Gym · Fort Lauderdale
Jiu jitsu for kids.
The ones still looking
for their thing.
Structure without rigidity. Coaching that sees the kid, not the behavior. First class, no commitment.
Who trains here
The kid who doesn’t sit still.
The one who’s been cut from
every team.
Yours.
I’ve had every kind of kid come through this door. Kids who played three sports and wanted something that was just theirs. Kids who never played any sports and didn’t know where to put all that energy. Kids who got pulled from another gym because it wasn’t working. Kids whose parents didn’t know what else to try.
Most of them have one thing in common. Nobody had found the right way to reach them yet.
Jiu jitsu has a structure that works for kids who struggle with other structures. There’s a clear hierarchy. There’s a clear code on the mat. There are things you’re expected to do and things you’re not, and the expectations are consistent. That consistency matters for a lot of kids more than parents expect it to.
I don’t need your kid to be coordinated or competitive or the kind of kid who takes to things immediately. I need them to be willing to try for one class. That’s the entire ask.
What to expect
A real class.
Not daycare.
Not chaos.
Kids warm up, drill, and train with partners. I’m in the room. The class has structure and the structure is enforced — not with punishment, but with clear expectations that are set from the first day.
We start with the basics of movement, position, and control. Before a kid learns a single submission, they learn how to tap and why it matters. That comes first. It’s not optional.
The kids who train here get better at something real. They learn that the bigger, stronger kid in the room is not automatically the one in control — that angles and leverage and calm decision-making matter more than size. Most kids have never experienced that. Watching it click is a different thing every time.
[OPERATOR / WILL TO CONFIRM: Age range for kids classes (e.g. 5–7 and 8–14 separate classes, or a combined group?). Class times and [SCHEDULE PLACEHOLDER] to be added here before launch.]
Safety and culture
Ten years open.
No catastrophic injuries.
I’ll give you the honest answer about safety.
Your kid is going to get bumps. They’re going to get bruises. They might come home with a sore neck from the warm-up. That’s part of training. It’s also true of soccer and basketball and going to recess.
What doesn’t happen here is the serious stuff. We’ve had this academy open for ten years and we’ve never had a catastrophic injury. That’s not luck. It comes from how I teach kids to be on the mat from day one. The first thing we teach is the tap. Before any technique, before any position — we teach the tap, and we teach what it means. It means “I’m done, let’s reset.” It means the partner stops immediately. That’s the whole culture.
We also teach kids how to apply anything — a choke, a lock, any control — safely and with restraint. Submitting your partner is never worth the injury. That’s what I say in day one. It’s what my instructors say. The kids hear it enough that they say it to each other.
Once a month · Kids program
Parents’ Day.
On the mat together.
Once a month, I open the kids class to parents. Same warm-up. Same drills. Same coaching. No experience needed — from either of you.
It’s the most direct thing a parent can do: not evaluate from the chairs along the wall, but be in the room with your kid, doing the same thing they’re doing. You’ll understand what the class is in ten minutes on the mat in a way you won’t from watching for a month.
You’ll also be bad at it. That’s the point. Watching your parent be bad at something new and keep going is one of the better things a kid can see.
About Will
What I’ve watched happen.
I’ve been running this gym for ten years. I’ve had hundreds of kids come through.
The ones I remember most aren’t the ones who went on to compete. They’re the ones whose parents told me, a year in, that their kid was different now. Not because they could execute a heel hook. Because they could sit in a hard moment without panicking. Because they started making better decisions when somebody put pressure on them. Because they finally found a thing they were willing to do badly until they weren’t bad at it anymore.
That’s what I’m building. A class where the kid who hasn’t found their thing yet has a real chance to find it.
I’m in the room. I’m coaching. That’s how this works.
From parents
What they said.
“It’s the only thing my son has stuck with for more than three months. Will treats him like a person, not a behavior problem.”
Jess A. · Parent of a 9-year-old student
“She was not a sports kid. I didn’t know what else to try. Six months in and she asks to go on the days there’s no class.”
[Name TBD] · Parent of a [age TBD]-year-old student
One class.
On the mat.
No commitment.
No contracts. No pressure. Come in for one class, see how your kid responds, and decide from there. Fill out the form below — we’ll text you back with a time that works.