Congrats to the following students who were awarded stripes this week. Brown Belt Rob Solano Kevin McDougal Purple Belt Will Burnell Kyle Warford Anthony Carella Beth Rowley Rodrigo Clementino Blue Belt Mehdi Aghalarov Andre Hatori Nicolas Arcaro Paul Worden Hillary Burnell Sydney Burnell Will O’Donnell Ben Peet William Burnell Ian Delmar Josh Lopez […]
Congrats to Mike Fox and Zach Davis. They tested for Sixth Level – Brown Arm Band on Monday November 7th in Smiling Tiger Muay Thai. They both looked great during the test. Congrats
Ed Abrasley was awarded his black belt Saturday June 19th. Check out this video made by Jim Kearns on Ed’s journey to black belt
On Saturday June 19th at 12PM we had a purple/brown/black belt belt ceremony. The candidates had to demonstrate technique for an hour(self defense, sweeps, guard passes, submissions, takedowns, submission escapes and different positions). Ed Abrasley then had to do free style self defense for 10 minutes having people attack him and him having to […]
Congrats to 19 new Tai Kai Blue Belts. They had their test/ceremony on Thursday June 17th at 6:45 PM. They all did awesome. They had to demonstrate specific techniques including: Self Defense, Takedowns, Submissions, Escapes, Guard Passes, Sweeps, and certain positions for about an hour. Then they grappled straight for 30 minutes with no […]
Upcoming Belt Tests Thursday 6/17/2021 6:45 PM Blue Belt Test Burnell, SydneyBurns, JakeCampbell, MatthewDimatteo, JamesDimatteo, LouisFernandez, ReinaldoFowler, MirandaGiacalone, ChrisIrwin, ConnorKasarda, AnthonyLalonde, AmandaLongo, StevenLorenzo, JavierMabee, RobertMahle, StevenRoehm, EvanSherbourne, ColleenSherbourne, Jack Vogelsang, EricVogelsang, LauraWasher, Casey Saturday 6/19/2021 12PM Purple/Brown/Black Belt Test Purple Belts Barnhardt, SarahBurnell, WillCarella, AnthonyClementino, RodrigoGarcia, KaitlinHotaling, BryanIorio, […]
Blue Belt Requirements Fundamentals Ukemi-Rolls & Falls Rolls (Front/Back) Falls (Back, Side, Front, Rolling) Basic Movements/Positions Base, Shrimp, Bridge, Bridge to Knees, Guard Replacement Roll (Granby Roll) Transitions: take the mount from side(basic and sit out), Knee on the Belly from side Mount control (swim, “spiderhands”, Modified mount, take the back, remount) Guard […]
We are having the head of our Association , Balance Studios , Phil Migliarese up for a GI seminar. We will also be having Dennis Sugrue, Len Sonia, and Steve Overend being awarded their 3rd degree on their Black Belts. Early Bird up to 12/15- $89 Pre-Registration 12/16/-1/24 $109 At the DOOR […]
On 9/25/2019 we had our latest purple belt test. We had class going on at the same time and for an hour during class our candidates demonstrated the purple belt requirements on each other: self defense, submissions, sweeps, takedowns, escapes, and more. After that they grappled for 45 minutes straight with a new partner […]
We had another great promotion Test/Ceremony. We had people from our affilate schools that came to the school from Dojo 1, Oneonta BJJ, and BCMA. The place was packed and the energy was high. Black Belt candidates had to demonstrate Technique for an hour and half and then grapple for an hour and half […]
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