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Learning jiu-jitsu in Guarulhos and the northern belt, Greater São Paulo
This guide covers the 35 rooms of Guarulhos and the belt north of the capital — Mairiporã, Franco da Rocha, Caieiras and Francisco Morato along the Juquery valley, out east to Santa Isabel. Nobody here publishes a price: not one monthly plan, not one day rate anywhere in the zone. What the zone gives instead is time on the mat. NS Brotherhood offers a full free week — a 'semana de cortesia' at its Unidade Matriz, the first free week recorded in São Paulo — and Alliance Guarulhos opens with a free individual class: in the room's own words, just you and the professor. For someone just starting, the real question is not "which academy is best" but "which one fits me."
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Alliance Jiu Jitsu Guarulhos
Who this academy suits
The Alliance room that resolved from a name to the zone's best-published door in one session — and the only room in the São Paulo record offering a free PRIVATE first class: 'Agende já sua aula individual gratuita! Vagas limitadas – só você e o professor' — just you and the professor, before you ever join a group. The rest of the funnel is equally spelled out on alliancejjguarulhos.com.br: 'Garanta sua aula experimental gratuita', 'QUERO MINHA AULA GRÁTIS', even 'Sua primeira aula é por nossa conta' — and, unusually for an Alliance page, no day-pass and no prices at all; everything books through WhatsApp (11) 97146-4775. The mats run the network's Método Alliance ('16x campeã mundial', by the network's own count), behind the longest published hours in the zone — 6h to 22h on weekdays, Saturday mornings — at Av. Barber Greene, 874, Jardim Santa Clara
Why we say it: Address (three-times verbatim), hours, WhatsApp line, and every trial phrase — including the individual-class offer — are alliancejjguarulhos.com.br's own text, quoted byte-exact (fetched 2026-08-11); the IG bio is the og-layer + imginn read of the same date; the first-individual-trial-in-São-Paulo finding, the no-diária observation against the city's Alliance /planos pattern, and the name-row resolution (NET §3 id3120 → addressed) are the verification ledger's records
Franchise networkFree trialEarly morning classes
Your first visit
- Free trial
- Own-site verbatim: 'Garanta sua aula experimental gratuita' (secure your free trial class) · 'QUERO MINHA AULA GRÁTIS' (I want my free class) · 'Sua primeira aula é por nossa conta' (your first class is on us) — plus the first individual-format trial recorded in São Paulo: 'Agende já sua aula individual gratuita! Vagas limitadas – só você e o professor' (book your free individual class now! Limited spots — just you and the professor). Book via WhatsApp. No diária: unlike the Alliance /planos rooms, this page publishes no day rate and no prices at all
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- Av. Barber Greene, 874, Jardim Santa Clara, Guarulhos, 07120-260
- Front-desk hours (not class times)
- Mon–Fri 06:00–22:00, Sat 09:30–12:00, Sun closed ('Segunda a Sexta: 6h às 22h — Sábado: 9:30h às 12h — Domingo: Fechado') — the longest published hours in the zone
Gracie Barra Bom Clima (Guarulhos)
Who this academy suits
The flagship of Guarulhos's Gracie Barra family — the only GB room in the municipality with its own live website, and the room that carries the generic @graciebarra_guarulhos handle while branding itself GB Bom Clima. The site is a working funnel: 'VENHA FAZER UMA AULA EXPERIMENTAL', 'AGENDE SUA VISITA' and repeated 'QUERO CONHECER' buttons, with two phone lines published ((11) 2405-2990 and (11) 94218-5997) and no prices anywhere — you book the trial and talk to the room. The professor is own-named: Giovane Gioli Pereira, a jiu-jitsu black belt (4th degree per the room's bio) who also holds black belts in taekwondo, hapkido and kickboxing, training since age 13 by the site's own telling. The door is Av. Tiradentes, 4069 — a street number the room's own site settled after the federation registered the address twice, one door apart
Why we say it: Address, phones, professor biography and every trial CTA are graciebarraguarulhos.com.br's own text, quoted verbatim (fetched 2026-08-11); the IG display/bio cross-match is the og-layer + imginn read of the same date; the twin-record resolution (CBJJ 5777/5826, 4065→4069) and the flagship-vs-GB-Centro distinction are the verification ledger's records
Franchise networkFree trial
Your first visit
- Free trial
- Own-site verbatim: 'VENHA FAZER UMA AULA EXPERIMENTAL' (come do a trial class) + 'AGENDE SUA VISITA E FAÇA UMA AULA EXPERIMENTAL' (book your visit and take a trial class) + repeated 'QUERO CONHECER' (I want to check it out) CTAs. No prices are published
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- Av. Tiradentes, 4069, Jardim Bom Clima, Guarulhos
- Instructors
- Professor Giovane Gioli Pereira, per the school's own site (jiu-jitsu black belt — 4th degree per the bio — with taekwondo, hapkido and kickboxing black belts alongside)
Phone (11) 2405-2990 · (11) 94218-5997 Website Naver Map Apple Maps
