We are offering a new schedule of martial arts classes. Highlights include kids' kenpo and the return of fencing to South Mountain Martial Arts. For your convenience, sumo & judo practices now run consecutively as well as kenpo & sambo. SMMA sent a total of five athletes to the U.S. Sumo Championship.
SMMA's own Ed Suczewski captured the middleweight championship and openweight bronze while coach Mark Lawrence took fourth in both the heavyweight and openweight divisions. SMMA is proud to be sending several of its athletes to the 18th annual U.S. Sumo Open in Los Angeles this May.
SMMA's own Ed Suczewski captured the middleweight championship and openweight bronze while coach Mark Lawrence took fourth in both the heavyweight and openweight divisions. SMMA is proud to be sending several of its athletes to the 18th annual U.S. Sumo Open in Los Angeles this May.
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South Mountain Jujitsu is our form of classical judo, the powerful, practical, & sophisticated method of combative grappling which gave rise to the modern era of the martial arts.
More than mere jacket wrestling, & far more than a struggle for petty points & penalties among the hyperfit, our forms of judo & jujitsu are balanced, consuming, lifetime activities which sharpen both the body & the mind - and, in which the elements of personal development, freeplay (randori), & training in practical, yet ethical, self defense are given equal weight.Our training is vigorous, but all participants must be considerate.
More than mere jacket wrestling, & far more than a struggle for petty points & penalties among the hyperfit, our forms of judo & jujitsu are balanced, consuming, lifetime activities which sharpen both the body & the mind - and, in which the elements of personal development, freeplay (randori), & training in practical, yet ethical, self defense are given equal weight.Our training is vigorous, but all participants must be considerate.
SAMBO is a Russian language acronym name which stands for "self defense without weapons" ("samo-oberona bes orusiya" or "samozaschita bes orusiya"). At the SMMA studio, SAMBO is taught as both a sport and as a method of self defense. SAMBO is widely known for its throws, its take-downs and its grappling, especially it's repertoire of leg-locks.
Mark Lawrence A.S. (Exercise Science), B.A., is an experienced black belt in USJF/Kodokan Judo and in USJA Jujitsu, with a background in wrestling and a unique knowledge of Sumo. He has been a member of 2 US World Championships Sumo Teams (to Ulan Baatar, Mongolia and Warslaw, Poland). Big Mark has earned a Shodensho Menkyo in Nanzan Budokan Kenpo.
Anthony Lashley has studied the martial arts for most of his life thus far. He began training in martial arts at the age of seven, with Taekwondo and later Goshi Shun Karate and Nagasa Ryu JiuJitsu. He supplemented his training with 2 seasons of High School Varsity Wrestling at St. Benedict's Prep, Newark NJ.
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