Clockwork Jiu Jitsu

Clockwork Jiu Jitsu in New York is built around head instructor Josh Griffiths, a fourth-degree black belt who received his black belt from UFC veteran Kenny Florian in 2007. Griffiths’s competition résumé includes a Pan American championship and three North American Abu Dhabi Pro Qualifier wins, but his background is unusual in another way: he began jiu jitsu while studying computer and electrical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Clockwork has grown into a multi-instructor academy rather than a one-man program. Griffiths is joined by coaches with their own competition and wrestling backgrounds, while the school maintains dedicated youth training alongside the adult program. The academy’s official site describes Griffiths’s teaching in concrete technical terms—particularly pressure, weight distribution and positional control—rather than relying only on motivational language. For BJJ in Manhattan, Clockwork is a good fit for students who want a long-established independent academy with an identifiable technical voice. Griffiths has been building the school for years, and the Greenwich Village location offers a different feel from New York’s larger association headquarters and celebrity-driven competition teams.

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