Jiu-Jitsu is great for the body and is an exciting adventure of the mind, spirit, and heart. In addition to sharing our experiences, I want to explore the multiple dimensions of Jiu-Jitsu as well as the philosophy, art, science, technique, etc. Most importantly, I want to use words to help define the Jiu-Jitsu we create with our bodies. When you read, the world widens and your mind begins to change a little. As we train hard to change ourselves for the better, we can also change our community!
You Will Rise project is a neat organization with great resources for educators, parents, and adults to use as a reference to help educate themselves and the younger ones about bullying.
Using art as a mode to help bridge the gateway of emotion and feeling is a great idea. This fall EDH Jiu-Jitsu students will be taking part in an art project to present to their peers at their martial arts class, and hopefully post on campus.
~Stop Bullying! by Faiqa Zafar "I'm a huge fan of art itself and use it to express most of my feelings such as this. This piece of art indicates what a teenage girl goes through in her everyday life just because she it's like the rest of the society."
On Tuesday, August 20th, El Dorado Hills Jiu-Jitsu will be hosting Professora Caren Camblin to teach a ladies only class from 6:00-7:30. All who might have the slightest interest in Martial Arts, Self-defense, Fitness, and Health should make this a priority for the evening. It will be an experience to treasure.
Professora Caren Camblin received her Black Belt from Claudio França in 2010 after 14 years of training. She holds a masters degree in philosophy from Stanford University and her philosophical training deeply influences her approach to practicing and teaching jiu-jitsu. Her primary interests are in the underlying principles of jiu-jistu, and how the realms of self-defense, art, and sport intersect. Caren's teaching style is relaxed, collaborative, detail-oriented, and a bit cerebral. She is forever open to questions and to troubleshooting problems on the spot.
Caren is a Core Lecturer at University of California, Santa Cruz and she serves on the governing board of the nonprofit Nonviolent Communication Santa Cruz. Her husband, Mike Roberts, is also a Black Belt under Claudio França.
For more information contact EDH Jiu-Jitsu at 916.595.4064 See you on the mat!
Wrestling had a tremendous impact on my life growing up. We had a wrestling class when I was in elementary school and the high school coach who was our Physical Education teacher, structured the wrestling curriculum for everyone to have fun on the mat. Although I was first exposed to wrestling in fifth grade it wasn't until I was in eighth grade after I was cut from the basketball team when I began wrestling. Most of my friends were trying out for the basketball team and who didn't want to play in the NBA when they grew up. Not making the basketball team was probably one of the best things that happened to me. It was the first time in my life where I could see progress as a result of working hard.
For the second summer in a row EDH Grappling will be hosting Summer Dojo Wrestler. A wrestling program designed for local wrestlers from different schools to develop skills, improve, motivate and encourage one another while educating the public and becoming ambassadors to preserve wrestling as an essential sport in scholastic athletics. Here is a little more information about how Dojo Wrestler started.
Dojo Wrestler is an innovative concept I started to implement after I began learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I found that Jiu Jitsu taught and preached some of the same lessons that applied to the core of wrestling. During the process of earning my black belt in jiu jitsu, I began to realize the roots of wrestlings as being self defense and a type of martial art. At the same time, I also noticed how those roots have diminished over time. Recently, we've seen an enormous drop in collegiate wrestling programs on the west coast, University or Oregon, Fresno State, Cal State Fullerton, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Arizona State (Although they were brought back with the financial support of a donor), Portland State University, are only a few programs that have been cut in recent years. I believe this is a result of wrestling becoming more of a sport and less of a martial art. Dojo Wrestlers are wrestlers who face the challenge of improving their wrestling on the mat and in turn facing the challenges off the mat. Our first off the mat project for 2013 Dojo Wrestler was to write and present a wrestling poem.
These poems, some silly and some serious, reflect the wrestlers ability to put into words the work, time, dedication, effort, and teamwork required to be successful on and off the mat. Although it is a very difficult task to express the mental, physical, and metaphysical expression of wrestling in words, these Dojo Wrestlers have stepped up to the challenge of making that connection and expression what they do while wrestling.
