Where da gi virgins at

I cant be the only one. No-gi since Oct. 2005. Been to gi classes but never worn a gi once. My no-gi gym is an hour and 45 minutes away. Renato Tavares affiliate 10 minutes from my house and the gi is mandatory. Checked out the teaching and they actually stress not using grips while passing and other stuff during training. Sucks that they're probably not gonna like me doing 50/50 guard and leg locks. Its a nice place to try my 10th Planet stuff. The lower belts have no idea what Im doing. Im waiting to see how the higher belts react. They come through regularly. I hope they let me tape grapple sessions to post on here

Renato Leranja would be proud:D

the only gi i have is a tkd one, i think it would rip in a bjj match

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh

I just trained w/ da Gi less then 30 minutes ago :)

I always feel like Im bragging with this story, well yeah I guess I am, anyway, The way I popped my gi cherry was in a tournament. I borrowed my friends gi and blue and won, then the second time I won the blue at naga. This is how I got my blue. Now I regularly train gi.

Now this is something I never thought I would say. Training gi helped my nogi. Only under the condition that I only use my nogi techs. Feels like I can just peel right through transitions when the gi comes off, making me more fluid and explosive from having done the tech under resistance. Make sense?

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Originally Posted by bobby rivers

Now this is something I never thought I would say. Training gi helped my nogi. Only under the condition that I only use my nogi techs. Feels like I can just peel right through transitions when the gi comes off, making me more fluid and explosive from having done the tech under resistance. Make sense?

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Perfect sense.

Thanks Jon, I take it you have noticed this as well?

I have never trained I'm a gi. I never liked the idea when I started training. Now I'm about 10 months deep into training and gi sounds interesting to try. I might have to try it this fall when I attend college. I think it would help my nogi game as said above. There's only one thing I'm still not liking about gi: collar chokes. I'm thinking that it would get annoying get choked by collar all the time.

Just started training in the Gi for the past 4 months and now I train 5x a week with the Gi and 2x NoGi. I actually love training with the Gi and I have noticed my NoGi skyrocketing rather than getting worse.

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Originally Posted by bobby rivers

I always feel like Im bragging with this story, well yeah I guess I am, anyway, The way I popped my gi cherry was in a tournament. I borrowed my friends gi and blue and won, then the second time I won the blue at naga. This is how I got my blue. Now I regularly train gi.

Now this is something I never thought I would say. Training gi helped my nogi. Only under the condition that I only use my nogi techs. Feels like I can just peel right through transitions when the gi comes off, making me more fluid and explosive from having done the tech under resistance. Make sense?

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I thought I would where a gi the first time from wanting more grapple matches at tournaments.

Heres what I noticed so far. Its hard to do some techniques when they have a gi on. Darces are annoying because of the extra inch or 2 the gi causes you have to go. Had to keep switching to Japanese Necktie.

Truthfully, Im not sure If I can Handle more than 2 monthes there with only fridays being the no-gi days. for now its awesome. Im getting good fundamental bjj stuff my first gi coach never showed me because he hated me, since I whore a mma school shirt(I got for free) instead of his to a Naga years ago. I didnt ever even use his techniques. I just liked grappling with a black belt. He never said why he was mad. He just wouldnt say hello or grapple with me anymore. Plus they didnt want anybody cross-training with other schools like a cult or something. Huge gym red flag for me. I had to dip outta there. Had to find out what his problem was from someone else a year later.