Revelation Gym - Straight Blast Gym affiliated training group

Revelation Gym has recently introduced Brazilian Jiu Jitsu into our curriculum. Stuart's coach is John Reid from the Aliveness Gym in Aberdeen. Stuart believes that if you really want to be able to protect yourself then at some point in your learning you should consider taking up BJJ.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting with the goal of gaining a dominant position and using joint-locks and chokeholds to force an opponent to submit or be knocked out depending on what submission method is used. The art was based on early 20th century Kodokan Judo, which was itself then a recently-developed system (founded in 1882), based on multiple schools (or Ryu) of Japanese Jujutsu.

BJJ promotes the principle that a smaller, weaker person using leverage and proper technique can successfully defend against a bigger, stronger assailant. BJJ can be trained for self defense, sport grappling tournaments (gi and no-gi) and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition. Sparring (commonly referred to as 'rolling') and live drilling play a major role in training, and a premium is placed on performance, especially in competition.

 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu continues to have a large influence in Mixed Martial Arts . The enormous success of the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC™)  is attributed to the Gracie Family who created the format.  Representatives of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu family have had huge success against other martial martial arts experts in no hold barred fighting.