16/07/2026
Ten years ago Gracie Balmain opened with an empty room and a handful of white belts. Last week, we tied black belts on seven more of our own.
Most of these men took their very first jiu-jitsu class in this room. Others came to us as blue and purple belts and made Balmain home for the rest of the road. Either way - thousands of classes, injuries, comebacks, life happening around the edges - and they kept showing up.
Absolute legends off the mat, complete savages on it. Couldn’t be more proud to have these men represent Gracie Balmain.