Beginner martial arts classes in London, United Kingdom
Browse 13 martial arts gyms in London. Compare styles, prices, free trials, kids and beginner classes. Open a gym for its timetable and contact details.
Islington Boxing Club
A long-established amateur boxing club in Elthorne Park, run under the Islington Community Sports Academy charity. It has a competitive amateur squad, an academy for beginners aged 8 to 35, recreational keep-fit boxing classes without full-contact sparring and an infants’ section for 5 to 9-year-olds.
North London Boxing Club
A boxing gym above Southgate Tube station run by owner and head coach Sedat Sag, a former international amateur boxer. It runs group boxing classes for adults and juniors under 17, plus personal training.
London Fight Factory
An independent full-time martial arts gym on Ebenezer Street, three minutes from Old Street station. It teaches Brazilian jiu-jitsu (gi and no-gi), Muay Thai, boxing, MMA, wrestling, judo and sambo, with absolute beginners’ Muay Thai sessions and kids’ BJJ classes.
Putney BJJ
A Brazilian jiu-jitsu academy in the Bowery Building on Carlton Drive, two minutes’ walk from East Putney station. It teaches gi and no-gi BJJ, fundamentals classes for beginners, women-only classes and kids’ and teens’ classes for ages 5 to 16, and has a 108 m² matted area with a sauna and cold plunge.
Grapple Collective
A grappling gym on Chapman Street, four minutes’ walk from Shadwell station, teaching no-gi Brazilian jiu-jitsu. The timetable has foundations classes for beginners, advanced classes, a women-only foundations session, daily open mats and weekday competition-team training.
Legacy Martial Arts London
A full-time martial arts academy in a railway arch on Cremer Street, a minute from Hoxton station, with a lineage going back to Bob Breen’s Hoxton school. It teaches Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Dutch kickboxing and boxing alongside Jeet Kune Do, Kali, stick fighting and capoeira, and runs BJJ and capoeira classes for children aged 5 and up.
Stance Jiu Jitsu Academy
A Brazilian jiu-jitsu academy on Woolwich High Street teaching gi and no-gi classes for adults and children aged 4 to 13. It runs a five-week beginners’ programme, a women-only programme on Saturday mornings and kids’ Muay Thai classes.
The Budokwai
A judo and martial arts club founded in 1918, with two dojos at G.K. House on Gilston Road, just off the Fulham Road. It teaches Kodokan judo to the British Judo Association syllabus, JKA Shotokan karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, with junior judo and karate classes and mini judo for young children.
Brixton Krav Maga
A Krav Maga club founded in 2015 as the first UK member club of the European Federation of Krav Maga (FEKM), training at the CC Church Hall on Trent Road, ten minutes’ walk from Brixton Hill. It runs four classes a week in Brixton, including skills and weapons-defence sessions, a Saturday class in West Norwood and “Kids Krav” classes for 8 to 14-year-olds.
London Shootfighters
An MMA gym in the Atlip Centre off Ealing Road, opposite Alperton station, open every day with more than 50 classes a week. It teaches MMA, gi BJJ, boxing, Muay Thai, kickboxing (including classes with Michael “Venom” Page) and wrestling, with a beginners’ MMA and no-gi class.
Martial Arts and Yoga (MA&Y)
A martial arts and yoga centre on Magdalen Road in Earlsfield. It teaches Krav Maga Global-affiliated Krav Maga for teens and adults, a women-only self-defence class following the Krav Maga curriculum, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu under 4th-degree black belt Roberto Almeida, including a seven-week beginners’ course and a Tiny Pandas class for 4 to 6-year-olds.
Shaolin Temple UK
A Shaolin kung fu, qigong and Chan Buddhist centre on Junction Road in Tufnell Park, led by Grandmaster Shi Yan Zi. New students start in the preparation class, which focuses on stamina, flexibility and fundamentals, before moving on to foundation and San Shou sparring classes; kids’ classes for children aged 5 and up run on weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings.
Pure Jiujitsu
A Brazilian jiu-jitsu academy founded in 2019 at The Rehearsal Rooms on Victoria Road, North Acton, with black-belt instructors who compete internationally. The timetable has fundamentals, mixed-level, no-gi, advanced and invitation-only competition classes, supervised open mats and kids’ and teens’ classes.