Lakewood Jiu Jitsu Academy, the best BJJ in Lakewood, began holding classes this week in our new facility located at 10800 W. Alameda Ave., Lakewood, Colorado! The new facility has over 1100 sq ft of brand new jiu jitsu mats that are extra thick and more comfortable for training throws and takedowns. Upon completion, the...Read More

We have some exciting ideas from the Gracie Diet that will inspire some of our initial smoothie flavor offerings at Samurai Smoothie! Lakewood Jiu Jitsu Academy not only teaches the most effective system of self-defense in the world, but will soon host Samurai Smoothie. Our smoothie menu will offer health conscious smoothies that will have...Read More

Lakewood Jiu Jitsu Academy is excited to announce that our new jiujitsu training/ fitness facility will be opening in May 2025 in the heart of Lakewood! Our new facility will offer some exciting upgrades: Over 1100 sq ft of mat space 2″ thick mats for safe practice of falling/ throwing techniques (most BJJ gyms have...Read More

Traditional martial arts training typically requires many years of dedicated practice under the direct supervision of a highly skilled instructor in order to produce a high level of real-world fighting skills. There are some who maintain that even decades of practice in some types of martial arts do not produce real-world fighting skills. Practice may...Read More

Rener and Ryron demonstrate SafeWrap The Gracie SafeWrap is a game-changing system of lateral control that offers a solution to the problems inherent in prone restraint and prone suspect arrest strategies.Read More

Dr. Gary Vilke, a forensic expert in use of force deaths for over 30 years, discusses SafeWrap. Lakewood Jiu Jitsu Academy is a Gracie University Certified Training Center. Professor Jim Medley holds black belt rank is both Japanese jūjutsu as well as in Brazilian/ Gracie jiu jitsu. Medley is further certified as an instructor in...Read More

“All the way in!” One of the quintessential strategies in Gracie jiu jitsu is distance management. If a person defending an attack cannot stay out of the reach of the attacker (all the way out), we know that we should get so close that they cannot strike with enough power to inflict serious damage. This...Read More

In 2021, Rickson Gracie released an essential book detailing the history and evolution of Gracie jiu jitsu from the 1920s to the present. The book chronicles Rickson Gracie’s personal life and development in jiu jitsu. Rickson Gracie is the third eldest son of Hélio Gracie. He is often regarded as the most skilled fighter among...Read More

It’s the signature wrist-lock of Japanese budo style martial arts. It’s seen in traditional aikijujutsu, jujitsu, judo, and aikido.     The kotegaeshi involves supination of the wrist joint, which in turn, laterally rotates the forearm, creating a twisting of the radius and the ulna. “Kote” is literally “forearm” in Japanese. Since the elbow is only...Read More

Brazilian jiu jitsu (BJJ) gyms are sprinkled throughout Lakewood and Denver. In some neighborhoods there is are barely five blocks between these gyms. Although there are scores of these schools between Denver and the Front Range, 90% of them have one thing in common: they do NOT teach self-defense. Gracie jiu jitsu came to the...Read More