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Learning jiu-jitsu in Queens
This guide covers the academies of Queens, from Astoria through Jackson Heights and Forest Hills to Flushing and Bayside — the borough with New York's widest spread of published visitor prices, from Renzo Gracie Queens' fully published rate card to independents with genuinely open doors. For someone just starting, the real question is not "which academy is best" but "which one fits me." This guide exists to answer that question.
Open mats in Queens
Rooms whose published schedule prints an open mat, each with the complete recorded summary of that schedule, its source and the date it was read. What an open mat is, and what a beginner does with one
- Kings Combat Forest Hills A live, dated calendar with named coaches: Fundamentals four times a week — and the Friday open mat is members-only, which a day-pass visitor should know. The class-by-class July 4th cancellations prove the calendar live source · 2026-07-29
- Una BJJ — Forest Hills Partial by honesty — the ragged table's days below row 1 are never guessed. Safe: a Saturday Fundamentals class, an evening Basics Gi, 6 AM twice a week, a long open mat, seven-day opening source · 2026-09-01
A schedule is what the page printed on the day it was read. The academy's card carries the visitor and price facts recorded for it; where admission to an open mat, or its cost, is not published, ask the academy.
Women's classes in Queens
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
- Queens Jiu Jitsu — Astoria Women's no-gi all levels, Saturday 9:45 AM — an RSVP-required slot the room calls an excellent introduction for a first timer source · 2026-09-04
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.
Map
Every academy with a full entry is pinned on the map, and neighborhood-level pins say so. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
@Jiu-Jitsu NYC — Jackson Heights
Who this academy suits
The week-long visitor on a budget: $35 buys three classes inside one week — Queens' best visitor value — into a named Foundations ladder where the professor's name is on the session and his black belt under Vitor Shaolin is now on the portal. Ask one thing when booking: whether a non-resident can buy the trial
Why we say it: The prices page publishes the $35 trial and the full card; the portal renders the Foundations ladder with instructor attribution and now the professor's black belt and lineage (re-read 2026-09-04); the Closed flag's benignity is a 25-month measurement (verified 2026-07-29)
The beginner who wants a ladder, not a pool: Foundations I–III in both rulesets, five sessions across three evenings a week — one of Queens' two explicit beginner ladders
Why we say it: The portal names all three tiers across five sessions on three evenings (re-read 2026-09-03)
Schedule verified Pricing published No-giKids classesStructured curriculum
Your first visit
- Free trial
- Three trial classes in a week for $35, Queens' best visitor value, the money one Renzo Queens drop-in costs. No residency condition is published, but absence isn't permission: ask. A drop-in now exists too: $45 a session, $55 a day pass source · 2026-09-03
- Class schedule
- The portal renders the full library with per-class instructors — a named Foundations I/II/III beginner ladder, gi and no-gi, five evenings a week. The portal's 'Closed' flag was measured across 25 months and ruled benign source · 2026-09-03
Classes and cost
- Membership
- The most detailed card in the boroughs, restructured: every tier with its own per-class maths, from $160 once a week to $299 unlimited, $50 sign-up, six-month and pay-in-full options, drop-ins $45 and day passes $55; all plans bundle striking source · 2026-09-03
- Programs
- Toddler tiers and a 2026 summer camp source · 2026-09-03
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 82-19 Northern Blvd, 2nd Floor, Jackson Heights, NY 11372 source · 2026-07-29
- Instructors
- Professor Alvaro Tautiva — named as the instructor of record on individual sessions, a rare per-class attribution — and now published as a black belt under Vitor Shaolin (December 2017) with a brown belt in judo source · 2026-09-04
City Jiu-Jitsu Academy — Long Island City
Who this academy suits
