Running a BJJ gym is not a simple business. You're a coach, an admin, a marketer, and a community manager — usually all on the same day. The paperwork doesn't care that you just finished a hard session. The enquiries don't stop because you're tired. And the platforms you're supposed to use were never built with you in mind.

NEWAZA Network is being built specifically for the BJJ community. Not adapted from something else, not a generic marketplace with a gi slapped on the front. Built from the ground up for how this community actually works — gyms, practitioners, instructors, and businesses all connected in one place.

We're at the start of that build. And we need gyms on board from day one.

You Don't Have to Be a Big Name

This isn't a platform for the affiliate mega-gyms. If you run a single location with sixty members who show up and grind, this is for you. If you run two or three locations and you're wearing every hat yourself, this is for you. The independent gym owner is exactly who NEWAZA Network is built around.

The big academies have marketing teams, admin staff, and enough reach to manage their own noise. Most gym owners don't. They're doing it themselves, after training, at the desk in the back room, trying to keep the lights on and the community together.

"The day one ask is simple: get your gym listed. Everything grows from there."

Getting on the platform now costs nothing and commits you to nothing except putting your gym on the map. As the community grows, so do the tools available to you.

What We're Building

The goal is an all-in-one platform that reduces the operational weight of running a BJJ gym and opens up new ways to connect with your community. Here's what that looks like across the four core modules:

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Services
List your coaches, privates, and seminars. Visiting instructors can list too. Make it easy for practitioners to find and enquire — without you fielding every message manually.
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Rentals
Your mat space has value beyond your own training hours. Rent it to visiting coaches, seminar organisers, or other clubs. A revenue stream that runs without you needing to be in the room.
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Classifieds
Old gis, gear, equipment — your community already buys and sells this stuff. Give it a home that keeps the money inside the BJJ world instead of disappearing to generic platforms.
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Deals
Member discounts, loyalty rewards, exclusive pricing. A simple way to reward the people who keep showing up and keep your gym alive.

None of these require complex setup to start. Enquiries come through the platform, you handle the details directly. Simple at launch, more capable as the community scales.

The Problem We're Actually Solving

Organising a seminar takes weeks. You chase the instructor, lock the date, post it across three different platforms, answer the same questions forty times, and handle registration manually. Then you do it again two months later. It's a second job on top of an already full one.

Renting your mat space means phone calls, back-and-forth messages, and a handshake agreement you hope holds. Finding a visiting instructor when you're away requires knowing the right people and hoping someone replies fast enough. These are solvable problems — just ones no one has built the right tool for yet, because most platforms aren't built for BJJ specifically.

The long-term goal: One place where your gym is discoverable, your services are listable, your space is rentable, and your community can find what they need — without you having to manage all of it manually across half a dozen platforms.

The QR Code Program

Every gym that joins NEWAZA Network gets a branded QR code — a unique link that ties directly to your gym's profile on the platform. Put it at reception. Add it to your member materials. Stick it on the wall by the entrance.

When practitioners scan it, they land on a sign-up page that connects them to your gym automatically. No referral codes to remember, no extra steps. One scan at the front desk is all it takes.

Why this matters: Every member who signs up through your code is attributed to your gym. Over time, that data shows how your community is growing on the platform — and it helps us prioritise building the tools that your gym actually needs next.

Where Things Are Heading

The Stays module — letting travelling grapplers find accommodation near BJJ gyms worldwide — launches once we hit 100 practitioner registrations. When it does, your gym becomes part of the tool every travelling practitioner will use to find somewhere to train.

Beyond that, the location and contact tools in development will make your gym genuinely open. Easy to find, easy to reach, easy to train at for anyone passing through your city. You don't need to be a well-known name for that to work. You just need to be listed.

Every feature we build is pointed at the same thing: less time on admin, more ways for your gym to connect with the wider BJJ community. Seminars, visiting coaches, mat rentals, community deals — the operational side of running a gym, handled in one place.

Get Your Gym On the Map

The ask right now is simple. Join the waitlist, claim your gym profile, add your location. That's the foundation everything else gets built on.

No subscription yet. No transaction fees. No complicated onboarding. Just get your gym listed while the community is forming around it.

The gyms that come in now are the ones that shape what this platform becomes. We're building this with the community — not for it from a distance. If that's the kind of platform you want to be part of, the door is open. OSS.