Jamil Hill-Taylor

Ashburn: Jiu-Jitsu Coach, Black Belt

Sterling: Head Instructor

IBJJF world championADCC competitor (2019)Jiu-jitsu black belt20+ years of experience15+ years working with youth

Jamil Hill-Taylor is a jiu-jitsu black belt with more than 20 years on the mats. He is Head Instructor at the Sterling academy, where he teaches in the gi program, and he coaches jiu-jitsu at the Ashburn academy, where every jiu-jitsu class is No-Gi. He is an IBJJF world champion and competed at ADCC in 2019, so his students learn from a coach who has tested his game against the best grapplers in the sport. His teaching centers on technical precision, strategic thinking, and personal growth, and he coaches students of every level. Jamil also brings more than 15 years of experience working with young athletes in martial arts camps, and he led the 2026 Apex Kids Summer Program in Sterling, a program that echoes his own start in a jiu-jitsu summer camp. Families from the summer program may know him as Coach Shane. His guiding idea is simple: every student has a champion inside them, and his job is to help them find it.