Morning classes available 6 days a week! Start your day with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu — beginners and advanced welcome!

Join us every weekday Monday - Friday at 6am, and Saturdays at 10am! All levels are welcome, but no experience is necessary to get started — we’ll guide you step-by-step, help you build confidence, and support you through your Jiu Jitsu journey.

We know schedules are different for everyone. Our morning classes are a great option if you want to train early, stay consistent, and still have your evenings free. You can also train multiple days per week and progress at your own pace.

Whether you prefer Gi, No Gi, or both, our morning BJJ classes help you develop strong fundamentals, better movement, and practical technique. Our instructors are experienced competitors, and we focus on teaching what works for us when it counts.
If you're interested in BJJ morning classes, you have to try ours! Many of our students have challenging daytime and evening schedules or love to train more than once in a day which is why we consider morning training such an important part of our academy.
Morning classes aren’t just a workout — they’re a consistent community. Below is how we approach training, how we treat each other on the mats, and what we value as an academy.
The smartest thing you can do on these mats are to remember that you're training with friends. While training on the mats, we follow and enforce our cardinal rule:
We're not here to get hurt, but let's be real -- this sport is about bending limbs the wrong way and folding clothes with the people still inside. It's dangerous if you're not protecting yourself and your training partner! If your partner gets a good submission, we're going to teach you to eat humble pie and tap out. If you get a good position on a training partner that should tap but isn't, we're going to teach you to protect them from themselves and find another way to advance position instead of hurting them. Regardless of your belt rank, the bottom line is we want you and your teammates to come back tomorrow and keep training, injury free!
We absolutely love rolling! If you're new to this sport, we'll ease you into it, but we'll encourage you to start rolling on your first class ("rolling" is the BJJ equivalent of "sparring"). For the folks that have trained at another place (or a few, like us), we understand what it feels like to try out a new academy. We'll welcome you with smiles, regardless of your belt color. We want you to push yourself, we want you to get into better shape, and we want you to feel comfortable rolling hard, knowing that we're training to get better together!
We love to train, together. We train with our family, including our kids (the coaches have a lot of kids). Our students are also treated as friends, and honestly feel like family, too -- there is nothing more unifying than working out together in BJJ.
Some of you reading this are competitors looking for a place to train hard. We love getting after it on the mats! If you're one of those folks that have lots of grappling experience or just want an academy that will turn you into a competitor, join us!
Come try a free morning class, check out our schedule to see if it fits your routine, or give us a call if you have questions.
COME SEE WHY WE'RE THE BEST
Join us Monday - Saturday for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes for beginner to advanced skill levels, and classes for kids ages 4+!
We have morning classes, daytime classes, and evening classes for both kids and adults so that we may accommodate as many schedules as possible!
Don't just take our word for it - Get first-hand experiences from some of our parents and students. There may be squeals of joy in the kids' videos so mind your volume first 😆
New Braunfels Jiu Jitsu boasts a 3,500+ sq. ft. facility with over 2,500 sq. ft. of mat space. We have amazing cooling systems including 2 air conditioning units and a large central fan that keeps the place cool no matter the heat outside! We also have a dedicated seating area for parents or significant others to watch the classes, and we have kid-friendly areas that older kids can use while their parents are taking classes!





Meet Our Instructor
Professor Ryan Grandon is a 2nd degree Black Belt under Jake Mapes, and a 4th generation Black Belt in Rickson Gracie's lineage. He is undefeated at the Black Belt level. He is a father of five and remains one of the friendliest humans on the planet.
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