BJJ and Grappling Studio in Arlington, VA

Professor Scott Dance, owner and founder of SDJJ, brings nearly twenty years of teaching experience and over a decade of jiu-jitsu competition experience to the mats. A third-degree black belt under BJJ Revolution Team’s Professor Rodrigo Medeiros, Scott has been training jiu-jitsu since 2005, and remains an active jiu-jitsu athlete who’s enjoyed competitive success at ADCC Trials, Fight2Win Pro, and multiple IBJJF majors.

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Selected Competitive Accomplishments:

• IBJJF Worlds No-Gi bronze medalist (2025)
• IBJJF American National No-Gi silver medalist (2023)
• IBJJF Pan-American No-Gi bronze medalist (2022)
• 4x IBJJF Chicago Open No-Gi Champion
• Fight2Win Pro Winner
• Copa Elite Superfight Winner

A passionate teacher at his core, Scott leverages hard-earned lessons from his own experiences on the competition mats to help the next generation of grapplers absorb and implement key jiu-jitsu concepts — preferably in less time than it took him to figure them out himself! By creating SDJJ, he aims to share knowledge with his students that will give them the tools to become effective, resilient, and creative jiu-jitsu practitioners on their own terms.