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Learning jiu-jitsu in north Mexico City
This guide covers the north — Gustavo A. Madero and Azcapotzalco: 4 rooms recorded, 1 with a full entry. Academia Diosdado (ADAM), on Poniente 116 in Col. Panamericana, is the area's published door, and it carries something no other room in this corpus does: a paid trial. 'Clase de Prueba: por solo $100 MXN', refundable when you enrol — everywhere else in this city the first class is free, or the price is not published at all. The other three rooms are real and we can publish very little about them. One holds a live own domain that serves a Wix demo address for its Mexico City headquarters, alongside a full timetable and price list for its room in Merced, California; the street that actually places it comes from two federation registries. One is Azcapotzalco's only rostered room, confirmed on two registry surfaces and a network's membership record. One publishes an avenue, a colonia and a postal code with no street number, which is not an address a reader can walk to. Read the thinness here correctly. The north returns about one room in five on a channel this research reads, and that is a fact about our instruments, not about the neighbourhoods: most of the rooms behind that number publish on channels we decline to read or have not located. Ecatepec, one belt east, was recorded at zero rostered rooms — the instrument improved, and rooms appeared. For someone just starting, the real question is not "which academy is best" but "which one fits me."
Map
Every academy with a full entry is pinned on the map, and neighborhood-level pins say so. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Academia Diosdado de Artes Marciales (ADAM) — its own site publishes address, contact, programmes and a priced trial class, and the federation registry carries the same street byte for byte
Who this academy suits
The one academy in the north of Mexico City that publishes its own address, its own numbers and a way in — and the only room anywhere in this research whose trial class costs money. ADAM charges $100 MXN to try a class and refunds it against your enrolment if you join, which is unusually straightforward in a city where the standard offer is a free 'clase muestra' and the standard follow-up is a conversation. It is a three-discipline house — Thai boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and MMA — on the second floor at Poniente 116 #231 in Colonia Panamericana, directly opposite the northern bus terminal and a short walk from Metro Autobuses del Norte, with more than twenty years behind it by its own account and a women's promotion it advertises separately. Two things it does not publish: any class time beyond 'morning, afternoon and evening shifts', and any monthly price. Message the WhatsApp number, 55 2138 1174, and ask which shift the jiu-jitsu runs in. One warning: the federation registry links a website that does not exist — use centraladam.com, not adam-central.com. A fit for a beginner in Gustavo A. Madero who would rather pay a hundred pesos to see the room than negotiate a free class
Why we say it: The street, both phone numbers, the programme list and the priced trial are the room's own site — centraladam.com, its home, /nosotros/ and /contacto/ pages plus its sitemap, read 2026-08-16 (robots open). The address is independently confirmed by SC 45999, read the same day with crawl-delay honored, agreeing byte for byte with a pin in the same colonia, which also confirms the earlier correction of a directory that had filed the room under Tlalnepantla. The 26-member count is not cited. No schedule or monthly price is claimed because the room publishes neither. The dead domain in the registry's Website field was probed by DNS the same day and recorded as a conflict
Pricing publishedWomen's program
Your first visit
- Free trial
- A paid trial class — the only one in this corpus. In the room's own words: 'Inicia con una Clase de Prueba: Por solo $100 MXN … (reembolsables al inscribirte)' — $100 MXN to try, refunded against your enrolment if you join. Credit and debit cards accepted
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- Poniente 116 #231, second floor, Col. Panamericana, 07770, Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City — the same address on the room's own page and on the federation registry. It is opposite the northern bus terminal, Metro Autobuses del Norte on Line 5
Phone WhatsApp 55 2138 1174 and telephone 55 9479 7436 — both published on the room's own contact page Website Naver Map Apple Maps
Academies being verified
We are re-confirming the essentials: class schedules and trial mechanics. Each academy joins the full guide once its facts meet the bar.
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Casa Chimeyo AssociationLoreto Fabela 1, Col. Campestre Aragón, Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City — the same street on both federation registries, with a map pin that falls in the same colonia. Note that the academy's own contact page shows a Guadalajara address, a fake phone number and 'info@midominio.com': those are unedited Wix template placeholders, not its addressLast checked: 2026-08-16
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Leones MirmidonesAv. 16 de Septiembre #36, Centro de Azcapotzalco, 02000, Azcapotzalco, Mexico City — the federation registry and the consumer directory agree on street, number and coloniaLast checked: 2026-08-16
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I'm a complete beginner. Can I just show up?
It differs by academy. Entries show where a fundamentals program and first-visit process are verified. For the rest, check with the academy before visiting. For what a first class actually feels like, see the beginner posts on our blog.