CORE Jiu-Jitsu Program
Jiu-Jitsu is an art that uses principles of leverage to minimize differences in strength, size and athleticism. This leverage will allow You to successfully defend and control a larger, stronger and more athletic opponent. Michael Pease's CORE (Combat Options for Real Encounters) Jiu-Jitsu Program is designed to be a condensed training to street readiness. The CORE Program is taught in two levels.

Level 1-CORE Street Combat: This level includes the most essential lessons that could save your life. The first goal of level-one is to deal with the most common street attacks you are likely to face, about 90% of them, without overwhelming you with techniques and without requiring you to be a great athlete. This includes allowing you to defeat people, inexperienced in Jiu-Jitsu, who are stronger, bigger or more athletic than you, not just people your same size or smaller. This is accomplished by teaching you a specific strategy to bring all attacks back into your smaller game plan. Your game plan is positional control and leverage; with proper leverage anything can be moved or defeated.

Level 2-Mastering the CORE: Level-two is the next step to street readiness. This level is designed to build upon your level-one skills by defeating other common street scenarios, but it is also designed to allow you to use and defeat the most common types of Jiu-Jitsu attacks. Think of level-one as making you punch proof and level-two as making you choke proof.

WAR-Defense Program
Using leverage as its base, Michael Pease's Women's Awareness and Rape Defense (WAR-Defense) Program is designed to prepare women to handle the worst of situations. Studies show that almost all attacks women encounter are with people they know. It could be a friend, boy-friend, neighbor, family member or anyone; less likely is the random attacker. WAR-Defense will prepare you for both. We assume your attacker is bigger and stronger than you and that he may be able to overpower you. Keeping this in mind you will learn not to fight against the attacker, but, by using leverage to fight “with him” to your advantage.

Catch Kickboxing Program
Michael Pease's Catch Kickboxing Program is a course designed to be the antithesis to Jiu-Jitsu. This kickboxing style is blended with some Jiu-Jitsu elements to be able to defeat not just the boxer but also the grabbing of the grappler and street fighter. You will learn not only how to punch and kick, but also how to stay on your feet when someone is trying to take you down. You will also learn how to take things down when needed and how to get back up when things go wrong. The main idea of this class is to keep the game in your playing field and finish the fight without getting hurt.

Kids CORE Jiu-Jitsu Program
When a child feels like he is able to protect himself, he will be happier and more confident and confident kids are less likely to be a bully or picked on. Michael Pease's Kids CORE Jiu-Jitsu Program is designed to give kids and youth this confidence. The basic program is taught in three levels.

Level 1 (yellow stripe): Through only twelve lessons your son or daughter will be able to control most physical confrontations without throwing a punch or hurting anyone.

Levels 2-3 (low yellow & yellow belt): Building off of level-one, in just 30 additional lessons these levels will take your child’s confidence to new heights as it teaches not just how to control a physical confrontation but also how to finish it appropriately.

Levels 4-6 (low orange, orange belt & green belt): The third cap of this basic program will provide the additional touches and advanced training necessary to provide your child confidence throughout their life.

Michael Pease
Professor Michael Pease began his Jiu-Jitsu training in the 1980's as a young boy and received his initial Jiu-Jitsu black belt in 1993 from Gary Chrisman and Master Paul Arel. Later Pease also received black belt recognition from Sanzyuryu Jiu-Jitsu master Sheperd Reale. Congruently he trained extensively in Karate under Chris and Lynn Wakeman and in Judo with the Bakersfield Judo Club as well as spent years in Jukido and Kickboxing.

For more than 20 years now Pease has practiced a mixed style of Jiu-Jitsu; including traditional and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Sambo, wrestling and even Aikido, of course he just calls it all Jiu-Jitsu. Pease has used his martial arts skills to work as an alternative trainer for the BYU football team; he has taught these skills to professional athletes, the military and police. Since 2001 he has been teaching these programs as a PE class at BYU and UVU, and has provided self-defense training to thousands upon thousands. In addition to these oppotunities he works with Throwdown Elite Training Center and currently runs the largest grappling tournaments in the state of Utah. Pease loves what he does and hopes people find confidence and peace of mind through his teaching and programs.