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SimonNotGarfunkel posted:Hi guys. I called and ordered three tickets today. They are £40 for standard seats, £50 for enhanced seats (rows 7 to ~20) and £75 for premium seats (rows 2 to 6). The tickets are on pre-sale right now at a first-come-first-serve basis after which they will be sold by the venue itself, http://www.nottingham-arena.com edit Oh and this is what the arena looks like: 
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the periodic fable posted:edit And this is what it'll look like on the day of the tournament 
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fatherdog posted:And this is what it'll look like on the day of the tournament Come on, there will be like 5 girlfriends in the stands. Maybe even 6.
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May 20, 2011 16:49
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The last time a ton of people showed up to watch ADCC was when it was held in Long Beach. Obviously ADCC should join the Mundials and Pan Ams in Socal every year.
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dokomoy posted:The last time a ton of people showed up to watch ADCC was when it was held in Long Beach. Obviously ADCC should join the Mundials and Pan Ams in Socal every year. A ton of high as gently caress dudes watching grappling sounds like more fun than any grappling tournament I've ever been to
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Thread killed by Bohemian Nights hah. So tonights my grading I assume. I can't compete as a white belt and the comp is on the weekend so it sort of has to be I guess. Lets see if he remembers. edit: Nope. registration for the comp ended on sunday and sensei didn't fax mine in, so no point in being graded now as I won't be competing anyway. I'm trying very hard not to loving blow my lid over this. Thanks to everyone for the competition tips. Your advice is not lost on me. Nierbo fucked around with this message at 13:12 on May 23, 2011 |
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May 23, 2011 09:20
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Nierbo posted:Thread killed by Bohemian Nights hah. They aren't accepting registration at the door? Also, I can totally understand if it is a club policy that you can't compete as a white belt, but would your instructor not allow you to compete anyways if he knows you just haven't graded yet, but are competent? I dunno how it works south of the equator, but in the US you just have to have someone who is a registered black belt sign off on your registration form saying that you know the rules and aren't likely to hurt yourself, rank doesn't matter.
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Thoguh posted:I dunno how it works south of the equator, but in the US you just have to have someone who is a registered black belt sign off on your registration form saying that you know the rules and aren't likely to hurt yourself, rank doesn't matter. Or if you want to do a bjj/sub wrestling tournament, just throw a wadded up ball of cash at them and know how to read well enough to select your division and put your mark.
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Nierbo posted:Thread killed by Bohemian Nights hah. They discourage white belts from competing at your school?
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OrangeCrush posted:They discourage white belts from competing at your school? Reminder that this is for Judo not BJJ so white is only the really beginning beginners
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Thoguh posted:Also, I can totally understand if it is a club policy that you can't compete as a white belt, but would your instructor not allow you to compete anyways if he knows you just haven't graded yet, but are competent? e: And yes Thoguh, I'm competent enough to compete with other yellow belts, if only just. What got me upset is that if this was one of the popular students, it would never have been forgotten, but because I'm humble and nice and don't suck the instructors' dicks and chat to them on facebook I'm not really a priority. Guess I'll just keep on truckin. Nierbo fucked around with this message at 23:29 on May 23, 2011 |
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May 23, 2011 23:22
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FYI your sensei is a dork.
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Come over to the BJJ dark side where instructors basically never promise anything and you expect them to forget anyway because they're Brazillians and therefore too busy thinking about having a surf to remember anything other than BJJ techniques. (This is a good thing. Chilled out instructors own.)
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Smegmatron posted:Come over to the BJJ dark side where instructors basically never promise anything and you expect them to forget anyway because they're Brazillians and therefore too busy thinking about having a surf to remember anything other than BJJ techniques. (This is a good thing. Chilled out instructors own.)
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Guys with judo backgrounds in predominately jiu jitsu tournaments are awesome. There's always that dude who spends the day tossing blue belts and then getting submitted, but all anybody ever remembers are the sweet, sweet throws.
