Author: hillingdonbjj

In March our little monsters were set the challenge of raising £250 for Sports Relief. To do this they had to test how many throws they could complete in 5 minutes. They did a fantastic job practicing their throws before hand and an even better job on the day completing 131 throws between them. They […]

Last month some of the Hillingdon BJJ team headed to Dartford to compete in the No-Gi English Open. They had some good fights and demonstrated some great progression. Raj took Bronze in the purple belt light weight division and Dan took Gold in the white belt heavy weight division. Well done to all that competed.

Last weekend 4 of our boys travelled up to Wolverhampton to take part in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Junior Championships. This is the biggest junior championship in the country and this year it hosted over 400 competitors. The hard work the boys had put in training for this competition was evident on the day. They […]

We are really proud to say that our Head Coach, and founder of Hillingdon BJJ Rodger Middleton was awarded his black belt last Friday. As well as teaching kids and adults at Hillingdon BJJ, Rodger trains at Roger Gracie Academy Gymbox under Cesar Lima. Both Cesar Lima and Roger Gracie were there to award Rodger […]

Hillingdon BJJ were happy to host out first competition on Saturday 26th September. It was an invitational primarily aimed at those preparing for upcoming comps and and also those who may not have competed before. The event was for white belts and blue belts only. It was a good first experience for many of the […]

November saw many of the Hillingdon BJJ family enter the English open. We had competitors take part in both the kid’s and Adult’s weekends. We had some really strong performances, in particular with the kids who all had medals round their necks and smiles on their faces by the end of the day. For many […]

In the last 3 weeks, 3 members of Hillingdon BJJ team won 4 medals between them. First was Eve Middleton winning gold at the Southern England Kids League in Farnborough Hants. Then her sister Fiona doubled up with 2 golds in the Roll Model tournament in Stoke on Trent. Finally, Raj Dosanjh won a hard […]

A couple of weeks ago we had a visit from Ross Nicholls and Alan Ball who train with Rodger at RGA Gymbox. Ross has won countless golds nationally as well internationally and is one of the top competitive black belts in Europe. He taught us some useful techniques working the butterfly guard and also sparred […]

Last weekend members of the team drove up to Coventry to compete and support those competing in the BJJ British open. It was a fantastic weekend of Jiu-jitsu with strong performances from all in the HBJJ team. I’m happy to say that out of 9 competitors we came away with 6 medals. In the Adults competition […]