Oak Hill is HYR Grappling’s next-door neighbor, with most families door to door in about ten minutes. It is a kids-only Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy in Chantilly for ages 7–17, with no adult program sharing the room. Close enough that training three times a week is a habit, not a project.
Ten minutes door to door means a missed class is easy to make up, and a busy school week does not break the habit. Consistency is what actually builds skill, and proximity is how you keep it.
HYR runs one program: kids and teens ages 7–17. No adult classes before or after, no split attention. The entire academy is built around training young athletes. See the program.
Parents are welcome at the side of the room every session, not just the first one. You will see exactly what your child is learning and how the coaches run the room. Meet the coaches.
HYR teaches modern no-gi Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to kids and teens ages 7–17: leverage, control, and submissions learned live on the ground, at a pace built for young athletes. It is real, competition-tested technique, not a symbolic curriculum pointed at the next belt test.
Here is the part Oak Hill families are positioned to take advantage of. The single biggest predictor of whether a kid gets good, and whether they stick with it, is showing up consistently. Skill in jiu-jitsu is cumulative: each class layers onto the last. When the academy is ten minutes away, three classes a week stays realistic through soccer season, winter weather, and a packed school schedule. The families who live closest tend to be the ones whose kids progress the fastest, simply because they rarely miss.
The room does the rest. Most kids arrive having never grappled, get paired with an appropriate partner, and build from there. What follows is usually less about self-defense and more about quiet confidence: a kid who stays calm under pressure and carries themselves a little differently. More on the real benefits of BJJ for kids.
From the Franklin Farm side, take West Ox Road or Centreville Road toward Route 50 and you are practically here. The gym sits just off Route 50 at 14740 Flint Lee Road in Chantilly, with parking out front.
Tuesday and Thursday classes start at 5:00 PM, which is an easy run from school pickup anywhere in Oak Hill. Saturday’s 10:00 AM class leaves the rest of the weekend untouched. Because it is so close, families who start with one or two classes a week usually settle into all three without it ever feeling like a haul.
Parents are welcome to stay and watch from the side of the room at every class.
Coach Cameron Hurd is a brown belt under Sean Stoopman, ranked #17 in the world by FloGrappling, and a 2025 ADCC National Champion. Because he is an active competitor, the kids in his class learn current, working technique from someone still testing it at the highest level of the sport.
Coach Lyndon Yates is a full-time youth specialist and a brown belt under the same lineage. His focus is entirely on kids: how to size a technique to a young athlete, how to keep a room engaged, and how to build real skill without pushing anyone past where they are. His students have competed at ADCC Youth and MMA Youth Worlds.
You will not see an assistant filling in. Both coaches are on the floor, and both are there for one reason: the kids. See both coaching records.
All classes are ages 7–17, beginners welcome at any of them. Full schedule
The first class is free, and there’s no commitment after it. Pick a time below, it takes about 45 seconds.
HYR families also drive in from Fairfax, Centreville, and South Riding.