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Nierbo posted:I'm competent enough to compete with other yellow belts, if only just. What got me upset is that if this was one of the popular students, it would never have been forgotten, but because I'm humble and nice and don't suck the instructors' dicks and chat to them on facebook I'm not really a priority. Guess I'll just keep on truckin. Did you mention it to him? It might have honestly just slipped his mind. I know we've had guys we have forgotten to grade before. Is anybody else who joined at about the same time competing? At least in my club, and the clubs I've worked with in the past for guys with no Wrestling/BJJ background we usually expect a month or two before competing. For guys with a Wrestling/BJJ background we just expect them to have been there long enough to have learned the rules. On a sadder note, my Judo club is taking the summer off because none of the black belts could commit to teaching every night (I have class half the nights we work out and know I'll be on travel for work for about a month this summer, so I couldn't). So it's BJJ or bust for me until September. I needed to work on my ground game anyways, I suppose.
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Grab Your Foot! posted:Guys with judo backgrounds in predominately jiu jitsu tournaments are awesome. There's always that dude who spends the day tossing blue belts and then getting submitted, but all anybody ever remembers are the sweet, sweet throws. Ahhh, the Tin Cup stratagem. Works every time! It's true, land a big throw, and everyone will remember you for pinwheeling dude onto their head.
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Thoguh posted:Did you mention it to him? It might have honestly just slipped his mind. I know we've had guys we have forgotten to grade before. Is anybody else who joined at about the same time competing? Sucks about your club. Hope something changes soon.
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Is it typical for BJJ schools to charge a "sign up" fee? School near me has Marcus Soares as the head instructor, and it's a name I recognize so that's a plus, but they want a $100 sign-up fee as well as $80/month. Pretty drat steep if it turned out I either hate it or am not cut out for it in a month or so. Also, he's got several schools around the area that have classes on different days, but the guy I talked to seemed kind of hesitant on if the monthly fee gives you access to all of them. Is it normal for your monthly fee to give you kind of an all-access pass to all the schools under one banner, or are they waffling to see if I'm dumb enough to pay 2x the monthly fee so I can train an extra day or two during the week?
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Take a free week and see if you like it. I haven't had to pay a signup fee before, but i think my school is doing one now. Also, Marcus is sick and is probably the best instructor in the city.
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Yeah, any decent school should have a trial period before you're expected to commit to anything financially. I don't know anything about the schools up there but everything seems fine, personally I'm glad I'm not at a school that's part of a larger affiliation but I doubt it makes much difference. Schools will sometimes charge different rates depending on how often you attend, so that's not so out of the ordinary.
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Nierbo posted:Sucks about your club. Hope something changes soon. Yeah, kind of sucks because we have several black belts, but we've been hit hard by graduations and guys retiring this past semester. While we have 4 black belts left, we all have to travel and/or stay late for work. Which means none of us can make a firm commitment to be there to teach on a regular basis. Hopefully by the time fall semester starts up we'll have it figured out. Worst case I'll just teach a standup class one day a week for BJJ, and drive across the state to my old college club once or twice a month, so it's not the end of the world. I'd been hoping to get ready for my Nidan testing this summer though. So that is going to set me back. Gorefluff posted:Is it typical for BJJ schools to charge a "sign up" fee? School near me has Marcus Soares as the head instructor, and it's a name I recognize so that's a plus, but they want a $100 sign-up fee as well as $80/month. Regretably that's pretty standard for BJJ in the US. Thoguh fucked around with this message at 14:53 on May 24, 2011 |
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Gorefluff posted:Is it typical for BJJ schools to charge a "sign up" fee? School near me has Marcus Soares as the head instructor, and it's a name I recognize so that's a plus, but they want a $100 sign-up fee as well as $80/month. Pretty drat steep if it turned out I either hate it or am not cut out for it in a month or so. Also, he's got several schools around the area that have classes on different days, but the guy I talked to seemed kind of hesitant on if the monthly fee gives you access to all of them. Is it normal for your monthly fee to give you kind of an all-access pass to all the schools under one banner, or are they waffling to see if I'm dumb enough to pay 2x the monthly fee so I can train an extra day or two during the week? Mine charged $120 to sign up but that included the cost of my gi as well as some other bits and pieces. They also offered me two weeks free of charge to make sure I liked it before I paid a single cent. Two weeks is maybe a little more generous than most, but if they aren't prepared to let you train for a week free of charge with no obligations, they probably aren't very good. Do they only offer the flat rate for classes? My place has the flat rate as well as a per lesson option which is pre-paid 10 at a time and some discounts here and there for kids, students and so on. If you train more than once a week the flat rate is way, way cheaper (works out to about $7 a session for me).
