Adult BJJ Program

Advanced

Longer rounds. Harder positions. The class where you stop being comfortable.

Level: 4 stripes and above

Rounds: Longer, higher intensity

Format: Gi, group class

Competition: Supported, never required

Every class up to now was built to bring you along. This one is built to find your gaps.

The techniques go deeper, into positions that do not resolve cleanly, transitions that exist for two seconds, and situations where the textbook answer does not work because your opponent has read the same textbook.

Sparring rounds are longer and the people in them are better. You will get caught more often here than you did in Intermediate. That is the mechanism, not a side effect.

Who trains here

Route one: You have come through the Fundamentals and Intermediate programs.
Route two: You hold a four stripe white belt or above.
From another academy: Message us with your rank and where you trained. We will put you in the right class from day one. You will not be asked to start over.
New to Jakarta: Visiting students are welcome to drop in. Get in touch before you come so we can tell you which session suits you.

What a session looks like

Technique, in depth

Fewer techniques per session, examined much more closely. The grip detail that makes it work. The three ways it fails. What to do when it fails.

Complex positions

Leg entanglements, back attacks and back defence, guards that do not fit a simple category, and the scrambles in between. The parts of jiu jitsu that take years rather than weeks.

Hard rounds

Live training against people who are genuinely trying, for longer, with less recovery. This is where conditioning stops being a talking point and becomes a fact about you.

Application under real conditions

Working from bad positions on purpose. Starting a round already stuck. Training tired. If you only ever practise from neutral, you only ever get good at neutral.

Where this comes from

Deddy Wigraha brought Brazilian jiu jitsu to Indonesia in 1998 and is the only Indonesian to receive a black belt from Romero “Jacaré” Cavalcanti, the founder of Alliance. He trained under Rickson and Charles Gracie in California before that, and today he trains combatives with Indonesian military and police units.

At this level the lineage stops being a story on a website and starts being the reason the detail in class is as precise as it is.

Competition

If you want to compete

We prepare students for competition and we have been doing it a long time. Deddy has coached Indonesia’s national team, including at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. Tell an instructor and your training will be shaped around it, with specific game plans, ruleset work, and sharper rounds in the weeks before you step on.

If you do not want to compete

Then do not. Most advanced students never enter a tournament. They are here because the training is the best hour of their week, because their body is in better shape at forty than it was at thirty, or because they want their jiu jitsu to work if they ever need it. All of that is a complete reason to be in this room.

Training with people who beat you comfortably teaches you more in a month than training with people you beat teaches you in six.

About being the worst person in the room

At some point in Advanced you will be the least experienced person on the mat. Everyone here has been through it.

It is, genuinely, the fastest way to get better. The purple belt tapping you today was in your position not long ago, and they remember it.

What you should already have

A working guard you can hold against a resisting partner.
Escapes from mount, side control and back that function under pressure.
The composure to spar for six minutes without panicking.
Enough mat time that the basics no longer need conscious thought.

Your first class is on us

Current students, speak to your instructor after class. Training elsewhere, or new to Jakarta? Send us a message with your rank and background, and come take a class. The first one is free, whatever belt you turn up in.