chapter as a student, competitor, and as a teacher. This really is just the beginning.

Also, I appreciate your amazing drawing to commemorate the occasion.

Everybody comes to roll on their day off.

Everybody comes to roll on their day off.

@twistedfilipino enjoying the rounds yesterday.

@twistedfilipino enjoying the rounds yesterday.

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