TRITAC/Programs/Jiu-Jitsu
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Cromwell, CT

Real BJJ. Gi. No-Gi.
Seven days a week.

TRITAC Jiu-Jitsu is a complete Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program for beginners, experienced grapplers, competitors, and people who simply want to get good at grappling.

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— What this is

This is Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu.

You’ll learn the same core skills you expect from a serious BJJ program. Guard. Passing. Sweeps. Escapes. Pins. Back control. Submissions. Positional control. Live rolling. You can train gi and no-gi, progress through the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu ranking system, and compete if that is something you want to do.

Where TRITAC gets different is that we don’t stop there. We have black belts and experienced coaches across Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Japanese Jujitsu, Judo, wrestling and MMA. Instead of keeping those arts in separate boxes, we use them to make your grappling better. The goal is pretty simple: make you hard to take down, hard to control, and capable of controlling or submitting someone from anywhere the grappling exchange goes.

BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU
The center of the program

Guard, passing, positional control, escapes, submissions and live rolling.

WRESTLING
Get there. Get back up.

Shots, sprawls, hand fighting, rides, scrambles and getting back to your feet.

JUDO
Take them down

Throws, trips, foot sweeps, gripping, balance breaking and transitions directly into ground control.

JAPANESE JUJITSU
Outside sport BJJ

Joint controls, standing submissions, off-balancing, breakfalls and self-defense applications that sit outside normal sport BJJ.

— Gi and no-gi

Train both.

Some people love the gi. Some people would rather never put one on. You don’t have to pick a side here. We think learning both makes you better. If you eventually prefer one over the other, that’s fine too.

GI

Grips, posture, pressure.

Gi training develops grips, posture, pressure, control and a huge range of technical problems to solve.

NO-GI

Faster. Fewer handles.

No-gi moves faster and puts more emphasis on wrestling, body positioning, underhooks, overhooks, head position, leg attacks and controlling someone without relying on clothing.

A student in a black gi holding heavy side control over a partner in a blue gi
GI ROUNDS
Both. Every week.
— What you’ll learn

A complete grappling game.

TAKEDOWNS & STANDING

Every roll starts standing.

  • Single legs, double legs and high crotches
  • Wrestling hand fighting and setups
  • Underhooks, overhooks and body locks
  • Judo throws, trips and foot sweeps
  • Grip fighting
  • Takedown defense and sprawls
  • Wall and cage wrestling
  • Safe falling and breakfalls
  • Connecting the takedown directly into control

You should not have to become a blue or purple belt before someone finally teaches you how to get the fight to the ground.

TOP CONTROL & PASSING

Getting on top is only half of it.

  • Guard passing
  • Half-guard passing
  • Side control
  • Mount
  • Knee-on-belly
  • North-south
  • Back control
  • Wrestling rides and pins
  • Maintaining pressure
  • Isolating arms and the neck
  • Chaining control into submissions

We spend a lot of time teaching students how to hold good positions instead of racing from technique to technique.

GUARD & BOTTOM

Bottom is not waiting.

  • Closed and open guard
  • Half guard
  • Butterfly guard
  • Guard retention
  • Frames and hip movement
  • Sweeps
  • Wrestle-ups
  • Submission attacks
  • Escapes from bad positions
  • Technical stand-ups
  • Getting back to your feet

For sport BJJ, sometimes the guard is where you want to be. For MMA or self-defense, sometimes the correct answer is to get up. We teach both.

— Submissions

Chokes. Armlocks.
Leg attacks.

Chokes. Armlocks. Shoulder locks. Leg attacks. Compression and control. But submissions are taught as the end of a sequence, not as isolated tricks.

“Control the position. Create the opening. Finish.”
— Watch a session

Watch an actual Jiu-Jitsu breakdown.

This is the same coaching you get on the mat: opening a closed guard, dealing with a knee shield, and finishing the pass. Full detail, start to finish.

— Jiu-Jitsu 7 days a week

Train once a week.
Train every day.

Build a schedule that works for you. One of the biggest advantages of our program is simply how often you can train. That’s Jiu-Jitsu every day of the week.

