Phone:
618-928-1780
Location:
1108A Jefferson St
Lawrenceville, IL

Disciplines Offered

Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, Judo, Aikido, Hapkido, Tae Kwon Do, Boxing,
Wrestling, Tai Ji, and American Kickboxing

Jiu-Jitsu

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting with the goal of gaining a dominant position and using joint-locks and chokeholds to force an opponent to submit. The system developed from a modified version of pre-World War II Judo including some techniques from Japanese Jujutsu and with a focus on ne-waza (ground technique). It promotes the principle that a smaller, weaker person using leverage and proper technique can successfully defend themselves against a bigger, stronger assailant. BJJ can be trained for self defense, sport grappling tournaments (gi and no-gi) and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition. Sparring (commonly referred to as 'rolling') and live drilling play a major role in training, and a premium is placed on performance, especially in competition.

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Muay Thai

Muay Thai, also known as Thai Boxing or The Art of the Eight Limbs, is the Thai name for a form of hard martial art practiced in several Southeast Asian countries including Thailand. It is known as Pradal Serey in Cambodia, Tomoi in Malaysia, Muay Lao in Laos and as a similar style called Lethwei in Myanmar. The different styles of kickboxing in Southeast Asia are analogous to the different types of Kung Fu in China or Silat in the Malay peninsula. The Thai military uses a modified form of Muay Thai called Lerdrit.

Muay Thai has a long history in Thailand and is the country's national sport. Traditional Muay Thai practiced today, varies slightly from the ancient art Muay Boran and uses kicks and punches in a ring with gloves similar to those used in Western boxing. Muay Thai is referred to as "The Science of Eight Limbs", as the hands, shins, elbows, and knees are all used extensively in this art. A master practitioner of Muay Thai thus has the ability to execute strikes using eight "points of contact," as opposed to "two points" (fists) in Western boxing and "four points" (fists, feet) used in the primarily sport-oriented forms of martial arts

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Judo

Judo, meaning "gentle way", is a modern Japanese martial art and combat sport that originated in Japan in the late 19th cantury. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw one's opponent to the ground, immobilize, or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an opponent to submit by joint locking the elbow or by applying a choke. Strikes and thrusts (by hands and feet) as well as weapons defenses are a part of Judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (Kata) and are not allowed in competition or free practice.

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Aikido

Aikido is a Japanese marital art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the Way of unifying life energy" or as "the Way of harmonious spirit." Ueshiba's goal was to create an art practitioners could use to defend themselves while also protecting their attacker from injury.

Aikido is primarily a grappling art in which attacks are neutralised with various types of throws or joint locks. Aikido techniques are intended to be implemented after first blending with the motion of the attaacker, so that the defender may redirect the attacker's momentum without directly opposing it, thus using minimum effort.

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Hapkido

Hapkido is a dymanic and eclectic Korean martial art. It aims to be an effective form of self-defense and employs joint locks, pressure points, throws, kicks, and other strikes. Hapkido practitioners train to counter the techniques of other martial arts as well as common "unskilled" attacks. There are also a range of cold wepons inclding short stick, cane, rope, sword, and staff which vary in emphasis depending on the particular tradition examined.

Although Hapkido contains both long and close range fighting techniques, the purpose of most engagements is to get neat for a close strike, lock, or throw. Hapkido emphasizes circular motion, non-resisting movements, and control of the opponent. Practitioners seek to gain advantage through footwork and body positioning to employ leverage, avoiding the use of strength against strength.

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Tae Kwon Do

Tae Kwon Do is a martial art and combat sport originating in Korea. In Korean, derived from hanja, Tae means to destroy with the feet; Kwon means to strike or smash with the hand; and Do means "path", "way", or "method". Hence, Tae Kwon Do is loosely translated as "the way of the feet and fist".

Tae Kwon Do is a combination of combat technique, self-defense, sort, exercise, entertainment, and philosophy. It generally emphasizes kicks thrown from a mobile stance, using the leg's greater reach and power to disable the opponent from a distance. In sparring, turning, front, reverse turning, and side kicks are often used, as well as the backfist and reverse punch; advanced kicks include jump, spin, sliding, and skip kicks, often in combination. Tae Kwon Do training often includes a system of blocks, punches, open-handed strikes and may include various take-downs or sweeps, throws, and joint locks.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport of English origin in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. Victory is achieved if the opponent is knocked down and unable to get up before the referee counts to ten or if the opponent is deemed too injured to continue. If there is no stoppage of the fight before an agreed number of rounds, a winner is determined either by the referee's decision or by judges' scorecards.

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Wrestling

Wrestling is the act of physical engagements between two unarmed persons, in which each wrestler strives to get an advantage over or control of their opponent. Physical techiques which embody the style of wrestling are clinching, holding, locking, and leverage. Avoiding potentially lethal techniques, wrestling has aspects of ritual fighting, but its basic principles are closely related to those of military hand-to-hand combat or self-defense systems. Many styles of wrestiling are known all over the world and have long histories, and sport wrestling has been an Olympic sport for over 100 years.

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Tai Ji

The Tai Ji is understood to be the ideal of existence. Yin and yang are used to illustrate the contrasting qualities within reality and experience. Tai Ji is not perceived as a single list of all things and potential things, but rather a complex interconnection of all things in all possible contexts. This concept is often used to illustrate the doctrine of cosmological unity. It is also used to explain the creation of everything in existence through the dialectical process of alternating polarity between yin and yang. Western proponents of Taoism sometimes conflate Tai Ji and everything in existence, but Tai Ji is not only representative of what exists, but also that which has existed, will exist, and could potentially exist.

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American Kickboxing

Kickboxing refers to sport-fighting using kicks and punches and sometimes throws and bows representing a certain martial art or can be practiced for general fitness, or as a full-contact sport. Kickboxing is sometimes practiced as an independent style, but in many cases kickboxing is just an event and set of rules of by which martial artists of other styles may complete openly. Typically kickboxing in many competitions is a standing fight sport and does not allow continuation of the fight once the fight has reached the ground, however some styles my still train in this compnent.

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