About a year ago, I knew it was time to take my health and fitness seriously. When your gut walks into the room five minutes before you do, it’s time for a change! After being encouraged to consider Texarkana Jiu-Jitsu by a friend, a decided to give it a shot. I can honestly say it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Everyone was welcoming and friendly, the encouragement and camaraderie I’ve experienced from everyone has been fantastic. I’ve dropped 25lbs so far and become much more intentional with my diet. Jiu-Jitsu has changed the way I approach many things. If you’re looking to make a change, Jiu-Jitsu will change you!
I have been training at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu for nearly 2 years. It is the best place to train no matter what your physical condition is. It’s a family friendly place for people of all ages.
Texarkana Jiu Jitsu welcomed me with open arms. The ladies there took me in and have been the best at helping me build confidence. Marc (Coach) has an enormous amount of knowledge and skill. His instructions are precise and easy to follow. The best part is that the group as a whole wants you to learn and get better. You are not a burden as a newbie.
If you are interested in training, I highly recommend coming to Texarkana Jiu-Jitsu! They work with all skill levels… which mine was no skill. Great coaches and teammates that make you feel like family! My son and I both train and love it!! It has helped him learn to be more disciplined and focused! You will not be disappointed!
3 months in and it just keeps getting better every class! My 13 year old son and I absolutely love the journey we are on with Texarkana Brazilian JiuJitsu. The atmosphere is phenomenal! No ego’s on the mat only respect and the drive to see each other succeed! You will meet people from all walks of life on the mat and learn something from them each and every time. The first two months were tough due to my lack of physical conditioning but the drills and free rolling have changed that. I feel better physically and mentally. I love the changes I see in my son in his confidence and his desire to train as much as he can. Our journey has only just begun and we are both looking forward to it. If your considering checking Texarkana Brazilian JiuJitsu out we highly recommend it. Swing by and check it out who knows you might join us on our journey.
If your looking for life’s next challenge or think your the toughest person on the block. Then this is the place for you there is a wealth of skill, knowledge and a more than welcoming atmosphere to crush your ego but not your soul!
I walked into Texarkana Jiu Jitsu in February. I didn't know that my life would change that night. Everyone was very welcoming and helpful. No big egos. Just really cool people training together. I've lost 50 lbs in four months, and off medication. This gym has literally saved my life. If you want to learn the most effective martial art from a great, knowledgeable coach, Marc Hagebusch is your guy. There isn't another gym around where you'll train under a 3rd degree black belt. Give Texarkana Jiu Jitsu a try. It WILL change your life too!
Great instructor and a very nice facility.
Jiu Jitsu helps with more than just a martial arts skill. The instructors and members of the class will help your confidence, cardio, and much more. Highly recommend.
Great people doing something outstanding for their community. Respected leaders in their industry. Humble helpful and professional.
Stress Relief Through Martial Arts. As adults, we often suffer a lot of stress! This past year plus as I write this with the pandemic have definitely added to it! But modern life is often difficult and not just during a pandemic. We worry about paying the bills, our jobs – and we worry about […]
It feels awesome to set challenging goals and nail them! You know how good it feels to set your sights on a goal and then achieve it. It’s empowering and invigorating. Hitting goals and overcoming challenges is not just a matter of chance. Goal-setting is an important life skill that serves everyone and is especially […]
In another blog post, I told you that persistence is one of the five core tenets of our martial arts program. It’s a must for kids to learn to fulfill their obligations and stick to their commitments – But what makes them want to do that? In martial arts like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, we attribute […]
I hear it all the time. A parent walks into my school to meet with me, and the first question they ask is… Will my child get hurt doing martial arts? It’s a good question to ask , it’s important. Injuries are part of life. They can happen anywhere and certainly in any activity… but […]
Hey parents! Coach Marc Hagebusch from Texarkana Jiu Jitsu here to start talking about some of the physical benefits kids get from studying martial arts. I want to start with one that might surprise you. Here it is… Studying martial arts makes kids less destructive because it helps them control their movements. Now, you might […]
Often we watch an athlete perform at the highest level on ‘game’ day. We don’t see or think about the massive effort that’s occurred behind the scenes day after day for so many years. No success in anything happens without persistent effort over long periods of time. Everyone… every man, woman, and child have incredible potential within […]
Jiu Jitsu is more than a type of fighting. It’s an art the teaches you that you can overcome challenges that others find insurmountable. It does this through experience not reading about positive mindsets. As you conquer each new challenge you develop a new confidence that allows you to tackle harder things on and off […]