The cautious beginner: an intro class three evenings a week, and a written no-full-sparring-under-six-months rule, Queens' most protective published structure. Wear black or white, and ask the price
Why we say it: The intro nights are on the summer graphic; rules and facilities are the academy's own surfaces (verified 2026-09-02)
Schedule verified Free trialStructured curriculum
Your first visit
- Free trial
- Free — but ordered: a two-day intro comes before the trial (a real constraint on a three-day visit). And the wardrobe gate hides in the FAQ: black or white gis only, no other academies' patches, all-black no-gi — a visitor in a blue gi is out of uniform source · 2026-09-04
- Class schedule
- The summer graphic: all-levels gi at 7 AM, noon and 6 PM every weekday (Wednesday noon is no-gi), an intro class at 5 PM Mon/Wed/Fri, Saturday 11 AM all levels; the stripe-gated beginner and competition tiers of the winter key are gone source · 2026-09-02
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 10-14 50th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101 source · 2026-07-29
- Instructors
- Co-founders Daniel Paulino and Royce Chen, of Renzo Gracie Academy lineage — with neither man's rank published source · 2026-09-03
Kings Combat Forest Hills
Who this academy suits
The value-first beginner: a free first class, then the borough's cheapest published unlimited ($179 no-contract), Fundamentals four times a week, a demonstrably live calendar. Know: zero ranks published, and Friday's open mat is members-only
Why we say it: The card and the three-week calendar read are the room's own (verified 2026-07-29)
Schedule verified Pricing published Free trialNo-giKids classesStriking classes too
Your first visit
- Free trial
- A free first class, no conditions — then the $35 drop-in, orderable without a conversation source · 2026-07-29
- Class schedule
- A live, dated calendar with named coaches: Fundamentals four times a week — and the Friday open mat is members-only, which a day-pass visitor should know. The class-by-class July 4th cancellations prove the calendar live source · 2026-07-29
Classes and cost
- Membership
- Published: $179 no-contract unlimited — Queens' cheapest published membership — and a $35 drop-in, both orderable online source · 2026-07-29
- Programs
- Kids at $169 monthly or a $35 drop-in source · 2026-07-29
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 72-08 Austin Street, 2nd Floor, Forest Hills, NY 11375 source · 2026-07-29
Lifestyle BJJ — Astoria
Who this academy suits
A prospective member drawn by Queens' biggest free front door — at 'from $39 a week'. Everything else needs the phone: no times exist, no rank is published, nothing dates after 2024
Why we say it: The offer is the room's own; the absences are measured; the 2024 ceiling is the site's state (verified 2026-07-29)
Pricing published Free trial
Your first visit
- Free trial
- A free week with a free uniform — no residency condition, but written as a new-student promotion: whether a non-joining visitor qualifies is unstated. And nothing on the site dates after 2024 — call first source · 2026-09-03
Classes and cost
- Membership
- One published figure: memberships 'from $39 per week' — quoted as the academy quotes it. No plan table, no drop-in source · 2026-09-03
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 30-89 38th Street, Astoria, NY 11103 source · 2026-07-29
Phone 347-967-1471, call or text Website Naver Map Apple Maps
Lotus Club BJJ — Flushing, on Northern Blvd
Who this academy suits
A weeknight beginner who wants to watch first — allowed anytime, in writing — with a Tuesday Fundamentals waiting. Call first: is it open (the site dates to 2018), and what does it cost. And the weekend is dark
Why we say it: Everything cited is the room's own; the 2018 ceiling is measured (verified 2026-07-29)
Schedule verified Free trialNo-giStructured curriculum
Your first visit
- Free trial
- A free trial — and watching is explicitly allowed, 'anytime'. Confirm the room first; the site is old source · 2026-09-03
- Class schedule
- Four adult nights with a named Tuesday Fundamentals — and nothing Friday through Sunday, decisive for a weekend visitor. The site's newest date is 2018: confirm the grid first source · 2026-09-01
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 153-14 Northern Blvd, 2nd Fl, Flushing, NY 11354 source · 2026-07-29
