Serving the Montgomery County and Bucks County areas in Pennsylvania. We are affiliated with The 3rd Generation Jiu-Jitsu Team, teaching the art of Gracie/Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, BJJ self defense and MMA. Stop by and visit or try out a class for free, we are within minutes of Doylestown, Chalfont, Perkasie, Souderton, Quakertown, Harleysville, Newtown, New Hope, Collegeville, Royersford, Lansdale, Montgomeryville and the Lehigh Valley.
Welcome To Rosendo Diaz Brazilian Jiu Jitsu!
We wish to welcome you to the Rosendo Diaz Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy!!
The Rosendo Diaz Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy is a certified black belt academy under the 3rd Generation Jiu-Jitsu Team. Rosendo Diaz received his black belt in August 2003 from Royler Gracie and David Adiv.
Located in Harleysville, PA, right in the middle of Montgomery County and Bucks County.
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Welcome to the Rosendo Diaz Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy!!
The Montgomery County and Bucks County Premier Martial Arts Academy!
The Rosendo Diaz Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy is a certified black belt academy under the 3rd Generation Jiu-Jitsu Team. Rosendo Diaz received his black belt in August 2003 from Royler Gracie and David Adiv. The Rosendo Diaz Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy is the headquaters for the 3rd Generation Jiu-Jitsu Team.
The academy is committed to providing each student with quality instruction in the art of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu within a friendly atmosphere. This cutting edge art famous for it’s devastating ground fighting techniques also implements methods for throwing, self-defense, and mixed martial arts (MMA).
Whether you are an experienced martial artist wishing to add grappling to your arsenal, or a beginner looking to learn one of the most powerful forms of self defense, you will find the Rosendo Diaz Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy a premier school for all your training needs.
To begin the journey and take advantage of our 2 week trial offer, Contact us hereor call us at (267) 476-1858. Whether your goals involve personal fitness, increased confidence, realistic self-defense or training to become the next Mixed Martial Arts champion, we CAN and WILL help you get there!
The Martial Training Institute will be open for classes on May 21, 2012. We want to wish Shane Mock all the best of luck in his new program. For more information about this academy, please visit their website at MTIPA
The Martial Training Institute will feature training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Karate and MMA. It is located at 1268 N. Irving Street, 2nd floor, Allentown, PA.
We are happy to announce that Gregg Anderson will be opening Spring Grove BJJ Academy very soon. Please visit his site Spring Grove BJJ for more information and details about their grand opening. All the best to Gregg.
We would like to announce that the Rosendo Diaz Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy will be moving to a new location in Harleysville, PA. Starting Saturday, June 2, 2012 we will be holding classes at this new location. Located in the heart of Harleysville, the academy is located at 708 Main Street, Harleysville, PA . We are located between Brazzo’s Italian Cuisine and the East End Ale House.
Come visit us and as always take advantage of our free 2 weeks of unlimited training to try us out. See you in Harleysville!!!!
Thanks to Jim Katris, Chad Stevens and Jason Thoman for having Rosendo Diaz out to their academy, Absolute Fitness Academy in Warsaw, Indiana this past weekend. A great showing for both the submission grappling and gi seminars. Thanks to all that came out.
Special thanks go out to Kevin Rhinehart for bringing out his team from Ohio.
Congratulations go out to the following individuals that were promoted at the seminar.
Bambi Shafer – 2nd stripe white belt – Ground Level Martial Arts
Cody Motes – 3rd stripe white belt – Ground Level Martial Arts
Joe Thacker – 3rd stripe white belt – Ground Level Martial Arts
Rob Daze Dejene – 4th stripe white belt – Ground Level Martial Arts
David M Moss – Blue Belt – Ground Level Martial Arts
There used to be a time where I never even considered myself a fan of Martial arts. I would watch movies and play games but it never translated itself into a real world passion for them. It might have been that I just didn’t understand them or just thought that they weren’t for me. I had never actually been exposed to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu until I saw a video on youtube one day. It hit something in my brain that made me think “Wow, this could be fun.” Of course like most things at the time I put it away in my head thinking that there was never any chance I could perform even 1/4 of the moves I saw these guy do. I was in terrible shape and had absolutely no confidence in my ability to perform even the most basic of tasks.
