We feel martial arts is a very beneficial opportunity available to everyone in our area! Many things in society have become very easy, physical and mental adversity is avoided and can almost be completely avoided in some circumstances. Jiu-Jitsu gives us an opportunity to face face adversity on a regular basis. We've talked about this [...]
This picture is a representation of the incredible talent we have at the Academy on a daily basis! We take pride in building extremely knowledgeable and skilled martial artists from the ground up. You'll hear us all say "We are family" on a regular basis, and thats because it's true. We spend years on the [...]
Consistency creates an accumulative effect that is second to none. Its very often that you hear that consistency is key when aiming to get better at Jiu-Jitsu. This is absolutely the truth. Just like weight lifting or eating healthy it isn't one individual day that creates results, but the accumulative effect of all the time [...]
Jiu-Jitsu can be for everyone! Here is Bill, he's been one of our students for quite a while! He has quite a bit of experience in Judo, but decided about 2 years ago to dip his toes into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He seems to have fallen in love with all the intricate details of Jiu-Jitsu. Bill [...]
It's very easy for a martial arts academy to sway off track in one of two directions. Very commonly you will see an effort to keep everyone happy in a comfortable environment. Unfortunately many times this happens at the sacrifice of training seriously and keeping class a difficulty level high enough to create growth and [...]
We have been working on a video that encompasses the environment our gym has. It can be very intimidating for someone new to come in, especially as a beginner. We made this video to let them know that we are serious about jiu-jitsu, but we are also very serious about having a fun and friendly [...]
We have lots of great things ahead in the coming months! We currently have kids ranking going on now through the next couple of weeks. We have a HUGE rank day planned for teens and adults on May 18th! This will be our biggest rank ceremony to date. We have so much talent being developed [...]
Recently Sheliah Lindsey represented Magness Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at the Shreveport BJJ championships! She had 5 matches in total, submitting all of her opponents in regulation time and not giving up a single point throughout the day of competition. You can find Sheliah on the mats on average about 9 classes per week, constantly pursuing her [...]
Magness Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu had 2 representatives at the ADCC West Coast Trials this last month. If you aren't familiar with it ADCC, it is the pinnacle of Submission Grappling. Here is a recap from Professor Mike's social media page! Yesterday was quite a day for us at ADCC west coast trials. Sheliah Lindsey had an [...]
2018 was an awesome year here at the academy! To cap it off we had 9 adult belt promotions this month! Check em out Below! First we had Tommy Nichol! Tommy has been training for a long time now and is one of only a few 15 year old Blue belts we've ever handed out! [...]
