Clockwork BJJ is conveniently located by Union Square in NYC and prides itself as being New York’s premier ego free BJJ training facility.
At Clockwork Jiu Jitsu we want to pass on the many benefits of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) and Submission Grappling. We offer programs that help everyone from the total beginner to the advanced student looking to take their game to the next level.
Josh Griffiths, the head 
instructor at Clockwork Jiu Jitsu – is known for his quality instruction, accessibility, and being able to create an ego free learning environment.
A black belt instructor is always on the mat teaching and answering questions that come up in class.
The benefits of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu are endless and include:
- Gain confidence
- Increased focus
- Increased stamina
- Gain more self discipline
- Lose weight
- Get into great shape
- Relieve Stress
And have fun in a clean, safe, ego-free and supportive environment!
Please be my guest and try a free private class at Clockwork Jiu Jitsu with no obligation. Call 212.675.0300 or email today for more information on group classes, private lessons and for our free introductory offer.
Josh Griffiths
Yoga with Kelly Montross LMSW, RYT 200 hrs
Kelly has been practicing Yoga for nearly eight years, and recently began expanding her practice to teach privately, as well as in health club settings. Being both a Psychotherapist and a Certified Yoga Instructor lends to an approachable, yet athletic teaching style. Kelly mostly enjoys learning about her students’ goals, and tailoring her classes to meet their specific physical and personal needs. Typically her Yoga lends from Vinyasa, a vigorous and dynamic combination of cardiovascular, flexibility, and strength training.
Yoga has many benefits including:
Increased concentration
Improved breath control
Increased balance
Increased flexibility
Increased range of motion and lubrication of the joints
Core strengthening
Increased the range of motion in the joints
Improve Recovery Time
Time Mondays at 10am (First Class Monday February 15th at 10am)
Cost $10
Establish same-side sleeve grip and underhook belt grip:
(your right hand grabs their left sleeve. Your left hand under hooks and grabs their belt.)
Try to hit the sweep by lifting with the hook (left leg with these grips) as you try to put your ear on the matt and kick your other leg under your hooking leg, turning your hips sideways.
They post with the leg to stop the sweep:
trap the leg with your arm, grab your lapel to trap.
push on their hip with your top leg.
keep your inside hook, point your knee up, and keep it tight on them so your shin blocks them from leaning in.
if they lean in:
grab their lapel with your free hand.
sit up and push with your hook shin to get the sweep over their trapped leg.
if they turn away and try to stand:
stand up with them as you gable grip behind their knee.
pull them backwards, then drive forward to get the sweep and proceed to pass.
if they post out to the side with their arms:
try to take the back
small bump and pass the trapped leg over your head while you grip the inside of this knee at the gi with your free hand. keep this grip.
take your top foot off of their hip and set a hook (this hook is like a butterfly hook but they have their back partially turned.)
now grab their belt with your free hand and pull your other leg under them to set a second hook.
now pull them toward you (you’re behind them with two butterfly hooks) and take the back.
Here Josh Griffiths Head Instructor at Clockwork Jiu Jitsu finishes his match with a Kimura
What did you think…getting a belt from Josh was easy! You don’t want to know what I had to do to get mine!
Kenny Florian will be giving a seminar at Clockwork BJJ next Friday, October 16th at 6:30pm.
The seminar fee is $75.
Kenny will be showing his best no gi techniques.
Questions? Call: 212.675.0300 or email.
Hope to see you all there!
Here’s some video of Clockwork BJJ in LAncaster PA at the Grapplers Quest Tournament.
Rome Za under 130 blue belt finals
Rome Za giving up 20lbs in the semis of the blue belt under 150lb division
Here are 3 matches from last weekends competition. Congrats to everyone who headed down to Philly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70NaveBk13U
This is a choke from the sitting back position, (and it’s very similar to the clock choke.)
With your top hand, try to get a deep lapel grip. do this but sliding your thumb under the lapel, pointing your knuckles up and sliding your hand as far up the lapel as you can to get a deep grip. try to flick the guys chin up with a turning motion of your wrist. If you get a bad grip, don’t be too discouraged, you can still finish, it will just take more patience.
Next get a decent, but not too high grip with the other hand, the bottom hand.
Lean over to your side and you pull your tom-grip arms, elbow hard to your hip as you drop your head and get ear to ear.
Finish by giving a had hug as you squeeze, turning your choking grip arm, pulling your elbow closer to your hip, and extending your other arm at the elbow to tighten the lapel.
I think it’s easier to finish this choke by also pulling your bottom hand up into your opponents neck as you pull back with that arm. You donlt have to wait for the lapel to do all the work. Hug the neck with this hand hard by trying to touch your fingertips to the back of their neck.
IF you can’t get the grip, attach with a backward eziekel choke:
S grip your hands.
post your top-arm-side foot on their hip hip
spin your arms as you push with your foot. (You’re spinning to a positions similar to the Bow-and-Arrow position)
Get the Eziekel, gripping inside your back hands sleeve
Rotate your back hand around to the near side of their neck.
Choke, by pushing this had forward into the side of their neck. (Make sure your far hand wrist bone is perpendiculal to thier neck to get the pincher-like pressure here which is the finish)
Pretzel Foot Pass
This is an open guard pass to use when your opponents has their feet on your hips and a same side collar sleeve grip set.
Start standing. Your opponent is on the on the ground, feet on your hips, gripping your right arm, with their left, and your collar, with their right.
1. Grab their lapel with you right (trapped) arm.
2. Stuff their foot on your free side between your legs and prepare to smash their knees down. -grab their foot above their toes -step back with your leg on that side as you push the foot down between your legs. -When their foot’s between your legs, clam them together so it doesn’t pop out.
3. Smash their legs down. grab the top of their knee with your free hand as you drop your right knee down, stapling their left leg. Keeping your lapel grip with your right hand, move yoru elbow so that it is up on top of their knees, pinning their knees down to the side. Next, slide your left knee up behind their knees. Once you’re heavy, on top of their knees, reach around and grab the back of their jacket with your free have.
4. Free your trapped right leg by kicking it back as you keep your other knee, your left knee, up behind their knees.
5. Pretzel time. (This details is awkward, but important and protects you from ending up in half guard or back in guard.) while keeping your left knee behind their knees, rotate your left foot and ankle over and across both their feet so that you ar stapling them down.
6. Finish the Pretzel. Now move your right knee (this was the trapped leg) up and over their legs. Placing your right knee down between their knees and your left knee.
7. Unstaple and roll them back to side control. Keep your lapel grip. kick your feet around. sag heavy on their chest as you roll them back towards you with the lapel grip and establish side control. (the lapel grip stops them from turtling away from you.)
