Kids Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Northwest Las Vegas

Not a kids Jiu Jitsu class. Wednesday at 6:00pm is our MMA class, which is open to kids and adults, so kids Jiu Jitsu runs Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. MMA adds striking, which Jiu Jitsu deliberately does not have, so it is a different proposition for a child. Call us on (844) 751-0062 and we will tell you honestly whether it suits your child, because that depends on their age, size and temperament.

They have aged out of it, but they are not too old to train, and this is a good age to start. The kids class runs to age 12. From 13 a teenager trains in the adult Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class, Monday to Friday from 7:00 to 8:30pm, which is all levels and takes complete beginners. Teenagers do well in that room: they are matched sensibly, they train with adults who are there to help rather than to win, and they get treated like the young adults they are rather than like children. If you would rather they start on a quieter night, call us on (844) 751-0062 and we will tell you which nights suit a first-timer.

We take kids from age 4 through 12 in the kids program. Four and five year olds are working mostly on coordination, listening, and getting comfortable moving on the mat, and the class is structured so they succeed at that. From about six up, the technical instruction gets real: positions, escapes, and controlled live training with partners their own size. Come watch a class or bring them in for their two free classes, and we will tell you honestly whether they are ready or whether you should wait a few months.

It is one of the safer martial arts precisely because there is no striking. Nobody is punching or kicking your child. Jiu Jitsu emphasizes the use of leverage and technique over the use of size and strength, so children learn to defend themselves by subduing an opponent in a safe way. Kids are matched by age and size, submissions are taught with control and released immediately, and instruction is supervised the entire class. Injuries in our room look like mat burn and sore muscles, not concussions.

Two answers, ours and the research's, because they do not currently agree. What we think: it does the opposite, and we have watched it long enough that we are not going to soften that. Kids who know they can handle themselves stop needing to prove it, there is no offensive striking to rehearse, and mat etiquette starts with respecting your instructor and your training partners and checking your ego at the door. What the research says: a 2026 systematic review of the longitudinal studies found no consistent directional effect of martial arts on aggression in children and adolescents, in either direction. That is an absence of consistent evidence rather than evidence that nothing happens, and it is a thin base either way. But our room is not a study, we measure nothing, and we have an obvious interest in the answer coming out our way. So we believe it, the research does not currently back us, and you should have both. Read our fuller answer in the guide on whether Jiu Jitsu is good for kids.

Comfortable athletic clothing: board shorts or workout shorts and an athletic shirt with no zippers or buttons. Sandals to get to the mat, because no shoes go on the mat itself. A water bottle. Nails trimmed. That is genuinely it. No gi is required to try, and we have clean loaner gis available. Arrive 10 to 15 minutes early on the first night so you can meet the instructor and sign the waiver without rushing.