The Dojo Storm!

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Originally Posted by Brandon Mccaghren

935 Wimberly Dr SW Decatur, AL 35603 No invitation required :)

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Only stipulation is if I win, you buy me ice cream. I keep my expectations pretty low as to not be to disappointed after a no doubt bone crushing defeat. :)

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Originally Posted by Kyle Spalla

Only stipulation is if I win, you buy me ice cream. I keep my expectations pretty low as to not be to disappointed after a no doubt bone crushing defeat. :)

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Sold. How about homemade ice cream? I make a mean vanilla.

This thread is fun! I was hoping to get more stories shared of the stereotypical douchebag meatheads that have rolled up in your gym. Anyone with instructors from another gym come in?

This sort of thing happens a lot in the UK, get gyms sending there members to other gyms to scope out, fighters, techniques etc.

We don't get a lot of instructors. They usually send students. The egos are too big on the gulf coast.

This is the kind of attitude that makes me hesitant to visit other gyms. That's not the way I treat guests, and it's not the way I look at things. I'm always excited to roll with guests from other gyms, not so I can beat them down and show how awesome my gym is, or I am, but because it's fun to see different styles of jits. I don't care about "winning" or "losing" on my home mat. I don't boast about that time I tapped out so and so from whatever gym.

I don't want to walk into someone else's academy and have a target on my back. If I show up at a gym, whether mine, or yours, I am there with one goal, to learn. Period. I'm not showing up to be smashed on and be used to feed someone's or some gym's collective ego. I'm there to learn. To see how other people do things. To feel how other people roll, how they deal with what I do, and how I deal with what they do. I have no secrets on the mat.

That's just one thing I do not like about martial arts in general I suppose.

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Originally Posted by AKRhino

This is the kind of attitude that makes me hesitant to visit other gyms. That's not the way I treat guests, and it's not the way I look at things. I'm always excited to roll with guests from other gyms, not so I can beat them down and show how awesome my gym is, or I am, but because it's fun to see different styles of jits. I don't care about "winning" or "losing" on my home mat. I don't boast about that time I tapped out so and so from whatever gym.

I don't want to walk into someone else's academy and have a target on my back. If I show up at a gym, whether mine, or yours, I am there with one goal, to learn. Period. I'm not showing up to be smashed on and be used to feed someone's or some gym's collective ego. I'm there to learn. To see how other people do things. To feel how other people roll, how they deal with what I do, and how I deal with what they do. I have no secrets on the mat.

That's just one thing I do not like about martial arts in general I suppose.

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Word, that's what up. That attitude is very similar here in Fort Collins. There is very little ego here, it's very friendly and chill.

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Originally Posted by AKRhino

This is the kind of attitude that makes me hesitant to visit other gyms. That's not the way I treat guests, and it's not the way I look at things. I'm always excited to roll with guests from other gyms, not so I can beat them down and show how awesome my gym is, or I am, but because it's fun to see different styles of jits. I don't care about "winning" or "losing" on my home mat. I don't boast about that time I tapped out so and so from whatever gym. I don't want to walk into someone else's academy and have a target on my back. If I show up at a gym, whether mine, or yours, I am there with one goal, to learn. Period. I'm not showing up to be smashed on and be used to feed someone's or some gym's collective ego. I'm there to learn. To see how other people do things. To feel how other people roll, how they deal with what I do, and how I deal with what they do. I have no secrets on the mat. That's just one thing I do not like about martial arts in general I suppose.

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And it's easy to spot guys like you the minute you walk in the gym. People that carry your attitude are always treated with respect and are much more common than the dojo-storm type.

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Originally Posted by AKRhino

This is the kind of attitude that makes me hesitant to visit other gyms. That's not the way I treat guests, and it's not the way I look at things. I'm always excited to roll with guests from other gyms, not so I can beat them down and show how awesome my gym is, or I am, but because it's fun to see different styles of jits. I don't care about "winning" or "losing" on my home mat. I don't boast about that time I tapped out so and so from whatever gym.

I don't want to walk into someone else's academy and have a target on my back. If I show up at a gym, whether mine, or yours, I am there with one goal, to learn. Period. I'm not showing up to be smashed on and be used to feed someone's or some gym's collective ego. I'm there to learn. To see how other people do things. To feel how other people roll, how they deal with what I do, and how I deal with what they do. I have no secrets on the mat.

That's just one thing I do not like about martial arts in general I suppose.

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Brotha then you have nothing to worry about. Its the D-bags that get lit up like a christmas tree.

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Originally Posted by Chris Herzog

Brotha then you have nothing to worry about. Its the D-bags that get lit up like a christmas tree.

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Originally Posted by Brandon Mccaghren

And it's easy to spot guys like you the minute you walk in the gym. People that carry your attitude are always treated with respect and are much more common than the dojo-storm type.

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