It’s Wednesday and training is going great. Fantastic to see so many people pushing this week as testing arrives this Friday (8-5-2022)! Never give up!

REMINDER: Testing Applications are due TODAY! Testing times will be posted on Thursday. Thank you!

Monday and Testing and Good Weather – Oh My!

Nature is giving us something we can work with, temperatures at 81 today. AC will be on and thankfully we will be OPEN! Let’s hope the 90 + temps are gone for this year.

TESTING is this week, Friday Aug 5. Testing application will go home with those that are ready starting today. REMINDER: Testing application are due by WEDNESDAY. Testing times will be posted Thursday, and Friday is the test. We’ll have to work a bit harder this week to make up for those 4 days, but it should be an easy thing, since our students are hardworking anyways.

Thank you for your patience last week, now let’s kick this week into high gear!

Thursday and Friday: No classes due to extreme heat!

As much as I hate to do it, I’m just going to call the week. The extreme heat advisory is still in effect for our area until Saturday. It shows no real hope of change. With temperatures of 95+degrees expected, it’s not safe to train. Hopefully, you can find some way to stay cool and enjoy the heat.

Testing week is coming up next week (Friday Aug. 5). The weather is looking to be back to normal, so no change currently. Be ready to push a bit and make up for those lost days.

Be well and thanks for the patience and understanding as we have battled with nature this week. See you next week, I’m looking forward to getting back to training.

Wednesday – No classes today due to severe heat.

Yesterday in Kent they recorded 96 degrees. Today different forecasts call for 93 to 96 again. Unfortunately the area remains under an Excessive Heat Warning. While we would love to be training, even with AC, this is just not safe weather for physical activity. The health and well being of our students is always our prime concern.

This warning had been extended until Saturday at this point. We will check and make a decisions on a day by day basis. Please return here and check in each day. More importantly be well, drink water and find some place cool. Remember you can always make up classes.

Last note: Testing for Children and Teen classes is schedules for next Friday Aug. 5. At this point that will not change. We may have to work a bit harder next week, when it’s cooler, but at this point nothing has changed.  If this heat wave continues we may make adjustments and we will keep you updated.

Thank your for your patients and understanding! 

We’ll see you soon!

Tuesday 7-26-2022 – No Classes tonight due to severe heat.

While we hate missing classes, the severe heat is making it too much to train safely. We have AC, but once temps approach 95 degrees, with large groups of people, it won’t do the job. Stay home and stay cool. Please check back daily. We will post each day this week with updates.

Be well and drink that water! We’ll see you soon.

MONDAY – We are OPEN today.

With severe weather this week we will post daily on our status. The Air conditioning is on, but it can only handle so much. Training in severe heat can cause heat exhaustion, dehydration, passing out or even strokes. For the safety of our students and staff we would prefer to be safe and will not hold classes, should the need arise.

If the weather pattern holds then it looks like Tuesday and Wednesday will be the biggest issue. Thursday and Friday should be fine, but we will have to slow training down. Please check here daily this week to be sure, we will try and make all decisions as early as possible so you can plan your day. Thank you for understanding as we deal with the heat.

Remember to drink water, eat light and avoid strenuous activity, both indoors and out. Be well and things will turn, it’s the PNW after all, it never lasts long. haha.

What a great week of training. Classes were packed all week long! I love seeing that in the summertime! Hope you have a great weekend!

Next week, the week starting Monday July 25: Severe Weather Warning:

Hopefully, it won’t come to this but next week some weather models are predicting temperatures around / above 95 degrees. Yes, we have AC, but once the temps get over 90 degrees, it won’t do much good in our training area. In those cases, we will need to cancel classes that day for everyone’s safety. Please check our website or social media pages if temperatures ae approaching this threshold. We will try and decide by 1 pm on such days to notify you. Please find someplace cool and remember to drink that water!

Wednesday! Looks like the heat is coming back today. We’ll have the AC on and ready to go. It’ going to cool down and then next week we’ll be hitting 90-degree temps again! At 90, even with AC, we must slow the training down. So, stay tuned here to get updates. Get in and get training, well make it right no matter the heat!

Monday! This last Saturday we had a blast competing at Proving Grounds Submission Only Tournament. We had 3 people competing and while not everything went our way, they did an awesome job. This was everyone’s first sub only comp and we came away with 1 silver and 1 bronze.

Jared, who has the least amount of experience training, was arguably in the wrong weight class. He was on the lighter side of his competitors, yet still rocked it. Lots of draws, a win and a loss put him out of the bracket.

Grisha only had 2 competitors to challenge. After a long hard fought first round, he lost in the closing seconds to an arm triangle. The second match went the distance with him controlling much of the round, but unable to finish his opponent. Still a great showing. He tied for 2/3 which means bronze in this case, nope not silver.

Kevin had a strange day. Originally, he was supposed to have only 2 others in his division. For whatever reason neither of them showed for weigh ins. Proving Grounds offered to move him into the No-Gi division. We hadn’t done ANY preparations for No-Gi at this tournament, but oh well. He blazed through his opponents with a couple quick arm bars in the first 2 matches. The third match went longer, his opponent here had such grit and determination, he struggled to get him to tap to another arm bar attack. At one point Kevin almost relented thinking he had harmed him. Last match both him and his opponent were pushing exhaustion and his opponent managed to be the better grappler this day. Sinking in a great triangle choke. Silver in a division you didn’t even train for is fantastic!

All had an exciting time, and everyone learned so much. That’s what competition is all about. Videos of matches with be coming soon to our YouTube channel so keep an eye on: https://www.youtube.com/user/lionsway

Looks like my prediction for this week was right, classes have been packed. Great to see so many students training through the summer! It’s Friday and there is some great weather on tap for the weekend. Enjoy it, you’ve enerned it. Unless of course you’re in the adult class and you’re competeing this weekend, time for you to put the work in!

No matter what you’re doing this weekend, our best to you.