Behan Jiu Jitsu

The hardest part isn’t Jiu Jitsu. It’s walking through the door for the first time. This is where most people do not start. But that’s not you! 💪🏼

Almost every person on our mats started exactly where you are now. Completely unsure, nervous and wondering if they’d fit in.

That’s why we’ve built something that’s about more than just learning techniques, more than a gym membership.

It’s a place where ordinary people become more confident, healthier and more resilient, surrounded by a team that genuinely wants to see them succeed! That is non negotiable here at Behan Jiu Jitsu.

You don’t need to be fit.
You don’t need experience.
You don’t need the “right” body type.

You just need to start.

🥋 1 Week Free
Come and experience why so many people in Toowoomba call Behan Jiu Jitsu their second home.

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One day, you’ll have your last ever round.

You probably won’t know it at the time.

You’ll tie your belt, slap hands, train, laugh with your mates and walk out the doors like you’ve done a thousand times before.

And somewhere along the way, you’ll realise that the thing you thought you started for was never really the reason you stayed.

It wasn’t the techniques.

It wasn’t the belts.

It wasn’t winning.

It was the people, our amazing community.
The team, you start out not knowing anyone and then before you know it you’ve made life long friends.

The conversations before training. The laughs after hard rounds. Watching people grow up, change, struggle, disappear for a while and find their way back.

Years from now, I don’t think we’ll remember every submission or every round.

But we’ll remember who was beside us.

And I think that’s the part of Jiu Jitsu that matters most.

- coach Justin 🥋

🔥 IT’S HERE. The 8 Week Winter Challenge is now LIVE and registrations are open.

This is our biggest offer of the year and spots are already moving you have till Sunday! 👊🏼

✅ $250 for 8 full weeks of training (save 50%)
✅ Bring a mate — just $200 each
✅ Free Behan hoodie on sign-up (valued at $80)
✅ 22 adult classes per week — train on your schedule
✅ Intro BJJ + White Belt classes for beginners
✅ Adults only — 18+ program
✅ Limited to 10 spots — this sells out every year

1 June – 27 July 2026 · 70 Water Street South, Toowoomba

No experience needed. No lock-in. Just 8 weeks to find out what you’re made of.

DM us “I’M IN” to register or tap the link in bio. Don’t sleep on this. 👊

Let’s go Toowoomba!! 💪🏼

Thinking about trying Jiu Jitsu? This is for you.

Our 8 Week Winter Challenge kicks off 1 June 2025, and this is what you need to know 🤙🏼

Real people. Real results. One decision that changes everything.

DM us for more info now! Registration goes live this weekend. are strictly limited to 🔟

❄️ Something is coming to Behan Jiu Jitsu this June.

Our biggest offer of the year is almost here!

8 weeks. Toowoomba’s coldest months. Your best excuse to finally start.

Details dropping very soon. Stay tuned. 👀
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Absolutely love nights like these! The real genuine response to being surprised by a grading. Just another normal night, they have already put in the work and earned their belts well before this moment was captured.

Jiu Jitsu takes time to learn, growth is not linear (as much as we’d like it to be) and that is why it is so hard. Sometimes turning up doesn’t mean things click. Some weeks you’re just killing it and other weeks you’re being killed.

But if you continue to search for growth and stay committed to yourself and the team around you, you definitely feel moments like tonight. They hit you hard. Thank you for the energy team!

Congrats to Seth, Bryan and Mike on the promotions. Wear the belt with pride!

Coach Justin 🥋

I started Jiu Jitsu at 18. I immediately fell in love with it. The movements, the challenges, the people. So I stuck around and after 12 years I earned my black belt. 🥋

But something didn’t feel right, I wanted to share this amazing experience and bring more people to experience what I have felt all these years. And so with that drive in mind, I started Behan Jiu Jitsu. 🤙🏼

5 years ago I started this with 15 people and was covering rent out of my own pocket. I know Gabs thought I was crazy and I don’t blame her. I was worried, full of doubt but we both stuck it out and believed in the future.

I had a passion, a mat, and an honest belief that this community was worth betting on. 💯

There were nights I questioned everything. Whether I was doing the right thing. Whether the numbers would work. Whether I was crazy to think a gym in Toowoomba could be something truly meaningful like what I felt when I first started.

Then one day I walked away from a full time job. No safety net. No guarantee. Just a gut feeling and the people who kept showing up.

That was the scariest thing I have ever done. This time was truly intense for myself and my young family.

But those 15 people became 30, not over night. But then a shift, and another. Before I knew, we outgrew the space we were in. So we took another leap and built 70 Water St from the ground up

Opening night was approaching and I as been building non stop and coaching. Over 60 members walked through those doors. I stood there and genuinely didn’t know what to do with myself.

Now we are 5 years in. Two premises. Hundreds of hours of building, upgrading and growing. Now we have over 200 members in our adults and kids programs!

And I want to be honest with you.

None of that is me.

That is every single person who chose this gym. Who drove here on the nights they didn’t feel like it. Who tapped and came back. Who brought their kids in. Who told a mate about us. Who trusted us with their time.

You are Behan Jiu Jitsu.

My family and I are just grateful every single day that you gave us the chance to build something worth being part of.

From the bottom of my heart - thank you.

Coach Justin 🥋