Check out our Community Members of the Month at Easton Training Center Longmont!
If you’re just starting jiu-jitsu, you may be experiencing information overload. Cut through the noise with this letter from a black-belt.
The Easton Training Center community is vast, and every member brings their own special gifts. Meet Morgan from Arvada.
Discover ways to think about the beginning of your martial arts journey and how to start martial arts in 2022.
We truly value our community at Easton. From our students to staff, it’s the heart and soul of the whole operation.
The Easton Training Center Beginner’s Guide to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu will cover the basic things you need to know if you’re just starting out.
Colorado’s second largest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament, the Easton Training Center In-House Tournament, took place last month with an amazing turnout!
Starting any new fitness or martial arts endeavor is daunting and challenging. In this post, we’ll provide a brief overview of what you can expect from your first kickboxing class.
Each month, we’ll be profiling three members of our community at Easton Training Center in Longmont! Learn what drives the Easton community!
Jack Lukasewycz is an Easton Training Center blue belt and medical student.
We truly value our community at Easton Training Center. It’s the heart and soul of the whole operation. Meet these members of the month!
Meet Professor Nick Reid and learn about his approach to coaching students of all ages at Easton Training Center.
Getting back to the mats can be both exciting and scary. Let’s hear one student’s personal account of conquering fear.
Professor John has recently joined the team here at Easton Training Center Littleton and we are happy to have him share his experience.
Training is hard. Sure, martial arts is addicting and sometimes you spring out of bed to greet the day, but sometimes even on a good day, it can take everything you’ve got to get out of bed. When everything shut down in 2020, countless people…
This month, we highlight Karina Madinger, Ross Hansen, and Alex Dent.
Seth Daniels is the mastermind behind Fight 2 Win and an Easton Training Center Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black-Belt.
We’re so excited about the upcoming changes, and we’re all looking forward to welcoming everyone Back to the Mats! It’s been a long road, and while there may still be a few hills left to climb, our community’s efforts have been well worth it!
We truly value our community at Easton, from our students to coaches and staff, and all those who put in extra time to help around the academy. The disciplines we teach are important, but in the end, they are tools. They’ll only go as far as the people who use them, and how.
Back to the Mat: Humans need connection and community. Let’s safely return to our training and start the path to normalcy.
We tend to forget how powerful the connection between our minds and bodies is. This connection is so strong that by simply changing our physiology we can hack our brain into changing our state of mind. Below you will find three examples of techniques you can use every day to uplift your mental state.
On April 20th 2021, Nick Mavrick received his black belt at Easton Littleton’s first-ever belt promotion ceremony! The energy on the mats was great as Professor Peter and Professor Iain presented Coach Nick (now Professor) with his much-deserved black belt! I recently got the opportunity to sit down with Professor Nick to discuss his journey to Black Belt.
Like many members of Easton’s community, I quit training when COVID hit. And like many still, when the opportunity for training opened back up, I stayed home. Let’s talk about how we can all validate and overcome our fears with community.
The gi was passed down to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from Judo practitioners, who brought the art of Judo over to Brazil’s coast in 1920’s. Jigoro Kano, who originally developed Judo Japanese Jujitsu, was also the inventor of the gi itself and the sensei of Mitsuyo Maeda, who personally instructed the Gracies of Brazil.
An avid competitor with global experience, Calvin coaches adult BJJ and competition training at Easton Training Center in Centennial.
Kids will love building ninja skills with our staff of caring, enthusiastic instructors. Easton summer camps focus on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai, two of the most effective and practical martial arts kids can learn.
Jake Hartner is a 25 year-old BJJ brown belt. He runs Easton Centennial’s Adult BJJ department and their advanced kids class. Jake is known for his fun and calm demeanor. We discussed his BJJ journey from starting to coaching. Jake tells us the benefits that have come to his life, as well as what he has seen BJJ give to others.
Let’s look at a few things to expect if you plan on competing in Jiu-Jitsu in 2021.
One of the keys to becoming better at Jiu-Jitsu is to become more intentional with your training.
Interview with Easton Training Center – Centennial Muay Thai Department Head JD Hardwick
Patti Inglis is a Muay Thai Coach at Easton Training Center – Arvada.
Mike Zook is a jiu-jitsu white belt at Easton Training Center – Arvada.
Octavio was nominated by the staff at Easton Training Center Longmont as our first Member of the Month. He’s embodying those values that are so highly sought out at Easton Training Center. I got a chance to sit down with Octavio to learn a bit more about him; Below is a transcript of our conversation.
Let’s go through some tips to help keep you on the mats and kick your training up a notch in this early phase of your Jiu-Jitsu journey.
What kind of language are you using when you are on the mats?
For all students, new and old, it is worth examining the incredible past of Jiu-Jitsu in an effort to understand how the sport began and how it continues to evolve.
Jiu-Jitsu is quite unique when it comes to fitness. Check out these 5 fitness tips for Jiu-Jitsu from Easton Training Center.
It is truly amazing to watch this little eight year-old be so sure of herself, and we are forever grateful to Easton Training Center for it.
The overarching advantage of learning Jiu-Jitsu as a child has been well-documented. While obvious to active members of the community, the specific benefits may not be so obvious to folks who haven’t yet tried Jiu-Jitsu. Let’s look at 5 attributes your child will gain from Jiu-Jitsu in this post.
There are many activities you can do for a better Muay Thai experience. I’ve outlined 4 fitness tips in this post, along with some workouts that anyone can try!
Jordan Shipman, General Manager of Easton Training Center in Longmont, Colorado, shares his favorite books of 2020.
Any martial art will fan the flames of the warrior incubating inside of you, but BJJ has a special place for the modern woman. There are countless reasons BJJ will change your life for the better, but here are the top three.