I’ve previously written about how martial arts classes can help kids be less destructive. They learn how to control their bodies. Now, I want to talk about a related issue. Any parent of young kids knows that their energy seems boundless. It can be a challenge to keep up! Many parents end the day exhausted […]
Martial Arts Mindset and Achievement It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. This one is really worth far more. The elephant is tied with a piece of rope that it could easily break. It has been conditioned since he was young to think that he’s stuck and can’t get away… so he […]
How To Develop Mental Toughness and Confidence In Kids. It’s time to talk about another core tenet of martial arts. In many ways, this tenet brings all the other tenets together – and it explains why kids who study martial arts like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu achieve more at home, in school, in other sports, and […]
Many Parents Put Their Kids In Our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Classes To Help Them Develop Confidence, Fitness, and Self Defense Skills. Often their son or child is being bullied or just doesn’t seem to fit in with other kids. We can help! We work with kids to help them see that they are much more […]
Martial Arts Helps Kids Develop Coordination and Athleticism… Even If They Aren’t Naturally Athletic At All! Kids come in all shapes, sizes, and attributes. Some kids seem to be born with natural grace and athletic ability. Other kids struggle with physical coordination and athletics. Anything they achieve in terms of physical fitness requires more work […]
Childhood Weight Gain and Obesity Are Becoming A Serious Problem Threatening the Health of Our Kids in Texarkana. There’s no denying that childhood obesity has become a problem. There are so many reasons for the problem. Kids spend their time playing video games instead of running around outside and the lack of activity has caused […]
Does Your Child Need A Supportive, Educational, and Fun Activity? Learning Martial Arts Teaches Young Kids Life Skills, Confidence, Discipline, Focus and More While They Get In Shape and Have A Lot Of Fun! Young children are curious and active with a lot of energy. Martial arts are a great way to harness their […]
Kids Self Defense, Anti-Bullying, and Self Confidence Boosting Classes in Texarkana! Kids Working Standup Judo Techniques at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and it’s mother art, Judo, are exceptionally effective for kids to develop self defense that they can use without getting injured or even having to hurt the other child with punching and […]
Kids Get Fitter, Improve Muscle Tone, and Strength with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu! Kids (and adults!) training martial arts, especially Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, get a great aerobic workout. What might surprise you is that it improves muscle tone, coordination, athleticism, and strength too! Many people associate building muscle strength and tone with […]
Texarkana Jiu Jitsu’s Kids Martial Arts Program Helps Kids Improve Attention, Focus, and Memory. Focus and memorization go hand in hand. In a past blog post, I talked about how studying martial arts helps kids focus and behave better in the classroom. Today, I want to tell you how it can improve your child’s memory, […]
Being Bullied Is Devastating For Kids. Bullying has been in the news often over the last few years. Hardly a day passes without there being a story about a child who was at the receiving end of bullying. Sadly bullying can have devastating consequences. When we look at the problem of bullying, it’s important to […]
5 Key Core Tenets of Martial Arts at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu Martial arts instructors talk about core tenets, things that dictate our behavior inside and outside of class. These are things that we teach our students. Their value goes far beyond martial arts instruction. In other words, these are life skills. There are five core […]
Texarkana Jiu Jitsu and Fitness Reopens With NEW Kids and Adult Kickboxing Classes! The TX Governor laid out a plan to reopen businesses that had been closed due to the coronavirus. According to this plan, we’re reopening on the 18th! 😊 We will reopen with some mandatory changes initially of limiting class size, having parents […]
Kid’s MMA and Kickboxing Classes! Exercise is incredibly important for kids (and the rest of us!). They need a little push and kids thrive on being challenged. Unfortunately, kids are getting less exercise even before the lockdowns… it’s worse for many right now because they aren’t getting out and playing enough, their extra-curricular sports […]
Texarkana Jiu Jitsu, Other Martial Arts Schools, Fitness Gyms, and Health Clubs are closed currently until 4/13/20 due to the coronavirus (COVID19). 1. We are offering online training for our students (Texarkana Jiu Jitsu). If you are a parent of a child in our kid’s class or an adult in our adult Brazilian Jiu Jitsu […]
A Brief History Of Texarkana Jiu Jitsu. Texarkana Jiu Jitsu is proud to have brought so many different types of martial arts and fitness training to Texarkana for the first time. In 1999, we brought Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, MMA, and Judo to Texarkana. This was at a time when Texarkana had 2 choices for martial […]
Why All Parents Should Put Their Son Or Daughter In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. All sports have benefits for kids generally including fitness, socialization, and mental toughness. Jiu Jitsu offers these benefits plus many unique to training in this martial art. Jiu Jitsu helps kids develop real confidence by overcoming challenges daily on the mat proving […]
