Beginner martial arts classes in Manchester, United Kingdom
Browse 9 martial arts gyms in Manchester. Compare styles, prices, free trials, kids and beginner classes. Open a gym for its timetable and contact details.
Fighting Fit Manchester
A martial arts gym on Millow Street in the Green Quarter, established in 2008, teaching Brazilian jiu-jitsu, MMA, boxing and kickboxing. Each discipline has a beginners’ course alongside intermediate and advanced classes, and there are junior BJJ and youth MMA sessions.
SBG Manchester
A Brazilian jiu-jitsu and MMA academy on Sheffield Street, about five minutes’ walk from Piccadilly station, established in 1999. The timetable also includes no-gi grappling, wrestling, boxing and kickboxing, with a beginners’ MMA course and kids’ BJJ classes.
Union Academy
A Brazilian jiu-jitsu and kickboxing gym on the Crown Industrial Estate off Poland Street in Ancoats, running since 2013. BJJ is gi-only in the Carlson Gracie lineage, with fundamentals and advanced classes, and there is a women-only BJJ class on Sunday mornings.
Stealth BJJ
A Brazilian jiu-jitsu club on Bourne Street in Chadderton, just off junction 22 of the M60, led by fifth-degree black belt Steve Campbell. It runs gi and no-gi classes, a beginners’ programme, women-only classes, daily open mats and kids’ classes from age two.
Taekwondo Machine
An Olympic-style taekwondo club based at the National Taekwondo Centre at Ten Acres Lane Sports Complex in north Manchester, established for over ten years. It runs beginners’ and advanced classes every weekday for children from four and adults, plus family sessions and women-only training.
Moss Side Fire Station Boxing Club
A community boxing club based at Moss Side Fire Station, founded in 2008 by three local firefighters and now a registered charity. It runs junior beginners’ boxing, mixed adult boxing fitness, a ladies-only session and training for carded amateur boxers.
St John’s ABC
An England Boxing amateur club at St John’s Centre on Chequers Road in Chorlton, coached by qualified England Boxing coaches. It runs junior and senior beginners’ sessions and senior sessions on weekday evenings, with an invite-only Friday squad.
Maccabi Krav Maga
A Krav Maga club at the Manchester Maccabi community and sports club on Bury Old Road in Prestwich. It runs junior and teen boys’ classes, an adult beginner and intermediate class, an advanced class and a women-only class led by a female instructor.
Ching Mo Wing Chun
A wing chun kung fu school led by Master Billy Davidson in the Ip Man lineage through Ip Ching, training at St Matthew’s Community Hall in Stretford. It holds adult all-levels and sparring classes, a monthly beginners’ induction and a Saturday children’s class for ages 6 to 15.