MONDAY
10:00 AM
All Levels
5:15 PM
Drills & Skills
6:00 PM
Fundamentals
6:45 PM
All Levels
TUESDAY
7:00 PM
Gi Jiu-Jitsu
WEDNESDAY
10:00 AM
All Levels
5:15 PM
Drills & Skills
6:00 PM
Fundamentals
6:45 PM
All Levels
THURSDAY
7:00 PM
No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu
FRIDAY
10:00 AM
Open Mat
6:00 PM
All Levels
SATURDAY
10:00 AM
Q&A
SUNDAY
10:45 AM
All Levels

Class times can occasionally change for holidays or special events. Check the live schedule for the latest times.

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— New to Jiu-Jitsu?

You don’t need to get in shape
before you start.

Students working side control on the TRITAC mat
ON THE MAT
Real grappling. Real partners. Real reps.

A huge percentage of the people who walk onto our mat started with no grappling experience. You aren’t expected to know how to roll. You aren’t expected to understand the positions. And nobody needs you to prove how tough you are.

We’ll teach you how to move, fall safely, frame, escape, control positions and work with a partner before expecting you to go hard. Our Fundamentals classes give new students a place to slow things down and actually learn what they’re doing. Then you build from there.

— Rank

More than one path
to black belt.

This isn’t a program that throws a few Judo trips and wrestling shots into BJJ class and calls itself mixed grappling. These are actual martial arts taught by ranked instructors. Students who want to pursue the traditional progression can earn rank in all three.

RANK PATH

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

White through Black Belt.

RANK PATH

Kobukai Japanese Jujitsu

Traditional Japanese Jujitsu ranking and curriculum.

RANK PATH

Judo

Judo curriculum and rank progression.

— Why blend the systems?

BJJ first.
More to pull from.

You don’t have to pursue all three. Some students just want BJJ. Others end up falling in love with throwing people and start training Judo. Others dig deeper into Japanese Jujitsu. The opportunity is there. And the lines between them disappear the second you actually grapple.

  • A wrestling single leg can finish into a Judo-style trip.
  • A Judo throw lands directly in side control.
  • A wrestling ride can expose the back.
  • A Japanese Jujitsu control can become a BJJ submission.
  • A BJJ sweep can turn into a wrestle-up.
A TRITAC grappler controlling an opponent from top position in competition
COMPETITION
Top control, no gi, under a real opponent.

We don’t need to argue about which martial art gets credit for the technique. We care whether you can use it. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gives us the foundation and the ranking structure. Wrestling, Judo and Japanese Jujitsu give us more answers.

“The result is better grappling.”
— Real coaches. Real rank.

Decades on the mat.

TRITAC’s grappling program is led by coaches who have spent decades on the mat across BJJ, Japanese Jujitsu, Judo, wrestling and MMA.

Different backgrounds. Same mat.

— What are you training for?

Pick your reason.

There isn’t one correct reason to train Jiu-Jitsu. Most people end up training for more than one.

THE ART

Learn Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

You want the art itself. Train, roll, earn rank and keep getting better.

COMPETE

Test yourself

Train BJJ and grappling with teammates who want to test themselves in competition.

MMA

Build the fight game

Develop wrestling, takedowns, top control, submissions and the ability to get back to your feet.

SELF-DEFENSE

No referee

Learn to control someone, escape bad positions and understand what changes when there isn’t a referee.

GET IN SHAPE

Conditioning that matters

Jiu-Jitsu has a funny way of making conditioning matter without staring at a treadmill.

— Your first class

Come in
knowing nothing.

That’s completely normal. Wear athletic clothes or a rashguard and shorts for no-gi. If you’re coming to a gi class and don’t own a gi yet, talk to us first.

We’ll show you where to go, introduce you to the coaches and help pair you with the right training partners. You can drill before you roll. You can ask questions. And if something doesn’t feel right, you stop. Pretty simple.

— Straight answers

Questions people ask
before they start.

Yes. TRITAC has a full Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu curriculum, BJJ black belt instructors, gi and no-gi training, live rolling, competition training and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu rank progression. We also integrate wrestling, Judo and Japanese Jujitsu because we believe they make you a more complete grappler.
— Related training

Go deeper.

Step on
the mat.

You don’t need experience. You don’t need to be in shape first. And you definitely don’t need to know whether you’re a Jiu-Jitsu person yet. Come train for three weeks and find out. 21 days free, six coached sessions, no card.
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