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Learning jiu-jitsu in Spandau

This guide covers Berlin's western Bezirk across the Havel — 4 rooms recorded, 2 of them with full entries. If you want to roll on a Sunday, the answer here is Sport Club Siemensstadt: a large multi-sport association whose Brazilian jiu-jitsu lives in the basement dojo of the Sportcentrum at Buolstraße 14, both sessions taught by the Budo department's deputy head, Joachim Böker — Friday 18:00–19:30 `JJ/Newaza/BJJ` and Sunday 13:00–14:30 `Newaza/BJJ OpenMat`. The trial is four weeks free — `4 Wochen lang kostenlos und unverbindlich` — with a seasonal blackout the club states just as plainly. Fees are a club subscription plus a department one: 30,00 € a month for adults, 20,00 € for children and young people, 22,00 € reduced. This club also publishes an intake stop, and the asterisk marking it sits on a different session, not on the jiu-jitsu — which is exactly how it is recorded here. In Hakenfelde, 10th Planet Berlin trains under Ralf Warneking, Europe's first Eddie Bravo black belt, and is the only Berlin academy carried on any network's own locator. It publishes no price, no trial class and no drop-in; what it explicitly offers a visiting traveller is a private lesson, arranged in advance — `Zu Besuch in Berlin? Privatstunden sind verfügbar`. Its class plan is served as an image, so no class time was readable, and that wall is ours. One more mat sits in this district: an association seated in Charlottenburg publishes a full Spandau timetable with the line `Zurzeit kein Training in Spandau.` printed above it — check before travelling. The remaining rows here are registrations and walls, and that gap is ours to name. Two clubs this research carried here are not on this page, and the reason is a word: German `Jiu Jitsu` on its own is not the Brazilian art. One names it in its own sentence as the unarmed self-defence art that came from the Japanese samurai; the other lists it among nine styles across a 28-sport chain. Berlin's state sports register files both under plain `Jiu-Jitsu`, which their own pages bear out — while elsewhere in this city the same register files capoeira, an Okinawan-derived Budo style and a Taekwondo house under Brazilian jiu-jitsu. A category can be right where the word that led you to it is wrong, and wrong where it looks right; both have the same fix, which is to read a club's own channel before its category. Neither club is at fault; they teach what they say they teach, and it is not where a beginner starts Brazilian jiu-jitsu. For someone just starting, the real question is not "which academy is best" but "which one fits me."

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10th Planet Berlin — its own channel prints the name as `10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Belrin` (the house's own typo) and opens with `Meistere das 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu System und lerne von Europas allererstem Eddie Bravo Schwarzgürtel Ralf Warneking` — learn the 10th Planet system from Europe's first Eddie Bravo black belt, Ralf Warneking. It is the only Berlin room carried on any network's own registry
A no-gi room in Spandau with a lineage you can actually check. 10th Planet Berlin sits at Cautiusstraße 42 in Hakenfelde, and it is the only Berlin academy carried on any network's own registry — 10th Planet's locations list publishes it, and the same registry publishes head coach Ralf Warneking as the first 10th Planet black belt in Europe under Eddie Bravo. That matters for a practical reason: this is the one room in the borough where the belt and the person who awarded it can both be found on a surface that is not the room's own marketing. What you would train is the 10th Planet system — no gi, submission-only, rubber guard and leglocks, with beginners started on base positions, terminology and a simplified leglock game — and every class is taught in German and English, which the room states itself. Two things to plan around. The weekly timetable is published as an image we cannot read, so the times we can give are the room's stated opening hours (weekday evenings, Wednesday and Friday mornings, Saturday late morning) rather than a class grid — ask for the Kursplan. And there is no trial class and no drop-in price anywhere on the channel: what this room offers a visitor is a private lesson, arranged in advance. If you want to drop into a class while passing through, that is not what is on sale here; if you want a booked hour with a system black belt, it is

