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Learning jiu-jitsu in Melbourne
Melbourne is the guide's second Australian metro, and like Sydney it is an own-channel city: no federation publishes a readable public roll (the national body's list sits behind a login wall, re-checked for this guide), so every room here was found and verified through the operators' own websites. And the Sydney pattern holds — harder: all six full entries print a free first visit. Six for six, from the Lachlan Giles-lineage flagship in the CBD basement to the Carlson Gracie lineage door in Windsor, 24 years and 21 home-grown black belts by its own line. What almost nobody prints is a price. We cover the metro in two areas — inner Melbourne, and the belt from Coburg to Hoppers Crossing and the eastern suburbs, where seven rooms seated by the networks' own locators share their doors with this site's team directories. Each area gets the same treatment: verified facts per academy, no rankings, and the evidence behind every claim.
What a first visit costs in Melbourne
Of the 6 academies this guide covers, 4 print a free first class with no condition, 0 a free one with a condition, 0 print a price for it, 2 say to book and find out, 0 publish enrolment or enquiry details without a trial offer, and 0 have no readable first-visit terms.
Fewer than 5 academies have a published monthly rate included in the study, so this hub does not show a median.
Ask before you go
- Is the first class free for a visitor, or only for someone who intends to join?
- Is a gi lent for the first class, and what does one cost to buy?
- What does a month cost without a contract, and is there a joining fee?
Figures from version 2026-09-05 of the first-visit study; the study explains the method and links to the academy sources. The first-visit study, city by city · What jiu-jitsu costs per month · the printable first-visit kit
The areas
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Inner Melbourne
7 academies
CBD to Windsor, Prahran, Brunswick and Kensington — six full entries and every one prints a free first visit, from the Giles-lineage flagship to the Carlson lineage door (24 years, 21 black belts).
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The belt
7 academies
Coburg to Hoppers Crossing and the eastern suburbs — seven rooms seated by the networks' own locators, each sharing its door with this site's team directories.
Women's classes in Melbourne
Rooms whose published schedule or programme page prints a women's or women-only class, each with the complete recorded summary of that fact, its source and the date it was read. What academies publish for women, and what to ask before a first class
Inner Melbourne
- Carlson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Melbourne The timetable publishes — adults gi and no-gi from fundamentals to competition, women's program, kids source · 2026-08-31
- Melbourne Jiu-Jitsu Academy The program menu publishes — fundamentals, advanced, no-gi, a women's class, privates, and a kids ladder from preschoolers up source · 2026-08-31
A summary records what the page printed on the day it was read. Whether a class is women-only or mixed, and who may join, is in the summary where the academy publishes it; visitor and price facts are on the academy's card; where something is not published, ask the academy.