BJJ in Manchester

Manchester is the directory's sixth-deepest English BJJ city with 17 listings in the city core — though the wider Greater Manchester area picks up substantially when you include Stockport (5 gyms), Salford (2), Ashton-under-Lyne (2), Bolton, Oldham and Newton Heath (1 each), each carried as their own city pages in this directory. Pricing is in GBP and runs £60–£150/mo at adult unlimited tickets, with most rooms clustered around the £60–£95/mo band. Carlson Gracie is the only multi-listing branded affiliation inside the city core, with Roger Gracie lineage running through multiple independent rooms.

The headline anchor is Valour JiuJitsu Manchester — the northern satellite of Lucio "Lagarto" Rodrigues BB's (Carlos Gracie Jr. lineage) London-based Valour Jiu-Jitsu HQ in Fulham — bringing Carlos Gracie Jr. lineage instruction directly into Manchester via an out-of-town professor's network. Roger Gracie BJJ Academy Salford in Manchester under Professor Mike BB (Roger Gracie lineage) is the city's direct Roger Gracie brand presence. Union Academy Manchester - BJJ and Kickboxing Academy and Union Academy of Martial Arts are the city's twin Carlson Gracie branches under John BB (Carlson Gracie / Ricardo Liborio "Parrumpa" lineage) at £60–£70/mo — the Manchester representative of the Carlson Gracie UK network anchored at Carlson Gracie London (W6).

Beyond the brand-network rooms, the Manchester independent bench is led by Henshall Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Ste Henshall BB (Andy Aspinall lineage — the Aspinall family training thread that produced UFC heavyweight Tom Aspinall) at £60/mo flat. SBG Manchester Mixed Martial Arts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Chris Coltrane BB (Karl Tanswell lineage — the late SBG UK founder whose system underpins SBG Ireland and the wider SBG network) at £95/mo. Fighting Fit Manchester under Martyn Cahill BB (Ricardo De La Riva / David Onuma lineage — direct De La Riva line into Manchester) at £90/mo. Academia BJJ Lifestyle UK under Lucio Sergio BB. Predators MMA and BJJ Academy Manchester under Gavin Boardman BB. ONE MMA Academy Manchester under Dre Dean BB. SubZone Fight Academy under Kameron Atakuru BB. Solid MMA Manchester rounds out the bench.

Aspinall BJJ (Andy Aspinall's club) is the family root of the Manchester scene and sits as its own city page under Saint Helens. The Manchester metro is unusually rich in distinct senior coach lineages for a single English city — Carlos Gracie Jr. (Valour), Carlson Gracie / Parrumpa (Union), Roger Gracie (the Salford brand), Aspinall (Henshall), Karl Tanswell / SBG (SBG Manchester), and De La Riva via David Onuma (Fighting Fit) are all represented in 17 academies.