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Learning jiu-jitsu in Mitte, Wedding & Moabit

This guide covers Berlin's central Bezirk — 9 rooms recorded, 6 of them with full entries. If you are in the city for a few days, the single most useful line in this file is here, in plain text on Spitfire Gym's own site in Wedding: `Die Spitfire Gym Open Mat findet jeden Sonntag von 13:00 Uhr bis 15:00 Uhr`, `ab 18 Jahren`, `kostenlos (auch für Nicht-Mitglieder)` — free, explicitly including for people who are not members — with two conditions printed beside it: register in advance, and bring ID. The same gym's memberships run `Unlimited (16+)` at 119–169 € a month, a five-check-in `Limited 5` at 79 €, and a one-off 49 € joining fee. Wedding's other anchor is Hilti BJJ, which publishes `450+ Mitglieder` and a free trial week you may use more than once — `Du kannst mehrmals kostenlos zum Probetraining kommen` — at 85 € a month for adults, `Ermäßigt 70 €`, a weekly contract at 45 €, and a 40 € joining fee. Two rooms here answer the price question without being asked. GhostGym prints `30 Euro` for a single class directly on its jiu-jitsu course record, with a three-class `SCHNUPPERKURS` at 60 €. Chimosa, on Linienstraße, sells `Drop In Class 25 € ✔️ Valid for 14 days ✔️ Book via Chimosa App` — in English, on a German channel — though jiu-jitsu is not one of its single-art subscriptions, because this house's main art is Chinese. SYNDICATE, on Chausseestraße, keeps the two jiu-jitsus apart on one timetable: `SYND Combat BJJ` on Tuesday and Thursday, a separate Japanese `Jiu Jitsu` on Wednesday and Friday, with prices answered by phone, e-mail or at the door. And Humboldt University's sports programme is open to the public: four separate BJJ-family courses with their halls, hours, instructors and fees published, including a Tuesday 20:15–21:30 Level 1/2 that runs in another club's Kreuzberg room. Its fees buy a block of weeks rather than a class, in four tiers, with the general public paying the highest. One honest note about this page: several Mitte timetables sit inside an app, a booking widget or a login, so their class times are not here. That gap is ours, not theirs. For someone just starting, the real question is not "which academy is best" but "which one fits me."

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Chimosa — a Mitte multi-art house whose primary art is Chinese (Chen-style tai chi, a Kung Fu instructor course) and which runs Brazilian jiu-jitsu as a class of its own under a heading reading 'BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU'. Its other named programmes are Muay Thai, boxing and Kung Fu + Tai Chi

Who this academy suits

A central Mitte studio at Linienstraße 127 where Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a real class with its own page and its own explanation — but not the house's main art, which is Chinese: Chen-style tai chi and Kung Fu, with Muay Thai and boxing alongside. That shows up where it matters, in the price list. Chimosa sells single-art subscriptions for Muay Thai, boxing and Kung Fu + Tai Chi, and there is no jiu-jitsu-only membership, so a reader who wants only BJJ buys a multi-art tier (from 119 € a month for ten classes) or a card — three classes for 70 €, ten for 180 €. The way in is a paid single class: 'Drop In Class 25 €', valid fourteen days, booked through the house's own app; no free trial is published, though a member's guest can come three times free. The site is English-first, worth knowing in Berlin. What we cannot give you is the timetable: the schedule page carries no BJJ time our reading can extract, and the booking lives in an app — so ask for the times when you book the drop-in

Why we say it: All bytes from the room's own channel, chimosaberlin.de, read 2026-08-17; the Wix robots file allows all and its two crawl-delay groups name dotbot and AhrefsBot only — checked, not assumed. The BJJ heading and paragraph, the address, the full labelled price matrix, the single-art subscription list, the drop-in card, the friend benefit and the e-mail are the operator's own. The timetable is withheld as ours: no BJJ time is machine-readable and booking lives in the house's app. D1's '3 Trial Classes for €20' is not on the page as read and is carried as a dated D1 observation. No belt or grantor is published for the 'Trainer for BJJ'

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Your first visit

Free trial
The published first-visit route is a paid single class, in the house's own English: 'Drop In Class 25 € ✔️ Valid for 14 days ✔️ 100 % flexibility ✔️ Book via Chimosa App'. Not a free trial. A member's guest can come three times free under its 'Bring A Friend Benefit'

