Houston Grappling Academy

"The world is changing and Ju Jutsu has to change too. I don’t think it’s practical to limit ourselves to one particular style. I no longer see any point in keeping the techniques of each Ju Jutsu school a secret. It would be better to experiment with a whole range of techniques and select the ones you want to use, changing them if necessary. I’d like to take the best techniques from the Yoshin style and the best techniques from a lot of other styles and combine them all to create the ultimate form of Ju Jutsu. Last year after we performed for President Grant, Master Fukuda spoke of bringing Ju Jutsu to the rest of the world. To do that, we can’t rely on just one particular style – we need a combination of the best techniques from all the major schools of Ju Jutsu. That’s what I’d like to teach to the rest of the world." -- Jigoro Kano, 1880

The Houston Grappling Academy was created to provide a safe, clean and effective way for adults, kids and whole families to train in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Traditional Wrestling and Self Defense. With 1,700 square feet of Zebra Mats, H.G.A. has the largest matted training space in the area. Owners Jim Alfano and Dean Zaino have over 40 years of combined training experience in Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestling, Judo, boxing and self defense.

H.G.A. is located at 13529 Skinner Road, Suite B, Cypress, TX 77429 in Northwest Houston next door to the Laser Tag facility and around the corner from Kroger. Come in and try a free class!

• The owners and instructors are Cy-Fair residents with children of their own in the community.
• We want to provide children, teen-agers and adults that are looking for real world self defense instruction to be able to do so in a family oriented environment.
• To provide a safe, clean grappling academy in the Cy-Fair area offering Brazilian Jiujitsu, traditional wrestling and self defense classes to the community.
• We will focus on empowering children, teens and adults with the discipline to avoid a threatening or hostile situation, but be capable to protect themselves as a last resort.
• We will follow and teach the instruction and training styles of our instructor of Brazilian Jujitsu and self defense.
• We will teach folk-style, free style and Greco Roman wrestling techniques.
• We will have select members to compete both locally and nationally in Jiu Jitsu and/or Wrestling tournaments on our organized club teams.