About Us
Bristol Dojo is one of the oldest and most established Combat Sports Gym's in the South West. We started in 1995 when our founder Simon O'Brien retired from competing for his country Wales at International level Karate and started his own club. The club soon grew to a level where we moved to our own premises in 2005 next to Motion Night Club in the centre of Bristol and invited some of our friends in other combat sports to train in our gym making us Bristol's very first multi art combat gym offering Karate Jutsu, MMA, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Boxing and K-1 Kickboxing.
Since then many of our friends who were with us went on to open their own gyms and become successful in their own right, but we still remain close and we support each other at events and seminars. In our time most of Bristol's most prominent martial artists have trained or visited in our gym.
At Bristol Dojo our head coach Simon has passed on his passion for developing students to the highest level and many of our current students are current or past national champions in several of the combat sports we teach.
We are a family run business and 2 of Simon's children still teach at the gym with Carys running the Kickboxing as former national champion and Dylan running the Bjj with Simon and Andy who are both also Bjj Black Belts. Dylan was the youngest ever Bjj Black Belt when he was promoted and has been British Champion at every belt grade.
Since then many of our friends who were with us went on to open their own gyms and become successful in their own right, but we still remain close and we support each other at events and seminars. In our time most of Bristol's most prominent martial artists have trained or visited in our gym.
At Bristol Dojo our head coach Simon has passed on his passion for developing students to the highest level and many of our current students are current or past national champions in several of the combat sports we teach.
We are a family run business and 2 of Simon's children still teach at the gym with Carys running the Kickboxing as former national champion and Dylan running the Bjj with Simon and Andy who are both also Bjj Black Belts. Dylan was the youngest ever Bjj Black Belt when he was promoted and has been British Champion at every belt grade.
We have such a depth of knowledge of high level competitive sports at Bristol Dojo that we formed a sister company called Showtechs to run and produce combat sports events for other organisations as well as our own. We currently produce shows for UFC Fight Pass, Cage Warriors, Polaris Professional Jiu Jitsu, Arnold Games and many others as well as our own events such as Meltdown MMA, Somerset Open, Enyo Female Only Professional Grappling and Pro Sport Grappling.
Whether you are a beginner looking to get fit and have fun or you aim to be the next world champion, we have everything you need at Bristol Dojo so grab a free 7 day pass by clicking the link on our membership page or just drop by the gym and give us a try.
