The CLA
Summit
Three days of live coaching, experimentation, training, and discussion with people actively developing the Constraints-Led Approach in Jiu-Jitsu.
No lectures. No slides. Only live application.
Built for people
serious about CLA.
This isn't an introductory CLA seminar. It's an opportunity to get in the room with coaches and athletes actively applying the methodology, test ideas together, solve problems, train, and leave with things you can immediately bring back to your own academy.
Live Coaching Scenarios
Run real coaching situations on the mats and get feedback from other coaches.
Footage Review
Break down training and competition footage and turn observations into practical coaching decisions.
Training Sessions
Train with athletes and coaches who are actively exploring CLA.
Test New Ideas
Bring games, constraints, problems, and concepts you're currently working through and experiment with them together.
Three Days. One Room.
50 People.
Coaching Problems
- Optional morning coffee
- Live coaches-coaching session
- Catered lunch
- Informal workshops
- Live evening training
- Evening social
Review + Application
- Morning coffee
- Coaching lab
- Match review
- Catered lunch
- Workshops
- Live training
- Group dinner
Put It Into Practice
- Live coaching application
- Group wrap-up
Exact schedule to be announced.
You don't need to be an expert. You should already be in the conversation.
- —CLA coaches
- —BJJ coaches experimenting with ecological approaches
- —Gym owners
- —Serious athletes interested in coaching
- —GrapplingU members
- —Greg's Skool community
- —Practitioners already studying CLA
- All three summit days
- Live coaching sessions
- Workshops
- Training sessions
- Catered lunches
- Group dinners
- Summit shirt / rashguardTBD
- Hotel discountTBD
- Attendee preparation guide
Hosted at Standard Jiu-Jitsu
Led by head coach Greg Souders, Standard Jiu-Jitsu in Rockville, Maryland is built around an ecological, constraints-led approach to coaching. Every class is shaped by representative games, live problem-solving, and athlete-driven discovery.
Through GrapplingU and Greg's Skool community, Standard already connects hundreds of coaches and athletes studying CLA online.
The CLA Summit brings that community into one room, on the mats, to work through the real problems of applying CLA together.
Standard Jiu-Jitsu
409 N Stonestreet Ave, Suite E, Rockville, MD 20850
DCA (Reagan National), IAD (Dulles), and BWI (Baltimore/Washington)
Free on-site parking available at the facility
About 30 minutes from downtown DC, near the Rockville Metro (Red Line)
Recommended hotels and attendee rates: details TBD
Be First to Know When Registration Opens.
The summit is capped at 50 attendees to keep every session hands-on. Request early access and you'll hear first when spots open.