Hakenfelde, Bezirk Spandau — postcode 13587, on the Havelufer-Quartier side of the borough. The postcode comes from the room's own footer; the brand's map layer names the Ortsteil separately No-giFranchise network
Sport Club Siemensstadt Berlin e. V. — the Brazilian jiu-jitsu runs inside the club's Budo department, whose dojo is in the basement of the Sportcentrum Siemensstadt. The club is registered with Berlin's sports confederation under both Japanese jiu-jitsu categories and neither Brazilian one; it was excluded from this roster on that filing until its own timetable was read. It publishes two BJJ units a week, one of them an open mat
The Spandau answer for someone who wants to roll on a Sunday. Sport Club Siemensstadt is a large multi-sport association, and its Brazilian jiu-jitsu lives in the basement dojo of the Sportcentrum at Buolstraße 14 — two sessions a week, both taught by the Budo department's deputy head, Joachim Böker, whom the club calls Achim: Friday 18:00–19:30, and a Sunday open mat 13:00–14:30. The open mat is the part worth travelling for: it is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu institution, and it turns up here inside a Japanese Budo department whose timetable otherwise reads Aikido, Judo, Ju-Jutsu, Karate and Kung Fu. Achim's brown belt is published with the person who awarded it — `erlangte Achim bei Wim Deputter den Brownbelt im Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu` — and Deputter, a Belgian black belt, has flown in twice to teach seminars in this dojo, one of them explicitly gi and no-gi. That is more of a paper trail than most rooms in the borough offer. Then the practical warnings, all from the club's own pages. The signage is wrong and the timetable is right: the department's masthead, its navigation and its fee table each name five arts and none names BJJ, so follow the Ju-Jutsu timetable and look for the SCS rows rather than the menu. The club does publish an intake stop, but it sits on four children's Ju-Jutsu classes and not on either BJJ session — the BJJ is open. And the trial is four weeks free but shuts during the Berlin school holidays; on the August day this was read, it was not running. Costs are association costs, not gym costs: 30 € a month for an adult in the Budo department, 22 € reduced, 20 € under 18, plus the club's base contribution. A fit for someone in Spandau who wants a cheap, low-key, twice-weekly habit inside a proper Verein — and especially for anyone hunting an open mat in this half of the city

Siemensstadt, Bezirk Spandau — postcode 13629, at the Charlottenburg-Nord end of the borough. The Budo department publishes five venues across three postcodes, all in Spandau, but both BJJ units run at one of them and nowhere else Free trialPricing publishedNo-gi

10th Planet Berlin — its own channel prints the name as `10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Belrin` (the house's own typo) and opens with `Meistere das 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu System und lerne von Europas allererstem Eddie Bravo Schwarzgürtel Ralf Warneking` — learn the 10th Planet system from Europe's first Eddie Bravo black belt, Ralf Warneking. It is the only Berlin room carried on any network's own registry

Who this academy suits

A no-gi room in Spandau with a lineage you can actually check. 10th Planet Berlin sits at Cautiusstraße 42 in Hakenfelde, and it is the only Berlin academy carried on any network's own registry — 10th Planet's locations list publishes it, and the same registry publishes head coach Ralf Warneking as the first 10th Planet black belt in Europe under Eddie Bravo. That matters for a practical reason: this is the one room in the borough where the belt and the person who awarded it can both be found on a surface that is not the room's own marketing. What you would train is the 10th Planet system — no gi, submission-only, rubber guard and leglocks, with beginners started on base positions, terminology and a simplified leglock game — and every class is taught in German and English, which the room states itself. Two things to plan around. The weekly timetable is published as an image we cannot read, so the times we can give are the room's stated opening hours (weekday evenings, Wednesday and Friday mornings, Saturday late morning) rather than a class grid — ask for the Kursplan. And there is no trial class and no drop-in price anywhere on the channel: what this room offers a visitor is a private lesson, arranged in advance. If you want to drop into a class while passing through, that is not what is on sale here; if you want a booked hour with a system black belt, it is

