SBG NorCal

Coach John Frankl will be teaching at SBG Norcal. Look for the sign up sheet on your next visit!

SBG NorCal Members!

We are starting the new year with a fundraiser for 2025 calendars. All proceeds will go directly to our scholarship MATS and used to support our scholarship recipients.

In 2023, SBG NorCal changed ownership to the non-profit organization called MATS - founded by the head coaches and a group of dedicated members to form a Board. Our mission is to provide a gateway for young adults with a need to find stability and consistency using martial arts and our own community.

All calendar proceeds will directly support our MATS scholars and will be the first of many fundraisers for this year!

Look out for our QR code posted on the gyms bulletin board next time you’re in.

7 blue belts and 2 purple belts were awarded during our Ironman last night. Congratulations 🎉 to our new 🟦blue belts 🟦 Levi, Bryce, Jin, Sal, Benny, Mason and Alan. Also congratulations 🎉 to our new 🟪purple belts🟪 Kyle and Michael. They each completed their SBG traditional Ironman by wrestling with all 35+ people attending! Congratulations and check out some shots from the ceremony!

Last BJJ class of the week before the holiday schedule, we had a lot of people on the mat! See you on Wednesday for Adult BJJ open mat 6-8pm, regular schedule for all other classes 🥋

We love to have visitors from other SBGs train with us! Jon from SBG Scarborough joined us for BJJ and KB earlier this week!

Check out our November events!

We had a great seminar weekend with Coach Matt Thornton Now to put it all to practice these upcoming weeks.

Additionally, Coach Lily Pagle received her 4th stripe on her black belt 🎉🎉🥳

Day 1 done ✅

Join us next weekend for Coach Matt Thornton's seminar!

Integrations Class with Coach Lily

We are working on actively controlling top position and finding submissions while on top.

From Berkeley —> Pasadena, SBG NorCal visiting SBG SoCal for Matt Thornton’s seminar. Special thank you to head coach Marco for allowing us to visit his space and for the warm welcome! Can’t wait for more future collaboration between the California SBG gyms 🦍

This Saturday! Free self defense workshop for women interested in martial arts. 🦍

COMMUNITY WORKSHOP: if you are a lady interested in trying out martial arts with other women, try out our Martial Arts community workshop! See the flyer for details. 🦍

Coach Lily taught a seminar on STAB (Survival Tactics Against Blades, by Karl Tanswell) this weekend. We used chalk to practice the skills and had a lot of fun!

COMMUNITY WORKSHOP: if you are a lady interested in trying out martial arts with other women, try out our Martial Arts community workshop! See the flyer for details. 🦍

Checkout Unu training with Coach Lily and the rest of the integrations MMA class as he prepares for his upcoming MMA fight in August 🦍💪

Tony from SBG Atlanta visited SBG NorCal this week. We had fun in Integration MMA class. This is how we welcome our guest😆

SBG NorCal (and ) at SBG Spring Camp in Niagara Falls. We learned a lot of great material from other SBG black belts, met new and old friends, and had a great time overall!

We had a lot of fun in our in-house tournament, raising funds for our non-profit MATS 501.c.3 organization!