- Instructors
- Andy Goo — a BJJ black belt (with kickboxing and taekwondo ranks besides), lineage unpublished source · 2026-09-03
Marlon Colorado BJJ
Who this academy suits
The business traveler the academy names: $60 for an unlimited day, cartable before any conversation, with optional sparring published. The one unknown before texting: when classes run — the schedule page has types, not times
Why we say it: Everything cited is the academy's own; the absence is measured (verified 2026-07-29)
Pricing published Free trialNo-giKids classes
Your first visit
- Free trial
- A free 3-day trial, no experience needed — with the academy's own openly stated division: the trial for locals, the $60 pass for visitors; only the word 'local' goes undefined source · 2026-09-03
Classes and cost
- Membership
- This guide's clearest visitor statement — drop-ins aimed at travelers in the academy's own words: $60 buys the unlimited day, cartable online without a conversation. Full card published, down to the $30 kimono rental and 60-day cancellation source · 2026-09-03
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 47-10 32nd Pl, Queens, NY 11101 source · 2026-07-29
- Instructors
- Professor Marlon Colorado, a 3rd-degree black belt by the academy's own account source · 2026-09-03
Phone 917-225-8826 — text to book, per the academy Website Naver Map Apple Maps
Peak Performance | Caio Terra Academy Queens — College Point
Who this academy suits
A north-Queens beginner wanting a verified franchise: the borough's only two-sided Caio Terra corroboration, entered via a genuinely good $99 month. Read the card as the guide does — the $220 registration fee makes the first regular month $440 — and phone for the timetable
Why we say it: The corroboration is three-field; the card verbatim; the schedule the one unread item (verified 2026-07-29)
Schedule verified Pricing published Franchise networkKids classesStructured curriculum
Your first visit
- Free trial
- The $99 intro month is the door — unlimited, gear included, no commitment — and the only way in without the $220 registration fee. No drop-in is published source · 2026-07-29
- Class schedule
- The self-dated grid (from 1/1/2026): nine adult BJJ sessions a week — five gi, four no-gi, including two lunchtimes and Saturday morning. No beginner-labelled class; the $99 intro month is the on-ramp source · 2026-09-03
Classes and cost
- Membership
- Published in full — with Queens' clearest price trap: a $220 registration fee on every adult membership makes the $220/mo headline a $440 first month (against Renzo Queens' $250). The $99 intro is the only way around it source · 2026-07-29
- Programs
- A kids' program runs source · 2026-07-29
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 22-20 College Point Blvd, Queens, NY 11356 source · 2026-07-29
Queens Jiu Jitsu — Astoria
Who this academy suits
The never-trained beginner — refused the drop-in and given something better: a free trial with a free gi into a class designed for white belts, no full sparring, seven sessions across three days. The 6 PM slot needs no RSVP
Why we say it: The FAQ and schedule page publish everything verbatim; the September 2026 grid places the slots (re-read 2026-09-04)
The qualifying traveler: $30 a day if you train elsewhere, and Friday's rolling session free with a year's experience — leave early and you're banned a month
Why we say it: Both rules are verbatim on the FAQ and schedule pages (re-read 2026-09-04)
Schedule verified Pricing published Free trialNo-giStructured curriculum
Your first visit
- Free trial
- This guide's clearest eligibility gate: the $30 drop-in is for people currently training elsewhere — a non-training beginner is refused it and offered the free by-appointment trial instead, gi rental included free source · 2026-09-04
- Class schedule
- The clearest beginner track in the boroughs, now on a September 2026 grid: Fundamentals Monday and Wednesday (6:15 AM, 9 AM and 6 PM gi) and Friday 6 PM no-gi, seven sessions a week, defined in writing (white-belt design, no full sparring, blues must assist). The unstarred 6 PM slots need no RSVP, the starred mornings do; wrestling runs Thursday 6 PM and Saturday 11 AM, a women's no-gi class Saturday 9:45 AM, and Friday 7:15 PM is a competition class for six months' experience and up source · 2026-09-04
