Thoguh posted:

If we're bitching. Most of the guys in my BJJ club won't do stand up with me but that's because they're big pansies who are afraid of getting thrown by a Judo guy. So I do sad, lonely uchikomi after practice with my belt and a post.

I tried explaining that I'm way less likely to hurt them in standup than anybody else in the club, but they aren't buying it. I don't worry about this being a me problem because I've never done standup with any of them since joining, they are basing it off their assumptions, not anything I've done. A couple guys hurt their knees doing standup recently (at practices I wasn't at) so that doesn't help.

ICHIBAHN posted:

any opinions on gracie university?

Ridleys Revenge posted:

...I don't feel very welcome but it’s the only place in the area with a competitive reputation so I dunno what to do.

Marching Powder posted:

can vouch for rob moffatt in fusion fight and fitness in cairns. i've trained there when in the area and he's a cool, knowledgeable dude who'd be pretty loving thrilled to have someone of your experience train there

Fozzy The Bear posted:

Integrated MMA is near Brisbane

BlindSite posted:

Real Fitness on the northside (Jason Miller is the coach there)
Kelvin Grove BJJ - Eduardo Dias is a good instructor over at Kelvin Grove
Phoenix elite MMA in the city (John Walkin was my first coach)

Where in Brisbane you heading I can probably point you somewhere close that's easy to get to. Public transport is pretty poo poo.

Dr. Miracle posted:

VT-1 in Sydney.

Ridleys Revenge posted:

I’ve been feeling super frustrated about BJJ, I don't feel very welcome but it’s the only place in the area with a competitive reputation so I dunno what to do. I guess I just want to get some stuff off my chest, sorry in advance for the huge rant but I just need an outlet. I go out of my way to be respectful at class so I just don't have anywhere else to talk about this stuff

- During warm ups at my first class, a bigger guy who was a regular there stood up in my closed guard, stacked me onto my neck and then jump-sprawled into a can opener that literally folded me in half and left me seriously injured.
- When I came back, I stood up in a blue belt instructor's guard but instead of opening they just kept climbing their legs to hang on for a couple minutes while I patiently defended until they had pulled my pants all the way down, and then when I left an opening by reaching down to catch the falling pants they fist-in-throat ezekial choked me and gloated about it.
- I had to put down a few hundred bucks to go to a tournament a couple states away with the rest of the team, but my coach (a purple belt and former college linebacker who busted a guy’s neck with a careless throw at the same tournament) didn’t even bother to have anyone cornering me after the first round. I still took second in the gi division, only losing to my sandbagging 25lb+ teammate who I didn't want to fight.
- I got DQ’d in the first round of the nogi division, the ref didn’t know the difference between 1leg x guard and reaping the knee (no one tapped, my opponent even supported me when I respectfully said afterwards that no knee reaping had occurred), but I had no one in my corner to back me up.
- After the tournament, one of the other students who had been visiting from NY came by to congratulate me, saying “You really proved yourself out there! You wouldn’t believe all the poo poo they talk about you, you really showed ‘em! They’re always saying poo poo about how they catch you with stuff in practice, can't talk now can they?” I've heard them talk poo poo about him too but I didn't say anything. He took first in his divisions in both gi and nogi.
- At the promotion ceremony the next day our black belt affiliate chose to keep me at white belt after promoting some other less-experienced people to blue, saying, “I hear you’re good, but you need to lay off the Eddie Bravo stuff” and when I looked confused my coach leaned in and corrected, “Marcelo Garcia stuff” and the (Alliance) affiliate looked surprised and said, “Oh, well that should be fine of course.” (I’d been training daily, sometimes 2x/day, with these guys, brown belt in Judo- not exactly a newbie)
- Offered to show some Judo stuff at the Sunday open mat that's usually pretty quiet, coach said, “Well I’d really like to make sure you can make that stuff work yourself before you teach it.” Now a less experienced (but bigger) former Judoka is teaching throws that day

fatherdog posted:

Thanks; I'm only gonna be in Cairns for a day and a half and most of that is gonna be taken up with a Great Barrier Reef tour, but I'll see if dropping in there would work out.



