August 16, 2010

This weekend 20 year old Team Lloyd Irvin black belt phenom Jonathan "JT" Torres put on one of the most spectacular seminars ever held to a packed house at Paramount BJJ. JT is one of the Top Lightweight Jiu-Jitsu competitors in the World, in May of this year he submitted 4 opponents at the Brazilian Nationals including World Champion Lucas Lepri. He is a Silver medalist at the Black belt No Gi Pan Am and World Championships, and the European and Asian Open Champion. The list of JT's tournament accomplishments alone would take hours to list...

But what was most impressive was JT's ability to teach and explain his techniques in such a simple and efficient manner. Many of our beginner white belt students were looking like they'd been training for years after just a few hours of instruction and drilling- although of course it will take years to perfect the moves!

JT started off the seminar by showing his No Gi style of passing the guard and taking the back. After about 2 hours of intensive No Gi theory and technique, JT moved on to the Gi portion of the seminar. Here he detailed the variations using the kimono and how to shut down your opponent's offense and create openings and opportunities to pass and take the back.

It was apparent how much JT enjoys teaching Jiu-Jitsu, as he kept going non-stop for almost 4 hours! Then to top it all off, he trained live with some of the students, and performed just about every technique he had just taught! All of the students who attended were raving about the seminar afterwards, and will no doubt be utilizing the techniques and concepts they learned for years to come.

Thanks JT!!