Einstein, 300, Freakshow...Where in the world did your nickname come from?
Personally, I think I've had about 50 nicknames in my life...but none have ever stuck.
What made yours stick?
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Einstein, 300, Freakshow...Where in the world did your nickname come from?
Personally, I think I've had about 50 nicknames in my life...but none have ever stuck.
What made yours stick?
I was jawing back and forth with one of my team mates and he said "Please you're about as scary as a macaroni salad". So salada de macarrão was started. Macarrão for short. Figured it would just go away not thinking much of it but it stuck.
Well, I was born on Columbus Day and my dad was pretty unoriginal so he named me Christopher. Consequently enough that was too much name to say every time he needed a cup of coffee or his feet rubbed so he shortened it to Chris.
Thus a lifetime of being confused with at least 10 other people in the room at any given time or location.....
My parents named me James Smith...Didnt want people to call me "jim" so they called me by my middle name...wtfQuote:
Originally Posted by chris ludington
I have several nicknames.
Rolls Royce, Royce Gracie
-Not sure if you guys already knew, but Royce is a well known name in the jiujitsu scene *sarcasm*
Kim-ichu
-Back in my Navy days, my fellow shipmates took note of my Pokemon addiction. It's a portmanteau of my last name and Pikachu.
Some people call me the space cowboy...
I get called dr oggtapus.
Last name is Ogg n my legs are bendy as feck n usually found in a number of daft positions lol.
I have had a few nicknames but the most used is Cornbread. It started as an inside joke on a video we were filming and took off from there.
When I first started at 10p Decatur, Brandon called me Frodo Sandbaggins and still does from time to time. Im a hairy, short legged guy and kind of a nerd so it makes sense.
my first name is Barry
my dad often called me Barry Boy
My very close friends do too.....one of them shortened it to BB and it kinda stuck.
I used it on the forum for the combo reasons of being at a hater bjj school (lol, i know they on here lurkin, lol) and because my job requires me to be super careful what I say online, not national security type stuff - they just ask us not to say crazy shit online. I always like the option to say or agree with crazy shit.... hence the nick name rather than the real name. :)
My first day at 10th Planet, the guys heard my name was Amber and they started calling me armbar. It fits though considering all of my submissions in competition have been an armbar. From guard, spiderweb, it doesn't matter.
When I have cornrows in for competition, I get called Jacksonville. I guess it's because of the guy from the movie spring breakers. John and Josh started it so they know the reason behind it better than me.
I have yet to be named. Looking forward to it though!
slozo My 12th grade ceramics gave me that, it stuck ever since. 7 years.
I've been called Floater. Floater happened when the guys found out about the hidden art of Mormon floating (stick it in and no thrusting). Luckily the main perpetrators calling me Floater have migrated elsewhere so it died
My long time training partner, one day said that I had a slight resemblance to Murphy from Robocop (The Original), so I became "Robo" Rick Dawson. Boom.
I was owned by TKD black belt turned Gracie guy in 1993 I believe. After being introduced to Gracie Jiu Jitsu in the Army I tried to find a school. I trained for over a year there absolutely wrecking purple belts. They used to say I had the goods. It turned out that it was completely illegitimate. The ranks were hand out by a guy with no training at all. So I drifted from place to place for the next 10 years never really getting any better better but still laughing at the goods. When other people found out it stuck. It always makes me laugh and keep perspective.
Ha! Didn't know the whole story. Pretty funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony "The Goods" Garcia
I am still un named as well.
I was young and needed the money :)
I used to live with my cousin and one time her husband's friend came to visit. He started calling me 'Nasty' Nate and it stuck. Many people have tried to arbitrarily assign reasons for it when I've done gross things but I really think he originally was just basing it off the character from Half Baked.
Another one is Natronovitch. A few people in class started calling me Natron and one time Tait just lengthened it to Natronovitch. He said I was a Russian transformer. (I'm not actually Russian or a transformer.)
Chewie (Chewbacca) was one of the names tossed about when they were trying to think of a nickname for me at my judo club which i said i thought was the best out of all of them, and then some of my other mates heard them calling me chewie and its stuck ever since
in my spare time I dressed up as a monk and haunted a local quarry...randomly attacking innocent dog walkers...
Im not sure
some friends from when i worked at pizza hut called me pup and thats probably the only one that kind of stuck. they called me pup because my brother worked there and he was the kitchen bitch but they couldnt call him that in front of customers so they called him fido. when i started working there, i was his little brother and bam, pup.
in jiu jitsu, some people called me the rubber man, one because i play with rubber guard all the time and im hyper flexible. i wouldnt mind finding something that sticks and is actually cool. :D
Because I once cut a guy with a box cutter. Long story but I come from a poor neighborhood.
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Originally Posted by Mike May
JFaz because Frank called me it, now the rest of the tribe do to.
Dude are you sure? I think you just called yourself jfaz just to be cool brah
I'm not cool enough to get a nick name. At least not one that's said to my face as a term of endearment. :) Behind closed doors I'm sure I have plenty of nicknames about my strangeness and social ineptitude.
Maybe one day I'll be cool enough to get a nick name.
Hmmmm, I walked in for a private one time and you called me JFaz but Greggy has been calling me JFaz for a long ass time, maybe it came from him.
That's embarrassing don't even know my nicknames origin... I feel like I'm stuck in that movie momento.
Because I killed a man with a trident.
I didn't know your nickname was Brick...Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Herzog
You should probably lay low for awhileQuote:
Originally Posted by Chris Herzog
http://media1.giphy.com/media/4u31bWDYmhw5O/200_s.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by BrentSmith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh7tgX_UaqsQuote:
Originally Posted by Chris Herzog
When I did Judo I don't think my instructor ever learned my name, because he only referred to me as Blue Gi. When I first started Judo, I used my blue BJJ gi until I ordered a white Judo gi, but even after switching gi's the name stuck.
No nicknames at 10P yet, although I'm still wearing those same blue bjj gi pants until my spats and shorts arrive, haha
Brett "The Spyder" Sbardella - Little league baseball lol (seriously). Just so happens to apply perfectly to my style.
When I was young people called me Monkey, it kinda faded away until I started wrestling and one of the guys said I looked like a spider monkey on the mat, now everyone I train with calls me Monkey. My kids are known as Mini Monkey and Baby Monkey.
Im the goat herder. Why? cause goat herder gonna herd.
A guy in eddies class was saying my name wrong on purpose (he was the very rich douchie type) eventually he came to hate me cause i hurt his arm (his fault not mine ) so the name stuck cause a guy who hated me gave it to me. And im a fuckin moron so its like calling a fat guy skinny. The others probably gave themselfs nicknames which is automatic fail that goes for Anyone who nicknames themselves . Dont do it
I got my nickname from someone at ( Sitan Gym) the first gym I started teaching at. I used to wear some green wrestlers head gear and I was always on his back. He said he couldn't shake me off like Yoda hanging on Luke, while he was training flipping around that swamp. It's also been said by my students that I calm down heated situations with wisdom / Jedi mind tricks, instead of fighting.. So he called me Yoda and it stuck.