Gracie Barra Sheffield New Training times

Monday 6pm until 7:30pm

Wednesday 6pm until 8pm

Sunday 11am until 1pm

We are the only official Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school in Sheffield. All training takes place in a fully matted and safe enviroment, beginners to advanced welcome, no experiance needed. FIRST LESSON IS FREE so your not loosing anything by trying us out.

ANY questions please contact:-

Instructor: Jon Goldson
Mobile: 07834 61 58 96
Email: goldson75@hotmail.com
Location: 393 Club
393 Langsett Road, Hillsborough,
Sheffield,, S6

"organised like a team... fight like a family"

what about the castle black belt academy they organise royce gracie seminars in sheffield, rob shean has been graded by him and so has many of his students

trian hard fight easy

Don't have any BJJ instructors any more. Used to, but don't any more. There's now us (Hillsborough) and others in Dronfield and Doncaster.

rob is a graded black belt at bjj so is big brian think they are the only two in sheffield?

There are NO BJJ black belts in Sheffield, in fact there's only about 5 or 6 or so in the country i think - the two guys you mention certainly aren't two of them

i am sure rob shehan told me royce graded him to black belt and gave some other guys in his club blue belts??

See you next Monday :thumbsup:

Actually... I think claw is on to something...

I went to a Royce seminar ages ago at CBBA, he rolled with Andy and gave him another stripe to his blue belt, and rolled with Rob and I think said 'You can wear any belt you want!'.

But I never knew whether he was serious or not.

I haven't seen Rob in years but if I do bump into him I'll have to ask.

However, to be honest I wouldn't call Rob a BJJ instructor, he's an excellent martial artist but I don't think his technique comes from BJJ.

Brian doesn't teach BJJ. I don't know what belt he is in it (though I'd be surprised if he doesn't have one!) but he teaches trad. jujitsu and general grappling which incorporates several styles... but isn't purely BJJ.

rob is a 3rd dan i think at jujitsu and a 2nd dan at judo and i am sure black at bjj, although he incorporates other styles which he has picked up along the way, he and brian trianed for a while in wtf taekwondo, think brian got to black at cbba

It's just the BJJ bit that I find odd, black belts are usually ridiculously hard to get, as anvil says there are no more than 5-6 in the country and it's highly unusual for someone to go straight to black, especially when as far as I know he hasn't really trained BJJ. But then I did see Royce say that with my own eyes so I don't know.

hes a black belt in traditional jiu jitsu i think, but not in BJJ.

There are fewer belts in BJJ, blue, purple, brown and black

theres a big difference between traditional and brazilian:thumbsup:

Originally posted by BarraGergus
theres a big difference between traditional and brazilian:thumbsup:

thought I was on another thread for a moment!:heyhey:

there are only 3 british BJJ blackbelts in the UK.

Jude Samuel
Marc Walder
Rick Young

there are brazilian black belts teaching throughout the UK,
Roger Gracie, Braulio Estima, Pepe Schrembri, Felipe Souza and others who visit from time to time.


Crayfish: the conversation you heard was probably about rob only having his Blackbelt (TJJ) to wear and was asking royce if it was ok to wear it out of respect. Royce believes that belts are only to hold your trousers up and you can where what you want as long as you can back it up.

I stand corrected, that would be what I heard. I might be heading up London way next year if I get one of the PhD's I've applied for - might see you then.

All the best

Chris (Ford).

ey up andy, :D

abit late but congrats on the purple

Does Ross still train down at the 393 club?

Nope. Not seen him for ages. Have fun on Monday - I have exams next week but I'll hopefully bump into you at BJJ sometime after that!

Originally posted by claw
rob is a 3rd dan i think at jujitsu and a 2nd dan at judo and i am sure black at bjj, although he incorporates other styles which he has picked up along the way, he and brian trianed for a while in wtf taekwondo, think brian got to black at cbba

This seems to have been cleared up already, but just for good measure :hihi:

when nilson lopes was over here Rob was wearing a blue belt for BJJ

I'm going to be turning up next week, hope Its not too painfull.

I had a go at Cycling with a group, and suffered saddle soreness.

After 4 hours in the countryside with the cycling group, my backside was extreemly sore.

Is this BJJ safe ? for beginners?

Yup. We're nice and won't kill you on your first visit (second, maybe!). :)

We do have a few beginners who attend so you won't be on your own. There shouldn't be anything too painful but we do some fitness work - if there's anything you can't handle no one will mind if you just sit out for that bit !

More fun than cycling, too.

See you next week

Chris