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Monday 4pm - 9pm Tuesday 6pm - 8:30pm Wednesday 5pm - 9pm Thursday 6pm - 9pm Saturday 8am - 11am Sunday 8:45am - 11am

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Senshi Dojo Invermay, Robertson Street, Invermay (2026)

01/11/2026

23/10/2026

Launnie - this weekend

22/10/2026

First stripe for Manny. Congrats mate

20/10/2026

San Chi Kai - Mondays and Wednesdays

12/10/2026

Some great pictures of some of our members who traveled to the Gathering on the weekend in Melbourne. Well done to everyone 😁

09/10/2026

Just a last minute reminder there is no kids BJJ class this morning. Coaches are in Melbourne.

27/09/2026

Tom DeBlass recently urged BJJ instructors to take special care of students who don’t compete. His message was simple: push them, challenge them, but remember that your job isn’t to break them.

I agree with that, and my own thinking about this has changed over the years.

I used to associate higher intensity with higher standards more than I do today.

Now I believe you can have serious standards without expecting everybody to train like a professional competitor.

I’ve always said training is a lab. And sometimes competition can become part of that lab too.

When I was teaching in Brazil, I had middle aged students with careers, families and responsibilities. I remember one of the dads, who was also a police officer, deciding he wanted to compete.

He wasn’t trying to become a professional grappler.

He wanted a new challenge.

Eventually, seeing him do it encouraged some of the other dads to step outside their comfort zones and compete too.

That’s one of the things I love about jiu jitsu.

You can be a hobbyist and still test yourself.

You can compete once. You can compete occasionally. You can never compete at all.

None of those choices mean you shouldn’t become technically good at jiu jitsu.

Lower intensity doesn’t have to mean lower standards.

A good program should be able to gradually develop someone without expecting a 45 year old father who works all day to follow the same training schedule as a 22 year old preparing for Worlds.

We also understand much more today about recovery, training volume and longevity than we did during some of the old school years.

Injuries are always going to happen in a combat sport. But unnecessarily destroying someone’s body shouldn’t be proof that your academy trains hard.

Push people intelligently.

Let them become uncomfortable sometimes.

Give them opportunities to test themselves if they want them.

But remember why they’re there.

A hobbyist doesn’t need hobbyist standards. They need a hobbyist training schedule with serious standards.

The goal isn’t simply to see how much training somebody can survive.

The goal is to make them better at jiu jitsu and hopefully keep them on the mats long enough to discover how good they can become.

Do you think BJJ academies sometimes push hobbyists too much?