After an agonizing lock-down, we will be back in business beginning Monday, June 29, 2020! Thank you for your support, patience, and generosity as we navigated our way through re-opening in a responsible and safe manner. Our number one priority…
From day one our motto has been “people before profit”. This sentiment is at the core of the following announcement. After careful consideration, with all school districts in our area closing until March 30th and Governor Wolf’s recommendation to avoid…
Pose yourself this question. In a theoretical sparring match of you against yourself, who would win? Top position you or bottom position you? With the profound wrestling base in northeast Pennsylvania the pervasiveness of high-level wrestlers venturing into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu…
You needn’t be a parent or coach to know that some children are natural born athletes and other children are not so much. From the time, we are born we are faced with the struggle of learning to crawl, to…
Cost: $20 Dangerous Damsels is our women’s only Gracie Jiu-Jitsu self-defense program that focuses on getting away from an attacker intelligently through timing, technique, and strategy! Prior to joining the program, however, why not try out an informative and exciting seminar…
A one hour event with Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Black Belts, Jeff Reese and Tyler Calvey, covering a number of attack chains from the guard including the timing and strategy of the techniques. ——————————————————————————————————– Gracie NEPA was first established in 2005. Since…
I am consistently bewildered by the number of local martial arts instructors who claim to teach self-defense for law enforcement but in truth have zero concept of not only the ways in which the law applies to self-defense but also…
When an opponent decides to stand in order to attack your butterfly guard this is a great sweep option! ——————————————————————————————————– Gracie NEPA was first established in 2005. Since then, Jeff Reese and his talented assistants have been relentlessly working to…
A sneaky guillotine finish is available from the Russian Butterfly sweep! In this video we take the time to breakdown the technique and strategy behind this deceptive, high finish, technique that can easily be added to your existing bjj game!…
Often times you will find that you have been able to secure one hook but your opponent is shutting down the entry of the second hook. The ‘real answer’ to this dilemma is punch the opponent until they open up,…