Okami Jiu-Jitsu

We are pleased to announce our first interclub at Supreme.

We are welcoming all levels of K1, Boxing, MMA and Submission Grappling throughout the day with Juniors 9am til 11am and then from 12pm the Adults (from 16 years)

Refreshments and food will be provided by the amazing

This is a great way to get the local clubs together with no egos and great day for all the family

Non decision bouts, controlled for great experience by all

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📣 Coaches please send all the details via instagram or to Natalie on 07712881027
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📅 Sunday 13th July 2025
⏰ 9am JUNIORS and 12pm ADULTS
💰 £12 Fighters £7 Spectators
COACHES AND UNDER 5s FREE

SUPREME PERFORMANCE CENTRE
Unit 4, 565 Blandford Road
Hamworthy
Poole
Dorset
BH16 5BW

⭐ GYM USE AVAILABLE FOR ANY COMPETITORS AND SPECTATORS ON THE DAY. INCLUDING SAUNA AND ICE BATH

At our gradings we test our students techniques, which have to be good to pass. But we are more interested in whether our students show respect, control, drive and above all kindness. Congratulations to our students who passed this week and did the club proud.

Fantastic memories of a brilliant 1st year at Okami Leeds!

Overall a brilliant year and a great way to end the first year as Ōkami Leeds. As a club, we have gone from many students simply learning ju-jitsu techniques to competing in competitions. We appreciate everyone who comes to the club so much and we love the team feeling that the club has. We hope everyone has enjoyed this first year as much as we have. 💙🐺 #jujitsu #team #club #juijitsu #anniversary #fun #bjja #competition #family

Today is the 1st birthday of our Leeds branch! What a year it’s been.

For the data 📈 geeks amongst you here’s what that means!

⭐ we have delivered 98 lessons 🥋

🥋which is an amazing 2356 hours on the mat ⭐

⭐ we have 50 students aged between 7 & 55 🥋

🥋 we have held 4 gradings with 103 grade progressions including 1 new Dan grade (black belt). ⭐

⭐ we went to one competition and won 8 gold 🥇, 6 silver, and 2 bronze medals. 🥋

🥋 we’ve had trips out to Manchester Japanese festival, laser zone, and to Skegness! ⭐

We can’t wait to see what the next year has planned for us.

Enormous thank you 🙏 to our coaches, assistant coaches, parent volunteers, and of course our students and their families. We couldn’t do it without you.

We're almost ready to unveil our entirely new Syllabus Licencing Service. Best of all, there will be an unlimited and free option for clubs that don't want formal recognition, but would like to use this snazzy new tool designed to help you not only outline the structure of your curriculum, and important aspects like authors, copyright and regulatory matters, but also to visually chart out your syllabus belts and grades, including the specific Syllabus and anticipated duration between grades.

This includes both the visual grade by grade syllabus and the 'timeline' which helps you see the expected route and duration through your syllabus for students, to help you plan ahead.

If you have a licenced syllabus already you can port across for free, and for those using the service for official Licencing, you'll be able to generate fully branded syllabus documents and certification from right here in the dashboard.

We're hoping to have the BETA release ready later this week, so you can use any downtime over Christmas to map out your club's syllabus!

Yesterday we held gradings at our Calverley dojo. Congratulations to the 23 students who achieved grading promotions from our most junior white belt to advanced brown belt, and everything in between! 👏🏻

We are very proud of all of you and can’t wait to see where your jui jitsu journey takes you next.

A lovely FB memory from 12 months ago, when Sensei Em and Sensei Lucas achieved their first Dan after years of dedicated training. Since then they have become excellent members of our coaching team through our youth coach development programme, supporting our junior and adult members to achieve their goals.

I like the concepts that are explained here.

Our latest artwork by the amazing is an expression of Koteki Ryuda Juppo Sessho no Justu. This is one of the deepest concepts in the old Japanese martial arts.
It can be roughly translated as “Applying the strategies of the dragon and the tiger whilst negotiating in many dimensions”
Probably we could write a whole book on the concept….
The general idea is that we should develop the ability to apply different approaches to fighting, constantly switching between them and to be able to respond with many different techniques to an opponent’s action.
Koteki means Tiger Attack/Hit and Ryuda means Dragon Hold
For example in BJJ terms the dragon represents bearing your weight down on the opponent, maybe we could think of it as the top game. Whereas the tiger represents getting underneath your opponent, so perhaps the bottom game.
The idea is applied to many opposing concepts in martial arts. Dragon = gripping, Tiger = striking. Dragon = being deceptive, Tiger = being direct and so on.
Juppo literally means 10 directions, the number 10 shouldn’t be thought of literally, it really signifies many or an infinite number of possibilities.
Sessho means negotiation, exchange, adapt. It’s made up of two characters that mean bend/fold and collision/encounter.
In essence Juppo Sessho is the ability to instantly adapt to the situation by absorbing your opponent’s attack (taking into account their whole body and mindset/strategy) and finding a response that works on a different dimension to the one they are operating on.
An example of this from BJJ would be to keep your weight just off your opponent’s frame and to move around it until it can be used against them as a lever.
So the combination of all these things represents the objective of a martial artist to develop a complete skill set and the mental flexibility to apply the optimal solution to the opponent’s attack
The same concept applies to life more generally