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The academy is located in the country-club ‘Sport Plus’ in Beer-Sheva. It stretches over 200 square meters covered with Olympic tatame mats, which guaranties the uncompromised quality for the ‘LUTA LIVRE’ student.
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Available for all students in the academy are training accessories such as heavy punching bags, various kicking and punching targets, pads and additional equipment to help the students strengthen and toughen their bodies and perfect their performance.
Today, some 150 students are training in the academy, ranging from 4 years of age and up.
The training schedule is arraigned by the student’s age and level:
- The Preschool group (ages 4 - 6).
- The Cubs group (ages 6 - 8).
- The Kids group (ages 8 - 12).
- The Youth group (ages 12 - 14).
- The Teenaged group (ages 14 - 18).
- The Adult group (ages 18 and up).
winter training camp 2007
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Note there could be exceptions according to the child’s size and weight.
In this structure, each student fined his/her place. This is very prominent in the individual progression and the improvement of personal abilities of every student.
The club was founded in 2003 and since then produced a whole line of young and adult champions.
The academy students competed in many styles of the Martial Arts world. Karate Kyokushin, Muay Thai, Jiu Jitsu, Grappling Submission, MMA and Free Fight ring matches, earned many wins and collected many titles.
Every year the Israeli Championship in ‘Gadi Kenpo-Jitsu’ takes place, and the Beer-Sheva academy takes a considerable part in this highly exclusive tournament.
In the period preceding such an event, the academy operates in a ‘6 days a week’ training program in order to improve and intensify the competitors physical fitness and combat abilities. This special program is progressively rising in intensity while allowing the competitors enough time to recover with a well balanced diet regime as a part of an integral array of professional preparation for the coming tournament. 
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Sagi (luta livre - team) doing arm bar - Israel luta livre (submission) championship
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In the year 2006 the academy picked 14 Israel championship titles.
In the year 2007 the academy picked 16 Israel championship titles.
In the year 2007 the academy picked 11 Israel luta livre (submission) championship titles
This indicates the character and skills of the fighters in the different groups.
Twice a year, during the winter and during the summer, the club holds a three day long training camp in order to bring the different groups closer and to unify the students and create a sense of solidarity. Some of the times we incorporate a different club in the camp. This is very refreshing and diverse, both for the students and for the Senseis of both academies. The students are getting a chance to view Martial Arts as a whole and to get familiar with different approaches and different techniques. A great benefit of the combined clubs training camps is the opportunity to meet new friends who are also Martial Arts practitioners.
The atmosphere in the club is un-negotiable, and so the student is being educated to self discipline, loyalty, love and respect for others – a fellow Martial Artist or a common person.
Training in the club is hard. The main focus is on extreme physical fitness, and technique analysis to the smallest details.
We are not neglecting the spiritual aspect, which is most important in the training of the young student. We make it a point to instill these values and principles to the youngest of students as of the first time he/she enters the academy.
Discipline, Loyalty, Respect, Good Values and Courtesy, and Helping others.
These are the tools we give every student to help him/her solve any problem in an easy and calm manner whenever comes the need. In his/her fundamental perception, the student attempts to avoid violence and conflicting situations while demonstrating maturity and responsibility and talk his/her way out of any problem.
Nevertheless, as a last resort, the student will not hesitate and will defend himself/herself and others while making sure the powerful tools of Martial Arts are being used as a self defense tactic and not as a form of an attack, trying his/her best to chase away the violent attacker.
For Example:
In the year 2005, two robbers armed with a loaded gun, have broken and entered into an apartment of an adult student of the club, and surprised him in his bedroom, threatening him at gun point.
This student (who works as a police officer), demonstrated incredible and admirable courage as he stood up to these perpetrators and fought for his life and for the life of his wife and child. During this fight one of the robbers shot the student in his arm but the brave man kept on fighting while hurt, bleeding and in pain until chasing them off.
This brave young man was treated by Kancho Gadi Skornik in a series of acupuncture treatments. Only one month later he resumed his training and stepped back onto the mat.
Head coach - Amit Hakim
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