The ADCC Youth World Championship lands in Austin on August 9, and nine confirmed invitees train out of 10th Planet gyms across the country. For a system built on no-gi and leg locks, that's a real signal about where its youth pipeline stands.
Reviewed by BJJ Gyms · Updated 2026-07-27
Figures reflect ADCC Official's youth qualification rules and FloGrappling's running list of confirmed 2026 ADCC Youth Worlds invitees.
ADCC's Youth World Championship follows the same no-gi, submission-focused format that made the adult ADCC World Championship the standard for competitive grappling. Getting an invite isn't automatic. Athletes qualify through regional trials or by stacking up enough points at ADCC-sanctioned opens across the year, which means every kid on this list has already beaten a real bracket of competition to get here.
Against that backdrop, having nine confirmed invitees connected to 10th Planet gyms is a meaningful data point. 10th Planet was built from the start as a no-gi, leg-lock-forward system, and a youth pipeline that produces this many qualified competitors suggests the system's approach to fundamentals is translating down to kids as young as 11.
Two teenagers, both out of 10th Planet Las Vegas, qualified in the same Boys 15-17 age division. Having two kids from the same gym land in an identical bracket at an event this competitive isn't common, and it points to a training environment where more than one athlete is being developed to the same high level rather than a single standout carrying the whole gym's reputation.
The rest of the confirmed list spreads across the system: 10th Planet South Bay, 10th Planet Freaks, 10th Planet Dallas, and 10th Planet Vancouver all have at least one invitee. That geographic spread matters too. It's not one exceptional coach in one city, it's a pattern showing up at multiple locations running the same curriculum.
A single ADCC invite can happen anywhere with the right kid and enough luck in a bracket. Nine invites spread across five different locations of the same system is harder to write off as coincidence. If you're evaluating a kids' BJJ program for your own child and competition results matter to you, this kind of track record is worth asking about directly: how many kids from this specific gym have qualified for ADCC-level youth events, and over how many years.
None of this means a gi-focused program or a different no-gi system can't produce the same results. It means that when a system built around a specific approach keeps showing up at the top level of youth competition, across multiple locations, that's a stronger signal than any single kid's individual talent.
Almost every gym's website says its kids' program builds confidence, discipline, and technical skill. That language is close to universal, and it doesn't tell you much on its own. Actual invitations to a qualification-based event like ADCC Youth Worlds are a different kind of evidence, because they can't be bought or exaggerated. A kid either beat enough competition to earn a spot, or they didn't.
That's why a list like this one is worth more to a parent doing research than almost anything on a gym's own marketing page. It's also why, if you're touring a kids' program and competition matters to you, it's fair to ask a coach directly whether any of their students have ever qualified for an event at this level, and if so, how recently. A coach with a real answer will usually give you specifics without hesitation.
Here's the full breakdown of 10th Planet-affiliated invitees to the 2026 ADCC Youth World Championship, by gym and division. We don't name the minors involved, but the spread across locations tells the story.
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August 9, 2026, at Luedecke Arena in Austin, Texas.
Through regional trials or by accumulating enough points at ADCC-sanctioned opens over the qualifying period. Invitations aren't handed out, they're earned through actual competition.
Nine confirmed invitees train at 10th Planet gyms, spread across locations in Las Vegas, South Bay, Freaks, Dallas, and Vancouver.
A youth pipeline producing nine ADCC-level invitees across five locations is a strong track record, though the right gym for your kid still comes down to the specific coaches and kids' program at your local location. Use the gym finder here to check what's near you.