5 skills your child gains at Lake County BJJ. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has had a huge impact on my life. I started practicing a little later in life, but I still gained the benefits of training it. When my wife and I decided to open up Lake County BJJ, we knew one of the […]
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TEAM-BUILDING AT HOME There are many ways to give your child opportunities to practice their teamwork skills at home. You might like to try: Board Games and party games like Scrabble, Top Trumps, Charades, Jenga and Ludo: great for developing important social skills like taking turns, collaboration and compromise. Cooking: challenge siblings to work together to […]
🥋Kids are not naturally self-motivated. When your child’s mindset is not in the right place, even the most fun activities can be a struggle to get to. With that said, here are some strategies to help you work around lack of motivation when trying to get your kid to class. 1️⃣Be attentive to what […]
Friday technique the hip bump sweep! Join Coach Carlos and his student Kacper as they show you the hip bump sweep. For the month of March the kids in our lil warriors and Jr Warrior program are getting to know this technique and working all month to perfect this. Enjoy! This is a great technique […]
The term “Martial Arts” is a relatively broad expression that encompasses a variety of different disciplines. Typically, when we hear the words martial arts, the first ideas that come to mind are one or more of the techniques that have developed in Asian countries. However, the martial arts are comprised of most types of fighting […]
Lake County BJJ was featured in the January edition of Little Lake County’s newsletter. It gave its reader’s an opportunity to get an inside look at our kids program. We took the author’s daughter through the same steps that every child goes through before trying out a group class. We first start with an […]
Welcome to MADE in Lake County! MADE introduces you to the people and stories behind local Lake County businesses. Today it is our pleasure to introduce you to Carlos Archila. Carlos is the owner of Lake County Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a martial arts & fitness facility for all ages located in Mundelein. Carlos and his wife started Lake […]
A LITTLE HISTORY We started evolving as tool-using, human-like apes about 2.5 million years ago, which was the beginning of the Paleolithic era. The Paleolithic transitioned into the Neolithic era around 10,000 years ago, when we started settling down and raising animals and growing crops for food instead of solely hunting and gathering. Up until […]
2019 Just snuck up on us, now is the time to get your child a head start in the new year. We had a great year, we were able to work with our kids in our Kids Martial Arts program helping them achieve their goals in 2018. One of the best things we helped our […]
The New Year is here, and with thousands of goals and resolutions in sight as well, 2019 is the year you should try something new! Martial arts is an established system that can better the entirety of your being. Whether you need mental benefits like furthering your discipline muscle, physical benefits like getting in shape, […]