progress jiu jitsu
Westbrook Park
We started Progress in the Summer of 2012. The brand started in Manchester,
England. We take great pride in being from Manchester and the city's culture and
history influences a lot of our designs. James Tighe (a then blue belt) started
the brand with his close friends and family, all of whom a decade later are
still part of the company. We all shared one thing in common, an unbelievable
passion for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. We fell in love with the sport and our dream
was to one day quit our jobs and work on the brand full time, being involved
with the Jiu Jitsu community, to help it grow as much as we could. This dream
became our goal. The brand name perfectly represented how we felt about the
sport, and us as people. It's all about the Progress you make. We put less
emphasis on winning at all costs, and more on improvement. We genuinely want our
customers and fans to be the best they can possibly be, on and off the mats, and
the essence of our brand is to try our best to make that happen, through our
products, our content, our athletes, our projects and everything else we do. We
will help you achieve your goals. ''Without struggle, there can be no Progress''
Fast forward to January 2021, we finally achieved our goal and launched the
brand full time. We quit our jobs and committed to a warehouse lease. We have
not looked back since, and have our amazing customers to thank for giving us the
best job in the world. As a brand our promise is to repay your faith in us by
providing the best customer experience you could dream of, and supplying the
community with legendary Jiu Jitsu gear. We pride ourselves on adding more value
to the Jiu Jitsu community than we take out. Our mission is to grow our sport by
sharing our passion for the Jiu Jitsu lifestyle, making the World a better place
through the movement of Jiu Jitsu.
