I was randomly browsing around the internet today and stumbled there site. they do muay tai, boxing and canadian jiu jitsu. Sounds like a pretty fun mix to me!

Has anyone had any experience with the club? Or heard anything about them?

There rates are shockingly reasonalble... 55/month for 2 classes a week. and they are nice and flexible about there memberships.

their site:
http://www.buckley-jiu-jitsu.com/main.cfm?...72B9A524D8A3925

so... anyone??

edit:

i found this on bullshido... but it's probably a little bias cos it's from a co-owner
http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread...ghlight=buckley

"Canadian Jui Jitsu" is not a widely known or recognized art. I've been in Canada all my life and doing Martial Arts for the better part and I've never heard of such a thing. If you don't like the instructor or have to move, you'd be hard pressed to find another school, if indeed there are any.

I'm not saying it's necessarily bad, just that it sounds like yet another place that made up it's own Martial Art.

As a general rule, I would steer clear of places that offer multiple MA within the same school as they rarely do them all justice. The more martial arts that are included the more watered down the training is likely to be. (Multiple MA in the same location, is not so bad. Our dojo also hosts Karate but the Judo and Karate clubs are completely independant and belong to separate associations. The Karate club sub-ets from the judo school.)

After a brief search on Canadian Ju Jitsu, the only locations recognized by the CJJA or CJA (whatever its called) are all in Ontario. That makes me a bit more curious as to the depth of such.

I met the guy in charge there on saturday at the Karo clinic. He seems pretty level headed and nice enough. He also seemed very young to have the 20 years teaching experience he claims. He could just look younger then he is though. I was hoping to get down to the club this week to check it out but i'm way to busy. maybe next week. I'll le tyou guys know how it goes when i do!

Lol, they're advertising the Serra seminar. I'm quite lucky, it seems that Scarborough is the place to open MMA gyms all of a sudden. I read Randy Couture is opening one here as well. I pray to god that it's true.

"Canadian Jiu-Jitsu" huh? CJJ?

Must be nice to live so close to all the action. I also read that Randy was opening an extreme couture shop somewhere out there. I really wish i lived in toronto sometimes!

Looking at the site and the site owner's review I'm guessing the grappling instruction won't be that great. Canadian jiujitsu sounds like another attempt by people to pass off traditional, non-sparring ju jutsu off as equivalent to bjj. They do "bjj style" rolling once a week, which makes me guess their daily randori is scripted compliant training.

Given the increasing popularity of mma, I've seen lots of schools try and pass themselves off as mma gyms. These mma gyms usually end up sucking. Stick with judo, boxing, bjj etc, or mma gyms where that is what is taught not repackaged crap.

I talked to the owners... they are definitely not trying to pass it off as bjj or the equivalent.

and i agree i don't think the grappling instruction will be up to par with learning bjj from someone who is a legitimate bjj blackbelt with a lot of experience. but that qualification is hard to find!

I'm heading down on Wednesday so i will give a full report then!

we'll wait until then.

Well, I hate to dissapoint all you skeptics but It seems like a very legit club!! I had a great time! Sensei Patrick knows his stuff. the Jiu jitsu is a nice mix of strikes, throws, and subs. The class has a nice mix of skill levels and sizes. The atmosphere is great to. Pretty friendly, lots of learning and helping each other.

the muay thai class.... oh my god. i am not going to be able to move tomorow!! I haven't had a work out like that since before i messed up my knee. the warm up was absolutley brutal. insane, crazy. fun. useful. it was excellent. then we did a bunch of bag work with punching and kicking. good times. the instructor seems to know what she's talking about to. She was very helpful with with my pathetic attempts at punching and kicking.

I'm not sure about there MMA classes yet. But i was quite impressed with the classes i attended today and i signed up for there 2 classes a week membership.

so yea. good times. good club. nice people. pretty good setup. pretty good mats. nice selection of things to buy. I give em an A.

Glad you enjoyed it. I'm actually thinking of entering BJJ tournys this fall and winter. Thinking about entering through my brothers club Ascension Jiu-jitsu, but I must be a member of the CJA and then probably a member of the club. I really don't know how Judo ppl sign themselves up for this. Of course it's gonna be the Beginners division of BJJ with up to 1 year in exp. I've got 1 year of Judo exp so, I hope I do ok.

Not sure if you are talking gi or no gi. In no gi you might have the odd blue belt to deal with. With only 1 year of judo, depending on how you train, that could be a very tough match indeed. However in gi, it should be broken up by rank, so you will be fighting white belts, and there is no reason you can't be competitive there.

No, it's just gonna be Gi. I'm not ready for no Gi. With no Gi I lose my arsenal of chokes. Our head instructor is a newaza freak. He keeps stressing how important good newaza is. So he'll be all for the competition.

Hey actually a buddy of mine is a huge fan of the gym, and I tried the CDN JJ and it was solid. The gym is a decent size and the attitude their is great; iim pumped to try ther Muay Thai class on monday, and like you said the memberships are pretty dirt cheap.

Solid choice to join.

After Brazilian JJ , now there is suddenly Canadian JJ.....

What's next : South African JJ , Egyptian JJ , Albanian JJ......???