Whats Going on—Literally

Hey All!

So the last week has been crazy busy, on top of training my ass off, (actually hitting the weights–weird concept for me, I know) teaching, and taking care of all my responsibilities as the Student Service department at West Coast I haven’t had much free time. Although I have managed to sneak up to Sasamat lake a few times to swim with my dog, and rock out in the mankini. Its been hard to find time to write up the blog, and I have been working on a big article to kinda of re-cap the entire trip to Rio, because every time someone asks me in person how it was the only response I seem able to muster up is “good,” which I understand to be completely inadequate to explain how things went, haha. I’m going to try and get that finished sometime this week, and have to make sure I get it edited, because I hear good things about my writing, and bad things about my spelling.

So there are a few big things happening at West Coast; Shawn and I have finally gotten off our asses and started the performance team. For those of you who don’t already know, Its a group for the guys in the club that want to compete at high levels for both MMA and BJJ —This group is open to all members and affiliates however class attendance is mandatory if you want to be part of this team. The first few sessions have been going well, and were going to try to continue to take advantage of the nice weather and do outdoor conditioning for the rest of the summer.

Also the Referral program is finally in effect, and again if you don’t know the short of it is, bring a friend/family member/hated co-worker —whatever and if they sign up you get a cool, clean, tax free $100 and they get 15% off any membership…Which is honestly a great deal, when Don first started talking about this I had no idea how good the referral program was actually going to be, and its awesome that you guys are gonna be getting paid to help advertise for the club.

We Also have Jacen Brooks fighting this weekend on the Battlefield (BFL) 2 card at the River Rock this weekend. He is fighting Matt Dywer of Team Havoc in the co-main event on the card…Don’t miss this guys, the production value of this show is second to none, and This is gonna be a wicked fight, and the coming out part for Jay when he takes it to Dwyer.

Battlefield 1 is also airing on the fight network this weekend! This great exposure for Dave and Jay who fought (and won) on the card, as well for our team. Times are:
Thursday – 5pm
Friday – Midnight
Saturday – 3 pm
Don’t miss out on this guys.

There is also a few class time changes, and classes being added coming up for the fall so make sure if your unclear of class times you check!

1 more note guys; I’m working on some new West Coast BJJ shirts, and hoping to have a mock up done soon which I will post online for you all to check out and let me know what you think. If you have any suggestions though I would love to hear them, especially for Slogans because I keep drawing blanks.

Until next time guys.

back in the saddle.

Hey Guys,

So Ive been back home for a week now, and things have been hectic. Ive been working my tail off catching up with paperwork for the club, getting back to teaching, as well as training as much as I possibly can. I wasn’t planning on continuing to blog after the trip but so many people have told me they enjoyed reading this thing (cant imagine why?) and that they hoped I continued to blog (again…?) ha ha, so I decided to keep posting stuff.

Its been great for me as instructor to get back home, and see how much everyone has improved since Ive been away, its always very apparent (especially during the summer) who’s putting in the work and who isn’t. For those of you who aren’t, your gonna have to watch your asses when you get back in the fall, lol. I feel very blessed to have great coach’s, team-mates, and students that were all (seemingly 😉 happy to have me back.

Next few days are going to continue to be crazy, were working on some big things at WCBJJ. First thing for me is taking over the JR program at Poco with Morgans help, this is gonna be a lot of work, but lots of fun. Very near and dear to my heart is getting the serious competition team classes going asap. We have so many talented guys at West Coast, and if there’s 1 thing I learned for sure in Brazil, its that we can compete with anyone in the world, but we need to get buts in gear pushing each other to be the best we can be. We have 1 day narrowed down, and that is Sundays in Poco, directly following the normal adult class ( 12:00-1:30), we will be going 1:30-3:00 lead by our general Don. I will keep you guys updated and let you know about other days and sessions when I know.

That’s about it for now, teaching lots the next 3 days, before going to the States for a night with my family, (although I might sneak in a morning roll Sunday before I go 😉 See you all on the mats soon!

Jason Gagnon