WHAT IS BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU?
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) is a grappling sport. The theme of this martial art is to control a resisting opponent in ways that force them to submit. The word Jiu Jitsu derives from the Japanese “Ju” meaning “gentle” and “Jutsu” meaning “art” essentially, Jiu Jitsu is referred to as the “gentle art”.
This predominantly ground based martial art uses the knowledge of the human anatomy by leveraging angles, pressure, and timing to submit your opponent. This includes techniques that involve close contact such as chokes and joint manipulations.
Why Jiu Jitsu?
Are you looking to learn self defense or do you want to become a professional grappler competing around the world in ADCC or do you want to expand your mixed martial arts (MMA) resume and get to the UFC? Jiu Jitsu is for everyone. Something about “looking to enrich your life with daily/weekly training, self improvement” that kind of stuff. We want to make sure we are targeting the regular joes as well. -C
Jiu Jitsu is often referred to as “human chess” because it exercises both the body and mind. It empowers practitioners to defeat opponents of greater size and strength. A much smaller yet more technically skilled can beat a bigger opponent. This is why it is so effective for self defense.
What To Expect At My First Class?
Trying something new is exciting and can also be intimidating. We have created a family focused environment that is welcoming to someone taking their very first Jiu Jitsu class ever to a seasoned high level competitor to a famous UFC fighter.
You will be given a tour of the academy and introduced to your instructor and assistant instructor. You will bow on to the mat and line up for class. You will warm up with the class and then circle up around the instructor and their assistant to begin learning. The moves will be demonstrated and explained. You will be partnered up with a higher ranking student to drill the move you just learned. This will repeat a few times as you learn more moves to build on the previous move. At the end of class, you line up by rank and bow out.
Why High Altitude Martial Arts?
High Altitude Martial Arts (HAMA) reputation precedes itself. It is a well known and respected academy in the Jiu Jitsu community. Nate Marquardt (black belt and retired UFC fighter) originally owned HAMA. Cody Donovan (black belt, retired UFC Fighter, current MMA coach) and Christian Allen (black belt and current MMA coach) purchased HAMA from Marquardt. The academy was located in Aurora, CO and recently moved to Denver, CO (Jan 2023). We are the home of one of the best MMA fight teams in the world, Elevation Fight Team. Thus our No Gi program is new and innovative. We are known for our world class Jiu Jitsu for adults in both Gi and No Gi. Something about a balanced of solid proven fundamental skills and new school cutting edge META Jiu Jitsu -C
We bring years of experience and training through black belt professors. We are the home of world class athletes and consistently produce the next generation of athletes. To be the best, you must train with the best!
OUR ADULT JIU JITSU PROGRAMS
Fundamental Jiu Jitsu
Our fundamental Jiu Jitsu classes will teach you essential offensive and defensive techniques from the core positions. You’ll start to build a foundation for competitive sport Jiu Jitsu and learn self-defense techniques for real life situations. You will have a basic understanding of positions and movements. You will learn to flow from one move to another.
- Objectives
- Learn positional hierarchy
- Start to connect the individual pieces of Jiu Jitsu together
- Learn fundamental movements
- Learn how to escape from inferior positions
- Start to understand weight distribution
- Start to learn how to control dominant positions
- Learn to to execute and escape chokes and submissions
Intermediate Jiu Jitsu
Once you receive two stripes on your white belt, you move on to intermediate Jiu Jitsu classes. These classes offer a mix of basics and semi-advanced techniques, in a challenging program that is the perfect place to start building your own game. The pace in intermediate Jiu Jitsu classes is higher. From warm up to the live positional rounds at the end of each class. This provides students an opportunity to drill live in a controlled environment. This is essential to learning to roll or spar in Jiu Jitsu.
Advanced Jiu Jitsu
Advanced classes consist of high-level, cutting edge Jiu Jitsu. As a Renze Gracie affiliate, we keep our finger on the pulse of how Jiu Jitsu is evolving. We are innovative and constantly evolving our Jiu Jitsu to bring you the most current strategies, techniques, and instruction. This class is for blue belts and above. You will be accompanied by high level Jiu Jitsu players and mixed martial artists.
Women’s Jiu Jitsu
We offer a women’s only No Gi Jiu Jitsu class on Saturday mornings at 9am. This class is offered to all women, all levels and all academies are welcome. This is a great way to get introduced to Jiu Jitsu and get to know other women who train. This cross academy training allows the women Jiu Jitsu community to thrive, building lifelong friendships and support groups.
