Ascent Combat Sports

05/07/2026

Winning isn't about the few minutes you fight. It's about the fights you go though in the weeks before. The effort, the sacrifice, the dedication. It's about trusting the process not just focusing on the outcome. Sometimes the outcome is out of your control but you can stack the odds in your favour by preparing well.

For this you need a team behind you; coaches that know how to help you prepare and that can work to your strengths & weaknesses, teammates you trust to help you work without injuring you, to keep you realistic and grounded.

Anyone can open a gym and call themselves a 'coach' but that's far more than instructing a class and shouting advice. It's about understanding your fighter and giving them the confidence to be comfortable in the moment or to adapt when necessary and trust that they aren't on their own in the ring/cage/competition mats

None of the team won with the same tactics. But every one of them listened to the advice they were given, not just in the moment, but in the weeks building up, and they trusted the process.

Ascent Combat Sports have a great team of coaches that want the best for you and to help you succeed. That might not mean 'winning' but it will mean growing and improving

5 years old to 95 years old. Begin your Ascent today

22/02/2026

Some great pics of the kids giving it all last weekend at Pro Sport Grappling Somerset Open

15/12/2025

Christmas & New Year opening times

Please note Tuesday 23rd & 30th we're running some special BJJ classes

The nogi guys will miss out classes on Xmas eve & New Years Eve so we're changing up the Tuesday classes on 23rd & 30th to invite all the nogi guys to train together with the gi folks and get everyone together

Tues 23rd
Beginners 18.15
All levels. Gi & Nogi 19.15
Open mat. Gi & Nogi 20.15

Tues 30th
NO Beginners class
All levels. Gi & Nogi 19.15
Open mat. Gi & Nogi 20.15

27/11/2025

19/11/2025

Armbars and Diamonds and Diamond Armbars

16/11/2025

First batch of photos from the grading 9th Nov 2025
Well done
Lara - Blue Belt
Ava - Blue Belt
Iza - Blue Belt
Jamie - Purple Belt
Zach - Black Belt
Gary - First Degree Black Belt
And for everyone for their tabs

09/11/2025

New Black Belt in the house
What an amazing day
Thanks to the boss man for a great session with some excellent techniques!!

29/10/2025

Some timetable changes happening from this week

The main one is that MMA moves to Friday evening. There is no longer an MMA class on Sunday morning

Come along this week for a Halloween slaughter special! 🎃

New Kid's MMA class on Mondays

And Tuesday's Adult Advanced BJJ class is going to be a trouble-shooting class. We trialed this last night and it worked great with lots of questions and input from all the guys there. We can all learn from each other

17/08/2025

We asked AI to summarise our online reviews and what people think of Ascent Combat Sports. To keep everything honest & fair, we even asked for some genuine negatives (see slide 5)

28/05/2025

We're making some changes to the BJJ Timetable, from 1st June to allow for more sparring time

Please see photo above

*Monday*
The 7:15pm class will be techniques & drilling
8:15pm class will be sparring

*Thursday*
We're making the same change here
The 8:15pm class will now be for all belts and a sparring class

You are welcome to join in any class part way through if you can't make it on time due to work/family

You can stay for only part of the sparring classes if that suits you better
eg You can do 3-4 rounds rather than stay for the full hour
You can also use this time for more drilling if you wish. You don't have to roll for every round

We're going to try to also use Thursdays Sparring class for questions & troubleshooting. Both Gary's will generally be in these classes to answer questions and to help with any problems you're having.

We will also have occasional ' *special classes* ' on Thursdays, merging both classes into a 2 hour super-session on a specific topic (like a seminar). More info on this to follow.

*Saturdays 'Competition' classes* will also be run as an Open Mat for those that don't want to do the harder Competition training (competitors are still welcome to do the comp training

All other classes remain the same. *Tuesday* will still be
6:15pm Beginners/White Belts
7:15pm All Belts
8:15pm Coloured Belts

If you have any questions please feel free to ask any of the Instructors