Marcelo Garcia Jiu Jitsu

Marcelo Garcia Jiu Jitsu NYC is the home academy of Marcelo Garcia, one of the defining competitors of modern Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and submission grappling. Garcia’s official academy biography lists five IBJJF black-belt world championships and four ADCC titles, including ADCC gold in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2011. His reputation is not only competitive; the academy is built around the technical repertoire and teaching approach that made Garcia one of the sport’s most influential instructors. The Chelsea academy offers fundamental and advanced training, with both gi and no-gi work forming part of the program. Advanced students study the positions, transitions and strategies associated with Garcia’s game and train them through drilling and live sparring. Kids and youth programs are also available, and visitors are explicitly welcome through day and multi-week passes. The academy has showers and locker rooms, an important practical detail for people training in Manhattan before or after work. For someone visiting New York specifically to train jiu jitsu, MGJJ is less a generic drop-in and more a chance to experience a historically important academy while it is still directly identified with Marcelo Garcia. The 26th Street location in Chelsea is easy to reach from Midtown and downtown, and the combination of Garcia’s competition legacy, a mature curriculum and visitor-friendly policies makes it one of the city’s most distinctive BJJ destinations.

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