Improve Your Fitness
Build strength, endurance, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness through engaging physical training that never feels repetitive.
Roger Gracie Academy Buckingham
Develop your grappling skills, improve your fitness and build confidence with No-Gi Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Whether you're completely new to training or looking to take your skills further, our classes offer expert coaching in a friendly and welcoming environment.
Understanding No-Gi
No-Gi Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a form of grappling practised without the traditional Jiu-Jitsu uniform, known as a Gi. Instead, students typically train wearing a rash guard and shorts.
Like traditional Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, No-Gi focuses on controlling an opponent, improving position and applying submission techniques. The main difference is that you cannot use clothing grips to control your training partner.
This creates a faster, more movement-focused style of grappling, where body positioning, timing, wrestling and control become particularly important. No-Gi is also closely connected to the grappling skills used in mixed martial arts (MMA).
At Roger Gracie Academy Buckingham, our No-Gi classes combine technical instruction, practical drilling and controlled sparring, helping students build their skills at their own pace.
Explore Traditional Gi Jiu-Jitsu →Learn to control distance, establish grips and safely bring opponents to the ground.
Develop balance, pressure and body positioning to maintain control during grappling.
Understand effective submission techniques, defensive movement and how to escape difficult positions.
Put your techniques into practice through controlled positional training and sparring.
The Benefits of Training
No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu offers much more than learning how to grapple. It's a challenging, rewarding way to improve your fitness, develop new skills and enjoy training alongside like-minded people.
Build strength, endurance, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness through engaging physical training that never feels repetitive.
Learn effective takedowns, positional control, escapes and submissions while improving your understanding of grappling.
Challenge yourself, overcome obstacles and develop confidence as your technical ability and understanding improve.
Jiu-Jitsu is often described as physical chess. Improve your problem-solving, concentration and ability to stay calm under pressure.
Train alongside supportive teammates in a friendly academy where everyone helps each other learn and improve.
No-Gi develops grappling skills that transfer naturally into mixed martial arts, including takedowns, control, transitions and submissions.
Everyone Starts Somewhere
You don't need previous martial arts experience or a particular level of fitness to start No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu. Our classes welcome people with different backgrounds, abilities and goals.
Never trained martial arts before? No problem. Our coaches will introduce you to the fundamentals, explain the techniques and help you build confidence at your own pace.
Already training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu? No-Gi offers a different challenge, helping you develop your movement, control and submissions without relying on Gi grips.
If you're interested in wrestling, MMA or submission grappling, No-Gi is an excellent way to develop your takedowns, ground control and submission skills.
Your First Session
Walking into a new gym can feel a little intimidating, especially if you've never trained before. We understand that.
Our coaches will welcome you, introduce you to the class and guide you through the session. You'll learn techniques, practise with training partners and get a feel for how No-Gi works.
You won't be expected to know anything beforehand, and you can build up to more challenging training as you become comfortable.