Jiu-Jitsu Academy Zuerich

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Some impressions from this week‘s striking class. Closing distance against punches.

🇨🇭 🇩🇪 Ein paar Impressionen aus der Striking-Klasse diese Woche. Distanz überwinden gegen Schläge.

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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Free seminar with 6th degree Rigan Machado black belt at Jiu-Jitsu Academy Zuerich on 8th August 2026 at 10 am. DM or email us to reserve your spot.

🇨🇭 🇩🇪 Kostenloses Seminar mit Rigan Machado Schwarzgurt (6. Grad) in der Jiu-Jitsu Akademie Zürich am 8. August 2026 um 10 Uhr. Reserviert Euren Platz per DM oder E-Mail.

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Come and learn all the dark wristlock secrets with at Jiu-Jitsu Academy Zürich.

Cost : 30 CHF per person. Sign up via DM or send us a message to [email protected] to reserve your spot.

🇨🇭 🇩🇪 Lerne alle dunklen Wristlock-Geheimnisse mit in der Jiu-Jitsu Akademie Zürich.

Kosten: 30 CHF pro Person. Melde dich per DM an oder sende eine E-Mail an [email protected], um dir deinen Platz zu sichern.

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Jiu-Jitsu is first and foremost, a self-defense method that lets a smaller person defend her or himself against a bigger attacker. We practice accordingly.

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Jiu-Jitsu ist in erster Linie eine Selbstverteidigungs-Methode die es einer kleinen Person erlaubt, sich gegen einen grösseren Angreifer zu verteidigen. Wir trainieren dementsprechend.

Ankle lock seminar (in the gi) with at

This Wednesday, 24.6.2026, 19:00, Limmattalstrasse 342, Zürich-Höngg

Everyone is welcome. Please DM or email us to reserve your spot. We only have a few left. The seminar is donation based, pay what you find fair (recommended at least CHF 20 per person).

Some impressions from this week‘s sparring rounds. 😎🥋

Looks like fun? Come in for a trial any time.

Some focused sparring in our advanced class. 😎

Carlos and I have both been working on our respective positions; first in the gi 🥋, now without 🤼‍♂️. His goal is to pass my open guard and get a submission. Mine is to gain control of him in butterfly guard, then sweep and/or submit him.

While I got some sweeps to submissions in the end, he managed very well to prevent me from gaining upper body control from butterfly guard. Back to the drawing board on that one. ☝️

This is clearly a grappling only contest to train a specific position. If strikes were involved, my aim from bottom would have had to be to get up and on top, or if impossible, to get my opponent into closed guard with his posture broken (to avoid getting hit).

In jiujitsu, context matters. In our fundamentals we teach only techniques that work in a self defense/fight situation against striking attackers. There, simplicity is the aim. Once students are more advanced, we can then play with other concepts. It increases our grappling understanding, and it’s great fun. However, we are always aware which „game“ we’re playing.