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PLEASE CHANGE THE TYPE OF ROW TO BOXED OR REMOVE THE SIDEBAR.<\/h6><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Taus Gym, I supervise the grappling workouts and try to get the participants of the FIT classes to the point in 45 minutes that they are tired but satisfied (and not broken) and preferably can go just a bit harder and heavier next time . At FIT, the \u2018tools of choice\u2019 are kettlebells and I follow the hardstyle method (versus kettlebell sport aka girevoy) as propagated by the StrongFirst group led by Pavel Tsatsouline: \u2018consistent technically correct training at high (but appropriate) intensity with sufficient recovery guarantees results\u2019. The above was not on my mind when I started training (what feels like recently) at Taus Gym; the run-up went pretty much as follows: Like many, I started Judo very young, more because my parents took me there than I sought it out. Yet it eventually clicked so well that later, as a teenager, I wanted more and also started practising (Japanese) Jiu-Jitsu (*cough cough* obviously nothing to do with the Ninja\/ karate films from the 80s like American Ninja... ). Right after high school, I wanted to join the Army, and ended up with the 11th Air Mobile Brigade; the Red Berets. Eventually, the sandhunting got a bit boring, and because I had a reasonable affinity with the electronics and computers used by the Army (something to do with one eye and the blind), I decided to end this career after seven years and study full-time Technical Computer Science. After my studies, I was introduced to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Because at that time (at least in the Netherlands) BJJ was still very small and actually formed one world with the MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) scene, I also came into contact with that. Meanwhile, there was also some work to be done, but after playing software developer for several years, office life started to bore me a bit and I went looking for something more dynamic and found this with the Police in the position of digital forensic specialist at the Regional Criminal Investigation Department. I said goodbye to this world too after a few years to start teaching Software Engineering as a lecturer in HBO, which I enjoy doing to this day. During my years with the police, my time on the \u2018mat\u2019 was very minimal but when the pace of life became more regular I wanted to pick up \u2018something in martial arts\/self-defence\u2019 again: Krav-Maga came into the picture, only my impression was not very positive: it was (remotely) very similar to traditional Japanese Jiu-Jitsu (not BJJ!) which I ended up having little use for once someone started working against it. But since there was a school called Taus Gym around the corner from me, I decided to check it out\/join. My opinion of Krav-Maga (at least, as it is taught at Taus Gym) turned 167.4 degrees. Meanwhile, Riaz saw that there was interest in the sport of grappling within Taus Gym and because I was showing some things from time to time, he asked if I was interested in setting this up. I jumped at this opportunity and since then we have been training hard with a (growing) group and visiting the national grappling competitions every now and then as team Taus Gym.     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