Jiu Jitsu Gym Near Me in Wembley: LOGA on the Efittest Mats

London Olympic Grappling Academy, known on the mats as LOGA, has no front door of its own. Its Brazilian jiu jitsu classes run inside Efittest Combat and Fitness, a ground-floor club at 577 North End Road, Wembley HA9 0QJ, tucked under the Canvas student apartments a short walk from Wembley Park station. A single class costs £24, and the adult programme is compact: three one-hour sessions a week, all coached by Eric Ciake.

LOGA's own website lists its home as Gym Efittest, Combat and Fitness, at the North End Road address, and the club's booking portal shows every BJJ class on the board led by Ciake. Efittest itself is the work of Ernesto Prado, a Shotokan karateka from Ecuador, and Carla Perez, who founded the business during the pandemic in 2020.

The club's About page traces how it grew: an outdoor garden gym in October 2020, a studio in December 2021, a fight club in July 2022 and the current combat and fitness space from October 2, 2024. That history matters to a newcomer, because you are joining a mixed-discipline gym where Muay Thai, wrestling, Chinese kickboxing and MMA share the same mats as the jiu jitsu crowd.

United World Wrestling lists Ciake as a coach educator for Great Britain and Cameroon who teaches in English and French, and says he has delivered UWW courses in Malawi, Tanzania, Singapore and Sierra Leone. LOGA's curriculum reflects that grounding, listing judo, sambo, shootbox and submission wrestling alongside Brazilian jiu jitsu.

Expect takedowns to get real attention. Many London gi classes start on the knees, but a coach who trains wrestling educators tends to begin standing, which is useful if your goal is self-defence rather than tournament points.

The same mats host adult wrestling on Monday from 19:30 to 21:00 and Sunday from 14:00 to 15:30, taught by Mohamed Shafi. A jiu jitsu beginner who adds one of those sessions on a combat package will find the Thursday and Saturday takedown work far less intimidating.

The adult timetable is short and easy to memorise. Tuesday runs no-gi from 18:00 to 19:00, followed by MMA at 19:00. Thursday has a gi class from 18:00 to 19:00, and Saturday has a gi class from 12:00 to 13:00 followed by MMA at 13:00. Kids and teens aged five to fifteen train in the hour before each adult slot.

Every session is tagged All Levels on the booking portal, and there is no separate fundamentals class, so the first visit is the same class everyone else attends. We would start on a Saturday. Daylight makes the walk from the station easy, the MMA hour after it lets you watch how the gym spars, and the week's portal showed only a handful of adults booked into the noon class, which means plenty of space and attention.

A single class pass costs £24 as a one-off payment and covers one combat, fitness or women's-only class, booked through the Efittest app. On the club's price page, Combat twice a week costs £88 a month and lets you choose one sport, BJJ included. Combat Unlimited for one sport is £110 a month.

Monthly plans carry a £20 joining fee. The booking portal advertises the code EFIT20 to waive it, though the code does not apply to class passes, gym passes, personal training or women's-only plans. Discounted rates exist for key workers, families and neighbours, university and Canvas students, and seniors over 50. Contracts are rolling with one month's notice to cancel, and every plan includes open gym access five days a week.

If you want jiu jitsu plus striking, the bundles are where the value sits. The Pro package at £132 a month adds three fitness classes a week to one unlimited combat sport, the Elite package at £155 covers two unlimited combat sports, and the Ultimate package at £185 opens every combat and fitness class.

With only three adult BJJ slots each week, the unlimited jiu jitsu plan is effectively three classes, so a beginner who also wants Tuesday's MMA hour gets more from Elite than from paying for jiu jitsu alone. A one-to-one private session costs £60 on the pay-as-you-go plan.

Every class is booked through the Efittest app on the Glofox platform, with twenty places on the combat mats, and open gym slots are reserved the same way. LOGA says it sells or recommends grappling gear including gis, rash guards, shorts and protective equipment, so you can borrow advice before buying anything.

For a first Tuesday no-gi class, a fitted T-shirt or rash guard and shorts without pockets is enough. For Thursday or Saturday, bring a gi if you own one and ask the coach about kit when you book.

Union Park in Wembley Park puts seven acres of green space between the apartment blocks, with ponds, lawns and an outdoor workout area, and it makes a calm cool-down after the noon session.

For food, BOXPARK Wembley at 18 Olympic Way, Wembley Park HA9 0JT, gathers independent food and drink traders plus a games bar with ping-pong, pool and table football. On stadium match and concert days Olympic Way fills with crowds, so leave extra time if your Saturday class falls on one.

LOGA at Efittest Combat and Fitness, 577 North End Road, Wembley, London HA9 0QJ, on the corner of North End Road and Albion Way. A Savills listing for the unit puts Wembley Park Underground station five minutes' walk away.

Adult jiu jitsu runs Tuesday at 18:00 without the gi, then Thursday at 18:00 and Saturday at 12:00 in the gi. Kids and teens train on the same days at 17:00, or at 11:00 on Saturday, and the week starting October 19, 2026 showed every one of those slots open to book.