Alliance Jiu Jitsu of Arkansas

F4 Martial Arts is proud to Announce that is now an official Affiliate of Alliance Jiu Jitsu. Alliance has been the most dominate Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Team in the World the last several years. We are very excited to be associated with such a powerful team. We are also proud to represent Alliance Jiu Jitsu in Arkansas.

Labor Day Cookout at F4

Great time today at F4 Martial Arts. We had over 40 people spend the holiday with their extended F4 Family. Thank you to everyone that came today and also a big thanks to Jamie Cook for cooking for everyone. After a great meal, we spent the rest of the afternoon getting some training time in and also open mat time.

F4 Martial Arts competes at Dallas Europa Championship

F4 Martial Arts made the trip to Dallas to compete at the Europa Championship. Justin Rice, F4 Martial Arts Head Jiu Jitsu Instructor competed in the No Gi Advanced Division and finished with a second place silver medal. He also competed in the Adult Purple Belt division winning all 3 matches by submission and finished in 1st place winning the Gold Medal.

Mark Andrews competed in the Teens No gi Division with a dominating performance winning both matches and taking the Gold Medal. He also finished in 3 place in the Gi Division.

F4 Martial Art only took 2 competitors, but had a great performance winning 9 of 11 matches between Justin and Mark.


Written By:
Lindsey Clyburn

RMNU Kids Seminar held at F4 Martial Arts

F4 Martial Arts hosted an RMNU kids seminar this weekend. Professor Abby and Professor Jory Malone of Revolution MMA in Benton taught a great seminar on Back control and transitions from all positions to Back control. We had close to 25 kids in attendance, that traveled from all over the state and Texas to attend. We also had belt promotions and a pizza party following the seminar. Great training and Great fun for the Kids.

Written by:
Lindsey Clyburn
F4 Martial Arts

New Instructor at F4. Justin Rice

F4 Martial Arts is proud to announce that we have a new instructor. Justin Rice will be teaching our Adult Jiu Jitsu classes and will be teaching our Teen Jiu Jitsu classes. We are very excited to have Justin at F4. Justin is an incredible Jiu Jitsu talent and a great Instructor. He is excited for the opportunity to help guide our students to a whole new level.

QR Codes!! The new way to market your business.

Scan This Code for More Info about F4 Martial Arts.

QR(Quick Response) codes are a new way for Businesses to market themselves and to get product information to the consumer or their clients.

These codes have actually been around a while, but are just now starting to be used in the USA. They started in Japan and are very popular in that part of the World.

If you own a smart phone with a camera you can download a qr scanner from your app store. Simply scan the image and it will take you to all kinds of information about the company.

We at F4 Martial Arts always try and keep our students and potential customers connected to F4.

Written By:
Lindsey Clyburn

BJJ and Family Fun

F4 Martial Arts is Family owned and operated. We believe that Family is the single most important thing that our school should instill in our students. When you train BJJ you automatically become part of a large Family, that consists of everyone that practices the art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Only the people who have the courage to get on the mat understand the bond that develops with those who practice this art.

F4 Martial Arts has built its business on getting families to train together and become a part of our F4 Family. Every night is filled with kids taking class, followed by a mom and dad taking class afterwords. One family after another is how we want to build F4.

Written by:
Lindsey Clyburn

Training with a Legend

June 18, 2011 Master Wendall Alexander, Co-Founder of Nova Uniao was in Arkansas and put on a Kids Seminar and a Adult Seminar at Revolution MMA in Benton. Master Alexander is a Six degree Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Even though his english was limited, he put on an amazing seminar for both events. He had such a wonderful demeanor with the children. The Adult seminar was an actioned packed event with almost 35 new techniques for us to add to our Jiu Jitsu game. It was truly an honor to meet him and get to spend time on the mat with him.

We had two students that received promotions at the seminars. Logan was promoted to 1st Degree White Belt in the Kids Seminar and Jacob Kim was promoted to 4th Degree Green Belt in the Adult Seminar.

Written By:
Lindsey Clyburn

F4 Custom Gi

This is the new custom gi that we will be offering our students. We will be offering this Gi in Black and also a Blue Gi. Also there may soon be a new F4 rash guard.