Classes and cost

Membership
Multi-art tiers run 'PREMIUM 10' (ten classes a month) at 119 € on a twelve-month term, 129 € on six and 139 € on three; 'PRO 15' at 129/149/159 €; 'UNLIMITED' at 199/209/219 €. Single-art subscriptions exist for Muay Thai (119 €), boxing (109 €) and Kung Fu + Tai Chi (99 €) — and BJJ is not one of them, so a jiu-jitsu-only reader buys a multi-art tier or a card. Cards: drop-in 25 €, three for 70 €, five for 100 €, ten for 180 €. No joining fee is published

Location, instructors, contact

Address
Linienstraße 127, 10115 Berlin (Mitte) — the room's own string. A corporate-sports aggregator carries the same door and adds a line the house does not: 'Spezielle Tatami-Matten für Grappling und Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu'

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GhostGym Berlin — a small Mitte gym whose Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a real course record, not a nav label: 'Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu' / 'No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu – direkt und effektiv.' / '1 Std. 30 Min.', with a price attached. It self-counts '01 Location' and '02 Trainers'

GhostGym Berlin — a small Mitte gym whose Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a real course record, not a nav label: 'Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu' / 'No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu – direkt und effektiv.' / '1 Std. 30 Min.', with a price attached. It self-counts '01 Location' and '02 Trainers'

Who this academy suits

One of the very few Berlin rooms where a visitor can find out what a single class costs without asking anyone: GhostGym publishes '30 Euro' directly on its jiu-jitsu course record, beside the class's own description — 'No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu – direkt und effektiv', an hour and a half. For a beginner testing the water there is a better door still: 'DREI KURSE DEINER WAHL FÜR 60 €', three classes of your choice inside a month, cheaper than paying twice. The gym is small and says so — '01 Location', '02 Trainers' — and it sits in Mitte at Alte Jakobstraße 92, with boxing and kickboxing on the same timetable. Two things to settle before you travel. Nobody is named as the jiu-jitsu coach and no belt appears anywhere on the site, so if a graded instructor matters to you, ask. And the class days and times are inside a booking widget our reading cannot open — the page just says 'Tage werden geladen ...' — so the timetable is a question for the gym, not a gap on its part

Why we say it: All from the room's own channel, ghostgymberlin.com, four pages read 2026-08-17; robots 'User-agent: *' / 'Allow: /' / 'Disallow: *?lightbox=', with the crawl-delay groups naming dotbot and AhrefsBot only — checked, not assumed. The course record, its duration and 30 € price, the card matrix, the 60 € Schnupperkurs, the footer address, phone and e-mail are the operator's own. The schedule is withheld as ours: the widget's days do not render in served HTML. The second Impressum address is carried unresolved; no instructor, belt, grantor or capacity byte was found, each recorded as unfound rather than absent

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Your first visit

Free trial
A paid beginner package, not a free class: 'SCHNUPPERKURS — DREI KURSE DEINER WAHL FÜR 60 €' — three classes of your choice, valid one month, 60 €. A single class costs 30 €, so the package is cheaper than paying twice

Classes and cost

Membership
A single class costs '30 Euro', printed on the jiu-jitsu course record itself. Cards: 10 for 265 €, 15 for 375 €, 20 for 480 €, and a three-class 'Schnupperkurs' at 60 €. Two of the cards contradict themselves on validity (header versus bullet) and both readings are carried. No joining fee is published

Location, instructors, contact

Address
Alte Jakobstraße 92, 10179 Berlin (Mitte) — the room's own footer, matching the registry. Its Impressum carries a second, different address, 'Hardenbergstr. 31, 10623 Berlin', which reads as a company seat; both are carried and neither is resolved

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Hilti BJJ Berlin — a Brazilian jiu-jitsu school run on top of the registered association IMAG e.V. Berlin; its own footer reads '© 2026 Hilti BJJ Berlin · Powered by IMAG Berlin e.V.' and it publishes '450+ Mitglieder'

