No-gi jiu jitsu · SE Grand Ave, Portland
Practice Modern Jiu Jitsu
54 classes a week on 2,500 square feet of mat in Portland’s Central Eastside. Three levels, so you train with people moving at your speed. No experience needed.
First class free · Month‑to‑month · No contracts
Getting started
Walking in is the hard part
After that it is three steps, and we handle most of them. Nobody is going to throw you into a live round on day one.
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Book a class
Pick anything on the schedule that fits your day. No experience needed, no gear required. Tell us you’re coming, or just turn up ten minutes early.
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Show up
A t-shirt and shorts you can sweat in is the whole kit list. A coach will walk you through where to stand, how to fall, and when to tap. Your first class is on us.
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Join the gym
If it clicks, sign up. Month-to-month, no contracts, pause anytime you need to. If it doesn’t, you’ve lost an hour and gained a story.
Programs
Four ways onto the mat
Adults, kids, a women’s-only room, and striking. Every one of them runs on the same curriculum-first idea: you should always know what you’re learning and why.
Adult Jiu Jitsu
Our no-gi system, split into three levels so a first-timer and a purple belt both get a room that fits. Morning, midday and evening, plus leg locks, rubberguard, judo for no-gi and Friday open mat.
- LV1 Foundations
- LV2 Integrated
- LV3 Advanced
- Ages 16+
Kids Jiu Jitsu
Lil Legends, Kids and Teens, run separately because a five-year-old and a fifteen-year-old need different rooms. No striking, coach-picked partners, and parents welcome to watch from the mat edge.
- Lil Legends 4–6
- Kids 7–12
- Teens 13–16
- After school
Women’s Only
Friday at 5:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM, women only, running the same technical curriculum as every other class in the building. A good front door — and a good permanent home.
- All levels
- Twice a week
- Competition team
- Mixed classes open too
Bang Muay Thai
All eight weapons — fists, feet, knees, elbows — through Duane Ludwig’s system. Four nights a week, straight after the evening jiu jitsu block, so you can stack both. No sparring required, ever.
- Official affiliate
- 4 nights a week
- Gloves provided
- No fighting required
The curriculum
Which room do you belong in?
Plenty of gyms put a nervous beginner into whatever class happens to be running. We split the no-gi system into three tiers, and every class on the schedule is labelled with the one it is.
| LV1 Foundations | LV2 Integrated grappling | LV3 Advanced performance | |
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| Experience needed | None at all | Any, including none | An established base |
| Classes a week | 4 | 14 | 15 |
| Live rounds | Light and supervised | Full live rounds | Long, high pace |
| Partners | Chosen by a coach | You choose | You choose |
| What you work on | Positions, transitions, breakfalls, tapping early | The 10th Planet system in sequence — lockdown, rubber guard, the truck | Leg entanglements, back exposure, finishing chains |
| Good if you… | have never grappled and want to start properly | want the room most members train in most of the week | already roll and want to be pushed harder |
| See it on the board | LV1 times | LV2 times | LV3 times |
Not sure? Come to an LV1. If there isn’t one at a time that works, come to an LV2 anyway and tell the coach it’s your first day — that room is built to absorb beginners.
The academy · 1735 SE Grand Ave
2,500 square feet, and room to actually roll
One large mat room in the Central Eastside, a block off the Morrison and Hawthorne bridgeheads. Zebra mats end to end, a heavy bag, a pull-up rack, and a shelf of Thai pads and shin guards that gets used every night of the week.
- First class
- 6:30 am
- Last finish
- 8:30 pm
- Open mat
- Friday
What 10th Planet is
No gi. No collar grips. No guesswork.
A no-gi system built around body mechanics instead of clothing grips, so what you learn transfers straight to competition, MMA and self-defence without needing to be translated first.
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2003
Royler at ADCC
Eddie Bravo submits Royler Gracie with a triangle at the ADCC world championship — while still a brown belt. That result is what put the system on the map.
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2003
The first school
Bravo opens 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu in Los Angeles, having earned his black belt under Jean-Jacques Machado. No gi, no kimono, rank shown on the rashguard.
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2013
Portland opens
10th Planet Portland opens on the east side of the river and starts teaching the same curriculum, in order, to whoever walks in. Still here, still on SE Grand Ave.
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Today
100+ schools
The system runs in more than a hundred academies worldwide, taught in the same sequence, so a purple belt from here is a purple belt anywhere in it.
- LockdownHalf guard that attacks from underneath
- Rubber guardYour leg breaks posture, hands stay free
- The truckBack takes, the twister, heel exposure
- Leg locksTimetabled, not picked up by accident
From the mats
Rated 5.0 on Google
117 reviews and not one below five stars. Most of them mention the same thing, and it is the room rather than the moves.
The second you walk in, they’re ready to make your jiu jitsu experience fun.
Best decision I’ve ever made was enrolling at 10th Planet. From the very beginning everyone was super warm and welcoming.
The gym has a supportive community that brings out the best in everyone.
Modern jiu jitsu gets made here every day. Zero pretentiousness.
The 10th Planet culture is amazing, one of the best I have ever experienced.
Best gym ever. I love this place, everyone there is so cool and nice. I always have fun here.
Mat pass Admit one
Your first class is free. Come find out.
Book anything on the schedule. Wear a t-shirt and shorts. We handle the rest.
- Wear
- A t-shirt and shorts. Nothing else needed.
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