B-Team is coming back — with a school inside Tulum's Zamaya resort

B-Team is back. Craig Jones announced the return of B-Team Jiu Jitsu this week, with plans for a brand-new academy to serve as the team's headquarters — and according to the announcement, that academy won't be in Austin. It will operate inside Zamaya, the high-performance fitness resort under construction in Tulum, Mexico.

For a team that built its identity around a garage-gym-with-killers ethos in Texas, a beachfront training resort on the Caribbean coast is a very different second act.

What Zamaya is

Zamaya bills itself as a resort dedicated entirely to training: elite facilities for Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing, Muay Thai, CrossFit and strength work, alongside recovery zones, nutrition programs, and resort-level accommodation in the Tulum jungle. Think training camp first, vacation second — the inverse of the usual resort with a hotel gym bolted on.

A permanent B-Team school gives the resort a serious grappling anchor, and it gives B-Team something no purpose-built academy in Austin could: a destination. Fly in, stay on site, train multiple sessions a day with one of the most recognizable competition rooms in no-gi.

Why it matters for traveling grapplers

Destination training is already one of the strongest currents in jiu-jitsu — camps, retreats, and drop-in tourism keep growing every year. A B-Team campus in Tulum turns a beach week into a training block, and it will almost certainly pull visiting grapplers into the region's wider mat scene.

That's the part we care about most here: wherever you land, there's usually a mat nearby. If your next trip has a gi in the bag, check the directory before you go — or find an open mat wherever you happen to be.

We'll add the new school to the directory when it opens its doors.