Who this academy suits

The largest jiu-jitsu room in Wedding, and the German headquarters of the network it belongs to. Hilti BJJ Berlin sits at Oudenarder Straße 16, publishes '450+ Mitglieder' and '140+ Kinder & Jugendliche', and runs its programme as Gi, No-Gi grappling, fundamentals, open mat and competition training. It is a commercial school built on top of a registered association — the footer says so, '© 2026 Hilti BJJ Berlin · Powered by IMAG Berlin e.V.' — which in practice means association prices with a school's timetable: 85 € a month for adults, 70 € reduced, 50 € for teenagers, 40 € for children, a 40 € one-off joining fee, and a three-month notice period a beginner should read before signing. The first visit is unusually generous for this city: 'Eine Woche kostenloses Probetraining', a free trial week, and the school adds that you can come more than once. Head coach Frank Burczynski publishes a third-degree black belt; no grantor is named on the room's own pages, so we report the belt and not a lineage. One practical thing to know before you go: the timetable is not on the website in a form we can read — it renders through a booking platform — so ask for the class times when you arrange the trial week

Why we say it: Every byte is the operator's own, read 2026-08-17 across www.hiltibjj.de (6 pages) and www.imagberlin.de (4 pages); robots on both is 'User-agent: *' / 'Allow: /', no crawl-delay, established before the first request and not inherited. Name, footer, programme, member counts, address, phone and language claim are the school's; the price matrix, joining fee, notice period and free trial week are the association's. The schedule is withheld and the reason is ours: /stundenplan.html serves zero clock times and says 'Der Stundenplan wird automatisch über CompTeam aktualisiert.', and under §19.5 the platform's host is not the operator's channel and was not fetched. The lineage is withheld under §10.10/§20.3 — the room names no grantor, and the network's own citation for its head coach's lineage is a third-party database, which was declined

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Your first visit

Free trial
Free, and more than once: 'Eine Woche kostenloses Probetraining.' — a free trial week — and 'Du kannst mehrmals kostenlos zum Probetraining kommen'. In Berlin a Probetraining is not reliably free; this room states that its own is

Classes and cost

Membership
Monthly, as published: 'Erwachsene 85 € pro Monat' (adults), 'Ermäßigt 70 €' (reduced), 'Jugendliche 50 €', 'Kinder 40 €', and a weekly contract at 'Wochenvertrag 45 € pro Monat'. One-off joining fee 'Einmalige Anmeldegebühr: 40 €'; notice period 'Kündigungsfrist: 3 Monate zum Monatsende'. Loan gis exist, with a '3 € Reinigungsgebühr' cleaning charge

Location, instructors, contact

Address
Oudenarder Straße 16, 13347 Berlin (Wedding) — the room's own current channel. Three spellings of this door exist across three surfaces ('14' in 2017, '16' now, and the registry's 'Oudenader Strasse 16'); only the room's own is published here
Instructors
Frank Burczynski — 'Head Coach · BJJ Black Belt 3rd Degree', 'Head Coach Hilti BJJ Deutschland'; a second black belt, 'Denise Krahn — Black Belt · Vorstand', is published too. No grantor is named on either of the room's own channels, so the belts publish and the lineage does not

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Hochschulsport, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin — a public university sports programme, not a club, publishing four separate BJJ-family courses: 'BJJ (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu)', a FLINTA* taster course, 'BJJ / No Gi *NEU*' and 'Gracie Jiu Jitsu Selbstverteidigungssystem'. 'Ju Jutsu' and 'Jiu Jitsu Sanuces Ryu' are separate catalogue entries, so the host draws the German discipline distinction itself

Who this academy suits

The most transparent jiu-jitsu on offer in Mitte, and you do not have to be a student to take it. Humboldt's university sports catalogue publishes four separate courses in the BJJ family — a gi Level 1/2 on Tuesday evenings, a No Gi taster on Monday afternoons, a FLINTA* taster on Friday evenings, and a Gracie Jiu Jitsu self-defence course on Wednesdays — each with its dates, hall, instructor and price on one line. The price is the unusual part: four tiers, and the last, 'für Externe', is the public. A member of the public pays 51 € for the five-week FLINTA* block, 39 € for the No Gi block, 49 € for the Tuesday course, and beginners are told they may come without a gi. Two things to plan around. These are courses, not a standing timetable: each has start and end dates and a booking window, and external bookings open six days after everyone else's, so places are worth chasing early — the seat counts live in a booking system this research may not read. And one course is shared: the Wednesday Gracie class at Modersohn-Grundschule is the same mat, hour and coach as two rostered clubs' own programmes, so it is one class with three ways to sign up

