Cave Academy

06/01/2026

05/11/2026

CAVE ACADEMY WEEKLY SCHEDULE

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New students: come try us out with a 7-day free trial.

Text us your name, any questions, and what program you’re interested in to get started:

+1 (650) 420-2499

Visit: caveacademyjj.com

Competition Kids is invite only.
Only sessions marked FREE are free for everybody.
Mon–Thu 8:00–8:30 PM Open Mat is regular training and is not free.
Closed on all national holidays.
Schedule subject to change.

See you on the mats.

05/10/2026

Life is tough. Teach your kids to be resilient.

There are two versions of the same child.

One learns to hide from fear.
The other is given a safe place to practice courage.

That difference compounds.

**Childhood.**
It looks small at first. A nervous kid who doesn't want to walk through the door. A moment where someone makes him feel welcome anyway. A room where he learns that hard things are survivable.

**Adolescence.**
It becomes posture. Eye contact. The ability to stay calm when his body wants to shrink. He wants to quit. His parents don't let him. Because they understand that if he runs from this, he'll run from the next thing too. Slowly he learns that size, anger, and intimidation are not magic. That even against someone bigger and stronger, he has tools. That he is not helpless. Once a kid knows that — the world feels different.

**Adulthood.**
Earned confidence. The kind you can't fake and no one can take from him. Built through pressure, repetition, and getting back up when he didn't want to. The courage to speak. To lead. To take risks. To become the person he once needed someone else to be.

Confidence is easier to build than repair. At seven, eight, nine years old the patterns are still forming. The stories they tell themselves about who they are haven't hardened yet. Every time they are knocked down and get back up, they're writing a different story. But a grown adult who has spent years shrinking and avoiding has to unlearn all of that before he can build anything new. That's a much harder job.

Learning a new language is easiest when you're young. So is learning the language of confidence. Teach it to them now, before life gives them reasons not to believe it.

That's what we have built at Cave Academy.
A safe place to practice courage.

📍 Mike Murrell's Cave Academy — Pacifica, CA
🔗 First week free — link in bio

05/10/2026

Jiu-jitsu is not just a sport.

It is a series of deaths and rebirths.

At white belt, you are the camel.

You carry fear. Doubt. Ego. Shame. The need to look good. The need to be comfortable. The need to already understand.

And still, you keep walking.

At blue belt, the weight changes.

Now you carry technique. Concepts. Repetition. Discipline. Patience.

The burden is still heavy, but it starts to have direction.

At purple belt, the lion appears.

You stop copying.
You start creating.
You begin to find your game.

And then you meet the dragon.

The dragon is every voice that says:

“Do it this way.”
“Don’t question.”
“Stay comfortable.”
“Don’t fail.”
“Don’t become different.”

Nietzsche called it **Thou Shalt**.

Every martial artist meets that dragon eventually.

At brown belt, you don’t defeat it with rage.

You defeat it with refinement.
With pressure.
With fire.
With the quiet certainty that you know who you are becoming.

And at black belt, if the journey has done its work, you become something unexpected.

Not finished.

New.
Open.
Creative.
Free.

A beginner again.

The belt is not the destination.

It is the metamorphosis.

Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s *Thus Spoke Zarathustra*.

📍 Mike Murrell’s Cave Academy — American Jiu-Jitsu

05/04/2026

Most of us live with an unexamined version of ourselves.

We believe what we haven’t yet had reason to question — our toughness, our composure, our ability to handle what life puts in front of us.

Plato called it the cave: shadows on the wall mistaken for truth.

Jiu-jitsu is one of the few things that can walk you out of it.

But at Cave Academy, we don’t stop at jiu-jitsu.

We pull from BJJ, Judo, and Wrestling — some of the most proven grappling systems in the world — and combine them with self-defense built for reality, not performance.

No assumptions.
No fantasy.
No techniques that only work when someone cooperates.

Just training that holds up when it matters.

The mat doesn’t negotiate.
It doesn’t flatter you.
It reflects back exactly where you are.

And if you stay long enough, something shifts.

The assumptions fall away.
The ego gets quieter.
What’s left is clearer, steadier, and a lot harder to rattle.

That’s what we’re building at Cave Academy.

Not fighters.
People who know themselves.

Your first week is free.
Step out of the shadows.

📍 Cave Academy
🔗 Link in bio

04/25/2026

**ATTENTION: Bay area wrestlers, Judoka, and BJJ practitioners**

Olympic judoka, NCAA wrestler, and BJJ Blackbelt Justin Flores is back for a foot sweep seminar.

He’ll be breaking down his system for foot sweeps across wrestling, judo, BJJ, and MMA — details you can start using right away.

📅 Saturday, June 6, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 Main Location
💵 $60

Spots are limited.

Link in bio to register.

Or register at www.caveacademyjj.com

BJJ MMA CombatSports Grappling Pacifica CA

04/13/2026

Summer is busy. Training should stay flexible. ☀️🥋

Our 3-Month Summer Special is here: 20% off all 3-month memberships

• Freeze for vacations
• Stacks on existing prepaid time
• Available for kids + adult memberships

Memberships are live in the member portal.

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