Gracie Barra Jardim Aida (Guarulhos)
Who this academy suits
The sobreloja above the market: Gracie Barra Jardim Aida trains on the upstairs floor above Mercado Matsuo at Alameda Yayá, 696 — an address worth spelling out because the GB locator still sends people to number 814 down the street; the room's own site names 696 twice, landmark included. The funnel is the standard GB trial, in the room's own words: 'VENHA FAZER UMA AULA EXPERIMENTAL COM A GENTE!' with 'QUERO CONHECER' buttons and no prices published — call (11) 99599-4378 (mind that the same page's footer prints -4377; the site disagrees with itself by one digit). The professor is own-named with unusual biographical depth for the zone: Roniere Fernandes de Souza Nascimento, born 1987 in Petrolina, Pernambuco, the room's professor since September 2021
Why we say it: Address (twice, with landmark), professor biography, trial CTAs and both phone strings are www.graciebarrajdaida.com.br's own text, quoted verbatim (fetched 2026-08-11); the 696-supersedes-814 ruling and the misdial-float classification are the verification ledger's records (§DEFECTS 6/7)
Franchise networkFree trial
Your first visit
- Free trial
- Own-site verbatim: 'VENHA FAZER UMA AULA EXPERIMENTAL COM A GENTE!' (come do a trial class with us!) + 'QUERO CONHECER' (I want to check it out). No prices published
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- Alameda Yayá, 696, Jardim Aida, Guarulhos (sobreloja above Mercado Matsuo)
- Instructors
- Professor Roniere Fernandes de Souza Nascimento, per the school's own site — born 1987 in Petrolina, Pernambuco; the room's professor since 19 September 2021
Phone (11) 99599-4378 (the site's header number — the same page's footer carries -4377, one digit apart; both recorded) Website Naver Map Apple Maps
Legacy Fight Club (Guarulhos — jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai; 'single headquarters, no branches' since 2017, per its own bio)
Who this academy suits
The most fully published independent in Guarulhos: Legacy Fight Club runs one room and says so in its own bio — 'Sede única, Sem filial' since 2017 — on the sobreloja at Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima 1122, Jardim Cocaia, with the address byte-identical across its site footer, its Instagram bio and the federation record. It is also the rare room in the zone with a full published grade: kids jiu-jitsu in two age bands, adult morning and evening classes, GI/NoGi split on Fridays, Saturday open mat, Muay Thai alongside. The visitor path is spelled out twice in its own words — 'Agende uma aula!' on the site, 'Agende agora sua aula experimental!' in the bio — through +55 (11) 99959-5049. No prices are published. Two traps the record clears in advance: the real site is legacyfightclub.com.br (the .com belongs to a gym in Canada), and the live Instagram is @legacyfightcluboficial (the old @legacy_dojo handle is dead)
Why we say it: Address, phone, bio identity line, both trial CTAs and the grade shape are the own site + recovered IG bio verbatim (fetched 2026-08-11; bio/site/CBJJ address byte-match); the robots-shell instrument fact, the Canada homonym, the renamed handle and the same-building Team Ilan note are the verification ledger's records
Schedule verified Free trialKids classesNo-gi
Your first visit
- Free trial
- Own-site verbatim: 'Agende uma aula!' (book a class!) and the IG bio: 'Agende agora sua aula experimental!' (book your trial class now!) — book via the site or the WhatsApp line. No prices published
- Class schedule
- The own site publishes a full schedule page: kids jiu-jitsu in two age bands (4-7 / 8-14), adult morning and evening turmas, GI/NoGi Fridays, Saturday open mat (treino aberto), plus Muay Thai. Check exact class times on the site's schedule page before visiting
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 1122 - Sobreloja, Jardim Cocaia, Guarulhos, 07130-000
NS Brotherhood BJJ (Guarulhos — the 'New School' Brotherhood team, founded late September 2015 per its own site)
Who this academy suits
The room with São Paulo's most generous published welcome: NS Brotherhood — the 'New School' team a group of training partners founded in late September 2015, led by Mestre Augusto Ferrari, a five-time Brazilian champion by the site's own count — publishes the only free WEEK in the entire São Paulo record: 'Ganhe uma semana de cortesia na Unidade Matriz'. Every other free offer in the city is a single trial class, and the one other week-shaped product (011 Lab's) costs R$ 350 — here the week is a courtesy. The honest catch: the site names its matriz without printing a street; the federation records put the headquarters at Av. Dr. Timóteo Penteado 560, Vila Progresso, with a likely second room on Av. Itaporã de Goiás. And skip the Instagram — both handles are dead, including the one the site's own footer links; the working funnel is the site itself
Why we say it: The free-week offer, the founding history, and the Ferrari head-coach line are nsbrotherhoodjiujitsu.com.br's own text, quoted verbatim (fetched 2026-08-11; Ferrari byte-matches both federation responsibles); the first-free-week-in-São-Paulo finding (vs the 373 rooms recorded before it and 011 Lab's paid R$ 350 week), the matriz-candidate address mapping and the dead-IG-pair reading are the verification ledger's records
