US Open Results: El Dorado Hills Brazilian JiuJitsu near Cameron Park

     Great job to the team and competitors from the US OPEN! In the kids division we had two competitors Sky and Nico compete on Saturday. They both did an amazing job preparing for one of the toughest kids tournaments in Northern California both finishing with a medal in hand. Great job to all of the yellow belts making a dedicated contribution to seeing these guys train in anticipation of the US Open! 

     For the adults, Aryn, one of our ladies, participated in her first tournament as a white belt. She was all smiles from her warm up all the way to the end of the day! She fell short of a medal this time, but we are very excited to see her potential as a competitor and a great martial artist! 

     In the blue belts, Kevin and Jordan took the mats on Saturday. Kevin showed great improvement this year beating a tough competitor had suffered a loss to earlier in the year by more than 15 points. He didn't make it to the medal podium but we are very excited to see his improvement as 2013 comes to a close. Keep being relentless Kevin! Jordan won by submission in his first match and fell to the sneaky baseball bat in his second. He is another competitor with great improvement, and finished with a Bronze! 

     Eliot took gold in his division beating a veteran black belt Samir Chantre who requested to bump up in weight to get a match. This won the division for Eliot, and placed him in the absolute tournament. He fell short by an advantage in his first match. Great job to all the competitors and team helping them get out there and  compete!!!! 

Kids Results: 

Sky - Silver

Nico - Silver

Adults Results:

Jordan - Bronze

Eliot - Gold 

US OPEN 2013 Highlight Video:

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Self Defense Awareness Month at El Dorado Hills Jiu Jitsu

     This month EDH Jiu-Jitsu will be celebrating Self Defense Awareness. With each lesson we will be including a short 30-90 second (maybe longer) message about what we know, learned, and can share about self-defense. As an added bonus all family members are welcome to come a train (for free) during the month of October. Some training is better than no training. Some awareness is better than no awareness. Please help us spread a little more awareness by brining a family member on the mat with you!

     When most of us think about self-defense, the scenario we tend to think of in our head is: Innocent little defenseless person gets attacked by a crazy under the influence psycho...... And that's understandable. But what about opening up the idea of self defense to the many other "attackers" that are prevalent within our society. Diabetes (dietary self-defense), Heart Disease (cardiac self-defense), Pollution (environmental self-defense), Mental Health (psychological self-defense), etc. If Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a lifestyle, and we are looking to live the "jiujitsu lifestyle" we talk about, then thinking about protecting ourselves from these attackers should be a high priority. If AWARENESS is the first step of self-defense, then this month we will be doing just that. See you on the mat!

Eliot Kelly

 www.edhbjj.com