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Originally Posted by krozman  I formed the BJJ club at Gonzaga back in 1997. Roommate of mine trained directly under Rickson Gracie in his school in CA. We only had about 15 in the club, as BJJ isn't as popular in the cold Spokane environment. Lazy black belts love sunny skies. But man, last time I trained was 4 years ago, back before I was married. BJJ was so much better than working out, but I wasn't that hardcore, doing vale tudo or anything. |
Rickson is an amazing fellow. 15 in the club is a decent size. It's about the same size as our club here at SMU in Dallas.
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Originally Posted by Zeste Do you wear a gi?
that was always required at our gym, a real BJJ gi. There were always the bad asses who wouldn't wear one. |
I wear a judo-gi, probably very similar to what you wore if you started way back then. Modern BJJ gi's are a joke and i'd never pay for that garbage.
A lot of my "tough guy" friends didn't want to wear a gi either, until i absolutely thrashed them repeatedly, then they realized they should have more respect and not be disillusioned with the gi because of thi chi and other "McDojo" bullshit arts.