Meta Jiu Jitsu opened its doors in Toulouse in December 2022, with around forty square metres of mats. No affiliation, no parent club: three people set on building an academy their own way.
Three years later the club has a hundred square metres in the city centre, runs sixteen classes a week from morning to evening, twelve months a year, and is already preparing the next step. It runs its day-to-day on OSS Academy, from its own website.
40 sqm at the start, 100 sqm today
Meta Jiu Jitsu’s story begins without a safety net. No team behind it, no borrowed name: the club has claimed its independence from day one and has not affiliated with anyone since. The first space held around forty square metres of mats; the club then grew to a hundred in the city centre, and is already looking for more room.
One thing has not changed: holding both ends at once, still competing nationally at adult black belt, and bringing along students discovering jiu-jitsu for the first time. On the same mats, at the same hours, from beginner to competitor. Three years on, the three instructors are still on the podiums, and the club has filled its morning, midday and evening slots.
A hundred square metres in the city centre, classes running all year with no summer break, a teen programme, a Porrada slot for advanced students and coached open mats at the weekend.
Three black belts on the mats
What sets Meta Jiu Jitsu apart from a club of this size is its coaching staff. Three instructors, three black belts, all trained in Portugal.
Nicolas Randriamihamina, co-founder, is a black belt 1st degree. A former sports physiotherapist, he took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 2012 and trained at the highest European level. His record: multiple French champion, French runner-up in 2026, and a starting spot on the French BJJ and Ne-Waza teams.
Camilla Sæther heads the women’s programme. Coming from capoeira and time spent immersed in Brazilian culture, she started jiu-jitsu in 2017 in Bergen, Norway, continued in Portugal and then in France. A multiple French champion, the club describes her as the balance between demand and warmth.
Alexandre Sidambarompoulle, who coaches the advanced adults, discovered jiu-jitsu in 2016 and also trained in Portugal. Bronze medallist at the 2026 French Championships.
They build everything in house
Meta Jiu Jitsu’s independence does not stop at the absence of an affiliation. The club produces its own content, in the academy and at competitions: photos, video, a YouTube channel, Instagram. It designs its own merch, for jiu-jitsu and grappling. And it builds its own teaching curriculum, on the mats and online.
That last piece is called Meta Campus: an online jiu-jitsu academy, built so students progress faster between classes. Few clubs this size in France take in-house production that far.
Why Meta Jiu Jitsu chose OSS Academy
A club that builds everything itself picks its tools with the same standards. What Meta Jiu Jitsu was looking for was not one specific feature, but a team: people who are responsive and rigorous, and who know the realities of jiu-jitsu in France.
Day to day, Meta Jiu Jitsu relies on the app for:
- Selling and managing memberships: monthly plans, drop-in passes, the youth membership, and payment in instalments
- Merch: the club store handled in the same place as the memberships
- Internal communication: reaching students without a parallel chat group
- Schedule management: sixteen classes a week, three instructors, one grid
- Bookings and access: sign-ups, payments and attendance centralised in one place
The upside is twofold: less admin work day to day, and a structure able to support the growth of the club.
Their site, their brand, OSS underneath
Meta Jiu Jitsu has a website, metajjb.fr, built in house like everything else. The club had no interest in replacing it with a page hosted somewhere else.
It did not have to. The membership plans sit on their own site, in their own design, and the sign-up buttons open the OSS Academy flow. Students pay, book classes and get their information through the app, without the club losing control of its image.
It is a way of using OSS Academy that few clubs take advantage of: skipping the public page that comes with the subscription, and putting the tool behind your own shopfront instead.
Do you run a BJJ, grappling or combat sports academy? Create your academy on OSS Academy and focus on what matters: your students.
Nicolas Randriamihamina
Co-founder, adult and teen instructor
Black belt 1st degree, multiple French champion and French runner-up 2026
@nico.zaka.bjjAlexandre Sidambarompoulle
Advanced adult instructor
Black belt, bronze medallist at the 2026 French Championships
@alex_pco