So, you got your first gi for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Now what? Here are some pro tips on how to keep your gi looking fresh, feeling crisp, and smelling nice without destroying the material, fading the color, or shrinking it beyond use.
In this post, I asked Easton Training Center Kids Department Head, Jaymin Bagley, to share what I wish I had known when I first became a parent.
Stephanie Johnson is a Muay Thai instructor at Easton Training Center Denver. I spoke with Stephanie about how she manages her “full-time life” and seemingly strikes such a healthy balance.
Bailey Winters is the head Muay Thai coach at Easton Arvada. Morgan: So let’s start with your journey, Bailey. When did you get into Muay Thai, and why did you stick around? Bailey: So I started my martial arts training with boxing. It was one…
For this story in Easton Training Center’s Back on the Mat series, we interviewed jiu-jitsu student Madeline Nealis about her experience this year and trusting your training partners.
The only way you can gain any semblance of control around the chaos it (the pandemic) brings is to focus on what is within your power to change.
Nothing takes the place of daily classes, but something from Easton Training Center endured in me mentally and emotionally, and a look into Muay Thai’s history gave me a hint as to why.
In moments of confusion during COVID-19 shutdowns, I found myself reminiscing about daily struggles I faced on the mat and the lessons I learned from them. Here are those lessons.
We are better learners with Easton in our lives and better people when we are willing to learn. Quarantine has hopefully taught all of us that we still have plenty to learn about each other, about how we are willing to care for one another, and about how we are willing to move forward when the world changes around us.
In this Back on the Mat story, I talked to one jiu-jitsu student about how he found Easton Training Center and grew through the pandemic.
Read about this member’s experience returning to Easton Training Center during the pandemic.
Today, we have become ‘human doings’ maybe even more than human beings. The rise of technology created a second tier of demands in addition to what we already have to do. While ironic, the technology we invented to save us time usually ends up taking…
The 2022 competition calendar is out, and there are numerous opportunities for anyone to compete. Even if you are not interested in competing, you can gain a lot by helping your teammates who do. Competing is a personal choice. Some of us have competitive jobs…
A factory had stopped completely. Management puzzled over what caused it — was there a glitch in their system they couldn’t see? The factory had all their best people on the case, but they couldn’t figure out how everything shut down. They brought in someone…
This blog post is for people who never thought they would do a combat sport. People find martial arts for all kinds of reasons. Maybe they want to toughen up, or maybe they want to compete. Maybe they just want to feel safe walking to…
We wrap part one of our docuseries, The Women of Easton, with Episode 5: Van Tran — Easton Denver’s Academy Operations Director and the Creative Director for all of Easton Training Center. Van had been working the front desk at Easton Denver for about eight…
You’ve just begun your Easton Muay Thai journey, and you’re jazzed. You had your first Kickboxing class, you signed up for our trial month, and you decided to give it a fair shot. Perhaps you’re still renting gloves, or maybe you’ve bought your own. You’re…
Editor’s note: The following blog post written by Ian Lieberman, Easton’s Vice President, retells a story he wrote a couple years back about a very important lesson he learned as a kid through his pup, Tank. Brazilian jiu-jitsu and dogs: I can’t imagine my life…
Easton Training Center is thrilled to announce its first ever Kids Competition Training Class, designed to customize training for each individual child’s competition game. The Kids Competition Class will roll out right in time for the IBJJF Pan Kids Jiu Jitsu Championship 2022, and we’ll…
The next episode in our docuseries, The Women of Easton, taps into the world of Sarah Rochniak, Boulder’s Academy Operations Director, and Director of Operations for all of Easton. Sarah’s journey with Easton, which goes back nearly a decade, never felt like punching a clock….
We truly value our community at Easton Training Center. From our students to coaches and staff, and all those who put in extra time to help around the academy, it’s the heart and soul of the whole operation. People may walk through our doors for the Jiu…
If you’ve spent enough time looking through the martial arts interwebs, you’ve inevitably come across articles purporting to give the “best” or the “top 3” techniques for self-defense. These articles are almost always heavily leaned towards one style or another and often too simplistic to…
Coach JT, the head of Easton Training Center Arvada’s Jiu Jitsu program, knows that competing in the ADCC trials presents an opportunity to compete with the best grapplers around. That’s why he wanted to do it. For those unfamiliar, ADCC, short for Abu Dhabi Combat Club,…
Shalane Pescevic found Easton Training Center at the end of 2012, and her husband and son began training in 2013. Despite feeling a bit like a “scaredy cat” who generally resists trying new things, especially things involving people on top of her, she reluctantly joined…
Editor’s note: Marc Beerline, a Muay Thai and Kickboxing coach at Easton Denver, along with Alea Benson-Littlejohn, Mario Gonzalez and Colin Hoffman, recently had the opportunity to take part in the Muay Thai US World Games Qualifiers that took place in Denver this March. He…
The smallest things regularly make the biggest impact.
Easton Training Center will host a special one-day workshop led by Wim Hof Method certified & Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt instructor Miles Lukas this May. Reserve your spot today! What is the Wim Hof Method? The Wim Hof Method gives us a way to…
We continue peeling back the layers of women in martial arts with the next segment of our docu-series, The Women of Easton: Sachi.
A personal account of fatherhood in martial arts by Easton Training Center’s President, Mike Tousignant.
Luma Murib started training at Easton at 15 years old. However, growing up in a traditional household where the idea of women wrestling with men didn’t quite fly, she had to take a different approach. She had to do it in secret. Luma asked if…
We truly value our community at Easton Training Center. From our students to coaches and staff, and all those who put in extra time to help around the academy, it’s the heart and soul of the whole operation.
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