Solving Bullying To A Large Degree Comes Down To Just ONE Thing… Helping A Child Develop Confidence In Themselves… And That Changes Everything! “I found confidence, strength, and courage.” Previously bullied girl find Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and doesn’t only stop bullying but transforms her life. Confidence must be earned. It can’t be given. It’s through […]
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a very powerful way to help kids develop confidence, fitness, and ability to overcome obstacles both on and off the mat. Often we think about Jiu Jitsu martial arts training as It’s not simply about fighting or learning to protect ourselves even though that’s part of it, there’s much more to […]
The Shocking Rise In Childhood Obesity. Overweight and obese kids face so many challenges… from physical health problems to mental well being challenges. Our kids need to change. This is all lifestyle driven. It doesn’t have to be this way. Exercise is one of the key components missing from most kids lives today. Many parents […]
Our kids really need to become much more active. So many are significantly overweight and also have poorly developed postural musculature and coordination. These kids are a ticking time bomb for major future health crisis (diabetes, heart disease, …), as well as, extremely high risk of injury and a life of pain. It’s not their […]
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Gives Girls Confidence, Fitness, The Ability To Defend Themselves, Plus So Much More! Learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a very important skill for a daughter to develop in today’s world where your daughter may very likely be put into a bad situation where she needs it. Here are a few stats that […]
How To Prevent Your Child From Being Mental or Physical Bullied. We have to start looking at what typically happens to cause another child to become a bully. Bullying occurs to a large degree as a response to poor self image and poor self confidence in the bully. This is important to understand […]
Jiu Jitsu and Martial Arts may be the “cure” to so many modern problems including fitness, confidence, stress, socialization, and more but what is also true is that the benefits of training carry over into every other part of your life whether you’re a child, teen, man, or woman. Don’t just go workout at the […]
Many parents worry that putting their kids in our martial arts program will turn their child into a bully or that they’ll get in more fights. Nothing could be further from the truth. In our 20 years of teaching martial arts, we have never seen a child become a bully with training. At Texarkana Jiu […]
Martial Arts Are A Fun Activity For All Kids! Our kids aren’t getting enough exercise and this dramatically reduces their ability to deal with stress and causes so many problems for them. Their poor diets, heavy media use, and lack of exercise not only damages their physical health, but also devastates their self image often […]
Martial Arts As A Vehicle For Self Improvement. The value of challenging yourself and overcoming what you face is the path to becoming stronger mentally and physically. Unfortunately, growth doesn’t happen sitting on the couch eating chips and watching Netflix. Wait, this does cause growth, just of your waistline! Instead spend a little time every […]
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗔 𝗕𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 This is a message from a parent of a past student. Kross trained Jiu Jitsu with us for some time before moving out of town. His son was recently attacked by a larger kid who was trying to intimidate him. Kross took him down and controlled him without hurting […]
Developing Resilience and The Ability To Overcome Challenges Through The Martial Arts. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.“ Helen Keller The only way to grow stronger is to push your boundaries whether we are a child […]
Texarkana Martial Arts Classes In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Are Fun For The Kids… Which Makes It Easier To Get Them Involved In A Sport That Will Improve Their Fitness, Focus, and Confidence While They Learn How To Defend Themselves and How To Stop Bullies! “Play is often talked about as if it were […]
What age is the best time to start my child at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu? Texarkana parents often ask us when they can start their son or daughter training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. At Texarkana Jiu Jitsu, we start kids at 4 years old although not all kids are ready to start as soon as they turn […]
Developing Problem Solving Skills Through The Martial Arts. The best way to get good at anything is to do that thing over and over again. The experience of trying to do something that has some degree of challenge helps you (or your child) learn, getting better with repetition over time. One huge benefit of Kid’s […]
Faith In Ourselves, Self Confidence. A lack of confidence is why many people don’t achieve as much as they could, both on and off the mat in life. We are capable of achieving far more than we believe we can achieve. This limiting belief holds so many people back from seeing real success in everything […]
The early days of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Texarkana. This picture was taken June 2003, 4 years after Coach Marc Hagebusch started teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, MMA, wrestling, and judo in Texarkana. It shows some of our earliest students working on some techniques over 15 years ago. Texarkana Jiu Jitsu brought Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, […]
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Self Control, Discipline, Mental Toughness, and Achievement. Jiu Jitsu is about controlling and submitting an opponent by putting them in a position where they are forced to give up or suffer severe consequences. Interesting though that before you ever are able to control your opponent, you learn self control. You develop the […]
