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As we welcome in the New Year of 2014, we also welcome a new Martial Artist of the Month<\/strong><\/em> to Shop4 Martial Arts<\/strong><\/span>, and January’s martial artist hardly needs an introduction. The chances are if you’ve trained in BJJ, you’ll likely own a piece of this guy’s artwork on one of the many rashguards, t-shirts and grappling spats he’s produced and collaborated on…<\/p>\n

In this month’s interview, we chat to Seymour ‘Meerkatsu’ Yang<\/strong> to discuss martial arts life behind the art…<\/p>\n

\"meerkatsu-grapple\"Hi Seymour, please can you tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong>
\nI am a UK based illustrator, writer and designer who practises the martial art\/sport of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu<\/p>\n

How old were you when you got into martial arts and what made you want to learn?<\/strong>
\nI was 18 and my first martial art was Kyokushinkai Karate at University. I chose it because it looked cool as the guys were breaking boards and kiaiing really loudly at Freshers Fair. I trained karate until I graduated and after Uni I moved from kickboxing to Japanese style Traditional Ju Jitsu (TJJ) before settling on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ).<\/p>\n

Have you entered any competitions or done any demonstrations?<\/strong>
\nYes plenty, I competed a lot when I was training TJJ and I have competed a lot at BJJ too. I have won a few golds, lost a hell of a lot too.<\/p>\n

Which is your favourite weapon and why?<\/strong>
\nWhen I was studying TJJ we would train a lot of kobudo \u2013 nunchukas, bo staff, katana, sai, tonfa and various other weapons. Of those, I loved the tonfa the most \u2013 it was simple, direct and effective and required the least dexterity to use. I quite liked the idea that Okinawan farmers fashioned these wooden sticks out of rice grinders and beat the crap out of each other with them.<\/p>\n

Which martial arts are you currently studying and at which clubs?<\/strong>
\nI am currently a brown belt in BJJ training out of the Mill Hill Roger Gracie BJJ Academy in Mill Hill North London. For those unfamiliar with BJJ, to sum, it is a grappling based combat sport where we use our knowledge of leverage and submissions to subdue an opponent, mostly based on the ground.<\/p>\n

\"meerkatsu-roll\"<\/p>\n

Which is your favourite technique?<\/strong>
\nI usually rotate through my flavour of the month techniques frequently but time and again I come back to submissions that utilise the uniform itself (known as gi lapel chokes). I guess it is because it uses something that is very traditional and seemingly benign (the gi) as a quite nasty weapon when it is wrapped around the neck for a submission.<\/p>\n

Who inspires you in the martial arts world?<\/strong>
\nMy instructor Nick Brooks would be my personal inspiration. He doesn\u2019t preach or force you to do anything, he simply leads by example. He\u2019s in his mid forties and his body is a miracle of modern medicine owing to all the injuries he has picked up yet he still competes and submits guys twice his size though sheer technical mastery of the art.<\/p>\n

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Seymour with his Meerkatsu artwork<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What are you most proud of in your martial arts career?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m most proud of the way my BJJ-influenced art and design work<\/a> has reached out to a wide audience all over the world and helped to raise a lot of money for good causes. Last year (2013), for example, my designs on t-shirts have helped to raise over $21,000 for Typhoon Haiyan relief effort and another fund raising t-shirt helped to raise over $10,000 for RAINN and Rape Crisis.<\/p>\n

Have you any advice to give to other martial artists out there?<\/strong>
\nNot really. Martial arts is a curious entity in that it is both a life choice and a hobby. Most people I know who train BJJ do so with an obsessive passion. As long as it is enjoyable and fun, then keep doing what you are doing.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favourite martial arts film?<\/strong>
\nKarate Kid 1<\/p>\n

Thank you very much, Seymour, for your time!<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can Follow Seymour on Twitter @Meerkatsu<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and visit his official website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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