Classes and cost
- Membership
- The inverse of Renzo Queens: the $30 visitor price is published, the member price withheld — 'exclusively unlimited memberships' is all the FAQ says source · 2026-09-03
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 22-55 31 Street, Queens, NY 11105 source · 2026-07-29
- Instructors
- Professor Ryan Quinn, a black belt from Renzo Gracie's own hands out of the Danaher basement by the room's account — with Professor Lizz Melville on the bench, one of only two named women instructors in the three boroughs source · 2026-09-04
Renzo Gracie Bayside
Who this academy suits
A Bayside beginner wanting the Renzo flag with a real beginner track: Basic gi nine times a week including 7 AM, under an eighteen-year Danaher black belt, with honestly gated advanced classes. What you can't learn from home: the price (a stated policy) and the trial's cost
Why we say it: The dated grid, lineage and verbatim policies are all the room's own (verified 2026-07-29)
Schedule verified Franchise networkNo-giStructured curriculum
Your first visit
- Free trial
- A trial exists and pointedly never says free — 'just give us a call to schedule.' Its cost is the ask, and no visitor policy of any kind exists in the site's 41 URLs source · 2026-09-04
- Class schedule
- The reversed verdict: a 2026-05-14 grid with Basic BJJ (gi) nine times a week including 7 AM three days — and Friday's no-gi publishing its own prerequisite in the artwork: minimum 3-stripe white belt, this guide's most explicit source · 2026-09-02
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 45-58 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, NY 11361 source · 2026-07-29
- Instructors
- Professor Doug Pelinkovic, a black belt under John Danaher out of eighteen Renzo Gracie Academy years — with two more black belts and a brown on the bench source · 2026-09-04
Renzo Gracie Queens
Who this academy suits
A Queens local ready to commit: the outer boroughs' deepest bench, 19 weekly sessions on the fall grid with 6 AM Monday and Thursday, and a fully published card — $220/mo annual, $35 to try, walk-ins fine. Two rules to know: no beginner-only class, and ask before wearing your own gi
Why we say it: The staff, membership, FAQ and schedule pages publish everything cited, dated (verified 2026-07-29)
The dawn trainer: 6 AM Monday and Thursday on the fall grid, each followed by 7 AM (down from five days in summer)
Why we say it: The fall graphic carries the two 6 AM sessions (verified 2026-09-03); the July graphic had five
Schedule verified Pricing published Franchise networkNo-giKids classes
Your first visit
- Free trial
- The inversion, published without hedging: adults pay $35 to try (deducted on signup), children try free — and 'you can show up', the friendliest walk-in line any Renzo-flagged room in the city publishes source · 2026-09-04
- Class schedule
- The fall grid has 19 adult sessions a week (down from 26), the 6 AM class only Mon (gi) and Thu (no-gi), gi Mon, Wed and Fri, no-gi Tue, Thu and Sat; but every class is still all-levels (no dedicated beginner track, unlike the Manhattan anchors), and the team-uniform legend means a visitor in another academy's gi should ask first source · 2026-09-03
Classes and cost
- Membership
- This guide's first fully published monthly card outside Brooklyn: $220/mo on an annual contract ($250 no-contract), $35 a class, $300 for ten — against 'around $300' at the same network's Manhattan satellites source · 2026-09-04
- Programs
- Kids' programs run — and children do try free source · 2026-09-03
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 32-62 Steinway Street, Astoria, NY 11103 — the network's record carries a stale different address; the room's own channel controls source · 2026-07-29
- Instructors
- Owner Tomas Duarte (1st-degree) and founder Magno Gama (4th-degree) over six named black belts — the deepest published bench in Queens, the Bronx or upper Manhattan source · 2026-09-03
Phone (347) 738-5792, call or text Website Naver Map Apple Maps
Training Zone Ozone Park
Who this academy suits
The night-shift local: 8:30 PM BJJ three nights a week — the borough's only late option — under a corroborated Renzo flag, via an unconditioned free week covering both locations. Ask who actually teaches, and the price