Why we say it: Identity, affiliation, address, phone and email, the curriculum and language line, the belt-and-grantor record and the private-lesson visitor product are the room's own channel, five pages read 2026-08-17 (berlin-d2-ledger-w2.md, row 25). The grantor's independent confirmation is 10th Planet's own locations registry as recorded at D1 §1e — the network's surface, not a third-party database. The unreadable Kursplan image and the absence of a price page are stated as limits of our reading. The `first`/`only` wording difference is carried in conflicts and resolved in the room's favour

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Your first visit

Free trial: ⚠ No trial class and no drop-in price is published. What this room sells a visiting traveller is a private lesson, in its own words: `Zu Besuch in Berlin? Privatstunden sind verfügbar für alle Mitglieder unserer Berliner Akademie, sowie Besucher von außerhalb … müssen bitte im Voraus vereinbart werden` — private lessons are available to members and to visitors from outside, and must be arranged in advance. No fee is attached anywhere. The visitor door here is a booked one-to-one, not a class you walk into

Location, instructors, contact

Address: One venue: `Cautiusstraße 42, 13587 Berlin` — the room's own channel serves it house-number-first (`42 Cautiusstraße, Berlin, 13587`). ⚠ Five different strings exist for this single door across the registries and the brand's own map; all are carried, and the street and number never disagree
Instructors: Ralf Warneking. Published by the room under `Gurte & Qualifikationen`: `10th Planet Jiu Jitsu black belt Promotion unter Master Eddie Bravo - 2013`, and a separate `Black belt Promotion im Stand-Up Combat unter Viktor Köhl - 2011`. The grantor is independently confirmed on the network's own registry — the only belt in this district whose grantor we can check on the grantor's own surface. ⚠ The room says `Germany's first` / `the first European`; the brand registry says `Germany's only`. The room's own word is *first*
Front-desk hours (not class times): The room's own `Öffnungszeiten` (opening hours): Mon 6–8pm · Tue 6–8pm · Wed 9–10am and 6–8pm · Thu 6–8pm · Fri 9–10am and 6–8pm · Sat 10am–12pm. ⚠ These are opening hours as the room labels them, not a class timetable — the weekly Kursplan is an image with no alt text, so we could not read it

Phone `03067060926` — the room's own contact block, verbatim and unspaced as served Website Naver Map Apple Maps

Sport Club Siemensstadt Berlin e. V. — the Brazilian jiu-jitsu runs inside the club's Budo department, whose dojo is in the basement of the Sportcentrum Siemensstadt. The club is registered with Berlin's sports confederation under both Japanese jiu-jitsu categories and neither Brazilian one; it was excluded from this roster on that filing until its own timetable was read. It publishes two BJJ units a week, one of them an open mat

Who this academy suits

The Spandau answer for someone who wants to roll on a Sunday. Sport Club Siemensstadt is a large multi-sport association, and its Brazilian jiu-jitsu lives in the basement dojo of the Sportcentrum at Buolstraße 14 — two sessions a week, both taught by the Budo department's deputy head, Joachim Böker, whom the club calls Achim: Friday 18:00–19:30, and a Sunday open mat 13:00–14:30. The open mat is the part worth travelling for: it is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu institution, and it turns up here inside a Japanese Budo department whose timetable otherwise reads Aikido, Judo, Ju-Jutsu, Karate and Kung Fu. Achim's brown belt is published with the person who awarded it — `erlangte Achim bei Wim Deputter den Brownbelt im Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu` — and Deputter, a Belgian black belt, has flown in twice to teach seminars in this dojo, one of them explicitly gi and no-gi. That is more of a paper trail than most rooms in the borough offer. Then the practical warnings, all from the club's own pages. The signage is wrong and the timetable is right: the department's masthead, its navigation and its fee table each name five arts and none names BJJ, so follow the Ju-Jutsu timetable and look for the SCS rows rather than the menu. The club does publish an intake stop, but it sits on four children's Ju-Jutsu classes and not on either BJJ session — the BJJ is open. And the trial is four weeks free but shuts during the Berlin school holidays; on the August day this was read, it was not running. Costs are association costs, not gym costs: 30 € a month for an adult in the Budo department, 22 € reduced, 20 € under 18, plus the club's base contribution. A fit for someone in Spandau who wants a cheap, low-key, twice-weekly habit inside a proper Verein — and especially for anyone hunting an open mat in this half of the city

