Insurance that gets jiu jitsu. Built for BJJ academies, gi and no-gi, from $24/mo. Apply as a martial arts business, not general fitness, and you're covered for how your gym actually runs: rolling, open mat, and kids' classes.
Jiu jitsu insurance is gym insurance written for how a grappling academy actually runs: classes, instruction, open mat, kids' programs, the day-to-day on the mats. You select martial arts as your business type, and your jiu jitsu is covered for it, instead of squeezing yourself into a "general fitness" box and hoping a claim doesn't get denied. Most jiu jitsu gyms we insure pay about $114 a month, and coverage starts at $24/mo.
Here's the part most owners have lived. You call an insurer, describe your classes, and the moment you say rolling, sparring, or submissions, the quote doubles or they stop calling back. A generic carrier prices a grappling gym like a higher-risk business than it is, or won't write it at all. The brokers who will write it can usually only place you with specialty insurers, which cost more and carry higher minimum limits. We're gym owners. We built the policy we wanted, priced for the real risk, not a worst-case.
One policy, the coverages a jiu jitsu gym actually needs. The rule we underwrite by is simple: if it's a normal part of running a grappling academy, it's covered unless the policy specifically excludes it. Here's what's inside.
The big one. A training partner gets hurt during a roll, a visitor slips on the mat, a parent trips at pickup. General liability covers the injury claims and the legal defense, at $1M per occurrence and $3M aggregate. It's also the coverage your landlord writes into the lease.
Learn more →Your product is coaching, so this is the one you can't skip. If a student says a coach's instruction on a sweep or submission caused an injury, professional liability answers it. It's also the piece generic gym policies quietly leave out.
Learn more →Your gear: mats, grappling dummies, the retail rack of gis up front, mirrors, and build-out. If a fire or burst pipe wrecks it, business personal property replaces it so you can reopen.
Learn more →Run a kids' program? You need this, and it's included, at $300,000 per person, with the aggregate limit set by your state's regulations. It's the coverage nobody wants to think about and nobody wants to discover they were missing.
A gym lives on monthly dues. Go dark for three weeks after a fire and that income stops, but rent and payroll don't. Business income covers the gap while you rebuild. It rides along on a Gym BOP that bundles your liability and property together.
Where a generic application leaves a jiu jitsu gym exposed, and where the right classification covers it.
| Coverage | Generic carrier | Gym Insurance by PushPress |
|---|---|---|
| Classified as a martial arts gym, not max-risk | ✗ | ✓ |
| Rolling, sparring, and submissions as training | Often excluded | ✓ |
| Professional liability for coaching | Often excluded | ✓ |
| Kids' and youth jiu jitsu programs | ✗ | ✓ |
| Abuse and molestation coverage included | ✗ | ✓ |
| Broker or program fees | Often added | None |
Gi, no-gi, or both under one roof. If you run it as a class or a program, odds are we cover it:
Most jiu jitsu gyms we insure are everyday training academies, not fight teams. Teach something alongside jiu jitsu that's not on the list? Tell us at quote and we'll confirm it before you bind. That's the whole point of a policy built for jiu jitsu: you never have to call it "general fitness" to get covered.
These are the kinds of claims a jiu jitsu policy is built to respond to:
That's what the coverage is for: third-party injury claims, lawsuits, and damage to your gear. Whether a specific claim is paid comes down to the facts and your policy terms, but those are the day-to-day risks the policy responds to. Your everyday training, day-to-day classes, drilling, open mat, and the rolling and sparring that are part of normal training, is what the policy is written around. Hosting a grappling tournament (up to 100 competitors) and competing at away events are covered too. Full-contact or MMA-style fighting, or events over 100 competitors, need separate event coverage, so tell us at quote.
Two things we don't do, said plainly. Workers' comp isn't part of a jiu jitsu policy, so if your state requires it you'll buy that separately. And we cover what's inside your gym, not the building shell, so building owners need a broker to add structure coverage.
Coverage starts at $24/mo. Here's what jiu jitsu gyms actually pay, next to a typical broker or generic-carrier quote for the same coverage.
Median grappling-gym premium across the martial arts gyms we insure is about $114/mo ($1,369/yr), pulled June 2026. Your rate depends on facility size, location, programming, and coverage limits. See full pricing details.
We're gym owners. We got tired of grappling academies being priced like the worst-case instead of the day-to-day, so we built the policy we actually wanted. One application, a quote in about five minutes, bind the same day.
The price isn't a guess. It comes from 20+ years in fitness and data from thousands of gyms, so we know what a jiu jitsu gym's real risk looks like. This isn't a brokered policy. It's our own program, built directly with A-rated, reinsured carriers, so there's no broker in the middle and no extra fees stacked on top of your premium. See how we compare to other jiu jitsu insurance providers.
Don't let high costs or inadequate coverage hold your gym back. Protect your business and your students with insurance built for you.