Stronghold-Cascao Jiu Jitsu

04/13/2026

Having fun at the Cascao Gym in Las Vegas.

08/05/2025

Upcoming seminar

05/27/2025

03/07/2025

1) This month is "half-guard" month in our classes. We will be going over four basic half-guards: standard, knee-shield, butterfly, and lock-down. We'll cover how to "get" this, use them, pass them, etc.

2) Walter Cascao is doing a seminar up in NW Washington tomorrow. The flier is attached.

03/03/2025

March is "half guard month"!

This month we will study and practice how and when to employ half guard, various ways of passing/attacking it, and four different specific half guards and their strengths and weaknesses.

01/02/2025

Seems impossible sometimes....

12/22/2024

No jiu jitsu on Tuesday, Dec 24 (Christmas Eve).

INSTEAD, please join us for a Christmas Eve service hosted by Holy Family Old Catholic Chapel at 7 PM. The service will include traditional Christmas carols, a Mass, and be followed by refreshments.

12/17/2024

This was a pretty interesting analysis of guards.

I tested my sport jiu jitsu against pro MMA fighter Oliver Enkamp in real sparring to find out how it holds up when strikes are allowed... and when I can't s...

12/12/2024

Live rolling/sparring idea:

A live rolling match will continue until a sleeper hold or equivalent is successfully applied. Other holds, if resulting in a tap, mean simply that the affected limb may not be used for the remainder of the match. For example, a kneebar does not end the match, but just makes it so that the leg (at least from the knee down) cannot be used for the rest of the round.

What do you think?

11/30/2024

BREAK OUT THE FINGER-TAPE -- DECEMBER IS "YES-GI" MONTH AT STRONGHOLD-CASCAO JIU JITSU!

This month we emphasize gi-based techniques (primarily chokes/strangles) along with clothing grips, so bring your gi-tops! We'll begin with the fundamentals of hand/finger protection and the basic cross-collar strangle, and move on from there.

(We have extra gi-tops if you need to borrow one.)

11/09/2024

A great overview of the fundamental principles of modern jiu jitsu, both for self-defense and sport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMrGBjDctd4

To learn more, visit one of our sessions: https://www.stronghold-jiujitsu.com/