Kids often get bullied and fairly often get in physical fights. Discover how to ensure your child can protect themselves with the secret of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to prevent your son or daughter from being bullied or beaten up. They really need the confidence that they can defend themselves… and often that’s all it takes […]
When can my son or daughter start training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu? This is one of the most common questions that we get. In our martial arts program at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu, we start the kids at age 4. We offer different classes based on the child’s age so that each group gets the right instruction […]
What Our Kids Martial Arts Classes Can Do For Your Son Or Daughter.. Our kids Brazilian Jiu Jitsu martial arts classes in Texarkana offer a wide variety of benefits for you and your child including… self confidence, physical fitness, anti-bullying, self discipline, and self defense. Here’s another often overlooked benefit of training Jiu Jitsu… If […]
Texarkana Jiu Jitsu builds confident, fit champions that aren’t just great martial artists but they learn how to win in the sport of life! Kids develop the skills that they need to succeed both on the mat and off. The physical skills that the kids learn in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class help them get in […]
Parents put Kids in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu martial arts classes for different reasons… Some because their child is being picked on or bullied, others because they want their child to be more active (and have discovered that it’s hard to get them to do other sports), others because they want to increase their child’s confidence, […]
Are you concerned that many kids today lack drive and ability to overcome challenges? From Texarkana Jiu Jitsu: Kids learn how to deal with tough challenges in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. They are often put in positions that force them to work, so that things don’t continue to worsen… just like life and that’s why we […]
Can you imagine how different our world would be if all kids learned the values and skills taught in martial arts? Martial artists develop discipline, respect, confidence, focus, fitness, and perseverance. These are characteristics that help everyone succeed at anything that they do in life whether it be in school, at work, in relationships, and […]
Has your child been bullied, gotten into fights, or lacks self confidence? Kids often experience both bullying and physical attacks. One of the greatest reasons is that the bullied child, like the bullying child, lacks self confidence. This is perceived as weakness by the bullier and so makes them more likely to pick on the […]
Attention Texarkana Area Parents! Would you like to give your child an edge in school and life? Our Kids Martial Arts Program develop Fitness, Focus, Confidence, Respect, Goal Setting, Discipline, and more! Our Kids Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Martial Arts Program is designed to give your child exactly that… Our Martial Arts Program teaches kids self […]
If you are looking for a “Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Near Me,” in Texarkana you’ve come to the right place! We specialize in helping Texarkana kids, teens, adult men and women get started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (often referred to as “BJJ” or Gracie Jiu Jitsu due to the Gracie’s influence on spreading the martial art). […]
One-legged Wrestler, Anthony Robles, Wins NCAA Wrestling National Title, matches. This is an old story from 2011, but one that is well worth re-visiting and telling again. Achievement Starts With Having The Right Mindset. Individual Sports have a unique advantage over team sports like football, basketball, soccer, etc. Even though those sports offer many benefits […]
Kids working on controlling their opponent in the mount during Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class. Jiu Jitsu is a great activity for kids that helps kids be more active, develop mental toughness, and self confidence. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu teaches them… ✅Not just how to control the other child so they’re no longer a threat, but… ✅Also […]
The new school year is here in Texarkana! Kids are getting back to school leaving kids and parents both trying to get used to the new schedule. Many parents look at various activities and sports to get their kids involved in during this time. It’s important to do so as there are many benefits to […]
Are You Concerned That Your Son or Daughter Doesn’t Get Enough Exercise? Our kids really need more exercise as a whole. The rise of electronic media, concerns about kid’s safety outside, and cuts to the school’s budgets have all contributed to kids becoming much more sedentary. Physical activity isn’t just important for physical development, but […]
Congratulations Emily, Kids Jiu Jitsu Student of the Month! Emilee has been training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for a little over one year. Emilee trains in our kids Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class. She has proven herself to be both disciplined and motivated each and every class demonstrating the qualities of a true martial artist. Emilee […]
Congratulations Atticus! We’re proud of you and your many accomplishments on and off the mats! Atticus has been training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for two and half years. Atticus always shows up in uniform and ready to train with a big smile on his face… even though we weren’t able to capture int in this […]