BJJ in London

London is **this directory's biggest single-city BJJ scene anywhere** — **163 listings inside the M25**, edging out New York City, Los Angeles and São Paulo in raw gym count and concentrating roughly 40% of England's entire 406-gym footprint into one metro. Pricing is in GBP and the adult-unlimited band runs **£45–£350/month** with a median around **£95–£100/mo** (state average **£99/mo** here vs £87/mo nationally), reflecting London's premium rents and a tail of high-end boutique academies (Alliance Imperial Wharf at £258–£350/mo, Wave BJJ at £218/mo, Roger Gracie HQ Annual Pass £168 effective). At the affordable end, several Carlson Gracie satellites and beginner programmes start as low as £45–£70/mo. Drop-in fees average around **£21**, and most academies offer a free trial or week pass (£35–£100). The directory's anchor London affiliations are Carlson Gracie (10 listings — the deepest single-brand London chain), Checkmat (4), Gracie Barra (4), 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu (3), Renzo Gracie Academy (2) and Alliance Jiu-Jitsu (2), with **47 confirmed black belt head instructors** across the city — by far the deepest concentration of UK Black Belt instruction. The single headline academy is **Roger Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy HQ** at Ground Floor, Glen House, 22-24 Glenthorne Rd, **Hammersmith W6 0NG** — directly under **Roger Gracie himself** (9th-degree black belt, **10x IBJJF World Champion**, the only modern competitor to have won every adult IBJJF Worlds gold from blue through brown to black belt absolute, lineage Carlos Gracie → Mauricio Gomes / Reila Gracie). Adult Monthly Rolling £179/mo, Annual Prepaid £2019/year (≈£168/mo, "one month free"), Visitor Day Pass £35, Week Pass £100. The Roger Gracie network branches across the M25 via **Roger Gracie Euston** (William Rd NW1) under Henrique "Juniao" Junior BB (Mauricio Motta Gomes / Rolls Gracie lineage) at £145–£155/mo, **Roger Gracie Barnet** (Ballards Ln N12) under Felipe Sansone BB, **Jisso Academy / Roger Gracie Queens Park** (Denmark Rd NW6) under Fabio Prado BB, and **The London Jiu Jitsu Centre** under Henrique "Juniao" Junior BB. Mauricio Gomes's own legacy room **Mauricio Gomes Jiu-jitsu Legacy West London** sits just outside in Northolt. The **Carlson Gracie London** trunk lives at 89 Richford St, W6 7HJ — open since **2001**, one of the longest-running BJJ academies in the UK — and seeds a London-wide branch network: **Carlson Gracie Hackney**, **Carlson Gracie Jiu Jitsu Sheen**, **Carlson Gracie Westway BJJ** + **Westway Canalside** (Ladbroke Grove) both under David Pacheco BB (Wilson Junior / Carlson Gracie lineage), **Carlson Gracie Team Clapham BJJ Academy** under Martin Foot BB (£90/mo), **Shinbudo London Grappling Club** under Glenn Spiers (Carlson Gracie London lineage), and the **Fight City Gym** chain (Elephant Park, Moorgate, Balham) under Alain Pozo — Fight City Balham £50–£170/mo, Moorgate £75–£150/mo. **Carlson Gracie Warriors** and **London Olympic Grappling Academy** in Wembley extend the brand into northwest London (Wembley is its own city slug in this directory). London's **Checkmat** anchor is **Fightzone London** at 16-22 Pritchard's Rd, Bethnal Green E2 — founded **2012**, under **Marco Canha** BB (Checkmat / Leo Vieira lineage) — Premium Unlimited £110/mo, Standard £79/mo, 1-Month Prepaid £150, 3-Month £360. **Cantagalo JiuJitsu London** under **Jackson Sousa** BB (Checkmat) at £120/mo and **The Gauntlet Fight Academy** under **Neto Nunes** BB (Checkmat) at £74–£125/mo round out the Checkmat London bank, with **Wimbledon Brazilian Jiu Jitsu & Self Defence** under Carl Fisher BB (Checkmat) as the south-west London branch. **Alliance Jiu Jitsu London** at Imperial Wharf, 10-12 The Blvd, Townmead Rd, SW6 — the premium end of London BJJ at **£258.33–£350/mo** — runs under the Alliance system (Romero "Jacaré" Cavalcanti / Fabio Gurgel / Alexandre Paiva, founded 1993). **Arlans Siqueira BJJ N20 North London** is the Alliance satellite up north. **Frota Academy London** is the **Renzo Gracie Academy** UK flagship under **Augusto Frota** BB (Renzo Gracie / Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira lineage), £80.83–£350/mo. **Luciano Cristovam BJJ Academy** is the other Renzo branch under **Luciano Cristovam** BB (Renzo Gracie / Roger Gracie lineage) at £100–£160/mo. **10th Planet Jiu Jitsu London** at Royal Docks (Dockside Rd E16) under **Jamie Scott** (Eddie Bravo lineage) is the directory's London 10th Planet beachhead, with **SCK Fitness Team** under Warsame Ibrahim (Jamie Scott / Eddie Bravo) and **Diesel Gym London** (£99/mo) extending the no-gi system across the city. Beyond the brand-network anchors, London's independent black belt bank is unusually deep. **Valour Jiu-Jitsu HQ** at 4 Fulham High St SW6 (formerly Gracie Barra Fulham) is under **Lucio "Lagarto" Rodrigues** BB (Carlos Gracie Jr.) at £169/mo flat (Annual paid yearly £144.85 effective), with a Manchester satellite mirroring the brand. **Mill Hill BJJ** under **Cristinel Tilvar** BB (Roger Gracie / Nicholas Brooks lineage) at £100/mo flat. **Urban Flow London (UFL) BJJ** under **Professor Renan** BB (Luciano Cristovam / Roger Gracie) at £135–£150/mo. **North12 Martial Arts Academy** under **David Onuma** BB (Ricardo Vieira / Ricardo De La Riva lineage) — one of London's most lineage-pedigreed instructors. **Grapplers Den Balham** under **Javed** BB (Roger Gracie / Mauricio Gomes). **The Martial Arts Place** under **Russell Cronk** BB at £125–£150/mo. **Wave Brazilian Jiu Jitsu** under **Lorenzo Fraquelli** BB at £218/mo (highest single-rate adult-unlimited in this directory's London bench). **VULKX Jiu-Jitsu Club Battersea** under **Bruno Jardim** BB inside Nuffield Health Sheepcote Lane. **Studio NW2** under **Enrique "La Furia" Villasenor** BB at £100/mo. **Sabr Grappling** (Mastmaker Court, Canary Wharf E14) — opened **2026**, under Mahdi Khan — adult unlimited £60/mo, drop-in £10 (one of the most affordable Zone-1 adult tiers in London). **Hillingdon BJJ** (Pump Ln UB3) covers the far west. **E17 BJJ Walthamstow** £99/mo, **Pueblo Jiu Jitsu** (Independent) £79.99/mo, **Inglorious Grapplers** under **Jude Samuel** BB, **Legion Grappling Academy** £95/mo, **Legacy Academy Martial Arts London** under **Paul Clark** BB £70–£95/mo, **Kinetic Zen Krav Maga & BJJ** under **Adrian Jackson** BB £95/mo, **AVALON Mixed Martial Arts Academy** under **Dr. Mark Phillips** BB, **Meiji Martial Arts** under **Denise Bailey** BB £95/mo, and **North London Jiu Jitsu** under **Sebastian Swislocki** BB at £70/mo are part of an unusually wide black-belt-led independent bench. London is also where the **Gracie Barra UK** academy footprint shows up directly: **Gracie Barra Oval** under **Eduardo Carriello** BB (Carlos Gracie Jr.), **Gracie Barra Haringey**, **Gracie Barra Tooting** under Professor Tom (Victor Estima / Gracie Barra lineage) at £130/mo, plus the inherited Valour Jiu-Jitsu Fulham gym. London Shootfighters East is the East London end of the Shootfighters MMA / grappling system (the main London Shootfighters HQ sits in Wembley). The **United Kingdom Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Association (UKBJJA)** is the sport BJJ governing body recognized across the country — note as historical context that London also hosts older Japanese-rooted Ju-Jutsu schools under the **British Jiu-Jitsu Association GB (BJJAGB)**, **Jiu Jitsu Foundation** and **British Combat Association** umbrellas, but those are traditional self-defence systems and are *not* included in this BJJ directory.