Nick Burke - Assistant Coach
Classes
Jiu Jitsu Group Classes (PSU class, BJJ 1)
Biography
2010 Earned blue belt in BJJ
2009 2nd Place,Oregon Open, No-Gi
2009 3rd Place, Oregon Open, Gi
2008 Began training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Philosophy
"It's not if you win or lose, it's how you train before and afterwards that defines who you are."
Robert Wolfe - Assistant Coach
Classes
Jiu Jitsu Juniors Classes (Beginners, Intermediates, Teens)
Biography
2010 Earned blue belt in BJJ
2009 Began training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Philosophy
"Be all you can be."
Toby Presnell - Assistant Coach
Area of Expertise
Judo for Jiu Jitsu
Bio
Competes and places in local and regional tournaments
2008 Acquired Black Belt in Judo (Shodan) from Toshio Ichinoe at Obukan Judo, Portland, OR
2006 Began training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
1997 began training Yudo (Korean Judo) under Kyuchin Hwang at Hwangs Martial Arts, Eugene, OR
1991 Began training Kodokan Judo under Yuzo Kato, Roseburg, OR
Philosophy
"I would like to foster camaraderie between the Jiu jitsu and Judo communities in the greater Portland area.
"We can say that Judo is an art because it is a method of arriving at self-realization and true self-expression. We can further say that Judo is a science because it implies mastery of various laws of nature: gravity, friction, momentum, velocity, weight transmission, and unison of forces. In its most important phase, it constitutes a kind of higher logic developed through practice and the ascencion of the true personality: a realization of the spiritual self in the philosophic rather than the religious sense of the word."
.....Jiichi Watanabe