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Smegmatron posted:Come over to the BJJ dark side where instructors basically never promise anything and you expect them to forget anyway because they're Brazillians and therefore too busy thinking about having a surf to remember anything other than BJJ techniques. (This is a good thing. Chilled out instructors own.) hahaha yes
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Thoguh posted:Regretably that's pretty standard for BJJ in the US. Everywhere. BJJ is really expensive in Australia too. My coach says it cost him a similar amount when he was training in Brazil.
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Neurosis posted:Everywhere. BJJ is really expensive in Australia too. My coach says it cost him a similar amount when he was training in Brazil. Yeah, I assumed it was a worldwide thing, but I haven't trained outside the US so can't speak for non-US experiences for the most part. Plus you never know where a new poster in the thread is from.
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for 400 bucks per semester, i get three classes per day of bjj plus three cf classes per week. bb instructor. Sweden is cheap for martial arts, with bjj probably being one of the most expensive one. my friend pays like 100 for boxing with a similar package.
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nemoulette posted:three cf classes per week. Pretend I don't know what "cf' means.
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The first thing that comes to mind is Cystic Fibrosis but it's probably Cross-Fit.
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Just had my first class today. It was actually $120/month but does give me access to all the different gyms that hold classes different days of the week, so essentially I could train 7 days a week, twice a day on certain days if I had the energy and could fit my work schedule around it. Going to be expensive to start up with the extra registration fee and gi, but he said he'd let me roll the end of May into my June payment, so that's like 3-4 free classes I guess. The gym was also an undecorated hole-in-the-wall in an industrial block of warehouses, machinery outlets and metal fabricators, so it felt like the real deal.
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Gorefluff posted:Just had my first class today. It was actually $120/month but does give me access to all the different gyms that hold classes different days of the week, so essentially I could train 7 days a week, twice a day on certain days if I had the energy and could fit my work schedule around it. Going to be expensive to start up with the extra registration fee and gi, but he said he'd let me roll the end of May into my June payment, so that's like 3-4 free classes I guess. The gym was also an undecorated hole-in-the-wall in an industrial block of warehouses, machinery outlets and metal fabricators, so it felt like the real deal. As someone who just started a couple of months ago, my biggest piece of advice is to not get discouraged by getting tossed around like a rag doll, even if the last session you had was good and you managed to do something cool like pass someone's guard or get a lucky submission. Improvement comes really slowly and gradually. You probably won't notice it until somebody new shows up in a few months and you roll with them. If you feel discouraged or go into a slump a few months in, push through it and you'll thank yourself later.
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Rids! posted:The first thing that comes to mind is Cystic Fibrosis but it's probably Cross-Fit.
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dokomoy posted:Roger's not competing at worlds. bummer. So, any goonies goin? watching or competing? details about your weight and preparation so far etc. I know theres gotta be some serious guys on here?
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OrangeCrush posted:bummer. I thought about competing at worlds, but my last final is on the Thursday worlds start. So I would have either had to compete the same day or the day after I finish finals and that sounded way to stressful(also I'm a giant baby and don't want to compete anymore until i get to 181). I'm probably going to go watch Saturday and Sunday though, for those of you not in socal Budovideos is streaming so you can still watch.
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This is my last week at Marcelo Garcia's before I head back home to Norway (after a brief detour to florida) so I've made sure to train every day, and man, I wish that was an option back home. It does kind of dominate your entire evening, but it hurts so good-- and I feel like I'm learning more, too. Oh welp. Three times a week will have to do. 
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Old but good. Bicep slicers aren't just pain moves folks. http://youtu.be/bYY8tJeoLVY I used to train with the kid doing the breaking. The other guy was bragging about his pain tolerance before hand. I admit, I'd have been freaking out.
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