Never trained? Start here.
Unit 6, 45 College Street.
Your first class is free.
"I need to get fit first."
"I don't want to get hurt."
"I only want to train casually."
"I can't make the times."
If you’ve thought any of those, you’re in the right place. They’re the four things people tell us when they don’t start, and every one of them has an answer.
Jiu-jitsu is a skill before it is anything else. The fitness turns up as a side effect. The entry requirement is turning up.
The sport has a full stop built into it: tap twice and everything stops, immediately, every time.
Most people here are never going to compete, and that is completely fine. Nobody is keeping score of who’s serious.
30 classes a week, from 7am starts to late evening, plus Saturday and Sunday. Have a look at the timetable before you decide it won’t work.
Grappling. Grips, position and leverage: controlling someone rather than hitting them. Most of what you learn is what to do when somebody already has hold of you.
It’s one of the few martial arts you can take up at forty without being hit, which is why a lot of people take it up late. But the reason people stay for years isn’t the self-defence.
The offer
One class, no charge. Nothing to buy, nothing to sign before you come.
Gi class? We lend you the gi. No-gi class? A t-shirt and shorts is the whole list.
Book your free classThree boxes. We’ll message you back with a class that fits.
Nobody was fit, nobody knew anybody, everyone came alone. Tap for sound.
Four ways in. Everyone starts in the same place: knowing nothing.
30 classes a week: 12 for adults, 6 women only and 12 for children.
| Day | Time | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 12.00 – 1.00pm | Gi |
| 7.15 – 8.45pm | No-gi | |
| Tuesday | 7.00 – 8.00am | Gi |
| 7.00 – 8.30pm | Gi | |
| Wednesday | 12.00 – 1.00pm | Gi |
| 7.00 – 8.30pm | No-gi | |
| Thursday | 12.00 – 1.00pm | Gi |
| 7.15 – 8.45pm | Gi | |
| Friday | 7.00 – 8.00am | No-gi |
| 7.00 – 8.30pm | No-gi | |
| Sunday | 1.00 – 2.00pm | Gi |
| 2.00 – 3.00pm | No-gi |
| Day | Time | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 1.30 – 2.30pm | No-gi |
| 5.50 – 6.50pm | Gi | |
| Thursday | 1.30 – 2.30pm | No-gi |
| 5.50 – 6.50pm | Gi | |
| Saturday | 8.00 – 9.00am | Gi |
| 12.30 – 1.30pm | No-gi |
| Day | Time | Group |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 4.15 – 5.00pm | Girls 4–8 |
| 5.00 – 5.50pm | Girls 9–13 | |
| Tuesday | 5.00 – 5.50pm | Boys 4–8 |
| 6.00 – 6.50pm | Boys 9–13 | |
| Thursday | 4.15 – 5.00pm | Girls 4–8 |
| 5.00 – 5.50pm | Girls 9–13 | |
| Friday | 5.00 – 5.50pm | Boys 4–8 |
| 6.00 – 6.50pm | Boys 9–13 | |
| Saturday | 9.00 – 9.45am | Girls 4–8 |
| 10.00 – 10.50am | Girls 9–13 | |
| Sunday | 10.00 – 10.50am | Boys 4–8 |
| 11.00 – 11.50am | Boys 9–13 |
| Day | Time | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 7.15 – 8.45pm | No-gi |
| Wednesday | 7.00 – 8.30pm | No-gi |
| Friday | 7.00 – 8.00am | No-gi |
| 7.00 – 8.30pm | No-gi | |
| Sunday | 2.00 – 3.00pm | No-gi |
| Monday | 1.30 – 2.30pm | No-gi |
| Thursday | 1.30 – 2.30pm | No-gi |
| Saturday | 12.30 – 1.30pm | No-gi |
Tell us which, and we’ll get you in.
Book your free classHow this started
Faisal Kayani and Dr Salaman Iqbal built their first club on one idea: a place where people of any age could learn jiu-jitsu and belong to something.
Mikael Rhaillander joined them on the mats. Between them they put hundreds of children and adults through a first class, and produced competitors along the way.
Bedford is what comes next. Same people, same standards, a new room.
Founders
Four black belts, a brown and a purple.
Nobody gets smashed here for someone else’s ego.
Membership runs month to month. If you want to stop, you tell us a month before, and that’s the end of it.
Your first class is free either way.
Still not sure? Message us on WhatsApp. We’d rather answer a question than lose you.
Children train from 4 to 13. Boys and girls train separately.
There is no striking in what they learn. It’s grips, position and leverage, and the first thing anyone is taught is how to stop. Their first class is free too.
six classes a week are women only. Gi and no-gi.
Jiu-jitsu is grappling, so most of what you learn is what to do when somebody already has hold of you. It’s taught over time, as a skill, not as a weekend course.
Book your free class