Reasons and Rhymes

I am interested to know from fellow 10PJJ'ers what attracted them to the system originally?

Visiting Head Quarters.

Jiu Jitsu Unleashed bought it 8 years ago I think and still have it and look through it!

At first I was interested in 10th Planet from listening to Joe Rogan's podcast and what a positive light it casted on the sport. Then I was fortunate enough to have a friend refer me to the squad at 10th planet Allentown (now 10th Planet Bethlehem). Their positivity and care for their craft got me hooked. A lot of other places seem to have a culture of "who's toughest" with everyone trying to beat each other into as many submissions as possible. Rolling with the guys at 10th planet I felt safe, and wanting to continue after my first few (gratis) classes. If I didn't have such an awesome culture from the jump I'd probably still be trying to curl and press my way to fitness and not be nearly as happy as I am after class with Zach Maslany and John Michael Holland.


In short, TOAD IS HOOKED ON THIS 10TH PLANET SHIT BITCHES !!! MUAHAHAHAAHAHAH

Mike Lullo running through the basic path and gogoplataing me, it was demoralizing and intriguing.

No gi. I never had an interest in wearing a gi.

Creativity. I liked that the moves weren't the same old same old that I've seen everywhere.

Finish based philosophy. I like the idea of hunting for the submission.

Cool ass people. You'll have a hard time finding a cooler group of people to roll with.

The biggest reason: Paths. I love, absolutely LOVE the fact that 10th planet schools don't just learn one thing one week and go onto something the next. I love that I'll start with a pass...and rep that like 20-30 times before we even get to the sub...and when we get to the sub, we rep both the pass AND the sub..the WHOLE path.......and we do this until Coach Zog feels we understand it. So that's a minimum of two weeks of reps of the entire path so by the end of it I would've repped the path until it's second nature. I mean, seriously, it's been a year since I trained with Coach Zog, and I still hit my paths while rolling. It makes my training partners think I'm better than I really am.

My husband spent most of his time at the gym. Showed me some things, was interested but had no girl/lady partners to learn with so I would just hang out and watch. I knew a lot of the names to moves and subs before I started. Finally got a stable partner, needed to lose some weight and had no hobbies..so it was on. Did my first tournie, 2nd tournie, realized I need to roll with everyone & up my training time. It's been on ever since. I too love the people in the system. I could've never hoped for something so cool, so family like. I love it. :p Oh, and also there was this want to be a bad ass if anyone ever attacked me. ;)

I wanted to watch the traditional bjj world burn

I started my BJJ journey with a bunch of ronins training out of Eddie's books. Old school is like all I am about still to this day.

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maqNGA6axc8

Fell in love with nogi/clinching/attacking style!! Similar personalities all around, very family oriented :)