About Us
old city philadelphia, est. 2021
A real gym. A real brand. Same address.
JJCo Fightwear is the merch side of The Jiu Jitsu Company, our jiu jitsu academy in Old City. Same building, same people, same bad jokes.
THE SPACE
Exposed brick. Second floor walk-up.
The gym lives on the second floor of an old wool and textiles warehouse at 31 S 2nd Street. Exposed brick. Big windows. Mats that have absorbed about a million rolls and at least as many bad jokes.
We're not a chain, not a franchise, and not a vibe-curated co-working space pretending to be a martial arts academy. We're a real gym, run by people who train every day.
THE FOUNDERS
Josh + Angie.
Husband and wife, business partners and gym owners, in roughly that order depending on the day.
ANGIE · THE MERCH
Angie
JJCo Fightwear is my side of the house. I design every piece and run the shop. 2nd degree BJJ black belt, earned in 7 years, with a Muay Thai background.
JOSH · THE GYM
Josh
The reason I get to do it. 3rd degree black belt with over 20 years on the mats. He carries a huge share of the gym work so I have time to design, and every piece still goes past him for function and feel.
Together we run the academy and somehow keep disagreements about half guard to a minimum.
HOW IT STARTED
It started with a black rashguard.
Like every other gym, we started by selling a plain black rashguard with our logo on it. It worked. People bought it. Then I got curious. I got better at Photoshop and Illustrator. I started designing the kind of graphics I actually wanted to wear, and making merch that didn't look like every other BJJ apparel brand.
Then I had a slightly bold idea: I cold-pitched our designs to BJJ HQ. They liked them, and they've been carrying our stuff ever since. That single break gave me the courage to keep designing, keep building, and keep making apparel for the kind of grappler who wants something a little different.
STILL THE RULE
Make it fun. Make it a little weird. Jiu jitsu is serious enough already.
— ANGIE
THE ETHOS · JUST LIKE OUR GYM
Culture forward. Accessibly priced. For everyone that trains.
We don't do any of that. We make stuff that people who actually train want to wear. Fightwear and Après-Roll for grapplers who take the art seriously, but not themselves.
in philly?
Come see us.
The Jiutique is our shop inside the gym at 31 S 2nd St, 2nd Floor, Old City. Try things on, ask questions, bring someone who doesn't train. We'll size them too.
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