Auckland BJJ Club is now 7 years old

Stu and myself opened our club at the Tuaman Gym in Onehunga on the 26th Nov 2011.

We are very great full to David Tua to let us teach BJJ in his boxing gym as he gave us a profit share deal.
It was great as when you start up a club and have no students, you cannot afford to pay expensive hourly rent.
Then we moved on to Epsom and opened a second additional dojo in Sandringham.
We also have an affiliate named Auckland Kids BJJ which specialize in teaching kids.

Not bad for a little club that just wanted to offer BJJ in our neighborhood instead of having to travel to the CBD.

We would to thank everyone that helped and supported us through the past seven years.

Please see below some randoms pictures that I found on our FB page

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