• awareness_training

    Awareness Training 1

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    A couple of years ago, I had some interesting dialogue with several people on one of my forums. This dialogue was about “Awareness Training.” Below are some excerpts of this dialogue. Enjoy! ——- Question: Roy, I’m hoping that you (and anyone else who is willing) could help me out with some advice. I know you [...]

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    Promotions List

    Saturday, January 21, 2012

    Here is a list of people three-hundred and sixty-one (361) people I have promoted to blue belt, purple belt, brown belt and black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. This list was updated on Saturday, January 21, 2012:   Black Belts (18 total) Kyle Saunders (New York) – 2nd degree black belt Roy Dean (Oregon) – [...]

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    2012 seminar schedule

    Friday, December 30, 2011

      Here is the seminar schedule for 2012: • January 14 (Saturday) “Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Side Mount Escapes” Seminar – Cost: $60 – Time: 12pm-4pm (4 hours of training) – Location: Harris Academy, San Diego, California – Instructor: Professor Roy Harris   • February 10-20 (Friday through Monday) Brazilian Jiu Jitsu “private” training sessions [...]

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  • To Your Health…

    Wednesday, December 14, 2011

        What is the single best thing we can do for our health? Find out by watching this video…

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    A New Sister Website

    Friday, December 2, 2011

    Hello everyone, As many of you know, I have been working on several new websites. Well, one of these websites is ready to go live. It has more than 100 pages of information on it. However, it does need a bit of polishing (e.g. some grammar fixes, some pictures and audio files need to be [...]

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  • Ideas for Padwork

    Thursday, September 22, 2011

        In this four (4) minute long video clip, I share with you some ideas on how to make your padwork training more challenging for your students, training partners and fighters. Here are a few things I’d like for you to consider: I. Maintain an athletic stance while feeding the pads. Why is this [...]

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  • Grip Fighting Clip #1

    Friday, September 9, 2011

        Here is an excerpt from my new instructional DVD series, Harris Jiu Jitsu, Volume 103, Grip Fighting. The focus of this instructional DVD will be on learning how to grip fight with the gi as well as without the gi. If you’d like more info on this DVD, click here. This instructional is [...]

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New Videos

Sep
21

BJJ Seminar in Erie

    Here is an excerpt from a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu seminar I taught in Erie, Pennsylvania in 2010. During the seminar, I focused on Posture and Positioning on the first day. In this short video clip, you will see how the new positioning and posture, taken from the new Harris Jiu Jitsu, is much [...]

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Sep
18

Kali’s Trapping Method

    Here is a three-part trapping drill taken from Filipino Kali’s method of training. The drill begins with learning how to trap an opponent’s arms when he or she defends your simple attack with the blade. As the person defends, your trapping motions begin. When the training partner defends with a simple “pass“, it [...]

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New Articles

awareness_training
Jan
22

Awareness Training 1

A couple of years ago, I had some interesting dialogue with several people on one of my forums. This dialogue was about “Awareness Training.” Below are some excerpts of this dialogue. Enjoy! ——- Question: Roy, I’m hoping that you (and anyone else who is willing) could help me out with some advice. I know you [...]

Jan
22

Instructor Websites

Here is a list of websites from our current instructors, in alphabetical order: • Jeff Baldwin • Brian Bird • Sheila Bird • Israel Camacho • Dr. Mark Cheng - Kettlebells • Dr. Mark Cheng - Chung Hua Institute • Roy Dean • Nik Farooqui • Adam La Clair • Trent Lewis • Rich Marten • Lee Mein • Mike Moeller • Richard North • Phil Palmejar • Rob Parmakovski - Academy [...]

Sep
20

Toreana Guard Pass

    Here is the correct way to perform the Toreana Guard pass. In this short video clip (which was shot at the Harris Academy), I show you where to correctly place your hands, what to do with your arms, where and how to place your hips, and how to place your weight. Rather than running [...]

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Sep
19

New Graduates

Here is a picture of some recent graduates from the only 2011 Harris International Apprentice Level Grappling Instructor Course. This course was held in Trondheim, Norway. During the week-long course, we went over (a) fundamental movements, (b) grip fighting, (c) escapes from the bottom of the mount, (d) escapes from the bottom of the side mount, (e) escapes [...]