Champlin Jiu-Jitsu Academy

We are back from a nonstop weekend at the 2026 IBJJF World Championships.

We only had one athlete in the competition - but we are honored to have that athlete wearing the 🦊 at the true highest level of the sport, Adult Black Belt 🥋

Connor earned his qualifying points over the last year and a half, regularly competing in both his weight class and the Open Class against some of the best in the world, showing 0 fear through all of it.

His pursuit of this has made ALL of us at the academy better, and it’s been so much fun being on this grind with him.

The 4 of us had such a great time this weekend enjoying the insanity of Saturdays matches (you really have to see it to appreciate the nonstop barrage of elite matches going on 6 mats for like 8 straight hours), to the energy and the spectacle of the semis and finals matches on Sunday.

As always now it’s on to the next one!

Monday night NoGi!

We had 8 competitors at the IBJJF Columbus this past weekend. We had at least 1 competitor from every belt level - finishing with 8x🥇 (4 in weight divisions and 4 in the open class)

Congratulations to our guys who competed at Fuji over the weekend! Everyone got some Ws - big congrats to Greg and Bracken for winning their divisions, and to Carson and Cole for jumping into their first tournament!

This past weekend it was Columbus Indiana, this coming weekend it’s Columbus Ohio for the IBJJF!

We had a group of competitors make the trip to the IBJJF Chicago Open yesterday. Small group but lots of good matches. Congratulations to Brent winning his division 🥇, Raj taking 🥈 in a tough group, and Will earning 🥉 in his first competition in a few years!

Bri wins 🥇 today at Grappling Industries in a very tough, competitive bracket. Two kneebars and an armbar for her wins! Congratulations Bri.

2026 IBJJF Pan Am Championships is a wrap!

We are proud of our 5 competitors who competed over the course of this massive 5 day event. Each represented the team in exciting, hard fought matches.

We’re coming back motivated from the technical and tactical lessons learned on the mat, and in high spirits from all the fun we had hanging out together.

We’ll be back next year!

Our female members showing up in force 😤

30+ people starting their weekend at our All Levels Saturday 10am class!

First competition class in the new space!

Next one Friday 2/27 at 6pm