I'm staying right by the Botanical Gardens.


Thanks, but I found two places within walking distance of my hotel -

http://jiujitsukingdom.com/
http://www.martial-arts-sydney.com/

and VT-1 looks like it involves two bus transfers, so I'll probably give it a miss.

fatherdog posted:

Thanks; I'm only gonna be in Cairns for a day and a half and most of that is gonna be taken up with a Great Barrier Reef tour, but I'll see if dropping in there would work out.



I'm staying right by the Botanical Gardens.


Thanks, but I found two places within walking distance of my hotel -

http://jiujitsukingdom.com/
http://www.martial-arts-sydney.com/

and VT-1 looks like it involves two bus transfers, so I'll probably give it a miss.

Yuriy posted:

its been discussed earlier in this thread before if you have search or wanna dig through it or w/e

Ridleys Revenge posted:

I’ve been feeling super frustrated about BJJ, I don't feel very welcome but it’s the only place in the area with a competitive reputation so I dunno what to do. I guess I just want to get some stuff off my chest, sorry in advance for the huge rant but I just need an outlet. I go out of my way to be respectful at class so I just don't have anywhere else to talk about this stuff

- During warm ups at my first class, a bigger guy who was a regular there stood up in my closed guard, stacked me onto my neck and then jump-sprawled into a can opener that literally folded me in half and left me seriously injured.
- When I came back, I stood up in a blue belt instructor's guard but instead of opening they just kept climbing their legs to hang on for a couple minutes while I patiently defended until they had pulled my pants all the way down, and then when I left an opening by reaching down to catch the falling pants they fist-in-throat ezekial choked me and gloated about it.
- I had to put down a few hundred bucks to go to a tournament a couple states away with the rest of the team, but my coach (a purple belt and former college linebacker who busted a guy’s neck with a careless throw at the same tournament) didn’t even bother to have anyone cornering me after the first round. I still took second in the gi division, only losing to my sandbagging 25lb+ teammate who I didn't want to fight.
- I got DQ’d in the first round of the nogi division, the ref didn’t know the difference between 1leg x guard and reaping the knee (no one tapped, my opponent even supported me when I respectfully said afterwards that no knee reaping had occurred), but I had no one in my corner to back me up.
- After the tournament, one of the other students who had been visiting from NY came by to congratulate me, saying “You really proved yourself out there! You wouldn’t believe all the poo poo they talk about you, you really showed ‘em! They’re always saying poo poo about how they catch you with stuff in practice, can't talk now can they?” I've heard them talk poo poo about him too but I didn't say anything. He took first in his divisions in both gi and nogi.
- At the promotion ceremony the next day our black belt affiliate chose to keep me at white belt after promoting some other less-experienced people to blue, saying, “I hear you’re good, but you need to lay off the Eddie Bravo stuff” and when I looked confused my coach leaned in and corrected, “Marcelo Garcia stuff” and the (Alliance) affiliate looked surprised and said, “Oh, well that should be fine of course.” (I’d been training daily, sometimes 2x/day, with these guys, brown belt in Judo- not exactly a newbie)
- Offered to show some Judo stuff at the Sunday open mat that's usually pretty quiet, coach said, “Well I’d really like to make sure you can make that stuff work yourself before you teach it.” Now a less experienced (but bigger) former Judoka is teaching throws that day

Ridleys Revenge posted:

I’ve been feeling super frustrated about BJJ, I don't feel very welcome but it’s the only place in the area with a competitive reputation so I dunno what to do. I guess I just want to get some stuff off my chest, sorry in advance for the huge rant but I just need an outlet. I go out of my way to be respectful at class so I just don't have anywhere else to talk about this stuff

