Start where you are

Never rolled before? You’ll fit right in. Been on the mats for years? You’ll get pushed. We run classes seven days a week, morning to night, so there’s always a session that works around your shifts, your kids and your ski days. You’ll learn the basics properly, you’ll roll every time you train, and you’ll do it next to people who want to see you get good.

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Training Overview Timetable Adults Beginners Kids Women’s Privates

Find your class

There’s a class here for every kind of person

Have a look and pick your way in.

All-levels & Advancedevery level, with room to grow

Gi & No-Gi

Gi class training at the Queenstown academy

All-levels welcomes every belt; Advanced adds higher-level technique.

Fundamentals Course & Beginnerstwo ways to start

6-week introduction

Two members practising a standing no-gi drill

Take the six-week introduction or join a Beginners class for white belts and new starters.

Kidsos pequenos

Ages 5–12

Two children practising jiu-jitsu together on the mats

Ages 5 to 12. Confidence, focus, and a serious amount of fun.

Women’sas meninas

Women only

Two women practising a jiu-jitsu technique on the mats

The easiest place to start. Women training with women, always looked after.

Privatessó você

One on one

A coach guiding a student through a jiu-jitsu drill

One on one, built around you. The fastest way to level up.

What every class shares

Three things never change

Jose grinning mid-roll in a no-gi class, teammates watching from the wall — Every session ends on the mat, with someone.

You’ll be welcomed

You’ll learn in short blocks

You’ll roll every session

Whichever one you pick, you’ll be welcomed like the room’s been waiting for you, you’ll spend a few weeks on one idea so it actually sticks, and you’ll roll every session, because that’s how it really goes in. That’s our method, and it’s why people get good here.

The room remembers you

“Everyone who comes in is a good surprise that they made it. Whoever’s already there goes, oh cool, this person came.”
Jose GomesHead professor · 4th degree black belt

Jose Gomes, head professor at Carlson Gracie New Zealand — A room that notices when you arrive.

Jose GomesHead professor · 4th degree black belt

Where next

Start here

Not sure where to begin?
We’ll walk you through it.

Our method

How we teach.
And why we teach this way.

Join us

Come and find your people

Start with a free class. It just might change your life.

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Three members standing together on the academy mats

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