Free trial
Your first visit
- Free trial
- Own-site verbatim: 'Ganhe uma semana de cortesia na Unidade Matriz' (get a courtesy week at the headquarters unit) — the first free-WEEK visitor offer recorded in São Paulo: a longer free runway than any single trial class, and distinct from 011 Lab's paid R$ 350 week. The site names the matriz but publishes no street for it — the federation's Timóteo Penteado 560 is the leading candidate
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- Av. Dr. Timóteo Penteado 560, Vila Progresso, Guarulhos (the federation record — the leading candidate for the 'Unidade Matriz' the free-week offer names; the site itself publishes no street)
- Instructors
- Mestre Augusto Ferrari, leader and head coach of NS Brotherhood — 'five-time Brazilian champion, 20+ years of competition' per the site's own claims, quoted as claims
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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Academia Danilo Lima (Danilo Lima BJJ, Guarulhos — a two-unit operation) · Official siteRua Porto Velho 564, Jardim Cumbica, Guarulhos (Unit I — the Unit II street stays search-class, unpublished)Last checked: 2026-08-11
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Black Shield Jiu-Jitsu (Guarulhos) · Official siteRua Soldado Otto Unger, 153 Casa 2, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Bolivia Avance Bjj
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Bone Breaks Jiu Jitsu
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Brecht Mondragon Bjj
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CT Brothers Jiu-Jitsu (Gomes Brothers, Guarulhos) · Official siteLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Carlson Gracie Team Franco da Rocha · Official siteAv. das Saudades, 517, Vila Lemar, Franco da Rocha, 07854-000 · WhatsApp (11) 99137-1166Last checked: 2026-08-11
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Checkmat Estudio KyriosR. Laudemiro Ramos 125, sala 9, Centro, MairiporãLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Ct Espaco da Luta Ns BrotherhoodAv. Salgado Filho, 3670, Vila Bremem, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Ct GrufR. Glauco Antonio Galli, 366, Jardim Palmira, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Ct Ns Dreams
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Dojo Fernando RodriguesRua Cascata, 237, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Eduardo Farid TeamR. Keyle Emilia Lemos Santos, 225, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Equipe Galindo Jiu Jitsu
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Equipe Renan Rocha (Francisco Morato — a team operating inside the host gym Academia Base2) · Official siteProfessor Renan Rocha — 4th-degree black belt and physical-education professional, per his own accountLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Escola Delariva Guarulhos (registered as Matsumoto JJ)Rua do Rosário 14, Macedo, Guarulhos · +55 11 96715-0044 · Professor Roberto Matsumoto, 4th-degree black belt, per De La Riva's own unidade pageLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Forca Foco Tecnica FftRua Sílvio Maia, 84, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Gracie Barra Jardim Moreira (Guarulhos) · Official siteR. São Pedro da Aldeia, 30, Jardim Moreira, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Gracie Barra Macedo (Guarulhos) · Official siteAv. Paulo Faccini, 499, Macedo, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Marivan Jiu-Jitsu (Marivan Winners BJJ, Guarulhos — jiu-jitsu and judo) · Official siteRua Ana Cecilia, 122, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Nova Forca Gru
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Nova União GuarulhosRua Gabriel Teixeira 44, Jardim Palmira, Guarulhos · Professor Claudio Santos, per Nova União's own affiliate pageLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Primordial Move
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Severa Jiu Jitsu
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Shaolin Lucena BJJ (Santa Isabel — the account presents as 'Ass. Shaolin De Artes Marciais', the associação form) · Official siteAv. Brasil 445, Cruzeiro, Santa IsabelLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Somma Jiu JitsuR. Capitão Candido Galrão, 67a, MairiporãLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Team Conde JjTravessa Leon Dinis, 50, Cidade Brasil, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Team Ilan BjjAv. Brigadeiro Faria Lima 1122, 1º andar, Jardim Cocaia, Guarulhos (the same building as Legacy Fight Club, one floor up)Last checked: 2026-08-11
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Titan Jiu Jitsu (CT BRA Jiu-Jitsu Titan, Guarulhos) · Official siteR. Joveliano Martins de Araújo, 239, GuarulhosLast checked: 2026-08-11
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Vicent Costa Team
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.