Gracie Barra North Phoenix Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

“I have been doing jiu jitsu for now a year. Love every moment of the hard training. It is worth every penny. I love the people. The instructors are very good. You become family to the instructors and fellow trainees within Gracie Barra. If you want to travel locally, nationally, and internationally, you can with a visitors pass.”

“I've personally been a memeber at GB for the past 8 months and TBH, its been completely life changing. Now all three of my kids and wife go together. The professors and coaches are amazing, and the entire school is welcoming and friendly. I highly recommend their kids program! My kids are finally interested in something other than video games... They would go every day if I could take them. Just go try it and come to your own conclusion, but me and my family aren't going anywhere. We found a home at GB North Phoenix!”

“We can’t say enough positive things about GB North Phoenix. Training jiu jitsu here has been life changing for our daughter. It’s given her strength, confidence, discipline, self-defense skills & provided her with incredible role models in all of the coaches & professors. It’s truly a family feel here & a place that we love being at each week.”

“BJJ changed my life for the better! I feel so much more confident, so much more flexible! I used to be much heavier, couldn't touch my toes, always had back pain...etc. I thought it was too late to start BJJ at 33 but here I still am and feeling better than ever! All the coaches and professors here are amazing people who truly care about effective and safe training. If you've ever thought about joining, if you want to get more flexible, if you want to live a better life and meet extraordinary, big hearted people, I can't recommend this gym enough! You will feel so proud to wear the Gracie Barra Gi, people will know you're part of one of the most recognized names in the sport!”

“Hello my name is John Ortega I'm 68yrs old. I was bringing my 2 grandkids to classes at the north Phoenix Gracie barra location. When the professor commented I should give jui jitsu a try, I laughed and said I'm too old and my medical history is too extensive and I'm 100% disabled. He assured me I would be fine and he will give me 3 free lessons. I ended the conversation with telling him there's no way I'm too disabled. A couple months went by and he asked me a couple more times to try jui jitsu. I told him OK but I'm going to do the the class only to show you that I can't do it. After the third class he asked me what I thought and what my decision was and with a smile on my face I said where do I sign up. Before I signed up my life consisted of sitting around the house and getting over weight and more unhealthy. Jui jitsu encouraged me to start going to the gym and taking vitamins and jogging then I started yoga classes for flexibility. With out realizing it jui jitsu was changing my life and giving me a whole new bunch of friends and a new family. It hasn't been easy along the way on my jui jitsu journey I've acquired more medical problems and my mind and body fight to stop me coming to class and quit but my marine Corp background pushes me forward reminding me marines aren't quitters. My journey is still moving forward I'm going on 8 years of training and I'm now a brown belt. I can truly say jui jitsu saved my life.”