About this directory

BJJGyms.net is an independent directory of 6,639 BJJ gyms across 51 US states — the neighborhood academies, the competition teams, and the martial-arts schools where you can actually step on the mats and start rolling.

It's built for everyone thinking about their first class, and everyone who's already found their gym: the nervous beginner wondering "do I need to be fit first? will I have to roll hard?", the parent enrolling a kid, the woman looking for a welcoming room, the person chasing a workout, and the aspiring competitor eyeing a competition team. The questions are always the same — how much does it cost per month? is there a free trial? is it beginner-friendly? are kids' and women's classes offered? does the gym also teach no-gi and other arts like muay thai, judo or MMA? are the instructors the real thing — what belt, what lineage? We built this site to answer them with data instead of hype.

How we verify what a gym actually offers — the part that makes this site useful. A business category listing can't tell you whether beginners are genuinely welcomed, whether there's a real free trial, or which arts are on the schedule, so we don't take the listing's word for it. We mine two sources of evidence for every gym: the gym's own website (when it describes its classes, its coaches, its intro offer, or its pricing in its own words) and thousands of public customer reviews, where people say what actually happened in the room. When a listing says "beginner-friendly" or "free trial," someone confirmed it in a review or the gym proved it on its own site. The same mining backs everything else we badge — the class types (beginners, kids, women's, no-gi, private lessons, open mat, self-defense, competition team), the other martial arts trained under the same roof, and what members praise most — each with the reviewer's own quote as proof. Badges require evidence, not self-reporting, which also means the counts are floors, and they grow as our crawls continue.

Listings are compiled from public map and business data, then filtered to genuine BJJ — gyms with jiu-jitsu on their schedule, not every martial-arts business that happens to be nearby. We re-crawl the dataset on a rolling basis to catch closures and new openings.

Our "best of" rankings are computed from Google ratings weighted by review volume — no gym can pay for a placement or a rank. Every gym page links to the gym's own website and schedule when it has one, and any price or age-range mentions are always presented as approximate, because schedules and pricing change faster than any directory can track. Always check the gym's own schedule before your first visit.

A note on tone and respect: BJJ is a craft with a culture all its own — professors, lineage, and belts earned over years — and we write about it that way: as fitness, self-defense, discipline, and community, never as a way to glorify violence. Kids' and women's programs are framed for what they are: safe, welcoming, and confidence-building. All levels are welcome — leave your ego at the door — and you do not need to be fit or flexible to start.

A note on safety: BJJ is a physical, contact sport — you'll be grappling with a partner. Nothing on this site is medical advice — if you're new to training or have a health concern, check with a doctor first, and train with a reputable instructor who scales things to your level.

If you own a gym and want a correction — hours, address, classes, disciplines, or a listing that shouldn't be here — email hello@bjjgyms.net and we'll fix it in the next refresh.

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