Martial arts classes in Bristol, United Kingdom
Browse 30 martial arts gyms in Bristol. Compare styles, prices, free trials, kids and beginner classes. Open a gym for its timetable and contact details.
Bristol Boxing Gym
Train at The Mill in Easton, with boxing sessions for people starting out and those building their skills. Bristol Boxing Gym welcomes different fitness and experience levels, with classes and personal training available.
Round One
A dedicated boxing and strength gym near Netham Park, with Boxfit classes and one-to-one coaching. Its official site welcomes newcomers and more experienced trainees, with junior and women-only sessions in the programme.
Bristol Girls Boxing Club
An all-female boxing club in Avonmouth offering boxing technique, fitness, strength work and sparring. Group sessions are open to different experience levels, with a separate session for carded competitors.
Sweat Box Gym
An independent South Bristol gym with a dedicated boxing class alongside its wider martial arts and fitness programme. Boxing sessions cover pad work, technique and conditioning, with sparring for more advanced participants.
Smelters Boxing — NSC ABC
National Smelting Company Amateur Boxing Club is based in Avonmouth. Its official website describes a club with roots in the 1930s, supported by a team of boxing coaches.
Broadplain Boxing Club
An amateur boxing club at the Riverside Youth Project on Clement Street. Broadplain welcomes different experience levels and has a training space with two rings, heavy bags and speed bags.
Skemers ABC at Eightyone Gym
A community boxing club based at Eightyone Gym in Bedminster. Skemers runs separate sessions for younger beginners, carded boxers and adults, with the current host gym publishing the class programme.
Paddy Johns Gym
An established boxing gym in Warmley, home to amateur and professional boxing training. March 2026 Bristol Live reporting confirms coach Andy O’Kane continues to train young boxers at the gym. Contact the club for current sessions and joining arrangements.
Downend Boxing Club
A volunteer-run amateur boxing club at the Harry Crook Centre in Fishponds. The club supports young people and competitive boxers, with links to university boxing teams. Ask the club about the right session before attending.
Barton Hill Amateur Boxing Club
A community amateur boxing club now training at City Academy Bristol while it seeks a permanent home. The school's official announcement welcomes young people at different experience levels, whether they want fitness training or competitive boxing.
Kennedy’s Boxing Club
A community boxing club in the grounds of the Sartan Club in Bishopsworth. Kennedy’s combines youth sessions with a pathway for boxers who want to progress towards competition.
Noble Art Boxing Bristol
An independent boxing gym on Frogmore Street, run by Jonny Para. The compact city-centre venue offers personal coaching and private or corporate training by arrangement.
One Step Ahead MMA & Fitness
Clifton MMA gym led by Nad Narimani, with dedicated adult and children’s boxing sessions alongside MMA, grappling and kickboxing. Complete beginners are welcome.
Impact Gym Bristol
A mixed martial arts gym in Soundwell with a dedicated all-levels boxing class alongside MMA, grappling and kickboxing. Its boxing programme focuses on skills and technique as part of the wider striking schedule.
Trojan Free Fighters Bristol
A St Jude’s martial arts gym offering dedicated boxing classes alongside MMA, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai. Boxing is available through its striking and unlimited membership options.
Bristol Fitness Gym
An independent gym in a converted Methodist church on Clouds Hill Road. Its boxing area includes a ring and punch bags alongside the gym’s weights and cardio equipment. Boxing coach Dan Sarkozi advertises private coaching at this venue.
EPiC Martial Arts & Fitness — Bradley Stoke
A purpose-built martial arts and fitness centre in Bradley Stoke. Its official live timetable lists a separate children’s boxing class for ages 7 and above, alongside the wider martial arts and fitness programme.
Greenway Community Gym — Boxing Zone
A community gym in Southmead with a dedicated Boxing Zone. Greenway hosts boxing programmes with Empire Fighting Chance alongside its wider gym and fitness offer; access to a programme may differ from ordinary gym use.
The Pit Gym
A martial arts gym in Warmley whose official homepage advertises boxing alongside MMA, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai. Its published timetable currently lists MMA, BJJ and wrestling; contact the gym to check dedicated boxing availability.
Artemis BJJ
Artemis BJJ teaches Brazilian jiu-jitsu on the second floor of 7 Easton Road, just off the Lawrence Hill roundabout, with further sessions at The Exercise Club in Clifton. The club runs a dedicated beginners’ class, a women-only class on Wednesday evenings and kids’ and teens’ classes on Sunday mornings.
Bristol Karate Academy — Westbury-on-Trym
Bristol Karate Academy teaches traditional Shotokan karate at Westbury Village Hall on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The classes are mixed for children aged 7 and over and adults, from beginner level upwards.
Kamon Wing Chun — Bradley Stoke
Kamon Wing Chun runs a Tuesday evening wing chun kung fu class at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, taught by instructor Phil Baker. The class teaches the Kamon wing chun system with aspects of other systems such as boxing, and takes adults and teenagers aged 14 and over.
Wing Chun Youth — Easton
Sifu Paul Anderson teaches wing chun at Felix Road Adventure Playground in Easton on Monday evenings, with a youth session for ages 9 to 18 before the adult class. The club also runs Thursday sessions in Bedminster.
South West Shaolin Academy
South West Shaolin Academy teaches traditional southern Shaolin kung fu, including Hung Gar Kuen, Lau Gar and wing chun, at the community centre on Kingswood High Street. Adult classes run on Tuesday evenings and are followed by free sparring.
Bristol Krav Maga — City Centre
Bristol Krav Maga is a Krav Maga Global affiliate running mixed adult classes for ages 16 and over at Bristol Cathedral Choir School on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. A second pair of weekly classes runs at Orchard School in Horfield.
Bristol Titans Krav Maga
Bristol Titans is a British Krav Maga Association licensed academy on the Kingswood Estate, teaching in Bristol since 2010. Adult classes last 90 minutes and combine striking, clinch work, grappling, sparring and self-defence drills, and the club also runs kids’ classes.
Bristol School of Tai Chi
The Bristol School of Tai Chi teaches tai chi and chi kung for health, fitness and martial arts. Its main Bristol venue is the Kelvin Players Hall on Gloucester Road, with classes on Tuesday mornings and Thursday evenings, and the school runs further weekly classes in Bedminster, Henleaze and St George.
Harmony Arts Association — Frenchay Tai Chi
The Harmony Arts Association runs an Old Style Tai Chi class for health at Frenchay Quaker Meeting House on Monday evenings. Women and men of all ages and fitness levels are welcome, and the association holds a second Monday class in Patchway.
Tai Chi Body & Mind — Fishponds
Tai Chi Body & Mind teaches the Taiji 37 form and Qigong exercises from the Taijiwuxigong system. Its Thursday morning class for beginners and improvers meets at the Beechwood Club in Fishponds.
Revolution Taekwon-Do — Ashton Park
Revolution Taekwon-Do trains in the school hall at Ashton Park School on Tuesday and Friday evenings, in a class for children aged 11 and over and adults. One monthly fee also covers the club’s classes in Hengrove and Bradley Stoke, up to six nights a week.