5203 Hollywood Blvd · Renzo Gracie Academy Affiliate

Walk in a stranger.
Leave as family.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai and MMA on Hollywood Blvd — led by a 7× IBJJF Masters World Champion. Your first class is free, and nobody here started out knowing anything.

Free first class
No contract
Seven days a week

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7×IBJJF World titles

16Instructors

53Classes a week

5+From age five

Black belts of Renzo Gracie Los Angeles on the mats at the Hollywood Blvd academy

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Belt promotion celebration on the mats at Renzo Gracie Los Angeles

1 of 3Renzo Gracie academies in LA

01 The Academy

We’re a family,
not a gym.
That’s the difference.

Most gyms sell you access to a room. We know your name, your kids’ names and which shoulder you’re nursing. When someone gets promoted the whole mat celebrates. When someone goes through it, the whole mat shows up.

01
Nobody starts knowing anything

Fundamentals classes run on their own every single day — not a corner of the advanced class. You will not be thrown to the wolves.
02
The curriculum repeats on purpose

Every class in a month covers the same techniques, whatever day or time you make it in. Miss Tuesday, catch it Thursday, keep progressing.
03
Sixteen coaches, sixteen ways to explain it

A deliberately varied faculty. If one explanation doesn’t land, the next one will — and someone here has taught your exact body type before.

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02 Programs

Seven ways in.
One standard.

From a five-year-old’s first bow to a working executive’s first armbar — the same lineage, the same coaching, the same expectation that you’ll be better in six months.

Ages 5–7

Little Lions

Confidence, focus and first submissions — taught as play, not drill sergeant.

5 classes a week

Ages 8–12

Junior Lions

Where discipline becomes self-belief and the mats become a second home.

5 classes a week

Ages 13–17

Teens Martial Arts

An outlet for the frustration, and a room full of people who expect more of them.

2 classes a week

Adults · Gi & No-Gi

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

The art that lets a smaller person control a larger one. Gi and no-gi, every day of the week.

23 classes a week

Adults · All levels

Muay Thai

The art of eight limbs. A thousand calories a session, and a body that moves like it means it.

12 classes a week

MMA class at Renzo Gracie Los Angeles in Hollywood

Adults · Tue & Thu

MMA

Where the striking meets the grappling. Led by Professor Ilia.

2 classes a week

Ten seats only

Executive Membership

Four weeks of semi-private training with a 7× World Champion, built around a working calendar.

4 weeks semi-private

03 Lineage

A hundred and forty
years, ending on
Hollywood Blvd.

Jiu jitsu is not a franchise you buy into. It is passed hand to hand, professor to student. This is the line ours came down.

1882 · Tokyo
Jigoro Kano

Founds the Kodokan and refines classical jujutsu into a system that can be trained at full resistance.
1914 · Belém
Mitsuyo Maeda

Kano’s student carries the art to Brazil and takes on his first Brazilian students.
1925 · Rio
The Gracie Family

Carlos and Hélio open the first Gracie academy and rebuild the art around leverage over strength.
1990s · New York
Renzo Gracie

Takes the family name worldwide and builds the academy network this school belongs to.
Then · Los Angeles
Professor Shawn Williams

Promoted to black belt by Renzo. He went on to promote Professor Jaime, and several of the black belts who teach on our mats today.
Today · Los Angeles
Professor Jaime Mendez

7× IBJJF Masters World Champion, promoted to black belt by Professor Shawn Williams in 2018. He is on the mat, most nights, teaching.

04 Why here

What actually makes
a student stay.

Not the equipment, and not the posters on the wall. Four things, and every one of them is a decision the academy made on purpose.

A schedule that survives a real job

7am, noon, 6pm, 7pm and 8pm, Monday through Thursday. Fifty-three classes a week means there is no week where you simply could not make it in.

Gi and no-gi, every single week

Traditional gi Mondays and Wednesdays, no-gi Tuesdays and Thursdays. Train one or train both — each exposes what the other lets you get away with.

A class for where you actually are

Fundamentals at noon and 8pm for people starting out, all-levels classes through the day, and Intermediate/Advanced at 6pm on gi nights. Nobody gets thrown in the deep end.