Jiu-Jitsu & Submission Wrestling in Bloomsburg, PA

Our no-gi program incorporates Jiu-Jitsu/BJJ concepts, submission wrestling, and wrestling into a practical grappling system. Training without the gi helps students learn grips, pressure, balance, and control that carry directly into MMA and submission grappling.

If you are new to grappling, read our beginner first-class guide, then review the current Jiu-Jitsu and submission wrestling schedule or fill out the training waiver.

Classes build core grappling skills: takedowns, sprawls, clinch control, top pressure, guard passing, guard retention, escapes, submissions, transitions, scrambling, and standing back up. Students learn both how to attack and how to stay calm and defend from bad positions.

Grappling is a major part of MMA training because it teaches students how to control where the fight happens. Competition is available for students who want it, but it is not required. You can train to compete, get in shape, build confidence, or learn practical self-defense.

Our Bloomsburg submission wrestling classes focus on practical no-gi grappling that carries over to jiu-jitsu, wrestling, MMA, and self-defense. Submission wrestling, also known as submission grappling or no-gi, describes the part of martial arts and combat sports focused on clinch work, ground fighting, and submissions without the use of a jacket or gi.

The sport of submission wrestling brings together techniques from folk wrestling, catch wrestling, Luta Livre Esportiva, freestyle wrestling, Jiu-Jitsu, and Sambo.

It is also known for techniques that are restricted in some other arts or competitions, such as heel hooks, neck cranks, toe holds, wrist locks, and finger locks.

Jiu-jutsu is a martial art from which other styles, such as Judo and BJJ, were derived. Jiu-jitsu includes immobilization, throwing, striking, defense, and sometimes the use of small weapons. Students also study technique theory, Japanese history and terminology, the human body, and some healing practices.

Jiu-jitsu was developed for use in warfare but ironically translates to “gentle art.” This is because the techniques require very little of your own strength and use your opponent's strength against the opponent.

Although it has been around for hundreds of years, the Japanese did not start using the term Jiu-jutsu until the 17th century, where it was used to encompass a variety of grappling styles.