The TJJF Jiu jitsu nationals are some on the largest and coolest single art events in the UK. Over 2 days you will train with more people of you same grade than you will almost anywhere else.
If this is your first nationals chances are you are going as a white or a yellow belt. I remember this can be a little unnerving/exciting! Key to remember is that there are many people there in the same boat!
So what to expect? Lots of people, a huge mat and a bunch of instructors wearing lots of black! Rei onto the mat and get warm, instructors will get you mentally and physically ready for the session (while some of them stand around chatting!). Then the lead instructors will rei on the session. These will be some of the top instructors in the country, very cool.
Then training all morning with people of your own grade, different ideas and perspectives on how to be great at jitsu for your level. Get to know as many as you can from across the country as you might be competing with them later! In non-covid times you would also be making friends for the social in the evening but this might have to wait till next year.
This can also give you the chance to see some of the browns and dans having some fun too, always cool to watch.
After lunch the competitions happen. Somewhere there is a list of which mat to go to. Listen well to the instructions, it’s a monster to organise and the guys are great at doing it. The competition is a judged competition. You do you bit and the panel score you. A tip, if you want feedback after, tell them before 🙂 Remember you are not actually fighting anyone, train hard but by damaging others you create bad blood and may even be disqualified. Get in there, try hard and enjoy it. There may be more than one round.
In the evening back to the accommodation and grab some grub. The choice of evening entertainment is up to you but I have had some awesome nights at these events.
Next morning back on the mat bright and keen/ feeling awful and sluggish (depending on your choices from the previous paragraph) but whichever… you make it onto the mat!
More training in the morning, you know your partners better now so more fun! A couple of hours getting better at jiu jitsu, awesome.
After lunch, the finals! The last round of competitions at all grades. Maybe you made it through or not, watching or partaking this is a great part. All this then leads up to the brown belt competition, attacking each other with coshs, sticks, fists, feet, training knives and swords, chains and whatever else they can think of! After this is the crowning moment, the open competition. The browns and dans enjoying themselves, some of the best jiu jitsu you can see in the year.
Then medals and presentations and long goodbyes (not to mention putting away the biggest mat you have ever seen!).
In short, training, competing, learning, socialising, watching, trying, smiling, sweating, laughing and leaving it wanting more.
Enjoy it, respect your partners, through yourself into it, train safe and smile. I hope you love it.
Sensei Simon
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In May 2025, when Disney announced its first new theme park in 15 years, it chose Abu Dhabi over other key theme park destinations in California, Japan and even Orlando.
There was “no question,” says Josh D’Amaro, chairman of Disney Experiences. The UAE capital, already home to Ferrari World, with the world’s fastest roller coaster; Warner Bros. World (built under license by CNN’s parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery); Yas Waterworld, an epic network of slides and pools; and more recently, SeaWorld Yas Island Abu Dhabi. It’s clear the emirate is emerging as the most serious challenger Orlando has ever faced.
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is home to the world’s fastest rollercoaster and the highest loop ride.
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Disneyland Abu Dhabi, expected to open on Yas Island in the early 2030s, will be the company’s most technologically advanced park ever. Renderings show a shimmering, futuristic tower at its center — more closely resembling Abu Dhabi’s gleaming skyline than a traditional European castle. It will be the first Disney resort set on an accessible shoreline, located just 20 minutes from downtown Abu Dhabi.
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The theme park will be developed, built and operated by Miral, the Abu Dhabi company behind Yas Island’s roster of other attractions. Disney Imagineers will handle creative design and operational oversight, making sure the new park is in keeping with Disney’s brand.
Miral’s CEO, Mohamed Abdalla Al Zaabi, says demand already exists: 2024 saw a 20% rise in theme park attendance on Yas Island. And expansion is already in the works — a Harry Potter–themed land at Warner Bros. World, more record-breaking rides at Ferrari World, new themed hotels, and even two beaches along Yas Bay Waterfront.
‘This isn’t about building another theme park’
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“This isn’t about building another theme park,” Saleh Mohamed Al Geziry, Abu Dhabi’s director general of tourism, told CNN. “It’s about defining Abu Dhabi as a global destination where culture, entertainment and luxury intersect.”
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But one surprising team has really gotten the president’s attention: the Massapequa Chiefs.
The Long Island school district has refused to change its logo and name under a mandate from New York state banning schools from using team mascots appropriating Indigenous culture. Schools were given two years to rebrand, but Massapequa is the lone holdout, having missed the June 30 deadline to debut a new logo.
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The Trump administration claims New York’s mascot ban violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits recipients of federal funds from engaging in discriminatory behavior based on race, color or national origin — teeing up a potentially precedent-setting fight.
The intervention on behalf of Massapequa follows a pattern for a White House that has aggressively applied civil rights protections to police “reverse discrimination” and coerced schools and universities into policy concessions by withholding federal funds.
“Our goal is to assist nationally,” Roberts said. “It’s us putting forward our time and effort to try and assist with this national movement and push back against the woke bureaucrats trying to cancel our country’s history and tradition.”
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