Amber Valley MMA & BJJ

A huge congratulations to five of our junior students on earning their belt promotions this morning! 👏🏼🥋

Your dedication, commitment, and hard work in training each week continue to shine through, and it’s fantastic to see your efforts being rewarded. Keep up the great work!

Please see the updated gym timetable for 2026, some minor changes to the Junior BJJ classes due to their continued growth. There is a new dedicated junior fundamentals class for ages 5+ as well as a ladies class with coach Jess Hammond.

Apologies for any missed or slow reply’s for those that’s messaged our gym page. I have 2 / 3 jobs and don’t always have time to log in and check!

I’ve attached our current timetable and pin this post as I’ll cover the most frequently asked questions ;

- You don’t have to book in for any classes, you can just turn up anytime (junior & adult). If you are a beginner then we do offer a free weeks trial.
- We only have children’s classes in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, we take them from 5yrs +. Kickboxing & MMA are adult only.
- We will only discuss prices in person as there are a few options depending on how many classes you will be attending and if you are in the beginner program or advanced
- We are based on Shaw St, Riddings , near Alfreton, DE55 4EY

- Contacts ;
Junior BJJ Jess Hammond Lisa Hammond
Kickboxing Dale Jester Wood
MMA Josh Mottram
Look forward to seeing you on the mats 🤙🏼🤗

All of our BJJ coaches are now certified in Level 3 Emergency First Aid at Work 🙌🏼✅

Yesterday we had Royston from Barksby Training & Consultancy to train us up in first aid. The course was very good and although it was intended in the context of safety in our gym these are skills that you carry with you every day in any surroundings.

Thanks to Royston for delivering the training, highly recommend him. You never know when you could be in a situation, would you know what to do? You could be the difference in someone’s survival..

Huge congratulations to all of our juniors on achieving their belt promotions this week! 🥋👏🏼

Your hard work, dedication, and growth on the mats have truly paid off. We’re proud of every one of you and excited to see your journey continue.

Keep showing up, supporting your teammates, pushing yourselves to improve and most importantly having fun 🙌🏼

Past week at AV, Jess Hammond successfully defended her u65kg title at Gorilla invitational , remains undefeated on that promotion 👏🏼👏🏼

Also congrats to coach Luke Martin on his promotion to Black Belt after 10years training with us. Luke is one of the few that has competed at all disciplines we train. BJJ Gi & NoGi, MMA & K1 Kickboxing, great achievement 🙌🏼

Amber Valley MMA & BJJ 🤜🏼🤛🏼

Congratulations to Matt, John & Riley on their belt promotions last night. Very well deserved, keep up the great work 🤙🏼👏🏼👏🏼

As we continue to grow the children’s BJJ programme we have taken the opportunity to revise the gyms safeguarding policies for both children and adults as should be done periodically.

As a gym it’s really important that all our members feel safe and know how to raise any concerns they may have.

The full revised policies and codes of conduct etc will be displayed in the gym and uploaded in due course but if you need to speak to anyone, Lisa , Anthony or any of the coaches are available.

Classes on as normal today ;

6.15pm K1 Kickboxing

7.30pm NoGi Jiu Jitsu