However there was always that little nagging thought in the back of my head. That thing that just said to try it. So I started searching the web and found a couple of schools in my area. There was a small school in Telford practically right down the street from me so one night I gathered what little confidence I had and strolled in. I asked if I could watch a class and was told by the instrcutor that I was more then welcome to. After watching the class I was even more intriqued strictly because of the way Jiu-Jitsu seemed to work. It seemed to hit soething in my head and now my brain was practically screaming at me to do it. It was another situation where I put it away in my head thinking to do it later. It was another situation of me psyching myself out of doing something I thought I might like.
Almost another year after that I finally started looking at schools again. I stumbled upon the Rosendo Diaz Jiu-Jitsu academy while randomly browsing the web one day and just started to think about it again. This time however I was not going to let my lack of confidence stop me. I summoned up what courage I had and called the number. I will say this right now, I don’t think there was a time that I was more scared in my life. However looking back it was one of the best choices I ever made.
Rosendo was incredibly polite over the phone and even put up with me when I got lost driving to his academy in Chalfont. He got me sized up for a Gi right away and before I knew what was happeneing I was on the mats getting ready to do my first ever Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training. I forget what happened in the first class since it was almost a year ago at this point but I do remember when I left that I knew I would be coming back. We did a whole lot of drills and just added a little bit to it over time. Before I knew it almost an hour had passed. It felt like I had only been there for a few minutes but I guess its true that time flies when you’re having fun.
After class was over everyone paired up and had 5 minute sessions Rosendo called “rolling” but he broke off for a minute to just chat with me about Jiu-Jitsu and to see if I liked it. It was great to see an instructor get so involved with his students and it really made me think that his place was going to be the one I stayed at. I don’t think I had ever felt more relief then knowing that I had found something that I really enjoyed and could turn into a cool hobby. The atmosphere in the academy was very relaxed and laid back and everyone just seemed to get along with each other. Its the perfect atmosphere for people who just want to learn the art and not feel like they are constantly competing with the other people in the gym.
Months have gone by since the time I first started at the academy. I can now count a high number of new friends I have made there while also learning what is in my opinion one of the coolest Martial Arts in the world. I gotten to not only see but feel and be told that I have gotten a lot better at the art and its one of the biggest confidence boosters you will ever get in your life. Doing something that 3 months back you struggled with at first but now can just nail as easily as walking down in the street is a high better then anything on the planet. Finally blocking that sweep or submission that you always seemed to get caught with will put a huge dumb smile on your face like you just got the Christmas present you were alwyas hoping you would get.
I guess this is running a bit long so I’ll close on this. Anyone can do Jiu-Jitsu. I have been swept by guys I outweigh by over a hundred pounds and they made it look easy. I have seen guys who you can’t expect to move as fast as they are do moves you don’t even think their body can conform to. Its an art that is designed so that as long as you can move you can do almost anything. Even if you think you can’t do it Rosendo will be there to help you along or offer some advice as to help your technique. Its amazing what just a little subtle move can do to make something work. So if you have been thinking about doing a Martial Art for a long time I highly recommend that you call up Rosendo and give it a shot. If I can do this then you certainly can. Hope to see you there.
Rosendo Diaz will be at Absolute Fitness Academy in Warsaw, Indiana on Saturday, March 24. Three seminars for the day; a kids self defense seminar, submission grappling seminar and a gi seminar. Don’t miss out!
Check out this great story by Sheri Hockman from BJJUNDERDOG.com. She’s written a great fable of all the rules, spoken and unspoken in BJJ circles. You can read it at BJJUNDERDOG.
March is here! It’s time to start training in the most effective form of martial arts in the country. If you always wanted to try, then this month is the best time to start. For the month of March, if you join our team you will receive a free training gi. You will still get 2 weeks to try us out absolutely for free and we’ll even loan you a gi for your trial period.
Call us today at 267-476-1858 or click here to contact us through email. What are you waiting for?
Many of us dream about being the best. But in reality almost all of us are content with just being good enough. In Jiu-Jitsu, you can aspire to be a world champion or you can settle for just being pretty darn good. Both are fine..in the end the reality is that the chances that a person will reach the highest levels of the sport Jiu-Jitsu circuit are slim but not unobtainable. Being good enough isn’t really so bad, think about it..Being good enough..what does that mean?