Seymour Yang

Seymour Yang is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Purple Belt and also has a very popular Jiu Jitsu blog. He also created our logo for F4 Martial Arts. He has created some really cool logos for many Jiu Jitsu schools. If you notice in the picture Seymour is wearing our fight shorts. If you want another great BJJ blog to follow, be sure and check his out. Http://meerkat69.blogspot.com

Dedication

Dedication, most people know what the word means but very few people can truly follow through with it. In Jiu Jitsu, we try and show how dedication in Martial Arts can carry over to your personal life or your business life. Can you really ever be great at anything without dedication? I challenge you today to dedicate yourself to your training. Be Disciplined in your dedication to your training. Then after you start setting positive habits, try and dedicate yourself to everything that is important in your life. Marriage, kids or work, dedicate yourself to those things with the same passion that you do to your training.

Written By:
Lindsey Clyburn

F4's No Gi Class

In Addition to our Gi classes that we offer at F4, we also offer our students the ability to train without a uniform or Gi. Our No Gi class is held every Tuesday night from 6:30 to 7:30. This is very up beat and fun class.

Kids BJJ Workshop and Promotion Ceremony

F4 Martial Arts and Revolution MMA hosted a Kids BJJ worshop Saturday May 28, 2011. It was great event that was taught by Professor Abby Malone. She showed the kids the aspects of half guard. This should really help our kids start to open up their game.

The Workshop was followed by a promotion ceremony. The following students from F4 Martial Arts received promotions:

Devin Strom----2nd Degree Orange Belt
Jeff Andrews----1st Degree Yellow Belt
Jacob Early-----Grey Belt
Jordon Paterson-----2nd Degree White Belt
Haley Winston----2nd Degree White Belt
Robert Jones----1st Degree White Belt
Kennedy Jones----1st Degree White Belt
Michael Ryder----1st Degree White Belt
Melissa Ryder----1st Degree White Belt
Holly Kloss----1st Degree White Belt

Congratulations to all of you. Your hard work and dedication paid off for you.

Great New Jiu Jitsu Magazine

Finally a great new magazine that is specific to the art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It has a lot of great stuff in this magazine. Techniques, drills, gi reviews and many more exciting things that are directly related to the Art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Seymore Yang that was responsible for creating F4 Martial Arts new logo is a contributing writer to the magazine.

This is a magazine that I can't wait to come out each month and I personally recommend it to anyone that loves Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Written by:
Lindsey Clyburn
F4 Martial Arts

Jr. Leader Program

Kid’s Jiu Jitsu in Benton and Maumelle : Junior Leaders Stand Out
Among the standouts at the workshop were the Junior leaders. Revolution MMA and F4 Martial Arts have developed a Junior Instructor Training Program, to help those kids and teens who have a keen interest in Martial Arts to learn and develop their skills to help others. The Junior Leaders from F4 were able to lead an exciting warm-up filled with new and exciting activities to help the children develop their motor skills. It is very important for young children who train Kid’s Jiu Jitsu in Benton and other areas to develop their motor skills while developing their skill set. Improved motor skill helps the children learn and perform techniques faster. The Junior Leaders are tasked with this portion of the class, as well as helping after the main instructor teaches the techniques. This is a great way for students who are interested in teaching, to slowly learn how to conduct a class. The Junior Instructor Program teaches children and teens skills such as: communication, work responsibilities, class management, timliness, character development, and how to help and motivate others.

Written by
Professor Abby Malone

F4 will be closed tonight.

Due to the threat of bad weather will be closed tonight. Your safety is always our first concern. Stay home and be safe.

F4 Martial Arts Promotions May 21, 2011

We had several students receive promotions on Saturday. All of our students have been training really hard and earned these promotions through a lot of mat time and sweat. The following students received promotions:

Jacob Kim----Green Belt 3rd Degree
Ashley Strawnser---- Green Belt 1st Degree
Gena Sparks----White Belt 2nd Degree
Kimberly Winston----White Belt---1st Degree
Tony Winston----White Belt 1st Degree
Jennifer Kloss----White Belt 1st Degree
Michael Hutchins----White Belt 1st Degree

F4 Martial Arts New Blog

F4 Martial Arts is starting a new Blog to help our school stay even more connected to our students and the public.  For those of you that don't know about our school, we specialize in teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.  We are an official Robson Moura Nova Uniao School.  We offer kids Classes, Women Classes and Adult Classes.  We are located in Maumelle, Arkansas.  For More info, please call lindsey at 501-259-4537.

Check us out at www.f4martialarts.com