Why we say it: All from the programme's own catalogue at zeh2.zeh.hu-berlin.de, read 2026-08-17; its robots allows /cgi/webpage.cgi and disallows /cgi/ and /buchsys/, and /buchsys/ was never touched — which is why the seat counts are missing and why that gap is stated as ours. The four course records with their dates, halls, instructors, tier labels and prices, the kit line and the booking window are the operator's own. Venue addresses are withheld because the operator names halls, not streets, and the one street it gives belongs to another rostered club. The Modersohn overlap is established by comparing this catalogue's Wednesday entry with rows 83 and 84's own published schedules and coach. Instructor grades are withheld: D1 read two here and the pages as read no longer print any

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Your first visit

Free trial
The beginner route is a paid taster course, not a free class or a drop-in. Two of the four BJJ-family courses are 'Schnupperkurs' blocks and both are priced — 18/32/42/51 € and 19/25/29/39 € for the five-week run, with a member of the public paying the fourth figure. Kit: bring a drink and sportswear; a judo or BJJ gi is listed, and 'Anfänger/innen können auch ohne Gi kommen' — beginners may come without one
Class schedule
Published in full, per course, with dates, halls, instructors and prices: Friday 17:30–19:00 FLINTA* taster at Poststadion Mitte (24.07.–28.08., Calypso Hock, 18/32/42/51 €); Tuesday 20:15–21:30 Level 1/2 at Wilhelmstraße 22 Kreuzberg (25.08.–06.10., Selim Bugur, 19/32/40/49 €); Monday 14:15–15:45 No Gi taster at Boxfabrik am Ostbahnhof (14.09.–12.10., Nikita Siverts, 19/25/29/39 €); Wednesday 18:15–19:45 Gracie Jiu Jitsu at Modersohn-Grundschule (29.07.–30.09., Martin Germer, 34/59/76/93 €). These are courses with start and end dates, not a standing weekly timetable. Booking opened 01.07 at 10:00, and for external members of the public on 07.07 at 12:00 — six days later

Classes and cost

Membership
Every course carries four tiers — students, HU staff and partners, other staff and alumni, and the general public. As read: 18/32/42/51 €, 19/32/40/49 €, 19/25/29/39 € and 34/59/76/93 €. Each figure buys the whole block of weeks, not one class, and the public pays the fourth. The prices have moved since D1, when every course carried 34/59/76/93 €; only the Gracie course still does

Location, instructors, contact

Address
Four venues carry BJJ-family courses and the operator publishes a street address for none of them — it names halls: 'Poststadion Mitte Tribünengebäude Seminarraum', 'Wilhelmstraße 22 Kreuzberg', 'Boxfabrik am Ostbahnhof' and 'Modersohn-Grundschule'. Only the second has a street, and it is another club's mat — the university course runs in Berlin Martial Arts Group's room at Wilhelmstr. 22, 10963 Berlin. The other three are not guessed and not geocoded

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SYNDICATE MARTIAL ARTS — a multi-art house that runs Japanese jiu-jitsu ('Jiu Jitsu', Wed/Fri) and Brazilian jiu-jitsu ('SYND Combat BJJ', Tue/Thu) as two separate courses on one timetable. Registered as 'Shao Berlin GmbH', HRB173618 B

Who this academy suits

A Mitte house that teaches both jiu-jitsus and, unusually, does not blur them. On one timetable at Chausseestraße 102 there is 'SYND Combat BJJ' on Tuesday and Thursday — the Brazilian one, described in the house's own words as 'Technik schlägt Kraft', technique beats strength — and a separate 'Jiu Jitsu' course on Wednesday and Friday which is the Japanese art under the German DJJV. For a beginner that distinction is the whole point: book the wrong evening and you train a different sport. Two honest limits. The house publishes days and no clock times, and says so itself — 'Weitere Details erhaltet ihr per Telefon, per E-Mail oder vor Ort' — so the times come by phone or at the door. And nobody is named as the BJJ coach: the team page lists first names and arts, no belt of any colour appears anywhere, and the trial is arranged rather than walked into, with no price attached

Why we say it: All from the house's own channel, syndicate-berlin.de, seven pages read 2026-08-17; robots 'User-agent: *' / 'Disallow: /wp-admin/', no delay, established before the first request. The discipline verdict rests on /syndicate-combat/ and the timetable entry, not on the channel's generic /brazilian-jiu-jitsu/ page, which describes the sport rather than the room. Address, the three phone renderings and the GmbH registration are the Impressum's; the day-only timetable and its stated reason are the Kursplan's. No price, coach, belt or capacity byte was found by our instrument, and each is recorded as unfound rather than absent