Being good enough means that you are good enough to:
1. Defend yourself
2. Give others in your academy a pretty good match regardless of what level they are at.
3. That you have skills just not world class level skills.
4. Enjoy the benefits of training and allow Gracie Jiu-Jitsu to become a lifestyle.
It doesn’t really matter in the end. You are good or you could be great, either way you’re going to do well in Jiu-Jitsu. The trick is, well, not to suck at Jiu-Jitsu and that comes for consistency in training, discipline in performing the techniques of BJJ using leverage over power and understanding your physical limits. Understanding your physical limits simply means knowing that certain techniques or positions don’t or can’t work within your body type or even your game. Use what works for you. Check out this article by Sheri Hockman about using the KISS principle in Jiu-Jitsu.
Please visit our schedule page to see a completely updated schedule of our classes. From Monday and Thursday lunch classes, to our Monday through Thursday evening classes, kids classes, and weekend classes. You are sure to find the classes that meet your busy schedule.
BJJUnderdog.com is the brain child of Sheri Hockman. This 38 years old mother of three has been training the better part of 8 years in Jiu-Jitsu and has seen many ups and downs. She has created this blog to help and inspire those of us who consider themselves to be underdogs in the art. Who is an Underdog? Anyone and everyone that can honestly say that they have areas that they can improve on. Check it out!
From the site:
BJJ underdogs are grappling practioners at any level
who are expected to lose the fight because of
size limitations, age, inexperience, gender, weakness,
lack of speed, endurance deficits or compromised flexibility.
Are you an ”underdog” who continues to thrive in this
“top dog” sport?
World class Jiu-Jitsu competitor JT Torres from Team Lloyd Irvin will be holding a seminar at the Aaron Morris BJJ Academy in Holmes, PA. The seminar date is Saturday, January 21, 2012. Beginning at 1:00pm, this event will go to 3pm. Cost is only $50.00 per person to attend, please visit www.wcma-usa.com to secure your spot as space is very limited.
Thanks to all the members of the 3rd Generation Jiu-Jitsu Team that traveled out for our very first Christmas Eve open mat. With over 30 people in attendance, training hard for over an hour and a half taking little if no breaks.
During the open mat, we took the chance to promote some well deserving individuals.
Cory Flemming from the RDBJJ Academy was promoted to blue belt.
Dylan Royce from the RDBJJ Academy was promoted to purple belt.
Clint Matteo from the Aaron Morris BJJ Academy was promoted to brown belt.
Congratulations to them and wishing all the members of the team a happy and prosperous new year!
Many thanks go out to the guys and gals over at Harrisburg Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy for hosting a seminar with Rosendo Diaz this past weekend. A great showing of HBJJ students eager to learn the mechanics of Jiu-Jitsu.
Congratulations go out to so many of the HBJJ members that were promoted.
Brown Belt
Cameron Mitchell
Purple Belt
Scott Cook
Darnel Ginger
Robert Landry
Eric Deangelis
Monica Broga
Dave Brogan Blue Belt
Colby Zell
Gibran Jones
Ronald Chunn Yellow Belt
Christopher Rosa
Are you sick of the rampaging masses at the malls on Black Friday? Are you sick of the idea of spending more “quality time” with the family? Does it feel like you put on 20 pounds overnight because of gluttonous eating? Then come on down for the 2nd Annual ALL DAY AFTER TURKEY DAY ROLL!!!
By ALL DAY, we mean ALL DAY. Come in when you want, leave when you want. You can even come in, roll, leave, and come back again later. Those of you brave (or crazy) enough can stay ALL DAY. You can grab meals at the nearby eateries, recover, and train some more. That’s what a few of us plan on doing. Why? Because we have no lives…Errr…I mean, because we LOVE Jiu-Jitsu. Yeah, that’s it.
So, come on down and roll. Roll until your heart’s content or it actually gives out. Whichever one comes first. Be there or be square. Just like the pegs that some of you keep trying to put into the round holes.
Date: Friday, November 25, 2011 from 10:30am to 9:00pm
We will also be holding a class that day lead by Rosendo Diaz from 12pm to 1pm. Catch you there!
Brett Hoover will be at the Ricky Royce BJJ Academy on Monday, October 24, 2011 from 8pm to 9:30pm for a seminar. This seminar is free to anyone interested in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Self Defense. For more information about the academy in Gilbertsville, please visit RickyRoyceBJJ.com
