Last updated: September 2026
These Terms of Service form the agreement between you and ACROPOLIS GRAPPLING, LLC, a limited liability company operating a wrestling and jiu-jitsu academy at 1587 N 650 W, Orem - 84057-2520, United States (US). Please read the whole of this document before you enrol, book a trial class, use the website, or step onto the mat. By registering and training you accept these terms. If you cannot agree to any part of them, please speak with the office before you begin rather than after a problem arises.
These terms apply whenever you use the academy website, call the office, enter the building, attend a class, or take part in any related activity. Acceptance happens, without needing a signature, at the moment you complete registration or pay for a service or attend the first session. Where the law requires a signed paper copy of the class agreement, the office will provide that document, and both sides sign before the first roll begins.
You confirm that you have read these terms and that you understand the risk of training and the rules of the mat. If a parent or a guardian signs on behalf of a young person, that adult confirms that they have full authority to accept these terms for the child.
ACROPOLIS GRAPPLING, LLC operates a grappling and Brazilian jiu-jitsu academy offering group classes, a kids and youth line, a competition team, private lessons, and scheduled open mat sessions. The academy teaches wrestling, submission grappling, and jiu-jitsu methods in a supervised hall with small-group mat time and a coach present at every session.
The specific timetable, the weight classes, the belt lines, and the price list are set out on the services page and in the office. The academy may vary the schedule from season to season and will tell members of any change through the usual channels before the new timetable takes effect.
Anyone may request to join whether they are a complete beginner or an experienced athlete. Before training, you must supply a truthful account of your general health and especially of any injury, operation, or ongoing medical condition that could make grappling unsafe for you or for your partner. You must also declare whether you are pregnant.
Grappling involves weight, pressure, and contact. If a medical professional has advised against such sport, or if you feel unwell on a given day, you should rest rather than roll. The academy asks every member to complete a health statement at enrollment and to update it whenever a change occurs. Withholding a material health fact may make later training unsafe and may affect cover.
Enrollment requires accurate details from you, including a true name and a working contact method. You agree to keep those details current and to inform the office promptly of any change of address, telephone number, or email. Registration for a young person must be made by a parent or a guardian over the age of eighteen.
A single person must not hold a booking for another member without the permission of the office, and each member must train under their own record. The office may ask for proof of identity or of age when it is needed to keep the register accurate or to protect a child.
Rights under a membership belong to the member who registered and cannot be transferred to another person without the written agreement of the office. A membership is a personal permission to attend the classes covered by the plan and is not a share or a property interest of any kind.
The company holds membership agreements on standard terms that can be updated under the changes clause. A month to month plan continues until either side gives the notice described in the fees and cancellation sections. A fixed plan runs for its stated term and is not paused unless this is offered in writing.
Class fees and private lesson rates are stated in the office and on the price list and are payable in advance. Trial nights and certain intake events may be offered free by the academy, and a free trial does not create a continuing membership unless a plan is subsequently purchased.
Payment can be made in person or by the payment method the office arranges, and a receipt records every transaction. Where a card payment or a recurring plan is set up, you authorise the academy to take the agreed amount on the agreed date. If a payment is refused, the membership may be paused until the account is made good, and the office will tell you before any service stops.
You may cancel a membership at the end of its current term by giving the office written notice that arrives at least a stated number of days before the next payment date. A month to month plan ends at the end of the next period after valid notice. Fixed plans end at the close of their term.
Refunds are granted only in the clear cases described here: a class cancelled by the academy, a mistake charged to your account that cannot be credited, or a withdrawal made within any cooling off window recognised by the law where you live. Otherwise paid fees are used to hold mat space and an instructor, and are not returned for classes you miss or choose to drop. The office confirms every refund in writing.
Every member agrees to follow the class structure called the rolling hoop: Warmup, Drill, Roll, Coach Note, and Shake Hands. During the roll you must stop instantly when you or your partner taps, when a coach calls, or when the clock ends the round. You must begin and finish on the signal and must never train against the will of a partner.
The mat code includes clean gear, trimmed nails, no shoes on the training surface, no food or drink apart from water, and removal of jewellery before practice. You must not coach another member mid-roll unless a coach asks you to help. The hall keeps a firm rule against rough or spiteful technique that goes beyond the aim of the drill.
Grappling and jiu-jitsu are judged against partners but are not without risk. The sport involves strong pressure, joint control, and rolling movement that can, in rare circumstance, cause injury even when performed correctly. It is your duty to train at a level that matches your experience and conditioning and to tell a coach if a technique is hurting beyond normal effort.
The academy works to lower that risk through supervised sessions, matched partners, a safety code that forbids dangerous moves in training, and a first aid kit on the wall. If you are injured, stop rolling and report to the coach at once. The presence of these measures reduces but cannot remove every risk, and this is why the waiver clause at item 11 carries real meaning.
Children who train in the Kids and Youth Academy must have a parent or a guardian present on the premises or within easy reach of the hall for the whole of the session. The guardian accepts the terms for the child, supplies the health details, and agrees to drop off and collect the child at the stated times.
The academy applies a strict child safety code. Coaches meet the child in a viewable floor area, photographs of any child require separate written consent, and no child is left at the hall after closing. A guardian who cannot collect on time must call the office in advance. Continued training by a child implies the continuing agreement of the responsible adult.
