Royal Grappling Academy Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Dublin

Keeping up with the modern Jiu-Jitsu game.

Last month both RGA head coaches travelled to Belgium to attend a camp with Jason Rau and Eoghan O Flanagan.

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks…..only if they don’t want to learn.

consistently bring in high level coaches. Our coaches have been for 3 years in a row with small improvements each year from the organisers.

6 week Summer daytime beginners course. Starting on Tuesday July 16th we are running a 6 week Nogi beginners course.

Classes will be every Tuesday & Thursday at 12:15pm. No experience or gear required. Classes will be coached by Jiu-Jitsu black-belts.

The cost for the 6 weeks will be €100.

DM here or email [email protected] to book your space. Perfect opportunity for students, shift workers, business owners etc. to get started with Jiu-Jitsu.

Jean Luca IBJJF Black-Belt debut.🏆

Saturday mornings……

Best of luck to as he heads back home this week.

Weekend schedule, all classes in the gi:
Friday 10:30
Friday 16:00
Saturday 09:30
Sunday 09:30

Thanks so much to and his crew for visiting us last week for a mini camp. Jay taught some classes for us with some top notch techniques and we had some joint team training sessions.

If you’re ever in Arizona check out the team at Jay Pages Jiu-Jitsu

Shout out to who competed at ADCC trials a couple of weeks ago, winning his first match by submission against a high level black-belt.

Artyom has been consistently improving due to his approach to training. Always looking to improve certain positions, coming to training with a focus and willing to lose at training in order to gain new skills.

Being a self guided learner, in combination with what we cover in class is the best way to improve as a grappler.

Be like Artyom, be willing to fail more in training so you can get better in competition.

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2024 ADCC European trials medallist.

Amazing result from Jean in his debut competing as a Black-Belt. 5 matches, winning 2 by submission and losing out to the eventual winner by refs decision in the semi-finals.

Saturday mornings 9:30am one of the best classes of the week. 6 black belts on the mats this morning.

Jean Maltese, Royal Grappling Academy Black-Belt Feb 2024.

Jean started out as a fresh white-belt in one of our beginners courses in 2017. From the start he had potential but what made him as good as he has become is his hard work on and off the mats. Since white-belt he was looking for the hardest rounds on the mats and now he is the hardest round on the mat. Someone for our younger guys to look up to and our older guys to avoid 👨🏻‍🦳 Our first Black-Belt under 30!

Jean has been our most successful competitor (so far), winning lots and medalling at the majors at brown belt.

He’s only getting started though, big things will happen for him at Black-Belt.

Jaime Canuto is with this Sunday (Jan 14th) 11am Nogi and Monday (Jan 15th) 7pm in the Gi

Visitors welcome €30 each or €50 for both. Get in touch here or email [email protected]

2023 12 Rolls of Christmas.

Thanks to everyone who came, some great training. We had more than 10 different clubs represented with 12 Blackbelts to train with.

Christmas schedule.

All sessions open to all levels.

SATURDAY 23: 10:30AM GI
SUNDAY 24: 10:30AM NOGI
MONDAY 25: CLOSED
TUESDAY 26: CLOSED
WEDNESDAY 27: 10:30AM NOGI
THURSDAY 28: 10:30AM GI
FRIDAY 29: 10:30AM NOGI
SATURDAY 30: 10:30AM GI
SUNDAY 31: 10:30AM 12 ROLLS GI
MONDAY 01: CLOSED
TUESDAY 02: 10:30AM GI
WEDNESDAY 03: NORMAL SCHEDULE
PRAISE BUDDHA

Weekend schedule:
Friday 4pm: Gi All Levels
Saturday 11am: Gi All Levels
Sunday 9:30am: Gi All Levels
Sunday 10:30am: Members Open Mat

Our fundamentals classes have reached capacity, we will be accepting new beginner members in January.

If you have experience and are looking to get back training you can start anytime.

Please email [email protected] to arrange a free class.

2 NEW BLACKBELTS!!!
⬛️⬛️⬛️🟥🟥⬛️

Huge achievement from James O Rourke and Sean Mooney.

James is the first Royal Grappling Academy white to black belt, starting with us as a brand new beginner. One of the most consistent men on the mats, he has been the unofficial club captain for a long time. Always available to help out when needed and has no problem putting manners on members and coaches alike.

Sean came to us a high level purple belt many years ago having gained a great level from his previous club. One of the most humble, hard workers in the club and guaranteed to give you the hardest round of the night no matter how big you are.

An absolute pleasure to promote these men.

Best of luck to this young man on his travels. He will be missed as a training partner and a big loss to our competition team.

It’s been an absolute pleasure having him on the mats with us.

Nogi this evening, working from the Double 50 position with coach Roger Dardis.

Nogi tonight 7pm with the 🦊

Nogi tonight 7pm with

The week starts again tomorrow at 10:30am, advanced Nogi with Roger Dardis covering the double 50 position.

New members welcome, first class free.

Current schedule in our stories.

We run 7 Nogi sessions each week. Should we add some more?

Special promotion for the club last week when received her brown belt.

Thanks so much to the amazing for the great workshop.

Well done to our small team who competed yesterday at Grappling Industries in Dublin.
Special shout out to the white and blue belts gaining valuable competition mat time with a lot of tough matches.

Jonathan Thomas & Espen Mathiesen BJJ Camp – Atlantic BJJ Shop Book your place on the highly anticipated BJJ Camp with BJJ Blackbelts, Jonathan Thomas & Espen Matheisen. Two of the best jiu-jitsu technicians in Europe will be at Atlantic Jiu Jitsu Sligo for four days during their European tour.

Excited to announce that 4x Black belt world champion will be with us on Tuesday July 25th at 7pm.
As always, open to all clubs.
If you can’t make it, check her out on July 26th in

Squad. Is it still called a squad when most of them are masters division?

Last weekend we had the honour of awarding the Burke Brothers their black belts. Both men play an important part in our team, we’re proud and grateful to have them in our club.
Well done men.