Start Your Jiu Jitsu Lifestyle

Start Your Jiu Jitsu Lifestyle at Kingston BJJ

Join us and start your Jiu Jitsu lifestyle at Kingston BJJ. When people arrive, it’s always interesting to ask them why they would like to start learning BJJ. The Main Reasons People Want To Learn Jiu Jitsu Firstly, to learn self defence. Most people that arrive for the first of their free trial lessons would like to learn self defence. … Read More

Essential Jiu Jitsu Clinching

At Kingston BJJ, we practice a lot of standing Jiu Jitsu self defence. Therefore, being a very strongly focused BJJ self defence club, every lesson features standing BJJ self defence and fundamental groundwork. As a result of our frequency of practicing standing BJJ self defence techniques and groundwork, our responses stay sharp. Above all, we stick to fundamental techniques. BE … Read More

Kingston BJJ Teach Women’s Self-Defence Workshop

Kingston BJJ women’s self-defence. Fundraising for the charity Rape Crisis England & Wales – https://rapecrisis.org.uk/. Kingston BJJ women’s self-defence. We are extremely pleased and looking forward to running a self-defence workshop just for women, at The Hangar Barn KT9. Working alongside specialist coach Tori Mayson https://www.instagram.com/tori.mayson.coach/, we will be teaching in detail, wrist grab defences and the triangle choke. Led … Read More

We Believe Wearing a Gi Improves Our BJJ

THE GI TEACHES US TO PROTECT OUR NECK Part 2 of ‘why we wear a Gi at Kingston BJJ’ – we believe wearing a Gi improves our Jiu Jitsu. We see the Gi as a training tool. Wearing the Gi when training (sparring), further teaches us to protect our neck. Having a lapel or collar, gives our opponent the opportunity … Read More

Jiu Jitsu Self Defence

Jiu Jitsu Self Defence at Kingston BJJ. We are a self defence based Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club in Kingston. This means we always spend a lot of time learning defences from a standing position, subsequently getting better. Jiu Jitsu Self Defence Our interest is not sport Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Our interest is Gracie Jiu Jitsu self defence. You can read … Read More

Why we wear a Gi at Kingston BJJ. (Part 1)

Why we wear a Gi at Kingston BJJ. At Kingston BJJ we predominantly wear a Gi or Kimono. During the warmer months, typically, late June, July and August, we just wear a rashguard. Some people contact us asking if we practice ‘No-Gi’, we do. Because our focus is self-defence, almost all of what we learn and practice can be done … Read More

Headlock Defence at Kingston BJJ

Headlock Defence at Kingston BJJ

Headlock defence at Kingston BJJ is one of our constant key areas of focus. Therefore, with our priority being self defence, we have two comprehensive programs dedicated just to headlock defence. Firstly, our standing headlock defence program addresses the different stages of a headlock attack. This includes early response, and immediate defence to a late stage attack where our early … Read More

Get Started With BJJ at Kingston BJJ

Get started with BJJ at Kingston BJJ, read on for the big picture. Getting started with BJJ is often the hard part. You haven’t been to your first of three free trial lessons at Kingston BJJ https://kingstonbjj.com/free-class-offer/, therefore you have nothing to lose yet, nothing to keep going. Some worry about the warm up. In addition, some think that the … Read More

Control and Submit

Recent lessons have focused strongly on Mount escapes and Mount retention – however, we are also looking at armbars. It’s so important to control someone’s posture before attempting to finish a submission. The Mount escape techniques we are majoring on are the elbow escape and a modified version of the classic trap and roll. There are so many steps and … Read More

First Week of Training Free

Become part of the BJJ Lifestyle Team in Kingston – big friendly team learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Brazilian . Beginners program in place – lots of white belts attending our Monday training sessions – just two minutes walk from Kingston bridge. If you want to discuss what to expect before you come along – call Diccon on 07973 303 147. Get … Read More