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Self Defense and the Law
The three most important facts that must be proven under California self-defense law are: 1.that the danger or threat was imminent, 2.that you reasonably believed you would be harmed, and 3.that you reasonably responded to that danger.
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Week of August 22nd – 26st
Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week’s classes in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program saw us practicing techniques in combatives and self-defense focusing using the guard to influence and control the distance against punches, elbows and headbutt strikes by the top fighter. After this instruction, we moved on to additional submission attacks from the bottom position…
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Week of August 15th – 19th
Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week’s classes in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program saw us practicing techniques in combatives and self-defense focusing mostly on ground work. The two main concepts explored this week were escaping headlocks on the ground and how to use basic submission attacks from your closed guard. We started this off with…
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Week of August 8th-12th
Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week’s classes in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program saw us practicing techniques in stand up combatives and self-defense in how to pull guard from the clinch and also how to finalize the basic drop-knee style double leg takedown. On the mats, we explored how to pass the guard from the knees…
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Co-Exist
Become more than what you have been told you can be. If we continually settle for mediocrity then how can we become better? How do we change? In order to achieve greatness, it is important to think outside of the box. How do we find success if we restrict ourselves to the confines of old…
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The Highest Standard
This past weekend a new crop of Elite Training Center (Redondo Beach, CA) basic Krav Maga students took their training to another level after promoting into the Advanced Krav Maga program. We couldn’t be more proud of this most recent group of Team Elite! Now it is their responsibility to apply the lessons learned in…
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Week of August 1st – 5th
Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week in the basic adult classes we explored escaping from the bottom cross side position a.k.a. the hundred kilos position, and we also training how to develop better confidence inside the opponent’s guard. For the stand up combatives, the instructional content challenged your understanding of how to close the…
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Week of July 25 -29
Hello Elite Training Center Friends, Each week I will be writing a little bit of my observations of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructional content. This weekly blog will help all of you remember the little details of each technique and overall strategy of what we explored in the classes. Also, it is important for me to…
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Krav Maga, Kali/Silat, Muay Thai, BJJ off road…
This Summer the adventure continues off site with the students of Elite Training Center. On September 16th through September 18th, Redondo Beach’s ETC will take training to a new level! Camp Whittier, just north of Santa Barbara will host the 1st ACTION ADVENTURE TRAINING SERIES for Elite Training Center’s student body. At Elite we focus…
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BJJ at Elite Training Center
Jiu-Jitsu at Elite! Taking martial arts and self-defense to another spectrum. Be a part of the evolution and take your training to the next stage in Elite’s gi jiu-jitsu program. Check out our site for more details, or just stop by and talk to any of our staff!
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Devils in the Details…Say Goodbye
It is important to drive the arm straight up to the sky, practically flush to the ear when executing Elite Training Center’s Krav Maga “wave goodbye” choke release. As the arm shoots up, the opposite side foot should be stepping backwards. A simultaneous pivot on the front foot should occur, utilizing the lat to break…
At Elite Training Center (Redondo Beach, CA), we stress the importance of being a good training partner, but what does that specifically entail? How do we ensure that we are
Today Team Elite went outside our local community in search for those who need martial arts most in their lives. Venturing down to a church in South Los Angeles, we
Everything has a humble beginning. We’ve all heard the cliche phrases, “He/She/It comes from humble beginnings…” Whether you train in Kali, Krav Maga, Muay Thai, BJJ or MMA at Elite
Everyone has something to teach. This is such a great, understated truth; understanding it and embracing it can improve your skills so much faster than when you allow your ego
I realize I have not been able to attend classes as of late. This is due to changing life situation & work schedules combined with out of town travel, pet
There are many ways to train alone: Running, hitting a bag, shadowboxing…all of these aspects of training are important and necessary to become proficient in martial arts. However, there is
Great experience at Sensei Paulson’s school CSW yesterday. It was a privilege to train with such high end martial artists and fighters. I admire the French Savate system tremendously and
Friendly reminder to our Elite family that we will be closed tomorrow and Saturday for the holiday weekend. Be sure to rest up and return ready to train. Don’t forget
