Visit · Finding the academy
212 Demo Row is easy to find and easier to park at. Show up ten minutes before your first class, tell the coach it's your first, and everything after that is handled.
Park anywhere in the front lot. The two spots by the door are for anyone dropping off a kid mid-class, so leave those open if you can.
If a class is on the mat, the door’s open. See the schedule for exactly what’s running. See the week →
You will not be thrown into live rolling with strangers on day one. The coach pairs you with someone patient, slows the pace to match, and nobody in the room expects a first-timer to keep up.
Either is a fine first class. If you don't own a gi, we'll set you up in a loaner, no need to buy anything before you know you like it. No-gi just means grappling shorts and a rash guard instead; we'll lend you a rash guard too if you show up without one.
Fingernails and toenails trimmed short is the one house rule nobody skips.
The academy · 4,000 square feet
4,000 square feet of matted floor, a changing room, and a rack of loaner gis by the door. No cardio machines, no merch wall. The mats get mopped between every session and the gis in the loaner rack are washed after each use. That's where the money goes instead.
The academy · Who's on the mat
The same two people run every block on the grid. No franchise, no rotating cast of instructors you never met. When you show up for a first class, one of them is the one who greets you.
Owner · head instructor · black belt
19 years on the mat
Started jiu-jitsu at nineteen in a strip-mall academy that no longer exists, and has been on the mats ever since. Runs the morning classes and the Saturday fundamentals session, and still gets tapped by his own students most weeks, which he considers the job working correctly.
On the floor: weekday mornings, the evening all-levels and no-gi classes, Saturday fundamentals.
Coach · fundamentals, kids, women’s class · brown belt
10 years on the mat
Started as a white belt who almost quit after her second class and is glad she didn’t. Runs the fundamentals track that most new students go through and built the kids program from a folder of notes into a real curriculum.
On the floor: weekday evening fundamentals, the kids program, the Tuesday women’s class.