WHO WE ARE

Established in January 2025, the Sport Jiu-Jitsu Canada Federation (SJJCANF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the growth, development, and regulation of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitions across Canada. Working in close collaboration with our international partners within the Sport Jiu-Jitsu International Federation (SJJIF), our mission is to provide a structured, fair, and competitive platform for athletes of all ages and skill levels, ensuring a safe and inclusive environment for practitioners to showcase their talents.

As the leading amateur sporting organization for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Canada, we focus on fostering high-level competition while upholding the values of discipline, respect, and sportsmanship. Our federation is committed to hosting premier national/provincial-level tournaments, providing athlete development programs, and establishing clear ranking structures to recognize excellence in the sport.

Through strong leadership, partnerships, and community engagement, the SJJCANF aims to elevate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Canada to international prominence while creating opportunities for athletes to compete at the highest levels of the amateur sport, with a view to eventual inclusion in the Olympic Games as an official sport.

Join us today as we shape the future of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Canada!

OUR NATIONAL MISSION

The mission of the SJJCANF is to unify and organize existing amateur sport Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and other jiu-jitsu national and/or territorial federations that share the vision of reaching Olympic greatness while preserving the unique history, culture, philosophy, and lineage of our sport.

The SJJCANF believes that together, along with our international partner federations, we will continue to develop the growing network of like-minded members who envision greater opportunities for our athletes and the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, as we believe that our athletes deserve an equal opportunity to achieve Olympic greatness!

Together, we will prove that we are a stand-alone sport and gain recognition and admittance into the Olympic Program as a competition event of the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Deaflympics and in all other games of the Olympic cycle.

OUR NATIONAL OBJECTIVES

As the representative national federation for Canada, the SJJCANF is actively participating in the SJJIF’s ongoing efforts to acquire International Olympic Committee (IOC) sport recognition and admittance into the Olympic Program as a competing event of the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, and Deaflympics and in all other games of the Olympic cycle by uniting, organizing, and providing effective international governance to the sport of Jiu- Jitsu.

As such, the SJJCANF fully embraces the general and fundamental principles of the Olympic Charter, Paralympic Charter, and Deaflympic Charter; and furthermore, aims to promote these fundamental principles in all of our activities. More specifically, the SJJCANF:

·         Aims to respect and preserve the history of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and ensure the lineage of all its Canadian participants;

·         Promote, expand, organize, improve, regulate and popularize the practice of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Canada, in light of its educational, cultural, and sportive values (the “Jiu-Jitsu movement”); and to improve the health of its participants through its practice;

·         Aims to protect the physical and mental health of the athletes, promoting the importance of youth development, fair competition, respect, equality, cooperation, peace, and friendship;

·         Aims to strengthen the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and the jiu-jitsu communities, contributing to the development of friendly relationships amongst the Provincial Federations, while assisting the SJJIF globally in promoting the interests of jiu-jitsu throughout the world;

·         Will organize the annual Canadian National Jiu-Jitsu Gi and No Gi Championships in collaboration with provincial federations and other partners. The SJJCANF will actively pursue the privilege of hosting future SJJIF World Championships and other official SJJIF events in Canada;

·         Will provide organizational and promotional support to all provincial member federations and SJJCANF-sanctioned events, as appropriate;

·         Aims to continue improving the technical rules regulating jiu-jitsu competitions sanctioned or promoted by the SJJCANF;

·         Aims to continue improving standards pertaining to various items of clothing and equipment used within the sport of jiu-jitsu;

·         Aims to adopt, implement, and promulgate the World Anti-Doping Agency Code, in support of the SJJIF;

·         Aims to respect the principles of equality and harmony within the sport of jiu-jitsu. To oppose all forms of racial, political, religious, cultural, ideological and gender discrimination and to oppose discrimination based upon internal factions within the sport of jiu-jitsu;

·         Aims to promote the educational, scientific, literary and charitable aspects of the sport, improving cultural and sporting contacts amongst the jiu-jitsu communities across Canada; and

·         Aims to engage in other activities, as appropriate, in support of the above objectives.