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Synergy BJJ Academy® is Bali, Indonesia’s first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts academy that offers world-class training in the Arts. As the name implies, Synergy captures the Essence of Jiu-Jitsu: combining forces for a superior total effect. Synergy’s mission, is to aggressively promote and spread BJJ and MMA throughout the world, with academies representing the highest standard of martial arts teachings.

BJJ Class Schedule

Monday - Friday @ 15.00 - 16.30

Class Fees

Drop-In: IDR 200K
10-Class Package: IDR 1.5Mill *valid for 30 days

Address

Jl. Subak Sari 13 No. 8, Berawa (Made’s Warung Rooftop)

Contact

WhatsApp: +62 856 180 8804

Email: [email protected]

About Us

Synergy BJJ MMA Academy® is Bali, Indonesia's first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts academy that offers world-class training in the Arts. As the name implies, Synergy captures the Essence of Jiu-Jitsu: combining forces for a superior total effect. Synergy's mission, is to aggressively promote and spread BJJ and MMA throughout the world, with academies representing the highest standard of martial arts teachings.

Niko Han is a Rickson Gracie BJJ Black Belt under the Jiu-Jitsu Global Federation, and the founder/head coach of Synergy Jiu-Jitsu Academy®, a Certified Academy and Official Rickson Gracie Team and the Jiu-Jitsu Global Federation. He started his training under Rickson Gracie in Los Angeles, which inspired him to open and expand the teachings of Rickson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts in Indonesia.

Since his return back to Bali, Indonesia, Niko established the Synergy Jiu-Jitsu Academy® on July 28, 2003, and later founded the Indonesian Grappling Federation. He has been organizing BJJ, Submission Grappling and MMA events and seminars throughout the nation since 2005.

The Synergy BJJ MMA Academy® focuses on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, self-defense, fitness, character development and personal achievement, and gives you the training to get there. We maintain the highest standards of excellence in the quest to help each student to be the best BJJ and MMA he or she can be.

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Founder/Head Coach

Niko Han began training Brazilian jiu-jitsu on October 28, 1996 at Rickson Gracie's academy in Los Angeles, California. He received his Blue Belt from Rickson Gracie on November 15, 1997. He continued training at Beverly Hills Jiu-Jitsu Club in Los Angeles, California under Marc Laimon, Ethan Milius and Marcus Vinicius, in December of 1998, where he was promoted to Purple Belt by Marcus Vinicius on June 17, 2000.

In October 2000 he started wrestling at the R1 training center in El Segundo, California under freestyle wrestling and MMA champion Ricco Chipparelli and Frank Trigg. He then joined the Wrestling Club of University of California Los Angeles in February 2001. In July 2001 Niko also began teaching the BJJ classes at UCLA, and at the same time took up boxing at the L.A. Boxing Gym and Bill Slayton's Broadway Boxing Gym in Los Angeles.

He started training with ADCC veteran, Eddie Bravo, and soon after, in May 2001 started training in Tarzana, California under BJJ and ADCC world champion Jean-Jacques Machado.

In August of 2002, he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to train with Marc Laimon, at Nova Uniao Academy. There he also continued boxing with Skipper Kelp, UNLV's head coach. In Las Vegas he had the opportunity and great honor to train with many of the best grapplers and MMA fighters in the world.

Before returning to his home country Indonesia, he made a trip to Brazil in April 2003, to train at the Nova Uniao Academy in Rio de Janeiro under Andre Pederneiras, and also with BJJ and ADCC world champion Leo Vieira, Fernando Terere and Eduardo Telles in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Marc Laimon awarded Niko his Brown Belt on May 20, 2003 in Rio de Janeiro. Marc Laimon promoted Niko Han to Black Belt on February 14, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In Bali on July 31, 2013, Niko had the incredible honor and privilege to reunite with his first and greatest Jiu-Jitsu Master, Rickson Gracie. Master Rickson Gracie awarded him his Black Belt certificate on October 8, 2014.

EXPERIENCE

Rickson Gracie Academy - October 28, 1996
BHJJC - December 10, 1998
UCLA Wrestling Club - February 12, 2001
Jean-Jacques Machado Academy - May 5, 2001
L.A. Boxing Gym - September 6, 2001
R1 Training Center - October 17, 2001
Broadway Boxing Gym - January 15, 2002
Nova Uniao Academy USA - August 5, 2002
Nova Uniao Academy Brazil - May 2003
Master Jiu-Jitsu Academy Brazil - June 2003
Cobra Kai Jiu-Jitsu Academy - January 2006-2008

ACHIEVEMENTS

Gold Medal - Joe Moreira’s De Brasil Championship - June 1, 1997
Silver Medal - Rickson Gracie’s International Jiu-Jitsu Championship - August 31, 1997
Silver Medal - Bad Boy Submission Open - May 9, 1998
Silver Medal - Machado No-Gi Championship - September 30, 2000
Gold Medal - Pan American Submission Wrestling Open - July 28, 2001
Silver Medal - Grapplers Quest West 3 - November 16, 2002
Gold Medal - Desert Quest 4, 8-Man Superfight Tournament - February 15, 2003
Silver Medal - Java Freestyle Wrestling Championship - October 10, 2004
Bronze Medal - South-East Asian No-Gi Grappling Games - March 17, 2007
Gold Medal - South-East Asian Gi Grappling Games - March 17, 2007
Gold Medal - South-East Asian Gi Absolute Grappling Games - March 17, 2007