Coaches
The people on the mat with you
Jiu-jitsu, Thai boxing and yoga, taught by people who know every student by name. Tap a coach to see their story and the classes they take this week.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Thai Boxing
George Jarvis
Thai boxing coach
ONE Championship world title challenger · former WBC Muaythai and ISKA world champion
Lumpini Crawley
George “G-Unit” Jarvis is a Crawley-born professional Muay Thai fighter who competes in ONE Championship. He started at four in his father John Jarvis’s Lumpini gym and has won WBC Muaythai English, European, International and World titles and the ISKA world title at super middleweight.
In ONE he has beaten Rungrawee Sitsongpeenong (twice, both by knockout), Sinsamut Klinmee and Mouhcine Chafi in main events at Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium, and has twice challenged Regian Eersel for the ONE lightweight Muay Thai world title. He brings the Lumpini system that produced him to Thai boxing at SWBJJ.
Paulo Da Silva
Head Thai boxing coach
Head coach to George Jarvis · fighting career 1999 to 2025
Lumpini Crawley
Paulo Da Silva is a Lumpini Crawley coach and co-owner, the head coach and cornerman behind George Jarvis’s world title runs, and co-promoter of the Muay Thai Mayhem shows at Crawley’s K2.
Portuguese-born and raised in the UK, he fought at bantamweight across the USA, China, Japan and Europe from 1999 to 2025, winning his final bout by first-round knockout at 44. He leads Thai boxing at SWBJJ.
Yoga
Lydia
Yoga teacher
Yin yoga, Thursday evenings
Lydia teaches yin yoga at the academy on Thursday evenings: an hour of long, slow holds that open the hips and shoulders and undo a week on the mat. Open to members and non-members.
Train with them this week
Every class is open to members; beginners are welcome in any fundamentals class.
