BJJ Manchester - Welcome to Our Site

BJJ Manchester is part of Straight Blast Gym International (SBGi), one of the world’s leading mixed martial arts organisations and offers BJJ classes six days per week with Brazilian Blackbelt instruction by a fully qualified SBGi instructor, Karl Tanswell.

If you are new to BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting with the goal of gaining a dominant position and using joint-locks and chokeholds to force an opponent to submit. The art was based on early 20th century Kodokan Judo , which was itself then a recently-developed system (founded in 1882), based on multiple schools (or Ryu) of Japanese Jujutsu. It promotes the principle that a smaller, weaker person using leverage and proper technique can successfully defend themselves against a bigger, stronger assailant. BJJ can be trained for self defense, sport grappling tournaments (gi and no-gi) and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition. Sparring (commonly referred to as 'rolling') and live drilling play a major role in training, and a premium is placed on performance, especially in competition

When and where are BJJ Manchester classes?

BJJ Manchester hold classes at Straight Blast Gym just off Piccadilly Gardens in the City Centre cannot be beaten. BJJ Manchester classes are held Monday to Saturday. Check out the timetable.

 

Coaches

Karl Tanswell	Black Belt
Glyn Powditch	Brown Belt
Hywel Teague	Purple Belt
Jonathan Lee	Purple Belt
Martin Cahill	Purple Belt
Pete Joyce	Purple Belt

 

Gi or No Gi BJJ: does it matter?

We constantly have questions to Karl and other coaches regarding whether or not to attend Gi classes for those only wishing to compete in Mixed Martial Arts. There is much debate on this topic in the mixed martial Arts forums, books, dvds, etc. We recommend that everyone starts training in the Gi classes. Why? Because at the very beginning of practising BJJ, the differences between Gi and No Gi training within the SBG approach are extremely small to the point that students opting out of gi-based classes are only missing out on quality training. Gi training installs some basic principles relating to posture and neck defense that are essential to the no gi game, both MMA and Submission Wrestling.

What other classes are available?

BJJ Manchester recommends all of the available classes at Straigh Blast Gym Manchester, such as Mixed Martial Arts, Submission Wrestling, and Stand-Up Fighting(Boxing, Thai Boxing and Wrestling. For further information visit our main site at www.sbguk.co.uk

Where to Find us

SBG UK
31 Spear Street
Manchester
M1 1DF

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