The 2025 S.A.W Competition was held on June 7th. There weren’t as many competitors as last year, but there were some good takedowns and good leg locks. Checkout the video!!
Submission Arts Wrestling
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“Dealing with the frustration of not being able to speak English” To get more students, I did demonstrations of judo and S.A.W with Ron in many different places. If there was a martial arts event in Brisbane, we did it at the competition venue. Sometimes at a university, and sometimes […]
This is a video of me teaching a S.A.W class the basic technique for attacking from the Top Quarter Position (Top Turtle Position). This will be followed by Part 2 and Part 3.
“Kyokushin Karate Brisbane” Besides Phil and Ron, I also became very close with the people at the UQ Judo Club, who helped me out in many ways. Among them was another coach at the UQ Judo Club, Paul Nelson. He was the president of Judo Queensland, and he also helped […]
“The birth of the S.A.W Australia Branch” From the sparring and S.A.W demonstration on the second day after arriving in Australia, the students at the UQ Judo Club showed great interest in S.A.W. Some of them became my students later while continuing to practice Judo and started to learn S.A.W. […]
“Phil Brain” Phil guided me inside the UQ martial arts gym, which was very impressive. There was a large shower room and a changing room, and I changed into the Judo Gi I borrowed from the judo club. I brought my S.A.W black belt from Japan because I thought it […]
“University of Queensland Judo Club” Let me tell you the story of when I first arrived in Australia. It was 1993, and I was 25 years old. I had come all the way here with the ambition of opening a martial arts dojo in Australia and spreading Submission Arts Wrestling […]
“SAW standing techniques are the technique of handling those strikes and controlling them with grappling.” At a time when mixed martial arts had not yet been properly established, the SAW founder Shihan Hidetaka Aso created Submission Arts Wrestling with the desire to establish a grappling style that could be used […]
“It’s more important to be a respected person than just becoming a good fighter in SAW training. “ Submission Arts Wrestling is a Japanese martial art, so you have to embrace the Budo Spirit. The Budo Spirit comes from the spirit of bushido of the ancient samurai warriors. Before you can […]
We have the SAW Online training course. ↓↓↓ You can learn the SAW learning system step by step through gradings, and can get the official SAW ranks by taking the online grading tests. You can continue to learn SAW and eventually earn an official black belt. It’s all online, so […]