Jiu Jitsu for kids 4 and up in Breaux Bridge. Games they actually look forward to, real technique underneath them, and classes small enough that one coach knows your kid's name. No contract and no belt test fees. If you can't point at something that's changed, you get every dollar back.
Twelve founding spots. Classes start in January. Your rate locked for life. No contract. No belt fees. See the spots →
You do want your kid getting good at something, and Jiu Jitsu will handle that part. But it's usually not what brings a parent to a page like this. You're here because of something you've watched happen, more than once, and you don't know what to do about it.
None of that means something is wrong with your kid. It means they haven't found the thing yet.
Most parents who end up here have a garage full of receipts. It usually goes something like this.
Team sports. You bought the glove, the cleats, the bat bag. They picked grass in right field and sat until the last two innings while the coach's kid played every one. Sometimes it's the wrong fit for the kid. Sometimes the roster is just too deep for them to get any real reps. Either way you end up paying for a season your kid mostly watched.
Other martial arts. A year contract for a five year old. Belt tests every couple of months at sixty dollars a pop. Three belts later you couldn't name one thing they actually learned. Twenty-five kids, one instructor shouting over them, and your card kept charging two months after the contract ended.
Dance, gymnastics, cheer. The first six weeks are great. They love the outfit and they show you every move in the living room. Then it turns into a fight to get them in the car. A lot of these programs are built around the recital or the competition team, so the kids who were already good get the attention and everybody else learns the routine from the back row. Your kid figures out pretty fast which group they're in. You end up with a two hundred dollar costume worn twice and a kid who's a little more sure they're just not good at things.
Talking to them about it. Just ignore them. Just be confident. Use your words. Dad said toughen up. None of it moved a single inch, and it never will, because you cannot talk confidence into a kid. They don't have a knowledge problem. They already know what they're supposed to do. They've just never once done it and come out the other side.
Screen limits and sticker charts. Timers on the iPad, chore charts on the fridge, a sticker for every good day. It works for about three days. Then the timer turns into a negotiation, the chart falls behind, and you're right back where you started, only more tired. That's not bad parenting. It's that a chart can only manage the behavior, it can't touch the reason for it. A kid with a tank full of energy and nowhere to put it doesn't need a better chart. They need somewhere to spend it that gives something back.
Every one of those failed for one of three reasons. It didn't work on the actual problem. It didn't fit your kid. Or it was built to take your money and never had to prove it changed anything. That's the whole list.
Nothing here is complicated. It comes down to a handful of choices about how the room is run, and together they are the reason this tends to work on kids that other things didn't work on.
Nobody can promise you a different kid in thirty days, and anybody who does is selling you something. Here is what actually shows up, usually somewhere in the first couple of months.
That is the actual product. The Jiu Jitsu is just the tool that builds it.
Two age groups, both in the gi, starting in January. Each class caps at six kids for now. And yes, they're named after the state bird. Small, fast, and impossible to get off you once they land.
It looks like games, because at this age it has to be. Balance, coordination, and focus get built through play, and underneath every game is a piece of Jiu Jitsu they'll still be using in ten years. For a four or five year old the win is simple. Learn to fall down, get back up, keep your hands busy, and listen to a grown-up who isn't your parent.
Same room, more teeth. There are still games and it's still the part kids look forward to, they're just Jiu Jitsu specific now and there's a lot more real technique attached to them. Kids build on the fundamentals, learn positions by name, drill them with a partner, and train live at the end of every class. This is where technique starts turning into something they could actually use, and where getting stuck and working out of it does the most for them.
Membership is unlimited, so every class I add later is open to every founding kid at no extra cost. As the gym grows I'll open more classes and split these into tighter age brackets, so a seven year old isn't training next to a twelve year old forever.
Twelve founding spots, and they don't come back. Once they're taken, a spot only opens when a kid leaves. The twelve lock in a rate that never goes up, and the price climbs for everybody after them.
Canaan Frederick. I started training in 2019, a few months after my father passed. I needed something hard to do. Something that asked everything of me and gave me a way to be in my body instead of my head. Seven years later I haven't stopped.
I've had the pleasure of training under some amazing coaches. Tim Credeur, Jules Bruchez, Josh Artigue, and Heath Henry. I also spent 2022 and 2023 training at Easton in Denver and the surrounding areas, which was an incredible experience, and I came home better for it. I've competed here and there, but I've always had a deeper love for the daily training.
I started coaching in mid-2024 with a class of 3 to 5 year olds. Everyone warned me it would be brutal but it was the opposite. The kids loved me, I loved them, and somewhere in the middle of all that I figured out I was built for this. I took on adult fundamentals shortly after, with everyone from total beginners to a 70-something-year-old in his first gi. The thing people kept telling me was that they actually understood what was being taught, and that stuck.
I'm building Basin with my brother Caleb and my wife Sophia. Breaux Bridge is home. I went to school here at St. Bernard and Breaux Bridge High, played sports at both, and I've coached at both since.
Three ways to claim one of the twelve spots. All three hold your place, lock your rate for life, and cover your first month.
Whichever one you pick, it's $125 a month after that for unlimited training, and that rate is yours for as long as your kid keeps training. It never goes up. Prices will keep climbing for everyone who joins after these twelve. No annual fee, no belt test fee, no promotion fee, ever.
Founding Plus is $150 more than the Spot and puts $334 more in your hands, but the math isn't the reason to take it. The reason is the two private lessons. The first one happens before day one. Most kids spend their whole first class deciding whether they're safe instead of learning anything, and a kid who already spent a session on that mat with me walks in and starts training. The second one comes at thirty days, once I actually know your kid, so we can work on whatever they're stuck on and you can see exactly where they're at. The second gi earns its keep too, because one gi means you're doing laundry on a deadline between classes.
Every spot includes up to 90 days of freeze a year. Baseball season, football season, a move, a rough few months. You pay nothing while you're out, there's no penalty and no re-enrollment fee, and your spot and your locked rate are exactly where you left them when you come back.
Add a second kid for $89 a month instead of $125, for as long as they train, locked the same way the $125 is. There's a $99 registration that covers their gi and belt. Worth knowing up front: the second kid takes one of the twelve spots.
Every stripe and every belt is free, forever. No testing fees, no promotion fees, and no belt that shows up because a payment went through. Kids earn them by showing up consistently, carrying themselves well on the mat, understanding what they've been taught, and actually using it when they train. I'll also ask you what you're seeing at home, because the good habits count off the mat too. When a stripe comes, your kid knows they earned it, and that's why it means something.
Before day one: change your mind for any reason and I refund every dollar. Just let me know and I'll take care of it. Quick, simple, and hassle-free.
After training starts: bring your kid to twenty classes in their first ninety days. If you can't point at one thing that's different in how they carry themselves, tell me and I refund everything you've paid. They keep the gi and the belt.
Twelve founding spots. Once they're taken, a spot only opens when a kid leaves. Send your info and I'll text you back.
You can wait and hope it works itself out. Sometimes it does. Or your kid starts in January, and by spring they're a different kid than the one you're worried about right now.
