1 Feb 2010 | One Comment

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

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13 Jan 2010 | No Comments

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.

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12 Jan 2010 | No Comments


Here Josh Griffiths Head Instructor at Clockwork Jiu Jitsu finishes his match with a Kimura

Side Control, kimura, nogi »

17 Dec 2009 | No Comments


This video is from a grapplers quest in 2004

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27 Oct 2009 | No Comments

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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!

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8 Oct 2009 | No Comments

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!

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28 Sep 2009 | No Comments

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

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9 Sep 2009 | No Comments

Here are 3 matches from last weekends competition. Congrats to everyone who headed down to Philly.


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4 Sep 2009 | No Comments

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)

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28 Aug 2009 | No Comments

Getting to Clockwork BJJ in NYC is easy. We are located by Union Square on 14th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue. Please use the below interactive map for driving and walking directions. Need immediate assistance? Call 212.675.0300 or email us.


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