Congrats Olivia on the gray white belt promotion. Olivia came to jiujitsu with a great level of understanding how to control her body. This ability has given her a jump start to learning and understanding the technical movements on the mat. She is fierce in her competition and welcomes challenges. We are excited to see her further develop her jiujitsu senses and welcome additional challenges on and off the mat.

Congratulations to Joseph on his gray-white belt promotion! Joseph always displays a great attitude and outstanding manners whenever he is on the mat. He is attentive during lessons, intense with his sparring and is a fierce competitor. We’re excited to see his continued motivation at the next level of his Jiu-jitsu education!

Post from Chris:

I’ll be putting on a charity event for startreatments.org. Star Treatments is an amazing charity founded by Matt DiRito, the bass player for the rock band Pop Evil. What they do is provide VIP transportation for children fighting cancer as well as their family and friends. One of the big expenses that often doesn’t get talked about for these unfortunate families is the the time and money spent on going to and from treatment facilities. Star Treatments helps to alleviate some of these burdens by providing tour busses and drivers to these families to transport them. On top of that the children get the “Star Treatment”, receiving care packages from other bands. It may not sound like a big deal but it can be a very large burden lifted from parents and a big morale boost for kids struggling with something many of us couldn’t even imagine. Matt definately puts it into better words than I can so I encourage you to click the link and read all about them.

So what we’re going to do is create “Star Jars” to collect funds to donate to their cause. This will be an event that the children who attend the kids classes are highly encouraged to attend as well as their parents, anyone else who would like to participate are more than welcome as well. You’ll need to bring

A jar to decorate, anything from a mason jar to one of those cheetos puff jugs, so long as it’s cleaned out beforehand.

• Construction paper
• Tape
• Glue sticks

Any other craft materials you think would be fun, just avoid anything too messy like hot glue or glitter

I’ll be bringing some jars and other materials myself as well but they will be first come first serve basis. I will also be bringing several pairs of safety scissors as well to hopefully avoid accidentally cutting the mat.

We’ll meet at the gym on Sunday, September 22 at 11 AM. Together we’ll decorate our jars, have fun, and I’ll give a small speech about Star Treatments and their mission. After the event, everyone will take their star jars home and collect any spare change or cash you would like to donate and put in the jar. We’ll meet again on Sunday, October 27. Everyone will bring their jars and count up what they’ve collected and write it down. We’ll collect all of the amounts written down and add them up to find out how much we raised! Afterward I will give everyone the url for the Star Treatments donation page and everyone can donate the money they collected. Everyone who attends the first event, I will have a sign in sheet for you to write down a number or email you would like me to use to contact you and remind you of the second event. Let’s all come together to help out a great cause and I look forward to seeing you!

Gray White Belt Promotion tonight!

Colin doesn’t need to say much because he actions speak for themselves. He brings a focused spirit to class to learn and improve. In doing so, the people around him follow. This is leadership.

Colin shares the mat with his father and older brother at The Hills, and motivate one another to train. It’s great to see them all on the mat at once on occasions!

This was an event led by one of our students Jamie. She is currently a purple belt and is an avid leader in community events and projects, always looking for opportunities to volunteer her time and energy.

Thank you to everyone who came out today and supported our event, to benefit Troy Goodsell’s family! Thank you Michael Fong Yoga for leading an awesome yoga session, and to Professor Kiet Se for teaching some grip fighting and a Judo throw! You both are very appreciated!

Many of you know that the Sacramento Jiu-jitsu community lost a student and friend, Troy Goodsell to a hard battle against cancer. Troy was an inspiration to everyone. One thing I love about Jiu-jitsu is how supportive the communities are towards each other. Thank you EDH Jiu Jitsu for welcoming this event at the dojo.

Profits of the event today was donated to the Goodsell family.

Thank you again to everyone for your kindness and support!

Jamie is throwing a fundraiser event this Sunday, September 8th at 9:00 am!

The proceeds will benefit the family of Troy Goodsell, who was a student of Jiu-jitsu, and recently lost his battle to cancer.

Troy went through 3 rounds of chemo, and 30 rounds radiation.

In honor of Troy, this funraising event will consist of 3 sessions for 30 minutes each.

9:00 am- Yoga with World yoga retreat leader, Michael Fong.

9:30 am- Judo throws and grip fighting with Professor Bjj and Judo black belt, Kiet Se.

