CNX BJJ is an independent guide to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu across Thailand. We research the scene city by city so you can find a gym, understand the basics, and train with confidence wherever you are in the country.
CNX BJJ is an independent guide to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu across Thailand. We are not a gym, a federation, or a marketing arm for any single academy. We are a small team that pays close attention to the Thai BJJ scene and writes about it for the people who matter most: the travellers, expats, and locals trying to work out where to train and what to expect when they get there.
The name comes from Chiang Mai, where CNX is the airport code, but the site covers the whole country. Whether you are looking at a long camp in Phuket, a few drop-in sessions in Bangkok, or a permanent home mat in Chiang Mai, the aim is to give you clear, honest information rather than a recycled list of gym names.
Our mission is straightforward: to be the most comprehensive and honest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu resource for Thailand. The scene here is growing quickly, and the information available to newcomers is scattered, outdated, or written to sell something. We want to fix that.
In practice that means four things working together. We build city guides that tell you what training is actually like in each place. We write gym guides that go beyond an address and a phone number. We cover the techniques and beginner content you need to make sense of a class. And we tie it all together so that someone arriving in Thailand with no idea where to start can find their footing in an afternoon of reading.
Everything on CNX BJJ starts with research. We look at where people train, which academies are active, how welcoming they are to visitors and beginners, and how they describe themselves against what others say about them. When we review a gym, the goal is to be useful and fair, not to flatter.
Honesty is the part we take most seriously. We would rather tell you that a gym is small, that the mat space is tight, or that a place runs mostly no-gi than pretend every option is perfect for every person. If a review is based on direct experience, we say so. If it draws on published information and contact with the gym, we say that too. You should always be able to tell where our information comes from.
We also try to keep the site current. Gyms change schedules, move premises, and sometimes close, so we date our pages and revisit them as we learn more. Before you travel or sign up anywhere, we encourage you to confirm the details directly with the gym, because no guide stays perfectly accurate forever.
CNX BJJ is organised around the questions people actually ask when they want to train in Thailand. The main areas are:
For now, CNX BJJ is a guide first and foremost. Looking further ahead, a physical Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy in Chiang Mai is part of the long-term vision for the project. We think the city deserves a welcoming, well-run mat, and building one would be a natural extension of the work we already do.
We want to be clear about that ambition without overselling it. It is an aspiration, not a confirmed opening, and we are not putting dates on something we cannot yet stand behind. Until that day comes, the most valuable thing we can do is help you find a great place to train among the gyms that already exist.
CNX BJJ gets better when the people who train here help shape it. If you know a gym we have missed, you spot something out of date, or you simply want to share your experience, we would genuinely like to hear from you. The quickest way to reach us is through our contact page.
Not sure where to begin? If you are heading to the north, start with our Chiang Mai guide. If you are brand new to the sport, read what is BJJ first, then come back and pick a city.
We read every message and update the site as we learn more from the community.
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