Why we say it: Two passes agree on the grid; the FAQ publishes the week; the conflicts are measured (verified 2026-07-29)
Schedule verified Franchise networkFree trialNo-giStriking classes too
Your first visit
- Free trial
- One week free at BOTH locations, 'absolutely no obligation' — no residency condition; whether a non-joining visitor qualifies is the ask source · 2026-09-03
- Class schedule
- Adult BJJ three hours a week, all at 8:30 PM (gi Tue/Thu, no-gi Fri) — no mornings, middays, weekends or beginner class: narrow for a traveller, unique for the night-shift local source · 2026-09-01
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 94-00 Liberty Ave, Ozone Park, NY 11417 source · 2026-07-29
Una BJJ — Forest Hills
Who this academy suits
The beginner who fears the front desk: a free week, the pass's warmest open-door sentence, no-pressure enrollment in writing, six black belts on a published chain, seven days open. Ask the drop-in price and the weekday times first
Why we say it: Everything cited is verbatim; the absences are measured (verified 2026-07-29)
The 6 AM regular: dawn classes twice a week, plus a long midday open mat
Why we say it: Row 1 carries both 6 AM slots (verified 2026-07-29)
Schedule verified Free trialNo-giStructured curriculum
Your first visit
- Free trial
- The pass's most welcoming sentence — an open-door policy for visitors and drop-ins alike, a free WEEK trial, 'no pressure to sign up' — and no drop-in price attached: Queens' highest-value open question source · 2026-09-03
- Class schedule
- Partial by honesty — the ragged table's days below row 1 are never guessed. Safe: a Saturday Fundamentals class, an evening Basics Gi, 6 AM twice a week, a long open mat, seven-day opening source · 2026-09-01
Classes and cost
- Programs
- Kids' BJJ — call ahead; enrollment pauses when full source · 2026-09-03
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- 100-33 Metropolitan Ave, Forest Hills, NY 11375 source · 2026-07-29
- Instructors
- Two 3rd-degree professors over four more black belts — down to 'the 5am instructor', all named source · 2026-09-03
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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Red Dawn BJJ & MMA — Fresh Meadows · Official site186-12 Union Turnpike, Fresh Meadows, NY 11366 · (646) 369-5062 · Michael Botier — a BJJ black belt under Carmine Zocchi (and a Kyokushin black belt), by the academy's own accountLast checked: 2026-09-03
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The Jiu Jitsu Lounge · Official site1519 Decatur St, Suite 102, Ridgewood, NY 11385 · 347-746-8555 · Professor Luis (Coach Luis Cabrera) and Professor Andrew, both head coaches at first-degree black belt by the academy's account; lineage unpublished. Antonio Camacho, a brown belt, is a testimonial author, not the head instructor · 'We love welcoming newbies to the mat' — a published welcome over an unpublished timetableLast checked: 2026-09-03
Frequently asked questions
Which academies in Queens offer a free trial?
City Jiu-Jitsu Academy — Long Island City: Free — but ordered: a two-day intro comes before the trial (a real constraint on a three-day visit). And the wardrobe gate hides in the FAQ: black or white gis only, no other academies' patches, all-black no-gi — a visitor in a blue gi is out of uniform; Kings Combat Forest Hills: A free first class, no conditions — then the $35 drop-in, orderable without a conversation; Lifestyle BJJ — Astoria: A free week with a free uniform — no residency condition, but written as a new-student promotion: whether a non-joining visitor qualifies is unstated. And nothing on the site dates after 2024 — call first; Lotus Club BJJ — Flushing, on Northern Blvd: A free trial — and watching is explicitly allowed, 'anytime'. Confirm the room first; the site is old; Marlon Colorado BJJ: A free 3-day trial, no experience needed — with the academy's own openly stated division: the trial for locals, the $60 pass for visitors; only the word 'local' goes undefined …
How do I book a trial class?
It differs by academy. Where we could verify the booking method, it is listed under "Your first visit" in that academy's entry; otherwise, asking through the academy's official channel is the most reliable route.
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.