About
A neighborhood academy in Long Island City.
Marlon Colorado BJJ NYC teaches Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to adults and kids at 47-10 32nd Place, seven days a week — with a written curriculum, regular promotions, and a room where beginners and black belts train side by side.
01Head instructor
Professor Marlon Colorado
Black belt. Leads the evening classes.
Marlon has trained since childhood. He started judo at eight in an after-school program; at ten his uncle Julian taught him boxing on a sandbag in the basement of their building while he trained taekwondo at The Dome Project in Manhattan. By fourteen he was boxing at Times Square Boxing under his trainer, Mr. Darrell.
After years of weightlifting and then family life, he came to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as a parent — looking for a martial art his two kids could train, then never stopping himself. He holds a black belt, runs the academy in Long Island City, and teaches its evening classes, where each week’s theme is set for white, blue and purple belts.
02How we teach
A written system, from white belt to black.
The Marlon Colorado System organizes the curriculum into more than two hundred techniques, from fundamentals to advanced, in a physical workbook and a digital version. Students can see what they need to learn for their next rank; instructors use the same outline to structure each class.
- Weekly themes
- Each week's evening classes work a theme for white, blue and purple belts.
- High repetition
- Positional drills and repetition to build muscle memory before speed.
- Quarterly promotions
- Exams and ceremonies four times a year, with the material published in advance.
- Optional sparring
- Live training is where understanding is tested — but in all-levels classes you join in when you're ready.
03Instructors
Professor Marlon Colorado
Head instructor. Evening classes, belt promotions and the academy's curriculum.
Instructor Chris
Morning classes — hour-long sessions of warm-ups, technique, sparring and stretching for students who train before work.
Coach Sumba
Striking — boxing, kickboxing and MMA drills.
