danfaggella

i very much enjoy grappling, i have been doing it in the back yard with some freinds since were real small. Recently we have done some high school wrestling, which was cool because much of it is practical, and very recently we have started learning BJJ technique just off bjj.org. We go out and do submission matches against each other pretty frequently, and i think its awsome, we are getting pretty good at submissions (mainly keylock, strait armbar, achilles lock). thing is, i have always been interested in martial arts, but never wanted to go to some lame class (they are pretty lame in rhode island) and puch the air with a bunch of 12 yearolds. I want to learn technique and just grapple until i can grapple no more, practicing position, takedowns, submissions ect...

i really want this to be a part of my life but i dont know how to do such a thing, do people like to just go out and have a nice grapple spar? will i be able to find peopel somewhere? like where?

I imagine later i might just go to a dojo (prolly for judo) and practice there, but i just like the things i learn from that we do in the yard, and i dont know where i could do this to let martial arts into my life

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BadgerFu57

The east coast has a lot of good jiu-jitsu schools. If BJJ is too pricey, you could always do Judo. Judo is more GI oriented, but it's not too difficult to switch from having a solid gi game to a solid no-gi game.

I found this online. I don't know if it's near you or not. An instructor can provide insights you would otherwise miss out on, and even if it's too far away to train regularly, private lessons and/or seminars could be helpful. Many Jiu-Jitsu schools will have a black belt come in every few months to hold seminars.

Rhode Island Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Wanskuck Mill Complex, 725 Branch Avenue, Suite 119C
Providence, RI, 02904 USA
Tim Burrill, Craig Balme, William Galligan
info@ribjj.com

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jubaji

What? Your school doesn't have a wrestling team?

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danfaggella

yes it does, i was on it for one year, just to test it out, though i hated the preasre to loose weight and get spreemed at, i only did one varsity match which i won in 33 seconds but the kid was bad.


anyways, yeah providence is a while away not to mention i guess it is REAL expensive.

i do have a judo place near by, i want to contact them and see if its basically all GI stuff, i dont like GIs very much.....

i just want to find soem guys who are into grappling arts and spar with them ANYWHERE, and i hope i can find such people at my university :{, otherwise it will be sad, i really always loved the grapple and wish to gain a better understanding of positions and locks, plus its my favorite workout.

(also, you mean like dojos have really good guys come in and show the students technique and such?)

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jubaji

You didn't "test it out", you tried and failed. Get back in there and grow a backbone before you worry about what 'dojo' is best.

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BadgerFu57

Either get back in wrestling and stick with it, or put on a gi and do Judo.

There is nothing wrong with learning the gi so long as you don't become reliant on it. Many people don't like it, but it can be a very beneficial training tool.

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danfaggella

wow now people are insulting me and assuking things, ill give you my coaches number if you really want to, for crying out loud i never wanted to goin. I have a friend CHARLIE SONDER (won the 189 varsity states this year) who0 encouraged me to join the team and see how i liked it. I was reluctant but i went in. And I DID GO THROUGHT HE WHOLE YEAR, placticing in north kingstown RI's high school and south kingstowns, learning things here and there, enjoying the long 1v1 spar training in southkingstown. They have a good 103 and 125 who i wrestled numerous times, one of whome is my neighbor, joshua fisher-ortiz, who i grappled in the backyard as a kid and still do today. I wrestled no JV matches, and 2 varsity. one match was the begining of the year against some 103 kid from upstate and he wasnt very good. The second was weird because it wasnt my weight class it was the one above me, against a kid who won 103 states the year before and has been wrestling his whole life, i got pinned int he last minute of the 3rd period with a score of 1-4 or something to that nature. why would i lie, buddy..?

1. get off my back

2. i'll see if the judo place is all gi or not, i dont think i will like that, i just wanna get people who know grappling arts and get tooled on for hours and hours, not doing jumping jacks in a robe (it might not be that bad im just exagurating...)

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Armadon

I would like to see you finish school first before learning MA.

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BadgerFu57

The Judo place will be all gi.
If it's a good place you will get tooled for hours.

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IPON

Hey are you interested in learning a MA or getting a boyfriend. Look man, everyone here takes grappling very serious....not ooooh my buddies come over and grapple with me ooooh.

You practice, you sweat, you cut weight, get it dissapline for the love of teh sport. You want to be a back yard champ fine but please don't waste the memebers time with silliness.

Have you even tried a Gi, and if you don't like it or are not willing to adjust don't study BJJ or Judo sorry if what we do daily is too much pressure. Oh please is a dick-shun-airyspellcheck something, my typing isn't great but DAMN

Where else will someone listen to your whinning. Come one, 1 year wrestling and all you have to show are 2 matches both ahhh varsity and you split them.

A mind is terrible thing to waste be glad you don't have to worry about it cornball.

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jubaji

A fine and eloquent reply, to be sure!

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Tant01

LOL

Sorry for butting in or "Bodysmashing" here but this is funny. Judo was an elective at my high school, it was also co-ed with some cool girlfriends of mine learning the Judo in street clothes! (we were a poor judo club) As the wrestling team was gearing up for state championships we got to "play" some grappling with the wrestling team! That was great fun and educational for both clubs! The funny part was watching the girls throw down the 100 kilo guys! Loading them for a hip throw they just become so helpless! LOL at the wrestlers!! (JK) We weren't allowed to make them tap out or choke them but it was still very DYNAMIC! BIG FUN!! Randori for everyone!

The wrestlers really liked the Judo girls!

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danfaggella

i did graduate..

also, i think i do love grappling, i just dont think i have to be some asain traditionalist to apreciate or get good at it, i just enjoy doing it for the exercise, the fun and the learning of grappling technique.

also, the boyfriend comment is a vulgar low blow that made little sence to me. I say i want to grapple expereince people and get beat on until i gain strenth and skill and it means i'm searching for a gay lover? (retorical, i knew -you would love to comment on it like it isnt, so i pointed it out).

-i just want to know where i can find a good place to gathr people and spar for fun and to develope skill, simply because:

-i dont want to pay the $ or drive to providence for BJJ

-i dislike gi's (have tried 2-3 times with buddy who does judo) and there are no other grappling arts available to me

-classes would be out of my pocket and i just graduated high school i gotta save $ for college spending

call me some kind of evil hated of martial art, some kind of slacker, whatever, i just want to fight with a bunch of people and i want to find a place to do that, and since there are no good schools around me i dont know what to do, is that such sillyness?

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