Fw: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Central Connecticut State University's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class meets inside the “bubble” every Monday and Wednesday from 8:30 to 10:30 pm. Instructor Dan is the person in charge of the club; but he is not the headmaster. Dave Demerchant is the headmaster, a three time Ultimate Fighting Championship champion who specializes in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The school club participates in independent jiu jitsu tournaments across the country. Even though it is only listed as a school club, it is really a friendship builder, a workout machine, a discipline teacher and family all balled up. What is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu? jiu jitsu is a martial art, combat sport, and a self defense system that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting. Brazilian jiu-jitsu was formed from Kodokan Judo ground fighting (Ne-Waza) fundamentals that were taught to Carlos Gracie by Japanese master Mitsuyo Maeda. Brazilian jiu-jitsu eventually became its own art through the experimentations, practices, and adaptation from the judo knowledge of Carlos and Hélio Gracie, who then passed their knowledge on to their family. Before the class began everyone had to stretch their muscles out so they could spar, it was a requirement from the instructors. Although they emphasized on how important stretching was for practice, only half of the kids actually stretched while the other half was talking about Monday night football and how the broncos were going to take it to the super bowl. Then master Dave came in five minutes late which apparently was typical for him to show up late, after he walked in everybody stopped chit chatting and took class seriously. It was about 8:45 pm when master Dave called everyone in to a circle. They were talking about how last weeks moves were complicated and needed to be reviewed. After the huddle everybody grabbed a partner to practice last weeks moves on. Master Dave wasn't kidding apparently when he said last weeks moves were