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Your first visit

Free trial
The trial is arranged, not walked into: 'Probetraining vereinbaren'. No price and no free claim is published for it, and in Berlin a Probetraining is often sold — ask what it costs when you book. Its 'Einzeltraining' is a private lesson, not a first class
Class schedule
Days without times, and the house says so: 'SYND Combat BJJ' runs Tuesday and Thursday, and the separate Japanese 'Jiu Jitsu' course Wednesday and Friday. Its own note reads 'Weitere Details erhaltet ihr per Telefon, per E-Mail oder vor Ort' — ask by phone, e-mail or at the door

Location, instructors, contact

Address
Chausseestraße 102, 10115 Berlin (Mitte) — the room's own string, one venue

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Spitfire Gym Berlin ('Spitfire Gym GmbH') — one of the metro's largest jiu-jitsu rooms by registered athletes, publishing four named levels: 'Introduction Class' for newcomers, 'Fundamentals', 'Advanced: Ab Blaugurt' (blue belt and up) and 'All Level'

Who this academy suits

If you are passing through Berlin with a gi bag and one free afternoon, this is the address to write down. Spitfire Gym publishes, in plain text on its own site, a Sunday open mat from 13:00 to 15:00 that is free — explicitly including for non-members — with two conditions stated just as plainly: register beforehand, and bring an identity document. Nothing else in this city answers a visitor's question that directly. The room behind it is one of the biggest in Berlin: a GFTeam gym in Wedding whose head coach is published as the network's Europe chief, with sixteen black belts named on its own page and a four-level structure starting at an 'Introduction Class' for absolute newcomers. Members pay a 49 € joining fee and from 79 € a month for five visits, 119 € for unlimited on the longest term. Two honest limits: the weekly timetable is an image and a download, so apart from the open mat the class times are not something our reading can give you; and although sixteen black belts are named, no grantor is published for any, so we report the belts as the gym's own claim and not a lineage. The way in is from Ungarnstraße, not Müllerstraße

Why we say it: All bytes from the room's own channel, spitfire.berlin, read 2026-08-17; robots 'User-agent: *' / 'Disallow: /wp-admin/', no delay binding us, established before the first request. The open-mat block, four class levels, discipline sentence, the address with its entrance instruction, the joining fee, membership matrix, minors clause and free trial are the operator's own. The affiliation is confirmed twice — here through the head coach, and independently on another Berlin room's channel naming 'GFTeam Berlin/Spitfire Gym' as one place. The weekly timetable is withheld as ours: /kursplan serves an image with empty alt text plus a download. The day-card price is withheld because no figure is published. No grantor is published for any of the sixteen belts, so §10.10 keeps the lineage off the page

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Your first visit

Free trial
A free trial with no session cap: 'Du bekommst von uns ein Probetraining kostenlos, bei dem du so viele Einheiten und Kurse ausprobieren kannst, wie du möchtest.' For a traveller the better door is the Sunday open mat, free to non-members — but register in advance and bring ID
Class schedule
One session is published in text, and it is the most useful line in the city: 'Die Spitfire Gym Open Mat findet jeden Sonntag von 13:00 Uhr bis 15:00 Uhr für Grappler statt' — every Sunday 13:00–15:00, 'ab 18 Jahren', 'kostenlos (auch für Nicht-Mitglieder)' — free, including for non-members — with 'Registrierung erforderlich' and 'Ausweisdokument zwingend erforderlich': register first and bring ID. The rest of the week is an image timetable with no alt text, which our reading cannot open

Classes and cost

Membership
A one-off joining fee of 49 €. Memberships run 'Unlimited (16+)' at 119 €/month on 24 months, 139 € on 12, 159 € on 6 and 169 € on 3; 'All Access (18+)' at 158/178/198 €; and 'Limited 5' — five check-ins a month — at 79 €. Under-18s can only sign up in person with a guardian present. A day card exists and its price is not published: '10er und Tageskarten sind am Tresen im Spitfire Gym erhältlich' — buy at the desk, no figure given

Location, instructors, contact

Address
Müllerstraße 46, 13349 Berlin (Wedding) — and the entrance instruction is part of the address: 'Zugang über Ungarnstraße', you go in from Ungarnstraße
Instructors
Gabriel Rainho is the published BJJ head coach, described by the room as GFTeam's Europe chief; its /black-belts page names sixteen black belts by name. No grantor is published for any of them, so the belts publish as the room's own claim and no lineage does

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