BJJ in Japan, Tokyo

[Towering Reagan]

New to the forum, so hello everyone!

Question about BJJ in Japan: does anybody have any info about BJJ clubs in Tokyo? Or know a internet site or a better forum to ask this question? Any info (clubs, prices, locations) appricated, thanks.

I'm going there for a year as a exchange student (starting september) and looking forward to train in BJJ. I did a google search on the subject, but got a bunch of pages in japanese and a few that stated that training in Japan was "great". So not much help. Is it great there?

I have some previous martial arts experience - for 3,5 years did some classic BS, changed recently to kickboxing. As I'm more intrested in grappling I would like to get to know BJJ - not available where I live, sadly.

So again, any info appriciated

[Builderofmuscle]

that's really cool, but maybe u should learn some japanese. Anyways, I don't even know what bjj stands for. And no one on this forum seems to have any aprecieation for my posts. But welcome to this forum anyway.

[crazyjoe380]

BLOW JOBS JAPS..

[darrianation]

Originally posted by crazyjoe380
BLOW JOBS JAPS..

Really I,m goig to japan!

[shasan]

I thought it was Belgian Jelly Jousting

Don't know of any clubs in Japan.

[Rockets]

One of the Ralph Gracie guys just got back from there and posted an article at http://www.ralphgracie.com/ "on the mat" about his training experiences in Japan.

[aseepish]

There`s BJJ, shoot, Pancrase, a lot of MMA styles in general. It`s not cheap though. expect to pay at least 14,000 yen a month with a hefty start-up fee that varies from club to club, but will be at least another 10,000 yen plus equipment cost.

(do your own conversion: http://www.xe.com )

I`ve got a contact at work who`s into BJJ in a big way (hell his wife is even Brazillian). I`ll see if I can get some addresses and phone numbers for you next week.

Right now I`m taking boxing because the gym is only a 15 minute jog from my apartment.

Japan is great. Tokyo is an awesome city (I`ll never go back to Winnipeg).@Ramen is the best food on the planet and 24 hour bars are lifesavers when you`ve missed your last train (and a taxi ride back home will cost about the same as a month`s worth of training).

A great forum for taking to other ex-pats in Japan is http://gaijinpot.com it`s mostly people looking for jobs and apartments, but there are probably some martial arts types lurking around in there too.

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T.

[Boromir]

Domo Arigato...