News Team takes a group of Martial Artists to a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu school so that they can demonstrate the effectiveness of their art. The results are shocking, but not in the way you might imagine…

Martial Arts, Realistic Application, Self Defense, and Honesty

Check out the news video below that shows a reporter going to a pressure point school and then taking the pressure point advocates to a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu school.

I think you’ll come away with a better understanding of what I was describing above, plus you’ll get to see…

The power of placebo.
A pressure point attack on the female news reporter, “You just hit me in the head.” LOL
A lot of confused Brazilian Jiu Jitsu students… “Are you feeling dizzy?” “No, not really.”
A pressure point attack against a UFC fighter.
Plus, you get to hear the Master himself answer the question, “What went wrong?” You’ll be surprised to hear his answer.

“Special” Self Defense Martial Arts Video…

I was talking with a couple of Texarkana Jiu Jitsu students recently.

One of them mentioned that an acquaintance of his keeps asking him to go to a seminar so he can learn pressure point knockouts.

I really believe that there are a lot of things that people can get out of various martial arts.

Most martial arts, regardless of style offer something of value to the people taking them.

Some of the benefits will be physical like exercising and getting into shape, other benefits might revolve around mental benefits like reducing stress, improving discipline, joining a group of positive individuals, creating new positive habits, setting (and accomplishing goals), etc…

Other people enjoy learning about another culture (some traditional martial arts emphasize history and the culture from which the art originated, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tends to place a little less emphasis on this).

All of these can be good reasons to train in a martial art.

Really there are many different reasons to train in martial arts and if someone finds something that they really enjoy doing that provides them with the benefits that they want, then they should keep training in it.

Having said all that, some martial artists are frauds.

I’m sorry, it’s the truth.

You can’t claim that something works and then completely fail to back up your claim when it’s tested… Just be honest about what your teaching.

I could tell you so many stories about students that have some in from other martial arts and attempted to use pressure point attacks during training with me and my students.

Never once has this resulted in anything but a quick loss to the person attempting to use this tactic.

On one occasion a pressure point expert was grappling with James, who was a blue belt at the time. He kept reaching up with one arm from the guard attempting to use a pressure point attack on James’ neck… with the intention of knocking him out, I guess.

Who knows, maybe he was trying to kill him.

It’s really hard to say, but what I can tell you is that he was armbarred over and over again.

It’s often not really the students fault as they were taught and sold something that did not work and would likely get them seriously hurt in a real confrontation.

In some cases, who knows… maybe even their instructor may have believed what he was teaching.

This is the problem in untested martial arts.

The truth is found in martial arts techniques when the techniques are used against an opponent that is using his/her skills and techniques to try to defeat you.

It may be done in sparring and it may be done in a ‘real life‘ situation.

Combat Sports like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Wrestling, Sambo, MMA (mixed martial arts), Kickboxing, Muay Thai, and Boxing all train techniques that can be used against a resisting opponent. If it doesn’t work, then it won’t exist in these combat based martial arts.

Other martial arts may not adopt this same philosophy.

Often techniques are trained as part of tradition or because of speculation that the techniques may work. There is no problem with tradition, the only thing I would like to see in arts like that shown above is honesty.

It’s ok if you’re training something that doesn’t work. It might be fun to do so or maybe there is some other type of benefit… just be honest about it. If someone enjoys the training, then they should continue doing what they enjoy.

At Texarkana Jiu Jitsu, we do not train techniques that will not work against a resisting opponent. We do it in a safe way, so that everyone can enjoy the training and constantly improve.

Texarkana Jiu Jitsu

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Judo Throws and Takedowns Seminar at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu!

Judo for Jiu Jitsu Seminar with 5th Degree Kodokan Black Belt, Robin Tidwell.

Mr Tidwell is coming out for his 3rd Judo Seminar at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu on Saturday, September 30th. Cost is only $35 for Texarkana Jiu Jitsu students.

This is a very important aspect of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and his last two seminars were great. This is a short clip of Mr. Tidwell demonstrating a simple off balancing movement to set up a shoulder throw.

Robin and I trained together for several years under the late Judo Grandmaster, Vince Tamura.

Mr. Tamura was one of the greatest people that I have ever met and was an absolute master of Judo and Grappling.

Dallas Judo

He had a little dojo in the ghetto in Dallas off Harry Hine Blvd.

We always used to joke about how someone would get the surprise of their life when they attempted to mug this old, short Japanese man.

That would’ve been an excellent real world demonstration of self defense.

I saw Mr. Tamura toss highly competitive athletes in their 20’s and 30’s around without hardly breaking a sweat. He was in his early 70’s at the time. It was incredible to watch.

We had people from all over the world coming to train with us all the time – world champions, Japanese national champions, US champions, Sambo world champions, and many early MMA pioneers.

Training was awesome at Dallas Judo, great times!

Judo is a Combat Sport that emphasizes the grappling range.

Judo is most well known for it’s dynamic throws. It also teaches ground work with quick transitions into submission holds and has at it’s roots the elements of self defense.

Judo was the style that gave birth to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and then ultimately to MMA/UFC style fighting.

Robin Tidwell was one of Mr. Tamura’s most advanced students.

I learned a lot from Mr. Tamura and from Mr. Tidwell and now so can you, taking advantage of his more than 40 years of high level Judo Competition experience.

Coach Marc Hagebusch