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IRONGATE

Six nights a week, somebody is on the mat

Irongate is a combat sports gym in a converted steelworks on Attercliffe Road, Sheffield. BJJ, boxing, Muay Thai, wrestling and strength — sixty-one classes a week, and the timetable is on this page.

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No contracts, no joining fee, and nobody will make you spar in your first month.

Coached, not supervised

Nine coaches, four of them full-time. Every class is led, corrected and progressed — nobody is left hitting a bag on their own.

Beginner sessions, ringfenced

Fourteen classes a week are beginners only. Same coaches, same syllabus, nobody in the room who has done it for ten years.

Juniors from six

Kids' classes six days a week, capped at sixteen with two coaches on the mat. Grading is free and we do not sell belts.

Prices on the wall

Three memberships, all rolling monthly, all listed below. Cancel with a month's notice and nobody will ring you about it.

Irongate Combat Academy

We opened in 2014 in half a unit off Attercliffe Road with four mats and a borrowed ring. There are now eleven hundred square metres, two cages, a full strength floor and about four hundred members, and it is still the same three of us who started it.

Most people who walk in have never trained. That is who the place is built for: ringfenced beginner classes, coaches who correct rather than shout, and a rule that nobody spars until they ask to. The competitors came later and they train here too, which is the point — you learn faster in a room with people better than you.

See the programmes
A busy gym floor with people warming up in rows on mats under high windows
Two boxers sparring in a ring
A woman landing a roundhouse kick on a heavy bag
Two men grappling on the mat
A man skipping in the gym

IRONGATE

A fighter resting between rounds, hands on knees

What we ask of you

  • Turn up+
  • Tap early+
  • Help beginners+
  • Wash your kit+

That is the whole code of conduct and it is on the wall by the door. The first one is the hard one. Everything else — the technique, the fitness, the confidence people say they came for — follows from being in the room three times a week for a year.

What you can train

Two men grappling in gis on the mat Brazilian jiu-jitsuGi and no-gi · 14 classes a week Two boxers sparring in headguards in a ring BoxingTechnique, bagwork and sparring · 11 a week Two men sparring Muay Thai in the clinch Muay ThaiClinch, kicks and pads · 9 a week Two wrestlers mid-takedown on the mat WrestlingTakedowns and top control · 6 a week A man doing a heavy kettlebell swing on the strength floor Strength & conditioningBarbell and engine work · 12 a week Children in gis kneeling in a line listening to a coach Juniors, 6–15Grappling and striking · 9 a week

Eleven hundred square metres of mat, ring and iron

This week on the mat

Sixty-one classes a week. Beginner sessions are marked in red — start with one of those and nobody will expect you to know anything.

06:30Strength & conditioningLower body, barbellDane OkaforAll levels
12:15No-gi jiu-jitsuLunch session, 45 minMarek SowaAll levels
16:30Juniors 6–9Grappling gamesEllie RowntreeJuniors
17:15Juniors 10–15WrestlingEllie RowntreeJuniors
18:15Boxing fundamentalsStance, jab, footworkRay ChatburnBeginners
19:15Gi jiu-jitsuGuard passing blockMarek SowaAll levels
20:15Open matRolling, coached corner—Blue belt +

Nothing to book — turn up ten minutes early and say it is your first one. Bring shorts, a t-shirt and a bottle. We lend gloves, gis and shin pads for as long as you need them.

What it costs

Rolling monthly, no joining fee, no contract. One month's notice to stop and we will not ring you to ask why.

Full membership
£58/month

Everything on the timetable, six days a week, plus open mats.

Two a week
£42/month

Any two classes a week. Most people start here and move up.

Juniors
£32/month

All junior classes. Second child in the same family is half price.

Drop in
£12/class

No commitment. Comes off your first month if you join within a fortnight.

One-to-one coaching is £45 an hour, or £60 for two of you. Gradings, gloves, gis and shin pads are included — we do not sell equipment and we do not charge for belts.

A coach giving one-to-one instruction to a student on the mat

One-to-one coaching

An hour with a coach and nobody else on the mat. The fastest way through the first six months.

 A man front-squatting a barbell on the strength floor

The strength floor

Racks, bars, bells and a sled, open to all members outside class times.

 A coach demonstrating a technique to a semicircle of adults

Seminars & gradings

Six visiting coaches a year, and gradings every quarter. Both free to members.

 Two young women laughing against a brick wall after training

Women's beginner block

An eight-week course, four times a year, women only, from absolute scratch.

Sweat, bruises and a lot of borrowed gis

★★★★★

I turned up at thirty-eight having never done a press-up. Nobody laughed and nobody made me spar. Two years later I have a blue belt and I have not missed a Tuesday.
Ash Whitfield · member since 2023

★★★★★

My daughter is nine and she was painfully shy. Ellie has her leading the warm-up now. That is worth more to me than the thirty-two quid a month.
Nadia Rahman · parent

★★★★★

I have trained at four gyms in Yorkshire. This is the only one where the good lads will spend a round teaching you instead of using you as a crash mat.
Callum Beattie · member since 2019

Come and have a look

Send this and one of us will reply the same day, usually within the hour if it is not a Sunday. Or just turn up — the door on Attercliffe Road is open from six in the morning and there is always somebody in the office.

  • Unit 4, Steelworks Yard
    Attercliffe Road, Sheffield S9 3HS
  • 0114 555 0172
  • mat@example.com
  • Mon–Fri 06:00–21:30 · Sat 08:30–15:00 · Sun 09:30–15:00
We need a name to put on the mat list.
We need a working email to reply to.
Pick one, or the last option if you are not sure.
Tells us which class to put you in.
Right — you are on the list.

On the real site this would land in the office inbox and text you the address and what to bring. Nothing has been sent here — this is a demo.

Nobody's first class went well

You will be unfit, uncoordinated and out of breath in four minutes, and so was everyone else in the room. Come for a week on us and see whether you want the second one.

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