Why we say it: Every fact above is the club's own channel, read 2026-08-17 at the host's published 10-second crawl delay (berlin-d2-ledger-w1.md §C.28): the two BJJ timetable rows, the five venues, the fee table, the four-week trial with its school-holiday blackout, the officers and both contact routes, all byte-verbatim. The belt sentence and the two Deputter seminar reports were re-verified word for word on the same pass. Two corrections are built into this file rather than inherited — the Friday BJJ is 18:00–19:30 under Achim (an earlier record was one column out of register), and the intake stop is asterisk-scoped to four children's Ju-Jutsu units and is not on a BJJ row. The grantor's own surface has not been read, so the promotion rides as the club's claim about its own coach and no lineage is asserted by us. The four non-BJJ school gyms are recorded and deliberately not pinned

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Your first visit

Free trial: A four-week free trial across the department's sections: `Wir bieten allen Interessierten die Möglichkeit, unsere verschiedenen Sektionen 4 Wochen lang kostenlos und unverbindlich auszuprobieren` — four weeks, free, no obligation. It carries a seasonal blackout the club states just as plainly: `Achtung: kein Probetraining während der Berliner Schulferien` — no trial training during the Berlin school holidays. ⚠ Read on 17 August 2026, inside the Berlin summer holidays: on that day the trial was not running. Check the school-holiday calendar before you plan around it
Class schedule: Two BJJ units, both at the SCS basement dojo, both taught by Achim (Joachim Böker), from the Budo department's own timetable: **Friday 18:00–19:30, `JJ/Newaza/BJJ`**, and **Sunday 13:00–14:30, `Newaza/BJJ OpenMat`**. ⚠ An earlier reading of this club put the Friday BJJ at 19:30–21:00 under a different trainer; that was a one-column misreading and the slot in question is an adult beginners' class. The Sunday session is an open mat — a BJJ institution, running here inside a Japanese-Budo department

Classes and cost

Membership: Membership is a club `Grundbeitrag` plus a department `Abteilungsbeitrag`. The Budo department's table: adults (25–66) `30,00 €` a month, children and young people (0–17) `20,00 €`, reduced rate (18–24, over 67, disability grade 50) `22,00 €`, siblings `21,00 €`, non-training members `23,00 €`. ⚠ That fee row names the same five arts as the masthead and again omits BJJ — so someone joining to train Brazilian jiu-jitsu pays the Budo department fee for a sport the fee table does not list

Location, instructors, contact

Address: ⚠ Five venues published, one BJJ pin. The BJJ door is `SCS — Sportcentrum Siemensstadt, Dojo der Abteilung Budo (Keller), Buolstr. 14, 13629 Berlin` — a basement dojo, and the same address the Land registry carries. Both BJJ units are marked `SCS` on the timetable and appear at no other venue. The department's four school-gym venues (Jugendweg 15 ×2, Gartenfelder Str. 81, Seecktstraße 2) are recorded and are not pinned as BJJ mats
Instructors: ⚠ The one belt in this district published with a named grantor on the operator's own channel, under the headline `BJJ Brownbelt für Achim`: `Am Samstag, dem 23. August 2025, erlangte Achim bei Wim Deputter den Brownbelt im Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu` — on Saturday 23 August 2025 Achim received his BJJ brown belt from Wim Deputter. `Achim` is Joachim Böker, the Budo department's deputy head, and he is the trainer named against both BJJ units on the timetable. A second promotion is published the same way: `Radek … mit seinem neuen Purple Belt zwischen Achim und Wim`. ⚠ This is the club's own account of its own coach; the grantor's surface has not been read

Phone Club office `+49 (0) 30 38002-40`. The Budo department's deputy head, who is also the BJJ trainer, publishes his own number: Joachim Böker, `+49 (0)160 30 70 180` Website Naver Map Apple Maps

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