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Jiu Jitsu Academy located in Milwaukee’s Third Ward

10/30/2026

Week Of Celebrations!

In case you missed it 😆 — Coach Ben Hakes got his black belt last Saturday. And when one of us wins, we all win.

So to round out this week of celebrating our coach and good friend Benny, all of the FREEFORM-grown black belts received new SHOYOROLL belts 🔥

Always put your Day One crew on. Always remember who worked and built alongside you. These guys are pillars of the team, and any chance I get to thank and honor them— no matter how small— I’m going to do it. 🙇‍♂️

Thank you Andy Lueneburg , TJ Cavender , Justin Shea , Paul Boyajian , Ricky Purdy , and Jordan.

And ongoing thanks to Marco Tyrtl , Bear Quitugua , and the entire team at Shoyoroll 🥋

Onward!

10/27/2026

Coach Ben is a black belt! Ben Hakes

And I’m gonna keep posting about it because (1) nobody on earth deserves it more, and (2) almost nothing gives me more satisfaction than seeing my friends collect wins.

Jiu Jitsu has taken us from coast to coast together. Ben and I have been to Long Beach for Worlds, Charlotte to train at Alliance Jiu Jitsu Charlotte | Lucas Lepri HQ, Orlando for Pans, Dallas for No-Gi Worlds, Las Vegas for Jiu Jitsu Con, Phoenix, Nashville, Chicago, Minneapolis for opens, and New York for No-Gi Pans— which he won 🥇

So how do you celebrate an achievement like black belt, and a friendship like this? Idk, with a t-shirt, I guess.

These sold out immediately, because everyone loves Benny. So let’s do another run. If you want a FREEFORM WRESTLING / GETTIN BETTER shirt for $40, let me know.

AND LEAVE YOUR MESSAGES FOR BEN IN THIS POST!!

10/25/2026

Sincere thanks to Lucas Lepri for being with us yesterday. 🙇‍♂️

This is our sixth year on Team Lepri. Professor Lucas always supports us— he hosts us at his academy, asks for input on seminar material, gives detailed technical feedback, and always treats us with kindness and professionalism.

We’ve been his affiliate since day one, and we’re grateful to be here 1912 days later 🙌

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Coach Andy Andy Lueneburg received the second degree on his black belt from Professor Lucas yesterday 🔥 Anyone on the team will tell you: Andy is no-nonsense when it comes to jiu jitsu.

If you win, he’ll congratulate you and push you to build on it; if you lose, he’ll tell you why and refuse to accept cope or excuses. If you are capable of more, he will demand it from you. He wants to be your *coach*— not just someone who shows you techniques. We are very fortunate to have him as a coach 🫂 Congratulations Professor Andy!!

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Coach Ben Hakes received his black belt yesterday 💪 There is way too much to say about Ben— and I’ll try in another post. But for now let me keep it to this: You can’t find a single person on earth who dislikes Ben. Because people love authenticity and he is no bullsh*t!t.

I’ve known him for almost a decade— and never heard a single complaint come out of his mouth. He trains hard, and rides hard for his friends. He models toughness, and does it without preaching or lecturing. We’ve flown to tournaments from coast to coast, and driven through blinding snowstorms. I’ve seen him throw people over his head, and give up his back to white belts so they can learn how to submit.

He is simply one of the best coaches, teammates, and friends I’ve ever had. Congratulations Coach Ben 🥋 Thank you for all you’ve given to the team.

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Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday to learn some modern guard passing. No k-guard, and no deep lasso is safe! 😈 See you on the mats.

10/21/2026

Thank you to everyone on the team.
I love doing this, and I’m glad to do it with you all.

-Matt

10/12/2026

I am very excited to announce a project that has been in the works for several years.

We now offer full body composition analysis from InBody USA 💪 🔥

InBody is the gold standard in Bioelectrical Impedance— giving detailed and precise data on muscle mass, body fat, extracellular water, and even your individual metabolic rate. We collect all of this information without the expense of an MRI, or radiation exposure of a DEXA scan.

Why did this take several years to implement? Because these machines are expensive 🤣 I’ve been saving, and knowing that the day would get here.

As far as I can tell, we are the FIRST and ONLY combat sports gym in Wisconsin to offer this service. 🙌

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I see SO MUCH disordered eating in this sport. Athletes who have no idea what weight class they would perform their best at; former wrestlers and MMA fighters sabotaging their performance with dumb weight cuts— really, just so many people acting on hunches and bad advice.

Moreover, I see non-competitors who assume that they are healthy simply because they are active on the mats. That is not true.

In sum, I am concerned with two things:

1) That our competitors get the most out of their work in the training room, and their efforts in tournaments

2) That our hobbyists get healthy so they can stay on the mats longer, and avoid the avalanche of health problems that come with poor dietary habits

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I really do care about this team.
I really do want you to get the full benefits and rewards of practicing jiu jitsu.
I really do want you to feel good in your body.

I see so many jiu jitsu coaches cashing a check, and leaving their athletes to figure out the rest. That’s unconscionable to me! We’re placed in each others’ lives for a reason, and I want to do the best I can to share what I’ve learned in the classroom and through decades of experience.

Yours is the only body exactly like it, in the entire history of time! Not trying to be weird or preachy, but that’s pretty cool. Let’s make a plan to care for it.

Call/ email/ DM to schedule your appointment, or to learn how to get FREE scans 🤝

10/02/2026

🚨 OPEN MAT UPDATE 🚨

As always, feel free to contact us with questions, or to try a month membership. Contracts never required!

09/18/2026

Jiu Jitsu is so cool.

Today, we had our regularly scheduled Friday training. The group size was typical for this noon class— about a dozen teammates, mostly blue belts, with a few white and purple belts mixed in.

As we were about to get started, Dominique Bell | BJJ Tips and Techniques walked in to join us for class 🤯 He happened to be in town for a wedding, and saw that we were nearby. 🎰

Professor Dom was all class and generosity. He took class like every other student. He wasn’t too talented, or too cool, to drill fundamentals from the closed guard with us. After sparring, he offered his time and feedback for free to me, and to everyone he rolled with.

We talk a lot about ego death in this art, and you can feel when that is *real*— when someone is authentically humble. They are secure in their own skin, and as such, they help you stay at ease as well.

That was what I felt from Dom today. Well that… and multiple submissions from tarantula guard 🕷️

Thank you for sharing the mats with us today Professor Dom 🙇‍♂️

09/16/2026

We are honored to welcome Lucas Lepri to FREEFORM on October 24 🔥 🙇‍♂️ Lucas Lepri

Every time Professor Lucas teaches a seminar, we reach capacity. His combination of knowledge, precision, creativity, and communication skills is unmatched 🥋 ⚔️

If you are interested, we recommend booking your spot early — via Venmo, DM, call/text, or email.

Thank you, as always, to Professor Lucas for making the trip to see us, and to everyone in advance for coming out on October 24 🤝

09/11/2026

You work hard at your job, and you deserve to be paid.
So does your jiu jitsu coach.

09/08/2026

“It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America, and the epoch in which the Roman Empire declined into the dark ages.

Nonetheless certain parallels are there.

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium.

What they set themselves to achieve instead - often not recognizing what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness…

This time, however, the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already begun governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament.”

-Alisdair MacIntyre, “After Virtue”

Address

587 E Erie Street
Milwaukee, WI
53202

Telephone

+14142343564

Website

http://www.freeformjiujitsu.com/

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