Ronin Grappling & Jiu Jitsu

Fantastic experience: John is a great coach and knows a lot about bjj both in theory and practice. Other people in classes are very nice and helpful, always ready to give you advice and help you with a technique. Good place to start your bjj journey :)

Fantastic experience: Friendly atmosphere and amazing instructor! Highly recommended!

Fantastic experience: Great coaching and atmosphere, highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: Great place to learn to BJJ. Really nice welcoming atmosphere and good bunch of people. Close attention given to every student to help improve technique, highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: Excellent BJJ Classes. John is an excellent teacher and simplifies what can be quite complex movements. Also really good crew here and very welcoming.

Fantastic experience: Fun, relaxed and friendly place to train

Fantastic experience: First session with John- and clearly knows his stuff and a cool dude to boot. Great explanations of techniques, great drills , really warm atmosphere. Check this place out if you really want to work on your game. BJJ is complex- but the way John explains it makes it a lot clearer. Do it!

Fantastic experience: If you are looking for a place to learn and understand BJJ as a beginner or with already good experience in Brighton, I can only recommend John. He is very friendly and give really great personal advise. Very friendly environment and lovely people. Not to mention unbeatable price :)

Fantastic experience: Found John at Ronin after many years of not training and have fully got the bug back! Great guys and girls to train with there, with various levels of skill everyone takes time to help each other out and the atmosphere is great. Would highly recommend whether you've never tried it before or you're looking for a good place to carry your BJJ training on.

Fantastic experience: A super friendly and welcoming place to learn BJJ. John’s training is excellent, very well structured and always pays close attention to each student to try bring the best out of them. Highly recommended

Fantastic experience: I really like these classes. I wanted to try Bjj and a friend recommended this one. John is a great teacher who makes sure to adapt to your level and the fact that it’s in small groups means that you get a lot of attention to make sure you’re doing things correctly. I highly recommend it if you want to give Bjj a go!

Fantastic experience: Great approach to teaching, with a real attention to detail that helps solidify your technique and understanding, puts time into each individual to improve your jiu jitsu and as small group coaching the value is very clear. John also clearly values the opportunity to teach you and as an S&C coach myself, its clear he is very forward thinking in his approach to the teaching process.

Fantastic experience: John is a class act and very passionate about what he does. Felt really comfortable as a complete newbie so I would recommend Ronin to anyone looking to get into BJJ.

Fantastic experience: Analytical and accessible coaching in friendly, small classes. John has helped me develop my jiu jitsu substantially.

Fantastic experience: Approachable and quality training for all skill levels with a great balance of strategy and sparring