- During warm ups at my first class, a bigger guy who was a regular there stood up in my closed guard, stacked me onto my neck and then jump-sprawled into a can opener that literally folded me in half and left me seriously injured.
- When I came back, I stood up in a blue belt instructor's guard but instead of opening they just kept climbing their legs to hang on for a couple minutes while I patiently defended until they had pulled my pants all the way down, and then when I left an opening by reaching down to catch the falling pants they fist-in-throat ezekial choked me and gloated about it.
- I had to put down a few hundred bucks to go to a tournament a couple states away with the rest of the team, but my coach (a purple belt and former college linebacker who busted a guy’s neck with a careless throw at the same tournament) didn’t even bother to have anyone cornering me after the first round. I still took second in the gi division, only losing to my sandbagging 25lb+ teammate who I didn't want to fight.
- I got DQ’d in the first round of the nogi division, the ref didn’t know the difference between 1leg x guard and reaping the knee (no one tapped, my opponent even supported me when I respectfully said afterwards that no knee reaping had occurred), but I had no one in my corner to back me up.
- After the tournament, one of the other students who had been visiting from NY came by to congratulate me, saying “You really proved yourself out there! You wouldn’t believe all the poo poo they talk about you, you really showed ‘em! They’re always saying poo poo about how they catch you with stuff in practice, can't talk now can they?” I've heard them talk poo poo about him too but I didn't say anything. He took first in his divisions in both gi and nogi.
- At the promotion ceremony the next day our black belt affiliate chose to keep me at white belt after promoting some other less-experienced people to blue, saying, “I hear you’re good, but you need to lay off the Eddie Bravo stuff” and when I looked confused my coach leaned in and corrected, “Marcelo Garcia stuff” and the (Alliance) affiliate looked surprised and said, “Oh, well that should be fine of course.” (I’d been training daily, sometimes 2x/day, with these guys, brown belt in Judo- not exactly a newbie)
- Offered to show some Judo stuff at the Sunday open mat that's usually pretty quiet, coach said, “Well I’d really like to make sure you can make that stuff work yourself before you teach it.” Now a less experienced (but bigger) former Judoka is teaching throws that day

Thoguh posted:

If we're bitching. Most of the guys in my BJJ club won't do stand up with me but that's because they're big pansies who are afraid of getting thrown by a Judo guy. So I do sad, lonely uchikomi after practice with my belt and a post.

I tried explaining that I'm way less likely to hurt them in standup than anybody else in the club, but they aren't buying it. I don't worry about this being a me problem because I've never done standup with any of them since joining, they are basing it off their assumptions, not anything I've done. A couple guys hurt their knees doing standup recently (at practices I wasn't at) so that doesn't help.

Taratang posted:

Or, more generously, maybe he's hoping you'll knock some of the ego out of him.

General Emergency posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=channel?UCMdSbczI-e2Qmeq7B0nJurg

Grabble Grabble - World Pro JiuJits in Abu Dhabi is on.

origami posted:

Sounds like Ryan Hall signed up for TUF - I haven't really followed his MMA career but it would be pretty cool to see him break dancing on TUF guys while blinking non-stop

BlindSite posted:

They should just put him in and not bother making him try out.

LobsterMobster posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dbcdXnmHYs&feature=youtu.be

Captain Log posted:

I'm jumping the gun on this because I have a medical condition some of you might recall I got diagnosed with last year (Type One Chiari Malformation, if you're curious) but I'm moving to Nashville soon. It's my hometown and where I used to do a tiny bit of training loving years ago but I have no idea what their BJJ scene looks like. If I ever get medically cleared, does anyone know of good gyms in that area?

Also, if I get perma-banned from BJJ (I should have an expert neurosurgeon tell me in July) any idea of a combat-ish sport I can do that will keep me in shape that doesn't involve straining the neck? Maybe I should just go back to fencing.

Keg posted:

My roommate and I wanna drill BJJ poo poo in our garage and need some cheapish mats. Are puzzle mats from Wal-Mart going to be thick enough for rolling? Doubtful we'll do much, if any, takedown stuff on them.

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Dangersim posted:

There fine to roll on, you wouldn't want to do takedowns though. Me and my body got some cheap ones from sports authority and put them on his (concrete) porch, and we were fine to roll.