10:00 am- 30 minutes of open mat.

Even if you do not do Bjj or Judo, you are more than welcome to come just to do yoga with Michael Fong!

Suggested donation is $15 for the whole event, and proceeds will be benefiting the family of Troy Goodsell, who was a student of Jiu-jitsu, and recently lost his battle to cancer.

Hope to see you all there, and thank you for your support for this event!

Yellow Black Belt Belt Promotion for Slater the creator of “the nacho.”

Slater moved to EDH from the islands of Hawaii and came with a great level of experience in training and competition.

As he enters high school it’s fun to see him take on more responsibility, mentor his peers, and train with his father and other adults at the dojo.

Slater is stubborn…. He refuses to give up, he will fight and fight to get his way. Sometimes his stubborn nature gets him in a pickle, but he knows it and understands it as a strength and weakness.

Slater is genuine. Always ready to help the new or younger student. His kindness to help others has only grown with his personality.

We’re excited to see him continue to grow both on and off the mat!

OK, Facebook army, it’s time to harness your power for good! ACTION ITEMS ARE BELOW!

Most of you have seen the tons of posts I’ve made in the last year or so about my experience with my incredible teammates at El Dorado Hills Brazilian Jiu Jitsu & Self Defense, and as part of my progression towards a blue belt promotion, we’re asked to put together a project within our community, something we’re passionate about. I’m going to use this as an opportunity to finally kick-start something I’ve been thinking about for a while. If all goes well, it will be an on-going project.

Many of you have probably seen posts in the past where I’ve gone down and volunteered with “Rebuild Together Sacramento” on projects where they work with a person or family who needs some help fixing things up around the house. The team will do things like replace flooring, paint, fix power outlets/switches, repair some stairs, etc., and I’ve found that I’m REALLY happy and fulfilled when I do things like that. It’s my small way of fighting back against how negative and angry everyone seems to be these days.

I’ve been trying to figure out who does that sort of stuff for our community in Placerville, but with no luck. Who is the person that folks call when their 90-year-old neighbor has front steps that are falling apart (or maybe they’re now in a wheelchair, and need a ramp), but just can’t afford to call a contractor out? Or if a friend-of-a-friend is a struggling single parent of 4 who works their butt off every day, but their house could really use a few things fixed to make every-day life easier?

I figured, if I can’t figure out who that is, maybe I should be that guy? Even if I don’t have the particular skill needed for an ask, I can both call on my colleagues in the construction industry and my community to help me out and use it as a chance to learn something new.

Long-term, I’m pretty sure I’m going to start up a non-profit to do all of this, because I’ll need to carry insurance, give receipts for businesses that donate materials (when I can convince them to), etc. But for now, I’m going to use the blue-belt project as my test run – it doesn’t have to be big and dramatic, I just want to see if there’s a need for this kind of organization. To that end, I have a few asks for you, my amazing circle of friends and family.

ACTION ITEMS

1) If you’re in the Placerville area and know someone who you think should be nominated, please use this form to submit their information: http://bit.ly/PVNom

2) If you’d like to volunteer to help out for this (and/or future) projects, please fill out your information using this form: http://bit.ly/PVVol

3) If you’re a local business who is interested in helping out, either by donating materials (I’ll know more about what’s needed once we nail down a nomination) or monetarily, please contact me directly – use my email jessejonesphoto@gmail.com if you would, please

4) I need a name! I’ve been loosely referring to this as “Placerville Rebuilds” but that’s too similar to the organization down in Sac, and I don’t want to make them grumpy, thinking I’m trying to confuse people. Give me suggestions in the comments or in a message, if you have one.

5) If you’ve got experience with starting a non-profit, or can help me figure out insurance, etc., please let me know that, as well.

The goal is to make this project happen sometime in the next month or two (hopefully by the end of October), so I’m really looking forward to seeing how much we can do together on this project! There will be future posts from me, keeping you all up-to-date.

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Miyu Nakamura is a Japanese wrestler in the 50kg weight category. She is one of the top wrestlers in the world for her weight class. Earlier in 2019 she beat the number two ranked wrestler from Ukraine in international competition.

At her seminar in El Dorado Hills, Miyu taught functional movements as part of her warm ups. These are essential movements for grappling type sports where you have to be flexible and at the same time powerful.

Link to her warm ups

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