By training you acknowledge the risk involved and agree to a waiver that releases the company from claims arising out of ordinary participation. This clause is broad and important. It states that you take part in class at your own risk, that you have read and understood the rules, and that you release coaches, instructors, staff, and the company from liability for injury that results from the inherent risks of grappling, unless that injury is caused by deliberate harm or gross neglect on the part of the academy.
The waiver does not remove rights you hold under law that cannot be removed, for example a right arising from the deliberate fault of the academy. Where a parent signs on behalf of a child, that parent agrees to this release for the child as far as the law allows and confirms that they have authority to give it.
The academy may record coaching video during class so that members and the competition team can review technique. Coaching-only footage is kept private to the member concerned and the coach. Separate promotional photographs for the website and social pages are taken only where a named consent is on file for that use.
You can withdraw consent for a promotional image by telling the office in writing, and the academy will remove that image from active use as quickly as is reasonable. Because the academy pages are hosted outside, removal applies to live use rather than to any copy already circulated beyond the control of the company.
The mat room is a place of mutual respect. Sharp language, insults, or behaviour that makes a partner feel unsafe will end a session. Members agree to treat everyone on the floor and in the changing area with courtesy regardless of their belt, age, gender, or background and to respect each person agreement to train.
A coach can ask a member to leave a session or to withdraw from the academy where conduct is repeated, dangerous, or dishonest. Refunds in such a case are handled under the rules for a member asked to stop: remaining prepaid time is credited fairly, but the company keeps the ability to end the relationship where conduct warrants it.
The published timetable is the baseline of the academy. Where a class is rescheduled or closed, the office tells members through the usual channels as far in advance as possible. A class cancelled by the academy is credited back, and such a credit does not count as a class you missed.
The hall may close on public holidays and for a short midwinter break each year. Members on a fixed plan are told of the annual closures before they sign, so the term already accounts for them. The office aims to keep change to a minimum while accepting that a sport built around people must sometimes bend.
Belt lines and their stripes sit under the authority of the academy coach. Promotion is earned by showing every technique from the printed recital, by attending across the season, and by demonstrating the calm that belongs on the mat. No fee is charged for a promotion that is earned on the floor.
The decision about when an athlete is ready belongs to the coach and is final within the academy. An athlete who wishes to discuss the pace of their progress may ask the coach after class, and the coach will answer honestly. Rank held elsewhere is respected and is never used to push an athlete beyond safe levels of current readiness.
Places on the Competition Team are by invitation after a suitable base of training. A competition athlete agrees to the camp calendar, the higher round volume, and the filmed review that is part of the method. Entry to an outside tournament is arranged by the member and is never a condition of any membership.
At a tournament the athlete and any parent remain bound by this document and by the waiver at item 11 concerning the event. The academy assists with transport and clothing where it says it will, but does not accept liability for the running or the safety of an event that is staged and controlled by another organiser.
The name ACROPOLIS GRAPPLING, the design of the academy, its teaching materials, its printed recitals, and the content shown on these pages belong to the company or to its licensors. You may not copy the teaching documents to give to another club, and you may not reproduce the site text or images for a commercial purpose without written permission.
Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of any of those materials to a member. A member may keep a personal copy of their own progress notes and may show their own recorded coaching video, but the class sheets and the logos remain the property of the academy.
The website gives information about the academy, its classes, and how to get in touch. You agree to use the site lawfully, to submit only true details on the forms, and not to attempt to gain access to any area that is not open to the public.
While the team works to keep the site dependable, pages may occasionally be offline for maintenance or altered without notice. The academy is not liable for loss that results from a temporary failure of the website, and the contact details remain the reliable way to reach the office.
Nothing in these terms limits a liability that cannot lawfully be limited, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by the deliberate fault of the academy. Subject to that rule, and counting the effect of the waiver in item 11, the liability of the company to a member under these terms is limited to the amount the member paid for the service in the twelve months before the event that gave rise to the claim.
The academy is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, such as lost earnings, lost training time, or interruption to an outside event, that flows from a matter covered by these terms. Every member accepts this limit when they enrol, because it lets the academy keep fees at a level that the whole hall can afford.
These terms are governed by the law of the State of Utah and, where a matter crosses a border, by the mandatory law that protects you in your own region. For academy matters that stay within the United States, the courts of Utah have exclusive authority to hear any dispute.
Before any formal step, the academy asks both sides to talk, because most differences are settled over a phone call or in person at the office. Where a dispute cannot be resolved by agreement, it will be decided in the forum set out above rather than anywhere else, and no class or membership matter is dealt with by a small claims route unless the law of your region insists on it.
The company may update these terms from time to time as the service changes or as the law moves. A revised version carries a fresh date at the top and applies from the date of publication. Where a change affects member rights in a material way, the office will tell members directly and will allow a fair window to end the membership before the new term bites.
Continuing to train after a revised version is published counts as acceptance of the update. Members who train under a fixed plan that already started will keep the version they agreed for the remainder of that plan, unless an update is needed to satisfy the law or to protect the safety of the hall.
All formal notices about these terms, including a notice of cancellation, should be sent to the office of ACROPOLIS GRAPPLING, LLC at 1587 N 650 W, Orem - 84057-2520, United States (US), by letter or by marked email to inquiry@acropolisgrapple.buzz. You can also call +18028924588 during the business hours shown on the contact page. A notice is treated as received on the day it reaches the office during working hours or on the next working day if it arrives later.
Questions about any clause here are welcome before you sign. The office would far rather explain a sentence than see a member surprised by it, and the coaches are always glad to speak with anyone new to the mat at the trial night held on the first Tuesday and Thursday of each month.