About

Toshiyuki Ito’s Mixed Martial Arts Dojo is located on the north side of Brisbane at Brendale.
(only a few minutes drive from Strathpine, Carseldine, and Albany creek)
Ito Dojo offers MMA training and fitness training.
We have a variety of classes everyday. (See below for the time table and class descriptions)

Depending on what your goals are, you can train for just fitness and self-defence, or training for amateur competitions, as well as for the more serious competitors who wish to enter professional cage fights.

You will learn the Japanese style of Catch Wrestling (Submission Arts Wrestling) and MMA striking techniques from professional trainer Toshiyuki Ito who has 40 years experience.

Toshiyuki also provides personal training.

Have your own personalised program to reach your goals. You may wish to lose weight, tone up, or even bulk up. Martial Arts and fight training are also offered. We want to help you achieve your goals and have a healthy lifestyle.

Self Development

The journey of Martial Arts should not be just about learning how to fight.

Through training, we learn respect, discipline, manners, mind skills like controlling our emotions, how we should think about things, how to deal with issues that confront us, or even learning a healthy diet, and good life style and so on, so really, we learn all about life and life skills, and grow as good human beings.

So, improving everyday as a better person is more important than becoming a champion in martial arts.

Submission Arts Wrestling Australian Branch

" SAW is known for variations of devastating leg locks and flowing submission holds "

Submission Arts Wrestling (SAW) is a modern Catch Wrestling based Japanese Martial Art and Combat Sport that incorporates elements from Judo, Sambo, Wrestling, and Jujits.

SAW was originated as a multi discipline Martial Arts founded 1980's by Master Hidetaka Aso who was a champion of wrestling and sambo in Japan.

He is author of many textbooks, and chairman of prestigious martial arts federations and committees.
Hidetaka Aso is highly regarded as the master of the science of submissions.

He designed this style to be a useful fighting style in street situations as self-defence.

The original student of SAW developed and tested this style through sparring and fighting against other Martial Arts styles, then made it stronger, as there was no proper MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighting styles in those days.

This was about 10 years before the UFC tournament started in the U.S.A in 1993. Today MMA is very popular and spread worldwide.

SAW is specialized as a No-Gi grappling art, and for takedowns, throws against strikes, and a variety of submission holds.
Master Aso thinks that in a street situation, if you just smash your opponent onto the concrete ground that will injure them and you can submit them.

Toshiyuki Ito is one of the original and oldest students of Hidetaka Aso. He arrived Australia 1993 and established the SAW Australian branch.

Special conversation with the founder Shihan Hidetaka Aso

I share the special conversation I had in Japan with my Martial Arts teacher the Submission Arts Wrestling Founder Shihan Hidetaka Aso.
We had talked about him, about the history of Submission Arts Wrestling, about Martial Arts, and about when I was training with him in Japan 30 years ago.
Don’t miss out on reading this interesting conversation!!

Part 1, “Techniques of Submission Arts Wrestling”.

Part 2, “Improving the mind and mental quality in S.A.W as a martial art".

Part 3, "When Shihan Aso was competing and when he went to train at different martial arts gyms".

Part 4, "When Sensei Toshiyuki Ito was training and fighting in Japan 30 years ago"

Part 5, "Inspirational words from Shihan Aso"

MMA Striking

The striking technique you will learn at the MMA ITO DOJO might be similar to Boxing or Muay Thai, but slightly different from them.

Of course you can use it for Boxing and Muay Thai fights, but the MMA ITO DOJO striking technique works great for MMA fights and best in street self defence situations.

In street situations,

1, You are not wearing gloves
2, No weight divisions
3, Your opponent is not necessarily only one
4, They might have weapons

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Kick boxing Class (Monday)

Learning striking techniques, and improve your power, speed, and cardio fitness by using punching bags and kicking shields.
Punch and kick hard to release all your stresses, and negative thoughts!!

Kick boxing Class (Wednesday)

Practice knee kicks from clinching. Also defence, counter, and takedown techniques against knees.

Bootcamp

Is a strength and conditioning class.
Using weights or body weight to get strength, balance, speed, and cardio fitness.

MMA Circuit Class (Including Agility, and Ground & Pound sessions)

Develop quickness and fast footwork in Agility sessions, and learn effective Ground & Pound techniques in GP sessions.

MMA Circuit,
MMA fighters need a different kind of cardio not just running.
During fight the pace is always changing, and you need explosive power from your whole body. That's how this circuit class is structured.
Making your explosive power last longer and to enable you to recover quicker.
These kind of exercises are also very beneficial for burning a lot of calories and to lose weight.
Anyone can benefit not just fighters but also those who want to lose weight, get super fit, or other sports players.
Try hard and enjoy different kind of exercises.

One on One Personal Training & Private Group Training

45mins Private session
Weights, Cardio, and Martial Arts training, etc.
People have all different body sizes and shapes, different strengths, flexibilities, speed, and different personalities.
Some people might have limited physical abilities from injuries or medical problems or other problems.
Each of us have different strengths and weaknesses. So, we might have to learn different things in different ways.
You can choose what you want to do, what you want to learn, and I can help you achieve these goals with one on one private training!!

Tanden Breathing 丹田呼吸法

Learning and improving our breathing technique is one of the biggest parts in martial arts training.
Because Japanese martial arts were originally made for fighting in Samurai wars.
If they got scared and panicked too much, their fighting abilities become weaker, so they couldn’t survive in a battle.
Their breathing technique kept their mind calm and focused.
They usually wore armour when fighting in a war, so it was hard for them to make deadly strikes even using swords.
The breathing technique made their strikes sharper and stronger.
Those wars usually continued for a long time like hours and days.
If they got too tired, they couldn’t survive.
The breathing technique made their fitness and stamina last longer. In our modern society, we are not killing each other but we work hard, are busy all the time, and get a lot of stresses everyday from many different things.
We can get great benefits from this ancient breathing technique.

Online Training Courses

Online Training Course for Martial Arts, Health & Fitness, and Self Development

You will learn the details of the MMA ITO DOJO’s Striking technique, Grappling technique, Takedowns, Throws, Knee clinch, Ground & Pound, Breathing technique, and all the Submission Arts Wrestling grading techniques, and also Health & Fitness, and Personal Development through this “Online Training Course”.

This is very good for all the ITO DOJO members to learn the details for each technique, but also a great opportunity to learn the MMA ITO DOJO and the Submission Arts Wrestling training system for people who are not able to come to the MMA ITO DOJO to train.

It’s all online, so you can keep learning and progressing wherever you move and wherever you live!!

1, MMA ITO DOJO training system complete course

2, Submission Arts Wrestling Online Training Course